Our projects
Read about some of the key projects we have undertaken at CFRE. While these examples showcase the diversity and impact of our work, they represent only a portion of our efforts. Due to the nature of our evaluation projects, not all outcomes can be publicly shared, and some resources remain confidential. However, these highlights provide insight into how we support organisations and communities through our research, evaluation, and practice.
Resources
View projects with practical resource guides, interactive reports and digital downloads.
Practice guides
Browse by topics:
Family violence
LGBTIQA+
Cultural diversity
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Co-designing family violence prevention initiatives with marginalised communities
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Co-designing family violence prevention initiatives with marginalised communities There is currently a limited evidence base for understanding the drivers of family violence in LGBTI communities. It is understood that LGBTI people experience family and intimate partner violence at the same, if not greater rates than their cisgender,…
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Paving the Way in Service Delivery Evaluation
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CFRE is excited to announce we will be presenting at this year’s FRSA Conference, held 19-22 November 2019! This year’s theme is New Horizons: Building the future, Paving the way. Madeline Gibson will be presenting findings from our most recent drummond street services evaluation. We use monitoring and evaluation…
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What is ‘recovery’? Learnings from Victoria’s family violence service sector
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The “Family Violence Recovery – Research and Practice Forum” was designed to facilitate the sharing of knowledge across therapeutic family violence services funded by the Victorian Government, in response to the Royal Commission into Family Violence. The Forum was collaboratively planned by around 40 people from 21 organisations.…
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Move It 4 Kids
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CFRE will begin working to evaluate outcomes of the Move It 4 Kids program, being delivered by drummond street, Playgroup Victoria and Hullaballoo Music. Move It 4 Kids offers parents /carers and their children 0-5 a fun, interactive musical comedy experience, which is delivered to community playgroups. The session…
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Carnival Day 2019 Survey Results
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queerspace and Centre for Family Research and Evaluation (CFRE) are proud to release the data of a survey we held over Midsumma Carnival day in January of 2019 to help provide us with some insight into the services LGBTIQA+ communities are accessing and/or would like to access in their…
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We’re coming to Hobart!
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CFRE is very happy to announce that we will be travelling to Hobart to present at the 2019 Early Childhood Australia National Conference from 25-28 September 2019. This year’s conference theme is ‘From Vision to Action’ and will lead some exciting discussions on children’s experiences of early years…
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Team additions
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We are excited to welcome three new masters’ students beginning internships with CFRE this year! These students are joining us from various Melbourne-based universities, and will be focusing on our new research project gaining insight into embedding monitoring, evaluation and learning practices within community service organisations. Some of their…
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Learning from Victoria’s Family Violence Demonstration Projects
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CFRE recently attended a forum staged by Victorian service agencies currently delivering family violence demonstration projects. The purpose of this forum was to build collective knowledge from providers of these projects in relation to understanding and supporting recovery. Hundreds of staff and program managers gathered for a day of…
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Introducing the EMELP study
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How do we Embed Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Practices (EMELP) in Family Violence Service Organisations in Australia? The National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children 2010-2022 is premised on four foundational elements that aim to underpin the necessary change required for organisations to communally address…
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ALL Come Out to Play!
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The ALL Come Out to Play! program has been funded under the Victorian Free from Violence strategy. It is part of a suite of primary prevention initiatives delivered in response to growing awareness that gender inequality, including stereotyped constructions of masculinity and femininity, is a key driver of violence…
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