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Violence against women and children affects everybody. It impacts on the health, wellbeing and safety of a significant proportion of Australians throughout all states and territories and places an enormous burden on the nation’s economy across family and community services, health and hospitals, income-support and criminal justice systems.

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About ANROWS

ANROWS was established by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments of Australia to produce, disseminate and assist in applying evidence for policy and practice addressing violence against women and their children.

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To support the take-up of evidence, ANROWS offers a range of resources developed from research to support practitioners and policy-makers in delivering evidence-based interventions.


RP.14.18

Evaluation of innovative models of interagency partnerships, collaboration, coordination and/or integrated responses to family and/or sexual violence against women in Australian Indigenous communities

Completed
January 2018

This project provides evidence about how services can work better together to respond to domestic and family violence in Australian Indigenous communities.


The high prevalence and incidence of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is well-documented.

Over the past decade, there have been an increasing number of Indigenous-specific responses to violence against women, including interagency collaborations, integrated responses and a range of innovative, holistic, and community driven (grass roots) responses. Robust, formal evaluations of such programs are needed and evaluations need to be at various intervals in the lifespan of a program and across a spectrum of different types of approaches designed to reduce the incidence of family violence.

This project was based on an analysis of whole-of-family and whole-of-community approaches within some Indigenous communities that address the needs of women, children, men and extended family members as a family unit.

It analysed how government interagency processes can engage with, and include, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in partnerships to resolve domestic and family violence and sexual assault including through community-led committees.

The project includes comparative evaluations of approaches in different Indigenous Australian communities that can identify key elements of successful approaches that may apply in more than one context (i.e. in a different Indigenous community to those included in the study). It was conducted in collaboration with one or more Indigenous communities and/or Indigenous organisations.

 


Researchers

Principal chief investigator:

Professor Harry Blagg, Winthrop Professor of Criminology, Associate Dean (Research) Law Faculty, University of Western Australia.

Chief investigator:

Associate Professor Emma Williams, The Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University.

Research partners / team members:

Ms June Oscar, CEO, Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre, Karen Nangala Woodley, Victoria Hovane, Tjallara Consulting Pty Ltd, and Eileen Cummings, Charles Darwin University.


Downloads

State of knowledge

Innovative models in addressing violence against Indigenous women: State of knowledge paper

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Research summary

Innovative models in addressing violence against Indigenous women: Key findings and future directions

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Research report

Innovative models in addressing violence against Indigenous women: Final report

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Presentations

ANROWS Inaugural National Research Conference 2016





Slides

Innovative models in addressing violence against Indigenous women

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Budget

$200,000

Funded by Australian Commonwealth, state and territory governments under ANROWS’s 2014 core grant round.

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PO Box Q389, Queen Victoria Building NSW 1230
Email: enquiries@anrows.org.au      

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