This paper examines the limited research available on sexual violence within and against gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, intersex, and queer communities.

This fact sheet provides a range of information on ways in which families nurture and support children's physical, learning and social emotional development. The focus of this fact sheet is on families with children aged up to around 11 years old. It presents analyses and data from Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of...

This paper explores the concept of community resilience and outlines some of the recent frameworks and tools that have been developed to understand and measure it.

This paper reviews some of the complexities and issues surrounding the concept of resilience in order to ascertain its usefulness for practitioners working with children. Over recent years there has been a shift in research and service delivery from a deficits-based approach, which focuses on factors related to psychopathology and maladaptive functioning, to an approach...

This Facts Sheet provides a summary of the ways in which adoption currently operates, past adoption practices, and the potential impacts adoption has on those involved. There are three types of adoption currently operating in Australia: Intercountry adoptions are of children from other countries who are usually unknown to the adoptive parent(s). Since 1999-2000, most...