Promoting Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Family and Domestic Violence

The Centre, in collaboration with No to Violence, Safe and Equal, and Sexual Assault Services Victoria are working on the Family Violence and Sexual Violence Knowledge Hub Project. The project aims to support children and families experiencing family violence and family violence service users. The project will strengthen practice, identify data gaps and build an evidence base in this sector. As part of the collaboration project, the Centre will be hosting a series three online events.

Interactive online event with Emerging Minds

Family Violence & Sexual Violence Event (FV&SV)

This interactive online event, the second of the series and facilitated by Emerging Minds, will improve understanding of how family and domestic violence and abuse may be affecting children’s health, development and wellbeing.

Practitioners from specialist and non-specialist programs will likely come into contact with families who have been or are currently impacted by family and domestic violence and abuse. Therefore, it’s crucial for professionals to have the skills and confidence to discuss with parents how such situations impact children’s health, development, and overall wellbeing. We know that children will be impacted by family and domestic violence even if they are not subjected to abuse or witness it directly.

This interactive presentation will support practitioners to:

• Consider the impact of family and domestic violence on children’s mental health and wellbeing
• Understand the importance of being child-aware and parent-sensitive
• Explore ways to talk and work with parents to support and improve their children’s mental health and wellbeing.

This online event will be particularly valuable to those designing and leading child and family programs and for passionate-change makers wanting to better embed children’s social and emotional wellbeing in their organisational advocacy and strategy.

The Family Violence & Sexual Violence Knowledge (FV&SV) Hub Project

Register here.