Supporting children and young people with disability experiencing family violence

This webinar will explore how service providers can better support children and young people with disability who are experiencing family violence.

Children and young people with disability experience higher rates of family and domestic violence than their peers without disability. However, the experiences of this cohort are often overlooked in research, policy and practice.

In 2025–26, Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) and AIFS partnered on the Safety Beyond Barriers: Diverse Family Perspectives on Violence and Disability project. Through a co-design team with lived and family experience of disability from LGBTIQA+, First Nations, multicultural and regional and remote backgrounds, this project examined how children and young people with disability from diverse backgrounds experience family and domestic violence in Australia.

In the lead up to National Child Protection Week (6-12 September), AIFS is proud to partner with the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) and CYDA to bring you some of the findings from this important project.

Bringing together research, lived experience and practitioner expertise, this webinar will provide insight into how service providers can better support children and young people who have experienced family and domestic violence. It will describe what good support looks like and how service providers can strengthen accessibility, inclusion, trauma-informed care and relational safety.

This webinar will give you:

• an overview of the evidence about children and young people with disability and their experience of domestic and family violence
• a better understanding of the importance of recognising children and young people with disability who have experienced family and domestic violence as victim-survivors in their own right
• insight into inclusive, trauma-informed and collaborative practice approaches that support children, young people and families.