This project is exploring the impacts of exposure to domestic and family violence (DFV) on children and young people from immigrant and refugee families with the goal of informing service system responses.
This Project aims to improve the safety of children and reduce long-term harms and cycles of disadvantage and inequity. The need for evidence to support immigrant and refugee children exposed to DFV is clear. Approximately one third of Australia’s population were born overseas and almost half have at least one parent born overseas. Statistics indicate high prevalence of DFV across all demographic groups with children from immigrant and refugee backgrounds vulnerable to specific harms and poorly served by current response systems. Many encounter multiple services with the potential to offer support but the limited available evidence suggests their experiences are currently suboptimal at best and put them in greater danger at worst.
The project will generate much needed evidence to support service providers and policymakers in multiple sectors (including early-childhood, health, education, family violence, multicultural, justice and child protection) to respond more effectively and appropriately to experiences and circumstances of immigrant and refugee children and young people.
