good practice links
Resources from Australia
Websites
KnowledgeXchange
KnowledgeXchange is a means of delivering current, relevant and accessible, evidence-informed information to busy professionals working in the child and family welfare sector who don't have time to read research reports or search libraries or websites to find material relevant to their work.
Journals
Evidence-based practice in child protection:
What do we know and how do we better inform practice1
Does the current western approach to child protection work? How do we know?
What is good practice in child protection? In this paper the aim is to provide a brief
overview of the state of child protection research, particularly within an Australian
context, outlining a number of child protection issues that have been most frequently
(and better) researched.
Resources from UK
Websites
Violence Prevention Evidence Base
This tool provides access to abstracts from published studies that have measured the effectiveness of interventions to prevent violence. To be included in the database, studies must have measured the impact of interventions directly on violence
Social Care Online
Social Care Online is the UK's most extensive free database of social care information. With everything from research briefings, to reports, government documents, journal articles, events and websites and you find it all with the click of a button. Updated daily by SCIE's experienced information managers, Social Care Online offers unrivalled free access and ease of use.
Social Care Institute for Excellence
This website provides an online source of good practice guidance, research and learning materials for social care and social work.
research in practice: supporting evidence-informed practice with children and families
This website is a department of the Dartington Hall Trust run in collaboration with the Association of Directors of Children's Services and the University of Sheffield. Research in practice is the largest children and families research implementation project in England and Wales. Their mission is to promote positive outcomes for children and families through the use of research evidence.
Journals
Evidence & Policy, 2007, Vol 3, no3
'What counts as ‘evidence’ in ‘evidence-based
practice’?', Glasby J, Walshe K, Harvey G, pp 325-327
Resources from Canada
Making Appropriate
Parenting Arrangements in
Family Violence Cases:
Applying the Literature
to Identify Promising
Practices
This report is divided into sections that provide an overview of the literature on family violence
followed by sections on post-separation parenting arrangements in cases involving family
violence. The reader is provided with a model for a paradigm shift in regards to assessment and
intervention strategies in cases of family violence and child-related parental disputes. A model
for best practice is outlined in the text together with a summary diagram to illustrate the host of
factors to consider in matching parenting arrangements to families in which violence is a factor.
Resources from USA
Blueprints for Violence Prevention, a project of CSPV, systematically and continuously reviews the research on violence to identify programs which are exemplary and grounded in evidence. It has assessed more than 900 programs to date. Prevention programs are evaluated as 'model programs' and 'promising programs' using the selection criteria of evidence of deterrent effect with a strong research design, sustained effects and multiple site replication.
Evidence-based practices for children exposed to violence : a selection from federal databases
This report summarises findings from a review of US research studies and program evaluations to identify more than 50 evidence-based or promising practices in interventions for children affected by domestic violence. The report includes matrix outlining details for each program, a glossary of terms and a brief summary of service characteristics.
NREPP SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. SAMSHA has developed this resource to help people, agencies and organisations implement programs and practices in their communities.
This practice guide is one of the key results of a multi-agency, multi-year collaboration that provides relevant research, practice recommendations and information regarding community supports to help social workers implement domestic violence-specific policies of Children's Administration.
Violence & Victimization Research Division's Compendium of Research on Violence Against Women 1993-2009
This compendium provides a list of final reports and abstracts of research undertaken by the National Institute of Justice, USA.
International Resources
UN Women
Web Portals and Online Resources
This webpage of gender-focussed and violence against women online resources is hosted by UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (previously UNIFEM).
United Nations
UN Secretary General's database on violence against women : good practices
Database includes promising practices in law, promising practices in the provision of services, promising practices in prevention and other romisiing practices
World Health Organization
Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability (VIP)
Website provides a gateway to the latest world reports, news, publications and resources on violence and injury prevention. VIP offers quality, interactive lectures in a webinar format. Registration is free and open to everyone. An archive of webinars is also available to those unable to attend.
Violence Prevention Evidence Base and Resources
This website provides a violence prevention resource for policy makers, practitioners and others and includes an evidence base of abstracts of systematically reviewed literature providing evidence of measures that can work to prevent violence.
Journals
PLoS Medicine, 2005, Vol 2, Issue 7, e66
'Pathways to “Evidence-Informed” Policy and Practice: A Framework for Action', Bowen S & Zwi A, pp 0600-0605
