One Talk at a Time: Having conversations

National Office for Child Safety, Australia, October 2023

Related to Child sexual abuse

This toolkit from the National Office for Child Safety (NOCS) has been designed to help adults have preventative conversations about child sexual abuse with children and young people, other adults and organisations.

Help is available if you or someone you know has experienced, are experiencing, or are concerned a child or young person may be at risk of harm including child sexual abuse. Visit the Child Safety website for dedicated support services.

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Fact sheet

One Talk at a Time: Child sexual abuse: Get the facts

National Office for Child Safety

This resource from the National Office for Child Safety (NOCS) includes foundational information about child sexual abuse. The resource contains statistics to learn more about child sexual abuse and helps to dispel common myths and misconceptions, and help people understand the role they can play in protecting children and young people.
Guide

One Talk at a Time: Stakeholder kit

National Office for Child Safety

‘One Talk at a Time’ aims to help prevent child sexual abuse by encouraging adults to learn about the issue and have ongoing, proactive, preventative conversations with children, young people and other adults. This kit includes information on how the campaign materials, tools and resources can be shared and promoted.
Website

The long-term effects of child sexual abuse

Child Family Community Australia

This paper looks at the long-term effects of child sexual abuse and discusses the range of negative consequences for mental health and adjustment, aspects of abuse and how strong, supportive relationships can help buffer the impact of abuse.
Practice paper

Making use of practitioners’ skills to support a child who has been sexually abused

Sophie Guy, Emerging Minds

This paper draws attention to the issue of child sexual abuse (CSA), highlights the skills all practitioners have that can support children and the key principles that can support practice when working with CSA.
Podcast

Responding to the challenge of child sexual abuse

Carol Ronken

Runtime

00:42:04

Released

3/10/20
Fact sheet

Talking to children about violent events

Emerging Minds

This resource offers tips for talking with children after a man-made disaster such as an act of mass violence.
Short article

National Perinatal Mental Health Guideline: 2023 update

Melissa Willoughby, Australian Institute of Family Studies

This short resource summarises the 2023 update of the Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE) National Perinatal Mental Health Guideline.
Webinar

How a ‘village’ approach can support infant and toddler mental health

Child Family Community Australia & Emerging Minds

Co-produced with Child Family Community Australia (CFCA), this webinar discusses how to work collaboratively with families to engage with their 'village' and promote infant and toddler mental health.
Short article

The importance of inclusive services for LGBTQ+ parents and carers

Hilary Miller, Luke Gahan and Anna Scovelle, Australian Institute of Family Studies

This article briefly outlines how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ+) parents and carers experience barriers to inclusion when accessing services and support, and how to begin to support parents and carers in this context.
Fact sheet

A culturally safe research process in mental health

Prof. Helen Milroy, Lexi Prichard, Dr Jemma Collova and Dr Shraddha Kashyap

This fact sheet describes how culturally safe research can be conducted to learn about the state of cultural safety in mental health services, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members, mental health service users, Elders, mental health workers, and Cultural Healers.
Fact sheet

An overview of Emerging Minds Focus

Emerging Minds

Learn how the Emerging Minds Focus tool can help you to motivate, plan and track quality improvement in your organisation, to support the mental health and wellbeing of infants, children and their families.
Guide

Interpreting your Results Wheels and developing your action plan in Emerging Minds Focus

Emerging Minds

This guide has been developed to support Change Teams to interpret their Results Wheels and develop an action plan within the Emerging Minds Focus quality improvement tool.

One Talk at a Time: Having conversations

National Office for Child Safety, Australia, October 2023

Discover more resources

One Talk at a Time: Child sexual abuse: Get the facts

One Talk at a Time: Stakeholder kit

The long-term effects of child sexual abuse

Making use of practitioners’ skills to support a child who has been sexually abused

Responding to the challenge of child sexual abuse

Talking to children about violent events

National Perinatal Mental Health Guideline: 2023 update

How a ‘village’ approach can support infant and toddler mental health

The importance of inclusive services for LGBTQ+ parents and carers

A culturally safe research process in mental health

An overview of Emerging Minds Focus

Interpreting your Results Wheels and developing your action plan in Emerging Minds Focus

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One Talk at a Time: Having conversations

National Office for Child Safety, Australia, October 2023

Discover more resources

One Talk at a Time: Child sexual abuse: Get the facts

One Talk at a Time: Stakeholder kit

The long-term effects of child sexual abuse

Making use of practitioners’ skills to support a child who has been sexually abused

Responding to the challenge of child sexual abuse

Talking to children about violent events

National Perinatal Mental Health Guideline: 2023 update

How a ‘village’ approach can support infant and toddler mental health

The importance of inclusive services for LGBTQ+ parents and carers

A culturally safe research process in mental health

An overview of Emerging Minds Focus

Interpreting your Results Wheels and developing your action plan in Emerging Minds Focus

Login to Emerging Minds Learning

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