Intersectional AOD Practice Guide

This Intersectional AOD Practice Guide is designed to support alcohol and other drug (AOD) services and practitioners to better support the needs of people who experience diverse and intersecting forms of marginalisation. At its core, intersectionality is about understanding: the whole person within their context their experiences of overlapping discrimination/oppression/marginalisation the significant relationships in their life, including with their families, communities, organisations, systems and society the contexts in which these […]

The LGBTIQA+ Mental Health & Wellbeing Project

Underscored by Recommendation 34 of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, service responses for LGBTIQA+ individuals and communities, need to be safe, accessible and responsive to mental health and wellbeing needs with understanding of the interconnected ways these can present. Drawn from a desktop review, community survey, and client file analysis, the project produced two key findings and five core principles for effective service responses. The project led […]

CLIK Guide: Building an intersectional lived experience workforce in the family violence and sexual assault sectors

The CLIK Guide is a practical resource that supports services in the family violence and sexual assault sectors to build intersectional lived experience workforces.

Future-proofing Safety – COVID-19 and family violence in Victoria

Future-proofing Safety: Surfacing inequality and building service capacity for crisis-ready responses

COVID-19 information for multicultural LGBTIQ+ people

COVID-19 information for multicultural LGBTIQ+ people Use the table of contents below to navigate on this page. Updates to our factsheets and information sessions January 2022: Advice continues to change regarding testing, including rapid antigen tests and when to get tested. For the latest advice, visit the Victorian Government’s webpage on COVID-19 testing. December 2021: Children aged between 5 and 11 can get vaccinated from 10 January 2022. You can […]

Supporting Gender Equality in the Public Sector

Supporting Gender Equality in the Public Sector At the Centre for Family Research and Evaluation (CFRE), we are excited to continue to contribute to state-wide progress towards gender equality with the Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector. We have recently been appointed a member of the expert Panel of Providers, within the evaluation stream, and are looking forward to supporting defined entities comply with the Gender Equality Act. […]

Something to Chew Over: CFRE has 3 presentations at the AIFS Snack Sized Research Showcase

Something to Chew Over: CFRE has 3 presentations at the AIFS Snack Sized Research Showcase. This year, the much anticipated Australian Insititute of Family Studies (AIFS) 2020 conference was cancelled due to COVID-19. To replace it, presentations that were planned for the conference are now being displayed as slide shows online. CFRE have three presentations in this AIFS ‘snack sized research showcase’. Ready Steady Family outlines a flexible approach to […]

Prevention in the pandemic

Prevention in the pandemic: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having a significant impact on people’s lives and wellbeing around the world. The pandemic has exacerbated health, social and economic inequalities and globally, rates of family violence have surged. For people who are LGBTIQ+ in Victoria, especially those who experience multiple forms of discrimination and health and wellbeing inequalities, COVID-19 has also exacerbated the drivers of family violence. Responding to a […]

A Walk Through Health Evaluation

A Walk Through Health: In November 2020 CFRE commenced a partnership with Wyndham Community & Education Centre (Wyndham CEC) to evaluate their health literacy program, A Walk Through Health. Delivered in partnership with Mercy Health, the program aims to address unmet health and well-being needs of culturally diverse community members in the City of Wyndham. A Walk Through Health and the concurrent evaluation are funded to be delivered until June […]

Action Research: Use of Family Violence by LGBTIQ+ People

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Action Research: Use of Family Violence by LGBTIQ+ People National and international research has found that family violence in LGBTIQ+ relationships occurs at rates similar to, if not higher than heterosexual relationships. LGBTIQ+ populations face unique and intersecting vulnerabilities, including that: the impacts of abuse are compounded by discrimination and stigma experienced in a community context; intimate partner and family violence remains largely invisible in LGBTIQ+ communities due to myths […]

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