The Inaugural Australian Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Recovery and Healing Conference: The Right to Recovery

4-5 May 2023, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.

The Australian Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Recovery Alliance is pleased to announce the Inaugural Recovery and Healing Conference: The Right to Recovery.

Conference Objectives

The conference is unique and focuses on the intersecting aspects of recovery for victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexual violence. It will highlight the voices of those with a lived experience and also include practitioners, those working with survivors at all stages of recovery, and researchers. This conference will extract findings from the conference and engage with policy makers and Government and non-Government departments to ensure that the Right to Recovery for all survivors is recognised and necessary interventions are implemented. The aim is to ensure evidence-based, funded, whole of system pathways to assist with recovery and healing.

Program Topics

We invite 150-word abstract submissions from people with a lived experience, practitioners and organisations that facilitate recovery, and researchers who have developed evidence-based programs that focus on recovery from domestic, family and/or sexual violence. Submissions should centre around the following pillars of recovery:

• Trauma and Holistic Health Models

• Housing and Economic Recovery

• Responsive and Accessible Pathways to Justice

• Centring Children and Young People

Session Formats

Lived Experience presentations: For oral presentations from people with a lived experience of domestic, family and/or sexual violence, please submit up to a 150-word abstract that will focus on one or more of the above pillars of recovery. Presentations will be for 10 minutes with 5 minutes of discussion time.

Practitioner/Organisation presentations: For oral presentations from practitioners and service providers who focus on the recovery of victim-survivors, please submit a 150-word abstract that describes the prevention or intervention program that facilitates recovery. Presentations will be for 10 minutes with 5 minutes of discussion time.

Individual/ team research presentations: For oral presentations from researchers who focus on the recovery of victim-survivors, please submit a 150-word abstract that describes the evidence-based prevention or intervention program that facilitates recovery. Your study should align with one of the four pillars of recovery described above. Presentations will be for 10 minutes with 5 minutes of discussion time.

Poster Presentations: For poster presentations, please submit a similar 150-word abstract that describes the recovery program. All poster presenters will be allocated a space and timeslot to display their posters.

Submission of Abstracts now Closed