Here you will find a range of resources that will help with best practice from across the sector.

SERVICES AND PRACTITIONERS PRIORITISE THE PHYSICAL, CULTURAL AND EMOTIONAL SAFETY OF VICTIM-SURVIVORS, THEIR FAMILIES AND WORKERS

Advocacy for safety and empowerment: state of knowledge 

National risk assessment principles for family and domestic violence 

Building safe communities for women and their children: a compendium of stories from the field 

ACCESS AND EQUITY

Aboriginal cultural competency standards: a self-assessment process for community housing providers

Cultural safety framework: national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders health workers association 

Cultural safety for Aboriginal children: tip sheet

Changing the picture: a national resource to support the prevention of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Cultural Competency Self-Assessment Tool for Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS)

In Language, In Culture, In Touch – Integrated model of support for CaLD  

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer People – Making your service intersex friendly  

The Rainbow Tick guide to LGBTI-inclusive practice

Double Oppression: Violence against Disabled Women

Working with women with disabilities 

Violence against women with disabilities

First Peoples Disability Network Australia: Intersectional Dimensions on the right to Health for Indigenous Peoples – A Disability Perspective

Intersectionality Matters: A guide to engaging immigrant and refugee communities to prevent violence against women 

TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE

Practice guidelines for treatment of complex trauma and trauma informed care and service delivery

(please note that this is a publication that will have to be paid for) 

Creating trauma-informed services: tip sheet series  

Trauma-informed care in child/family welfare services 

2013 webinar series: practical strategies for creating trauma-informed services and organisations  

Trauma-informed practice: how important is this for domestic and family violence services?

VICTIM-SURVIVOR CENTRED PRACTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

Tool kit for working in a feminist organisation

Empowering and strengths-based framework – Strengths-based approach: practice framework and practice handbook

Strengths-based approaches for working with individuals

Working with children and young people 

The good practice guide to child aware approaches: keeping children safe and well

Research summary: the impact of domestic and family violence on children

CONFIDENTIALITY AND INFORMED CONSENT

Sense and sensitivity: family law, family violence and confidentiality  

Safer Pathway: domestic violence and child protection guidelines  

Domestic Violence Information Sharing Protocol   

Information sharing process flowchart   

Information sharing compliance checklist  

Information sharing consent flowchart

Information sharing consent form  

Memorandum of understanding  

NON JUDGEMENTAL SUPPORT

How to hear me: supporting people with an intellectual disability who have experienced violence  

Breaking down the myths around domestic violence in Indigenous communities    

Myth busting domestic and family violence and Muslim societies   

Another closet: Myths and Facts 

COLLABORATION

Making the Leap: A practical guide to interagency collaboration

The PATRICIA project: PAThways and research in collaborative inter-agency working: state of knowledge paper    

Churchill fellowship report: how multi-agency responses to family/domestic violence can generate positive systemic change     

Helplines and telephone counselling services for children, young people and parents   

Domestic Violence New South Wales Service Management – other services that may be able to help  

Starting a health justice partnership: toolkit

Local government association of NSW – ‘Ten key elements of a successful partnership project’     

Communities of practice: a brief introduction  

UPHOLDING, PROMOTING AND ADVOCATING FOR VICTIM-SURVIVORS RIGHTS

NSW charter of victim’s rights  

Rights based approach    

Preventing violence against women and girls with disabilities: integrating a human rights perspective      

PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION

Domestic and family violence prevention and early intervention strategy 2017-2021  

NSW domestic and family violence blueprint for reform 2016-2021: safer lives for women, men and children

Change the story: a shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia  

COMPETENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Education centre against violence courses   

Rape & domestic violence services Australia     

Lifeline DV-alert domestic violence response training  

Women’s legal service NSW ask LOIS (legal online information service

Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal women’s legal centre cultural awareness training  

NAPCAN love bites training  

Australian counselling association – supervision policy (2013)

Australian counselling association – ‘find a supervisor’, and ‘become a supervisor’      

Mental health academy, Phillip Armstrong and Catherine Dodemont – ‘role play: demonstration of a supervision session’ (2014)