Our partnership with Life Without Barriers (LWB) aimed to assess whether the LWB ‘Harmful Sexual Behaviour’ training package (whole of organisation online and targeted in-person) increased the knowledge and confidence of residential care staff in understanding, identifying and responding to harmful sexual behaviour of children and young people.

The SVRPU team received seed funding to partner with the UTAS researchers to conduct research into digital interventions in response to child sexual abuse perpetration. The team conducted a scoping review to explore the current scope of digital interventions being implemented as secondary prevention measures to prevent, or intervene early, in the perpetration of online child sexual abuse.

This project involves an evaluation of the Name.Narrate.Navigate: Practice Pathways program (developed at University of Newcastle), which comprises two training packages for professionals, aimed at enhancing trauma-informed and culturally safe practice for youth violence, including preparing participants to deliver the Name.Narrate.Navigate program.

Our partnership with the Salvation Army examined the utilisation of environmental/situational criminology theory and practice in safeguarding children within a non-profit, religious organisation.

In partnership with the Institute of Child Protection Studies, the SVRPU team identified and evaluated a range of contextual (environmental and situational) prevention strategies implemented in not-for-profit youth-serving organisations to safeguard children from sexual abuse.

This project involved a preliminary evaluation of the Name.Narrate.Navigate (NNN) program (developed at University of Newcastle), a strengths-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive group program that explores ‘naming, narrating, and navigating’ violence with young people. NNN was developed and piloted between 2019-2021.

The project, administered by University of Newcastle, commenced with a synthesis of existing evidence to understand the extent, forms, and considerations of culturally sensitive, trauma-informed methods of trauma screening for justice involved people in Australia.

We undertook a focused study to consolidate the 30 year history of the Stop It Now! movement - a child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetration prevention initiative - documenting main achievements, as well as identifying factors that shaped its development and expansion.

The Changing Futures program aimed to upskill community members and frontline workers on harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) to enhance prevention and early intervention efforts for better outcomes for children and young people. The SVRPU were commissioned to evaluate the program's effectiveness, which included webinars, workshops, and resources primarily targeting the children's education and care workforce.

This applied research project utilised participatory research and co-design methods to conceptualise and develop a new therapeutic treatment program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men incarcerated for sexual offences, called the Strong and Solid Spirit program (SSS).

Using a realist evaluation design (and EMMIE reporting framework) the SVRPU team evaluated the implementation and delivery of the Cairns Youth Sexual Violence Support Services model, comprising prevention and response services.

The project was a collaboration with young people (12-25 years), schools, NGOs, government agencies and community stakeholders to co-design locally tailored community action plans to prevent YSVA.

This mixed-methods project measured current organisational safety climate and practices within Save the Children – Australian Services. Data was used to develop an organisation-wide online professional development training package focused on contextual prevention frameworks to support and enhance child-safe practices in this organisation.

In response to a prior project undertaken by members of the SVRPU team (Rayment-McHugh and Adams), Life Without Barriers developed a bespoke ‘train-the-trainer’ program to promote the implementation of new foster carer recruitment tools designed to enhance the prevention of child sexual abuse in out-of-home settings. This project involved an evaluation of the pilot ‘train-the-trainer’ program.

Effective child exploitation material (CEM) reduction requires policy and practice to be evidence informed. This project synthesised the current evidence across a range of disciplines that contribute to CEM reduction. This synthesis ascertained what is most effective (i.e., ‘what works, for whom, in what circumstances, in what respects and how’) as well as ‘what looks promising’.

This project aimed to provide a systematic review and synthesis of current empirical and practice literature on the management of individuals who sexually offend in the community, to identify ‘what works’, particularly with regard to community-based policing practices.

This project uniquely studied pathways from rehabilitation to successful reintegration for men convicted of sexual and violent offences. The impact of individual-level (e.g., cultural heritage, gender, age) and program-level (e.g., type, design, delivery, dosage) factors on outcomes were examined.

For this project we developed an evaluation framework to measure therapeutic progress and other associated outcomes at the individual, practitioner, and system levels for adult clients undertaking individual or group therapeutic programs across custodial and community correctional settings.

In this project we systematically reviewed current workplace culture, policies and practices to provide recommendations for augmenting current prevention strategies at an individual, situational and systemic level, to mitigate risks associated with abuses occurring in the first place, and for appropriate responses, when abuses do occur.

Historically, there has been debate in scholarship concerning gendered sentencing disparities for individuals convicted of sexual offending. Using sentencing data from 2012-2017, this project aimed to determine whether sentencing disparities exist between females who perpetrate sexual offences and males who perpetrate sexual offences in Queensland.

In this project we evaluated the short-term outcomes and effectiveness of the Bravehearts Turning Corners program for addressing sexually harmful behaviour by youth. Turning Corners was developed to fill a perceived service gap in responding to and preventing harmful sexual behaviours by youth within the community.