Child Sexual Abuse Language Guide

As part of the Strengthening Primary Health Care Responses project, we commissioned the Council for Intellectual Disability to translate our Creating Safer Spaces resource.

Practice Tool

Easy read resource: Feeling safer at health services

Disability
Primary Health Networks
Workforce

This resource shares five small actions that can help professionals create more inclusive spaces for LGBTIQA+ young people.

Practice Tool

Five things you can do to be a safer adult for LGBTIQA+ young people

Compassion
Trauma Informed
Workforce

Webinars

Online learning and knowledge-sharing events that explore key issues, emerging evidence and practice implications relating to child sexual abuse. Webinars feature insights from subject matter experts, researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience.

This webinar provides additional contextual information on the practical application of mandatory reporting for child sexual abuse across Australia.

Practical application of mandatory reporting for child sexual abuse

Primary Health Networks

Listen as we delve into the complexities of legal foundations and reporting protocols across different jurisdictions.

Navigating Australia’s Child Safe Legislation

Workforce

Child sexual abuse is a public health issue. Listen as we discuss mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse across Australia for General Practitioners.

Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse

Primary Health Networks

This report provides an environmental scan of existing relevant knowledge resources available to and within the primary health care sector.

Reports

In-depth publications that present research, analysis, evaluations or findings on topics relevant to the prevention of and response to child sexual abuse. Reports provide evidence to inform policy, practice, service delivery and future research.

Report

Enhancing the capability of Australia’s Primary Health Workforce to respond to child sexual abuse

Primary Health Networks
Workforce

This scoping study shares findings from a rapid review of community awareness and education approaches for primary prevention of child sexual abuse and harmful sexual behaviour.

Report

Community awareness and education for primary prevention of child sexual abuse and harmful sexual behaviour

Community Awareness
Harmful sexual behaviour
Prevention

This report provides the results of the Learning and Development Survey undertaken by the National Centre in October 2022.

Report

Learning and Development Survey Full Report

Workforce

Knowledge Summaries

Brief publications that synthesise research, evidence and key learnings on a specific topic. Knowledge summaries provide an accessible overview of current knowledge and highlight implications for policy, practice and further inquiry.

This Knowledge Summary focuses on the outcomes of a rapid review pertaining specifically to child sexual abuse prevention.

Child sexual abuse prevention

Prevention

This Knowledge Summary outlines the findings of a rapid literature review pertaining specifically to child sexual abuse education programs.

What does the evidence tell us about the impact of child sexual abuse education programs?

Prevention

This knowledge summary explores the organisational and interpersonal conditions that support wellbeing and vicarious resilience for people in the workforce.

Wellbeing in the workplace when working with victims and survivors of child sexual abuse

Trauma Informed
Victims & Survivors
Workforce

This is a snapshot of a National Centre webinar exploring healing and recovery from trauma in Indigenous communities.

Snapshot

In Conversation: Healing and recovery from child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities

Complex trauma
Victims & Survivors
Workforce

This webinar explores how to create and restore safety with First Nations communities in the context of the trauma and impact of child sexual abuse.

In Conversation: Healing and recovery from child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities

Complex trauma
Victims & Survivors
Workforce

This broad, introductory-level conversation about the links between child sexual abuse and complex trauma is infused with the stories of lived experience.

In Conversation: Exploring complex trauma and child sexual abuse through lived experience

Complex trauma
Victims & Survivors

This Knowledge Summary focuses on the outcomes of a rapid review pertaining specifically to child sexual abuse prevention.

Child sexual abuse prevention

Prevention

This webinar snapshot explores the risks of technology and what needs to be done to better protect children and young people from the harm it can cause.

Snapshot

Advice for parents and adults on how to protect children and young people from technology abuse

Community Awareness
Online abuse

This Knowledge Summary outlines the findings of a rapid literature review pertaining specifically to child sexual abuse education programs.

What does the evidence tell us about the impact of child sexual abuse education programs?

Prevention

This webinar explores the risks of technology for children and young people, as well as what parents and workers can do to protect them from the harm it causes.

In Conversation: The dangers of online abuse: how technology is used to harm and abuse children and young people

Online abuse

This webinar explores what compassion is and the role it plays in responding to and supporting people who have experienced child sexual abuse-related trauma.

In Conversation: The importance of compassionate responses to child sexual abuse-related trauma

Compassion
Workforce

This knowledge summary explores the organisational and interpersonal conditions that support wellbeing and vicarious resilience for people in the workforce.

Wellbeing in the workplace when working with victims and survivors of child sexual abuse

Trauma Informed
Victims & Survivors
Workforce