The 2020 ANROWS report The PIPA project: Positive Interventions for Perpetrators of Adolescent violence in the home found that young people and their families experiencing adolescent violence in the home (AVITH) were not receiving adequate service responses.

This research identified that to appropriately address the complex needs that families were presenting to services with, service interventions in AVITH need to take the form of wrap-around, collaborative responses.

This report was designed to respond to recommendations stemming from the PIPA project. With a specific aim to develop a framework for evidence-based and holistic responses to AVITH, the project also explored current barriers in the service system and enablers of consistent and collaborative practice.

Findings were grouped into three categories: practice challenges, system challenges and promising practice. Difficulty understanding and identifying AVITH remains a barrier to effective practice, with many services operating within an inappropriate binary framework that sees young people as either victims and survivors or perpetrators.