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A school-based program designed to facilitate change in the attitudes of students toward gay men and lesbians. Containing a video the six-week program is interactive.

This report explores how the role of families, and family policies from around the world, can contribute to meeting the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given the key role that both families and family policies have in determining social progress, and the national and international focus on meeting the SDGs by 2030, the timing of the publication is opportune. The report summarizes reviews of evidence across six SDGs that cover poverty, health, education, gender equality, youth unemployment, and ending violence to highlight some important issues that policymakers might consider when making future policies work for families, and family policies work for the future. A key contribution of the work, given the broad scope of the SDG ambitions, has been to map how the successes of family-focused policies and programmes in one SDG have also been successful in contributing to positive outcomes in other goal areas.

Outlines the findings of a survey undertaken by The ALSO Foundation of service provision in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people by local government authorities (herein referred to as Councils) in Victoria. All seventy-eight Councils were surveyed, with forty-two responding. The survey revealed that there is a noticeable level of ignorance of the need for services and programs for GLBT people within Councils, most probably due to a lack of understanding on the part of service providers of the specific needs of same sex attracted and transgender people. ALSO found that this situation is further compounded by confusion over the definition of the term "diversity" on the part of many Councils and service providers, with a resulting drive to make services "available to all" without taking into account the specific needs of different groups. On a positive note, many Councils have supported the development of same sex attracted youth groups and services. This demonstrates that many Councils do have the willingness and capacity to respond to areas of need within the GLBT community.

Pride & Prejudice is a school-based program designed to facilitate change in students' attitudes towards gay men and lesbians. The six-week program is interactive, engaging and challenging, giving students and avenue to discuss socially sensitve topics.

This report outlines the primary findings of the Australian Child Maltreatment Study which is the first Australian nationally-representative study of all five forms of child maltreatment including physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect and exposure to domestic violence. The report outlines the prevalence of child abuse and neglect at a national level across all age groups as well as youth-specific prevalence rates. The report also outlines the strong associations between child maltreatment and mental health