In this podcast, Alisa Hall describes her work as Director, Practice Development and Engagement at the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse. The National Centre was established in recognition of data showing that one in three girls and one in five boys experience some form of sexual abuse before the age of 18.
Listen to the podcast here.
The 2024 theme of International Day of People with Disability, on 3 December, is ‘Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future’.
In this spirit, the Australian Women’s Health Alliance supported lived experience advocate Phoebe Nagorcka-Smith to produce this paper that explores the link between issues that Phoebe has both lived and have professional expertise in – brain injury, gender-based violence, and the impacts of systemic inaccessibility and sexism on women with disability and trauma.
Read the full article here
The team behind National Centre-funded research project, “Survivor perspectives on institutional use of child sexual abuse material”, has published their literature review in the International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.
Led by Campbell Wilson from Monash University’s AiLECS Lab, the review investigates how child sexual abuse material is currently used in institutional contexts by police, courts, academic and policy researchers and private sector entities.
The outcomes of this review inform further exploration of what victims and survivors of crimes involving child sexual abuse material think and know about the use of this material by institutions. The project will also be developing recommendations on how victim and survivor perspectives can be embedded by the institutions that use these materials.
Read the review and learn more about the project
The board of Health Justice Australia is pleased to release Collaboration for Change: Annual Report 2023-24, a reflection of our progress and achievements over the past year.
Whether supporting an active network of 441 practitioners working in health justice partnership, publishing original research, or participating in advisory panels, our activity has reached every corner of the country
Read the report here
Australia’s National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book 2024 update was released 24 October 2024 http://dfvbenchbook.aija.org.au/ Including 127 new resources, including and substantial updated contact on the family law provisions introduced this year and coercive control.