Activity details
Delivering the Family Violence Research Agenda and Research Program throughout 2021–2024 which will deliver, translate, and embed research evidence in partnership with Victorian universities, the family, domestic and sexual violence sector, and those with lived experience of family violence to support practice improvement, service innovation, and long-lasting change for victim‑survivors.
This activity is part of a broader activity to build the evidence base through improving monitoring and commissioning evaluations of significant programs and policies. This assists in building the evidence base for interventions.
Implementation progress update
Victoria has continued to make strong progress in delivering its Family Violence Research Agenda and Research Program, with 18 of the 19 funded research projects now completed. The final project is expected to conclude in late 2025.
Research reports and evidence informed guidance materials are either already publicly available or will be soon published on the research organisations’ websites. In addition, work is underway to establish an evidence repository to promote the outcomes of the research, ensuring that the value of the research is maximised.
Since the last update on 30 June 2023, a further 5 completed reports have been made publicly available:
- The REACH Project: Recovery And Care to promote Healing for Victorian survivors of sexual violence.
- Perpetrator program attrition and participant engagement strategies.
- Strengthening Victoria's family violence risk assessment and information sharing: Understanding effective capability building to support Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework implementation through the experiences of victim-survivors.
- LOOP - Co-designing a service feedback model with victim-survivors of sexual violence.
- The SHEBA Project: Safe @ Home: Experiences, Barriers and Access.
More information
- Learn about the National Plan to End Violence against women and children 2022-2032.
- Read the First Action Plan 2023-2027.
- Browse the First Action Plan 2023-2027 Activities Addendum update.