This Evidence Check examines international and Australian policies, programs and models of practice for integrated, trauma-informed responses for domestic violence, mental health issues and/or alcohol and other drug use and dependence. The reviewers identified the Integrated Domestic Family Violence Service Program as the most consistently sound and quality program and the only one which aligned with all five of system design principles of NSW Health’s Integrated Prevention and Response to Violence, Abuse and Neglect (IPARVAN) Framework. Overall, the report looked at what has been effective in supporting delivery of such responses, which policies and programs align with the system design principles set out in the IPARVAN Framework, and the key barriers to and enablers of integrated, trauma-informed responses where domestic and family violence, mental health issues and/or alcohol and other drug use may co-exist.
Townsend N, Barnes I, Byrnes E, Anderson A, Lewis S, Goodwin N, Kay-Lambkin F, Loxton D. Integrated approaches for domestic and family violence, mental health issues and alcohol and other drug use: an Evidence Check rapid review brokered by the Sax Institute for the NSW Ministry of Health, 2020. doi:10.57022/zdgz6467
