The Safer Families Centre 

We research and collaborate to transform the health sector response to domestic, family, and sexual violence

Our Centre is committed to transforming health sector policy and practice responses to domestic, family and sexual violence through research, training, support tools and evaluation. We collaborate internationally and locally with researchers, practitioners and our lived experience victim-survivor group WEAVERs to promote safety, wellbeing and healing of families.

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LATEST NEWS: GPs asking men about their behaviour in relationships could help reduce domestic violence
LATEST NEWS: GPs asking men about their behaviour in relationships could help reduce domestic violence

Health settings could enable earlier engagement with people who use violence. By focussing on motivation for change, GPs and mental health practitioners have great potential to build conversations around behaviours in relationships and encourage people who use violence to seek help. But the health system needs to be resourced to train and support practitioners to do this.

Read more from Kelsey Hegarty in The Conversation.

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