The following projects or research reports relate to the topics of domestic violence, family relations and dynamics in specific reference to the impact of the refugee experience, resettlement and experience of torture/trauma on these relationships.
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Research
- Research/Practice Monograph (2013), Improving responses to refugees with backgrounds of multiple trauma: pointers for practitioners in domestic and family violence, sexual assault and settlement services
- Research (2013), Women Surviving Violence Cultural Competence in Critical Services, (Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria)
- Research (2009), Exploration of the Nature and Understanding of Family and Domestic Violence within Sudanese, Somalian, Ethiopian, Liberian and Sierra Leonean Communities and its Impact on Individuals, Family Relations, the Community and Settlement, (ASeTTS)
- Research (2006), Refugee Settlement, Safety and Wellbeing: Exploring Domestic and Family Violence in Refugee Communities, (VicHealth)
- Research (2006), The right to be safe from domestic violence: immigrant and refugee women in rural Victoria, (Immigrant Women’s Domestic Violence Service), 2006
- Family Violence in New and Emerging Communities, (The Hills Holroyd Parramatta Migrant Resource Centre (THHPMRC) in partnership with The Centre for Refugee Research (CRR), UNSW), 2010
- Occasional Paper, Eileen Pittaway (2005), From Horror to Hope, the Ultimate Betrayal: An examination of the experience of domestic and family violence in refugee communities, (Centre for Refugee Research)
- Research (March 2002), Refugee Women and Domestic Violence: Country Studies, (Asylum Aid)
Referral services for women experiencing family, community or domestic violence
InTouch, Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence, formerly Immigrant Women’s Domestic Violence Service (1800 755 988)
Salvation Army Domestic Violence Support Service (1300 36 36 22)
Domestic Violence Resource Centre, Referral Options Booklet and Victorian Service Directory
Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (Foundation House) 03 93880022
