Person

Beth McCann

Report

Future-proofing safety: COVID-19 and family violence in Victoria 2020-2021

15 Sep 2023

Nina Logan, Riley Ellard, Matilda Simpson, Hemei Fong, Emily Stevens, Ellen Poyner, Madeline Gibson, Samara Young, Eliza Hew, John De Maio, Zeina Jamaleddine, Erin Soutter, Susan Maury, Erin Price, Helen Forster, Rae Kaspiew, Briony Horsfall, Louise Falconer, Livia La Rocca, Zara Lasater

Centre for Family Research and Evaluation

This is the final report for the 'Future-proofing Safety' project, funded by Family Safety Victoria. The report highlights the significant challenges and specific opportunities for services and clients that emerged during COVID-19. These include elevated client risk and need, changed service responses, gaps and weaknesses within the family violence and sexual assault service system, and...

Report

WRAP around families experiencing AVITH: towards a collaborative service response

27 Apr 2023

Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS)

This report outlines the findings from a targeted, mixed-methods research project with the specific aim of developing a framework for holistic, evidence-based practice, in response to the complex issue of adolescent violence in the home (AVITH).

Discussion paper

Behind closed doors: Adolescent Violence in the Home (AVITH) during COVID and challenges to come

15 Nov 2020

Elena Campbell,

Beth McCann

Centre for Innovative Justice,

Centre for Family Research and Evaluation

This paper seeks to highlight the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of violence by adolescents against their family members.