Our Focus

What we focus on

Our focus is to lead sustainable change in the health sector to facilitate early engagement for domestic abuse and violence.

Our work in health includes:

• Collaborative research, generating evidence to transform health policy and practice responses to domestic violence

• Co-designing and testing early intervention and therapeutic responses, including technological tools for use by individuals to self-manage and access services 

• Promoting early engagement with families, providing pathways to safety and healing

• Innovative, sustainable programs, and tools to build capability of the health workforce to identify and respond to domestic violence and to facilitate referral to appropriate services.

• Extensive communications and advocacy to collaborate locally, nationally and internationally to facilitate knowledge exchange to benefit families and communities.

Who we focus on

The Safer Families Centre works in partnership with and reflects the voices of those with lived experience of domestic violence to create a future where health services support families affected by domestic violence. With respect for the diversity of Australian families, our work centres on early engagement in health with children, young people and their parents, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and men who use violence in their relationships. In all our activities we put women and children’s safety first.

• Intimate Partner Violence

• Women

• Children

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

• Men who use violence

How we do it

We create new knowledge to build capability for sustainable change in policy and practice.

This is achieved through high quality research, collaborative partnership, workforce development, knowledge translation and exchange and research implementation. 

See our diagram of the core domains we operate within.