Implement the Domestic and Family Violence Common Risk and Safety Framework

Work continues to embed the revised CRASF as the whole-of-system framework for recognising, assessing and responding to DFV. The suite of screening, risk assessment and safety management tools is being expanded with tailored new tools for young people and persons using violence.

The framework guides the delivery of integrated service responses to enhance the safety of victim-survivors and their children, and to hold persons using violence to account. It articulates a shared understanding, language, and common approach to recognising, assessing and responding to DFV, and offers guidance on best-practice approaches.

CRASF training is available online. The content of these online modules has been developed for use by government and non-government community services agencies, as well as community members, businesses, and others who may come into contact with people experiencing DFV. For more information see Home | Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research.

Work is underway to enhance the CRASF through the development of risk assessment tools for working with people using violence and young people, to complement the existing victim-survivor tools. We are also working with a First Nations organisation to adapt the CRASF victim-survivor tools to ensure that risk assessment and safety planning with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victim-survivors is culturally appropriate and safe.

Over 2,300 people have registered to participate in 57 training sessions since November 2022.

For more information about the framework see Common Risk and Safety Framework.

An evaluation of the CRASF and validation of the suite of tools will commence in the second half of 2025.