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Table A1: Definitions of early intervention in Australian frameworks and plans
| Document | Definition or description |
|---|---|
| Change the story: A shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women in Australia (6) | ‘Aims to change the trajectory for individuals at higher-than-average risk of perpetrating or experiencing violence.’ |
| National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032 (13) | ‘Aims to identify and support individuals and families experiencing, or at risk of, gender-based violence in order to stop violence from escalating, protect victim-survivors from harm and prevent violence from reoccurring.’ |
| ACT Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Strategy: Consultation draft (14) | ‘Aims to identify and support people at risk of, or in the early stages of experiencing or perpetrating domestic, family and sexual violence in order to stop violence from escalating, protect victim-survivors from harm and prevent violence from reoccurring.’ |
| NSW Domestic and Family Violence Prevention and Early Intervention Strategy 2017 – 2021 (21) | ‘Approaches that aim to keep people safe and change attitudes and behaviours or build skills of individuals or groups who are at risk, or exhibiting early signs, of using or experiencing domestic and family violence. ‘These approaches seek to prevent escalation and address issues arising from the experience of domestic and family violence environments identified as being at a higher risk of perpetrating or experiencing violence.’ |
| NSW Domestic and Family Violence Plan 2022–2027 (15) | ‘Identifies and aims to address the early signs of violence to stop it from escalating or prevent it from recurring. It includes prevention among high-risk groups and settings, changing the trajectory of violence and preventing the progression of violence.’ |
| Pathways to Prevention: NSW Strategy for the Prevention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence 2024–2028 (57) | ‘Aims to change the trajectory for individuals at higher-than-average risk of perpetrating or experiencing violence.’ |
| Safe, respected and free from violence: The Northern Territory’s Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Reduction Framework 2018–2028 (22) | ‘Approaches that aim to change behaviours or build skills of individuals or groups who are at risk, or exhibiting early signs, of perpetration or experience of violence.’ |
| Queensland’s Plan for the Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women 2024–2028 (20) | ‘Early intervention aims to intervene early to prevent recurring violence and change the trajectory for individuals at higher-than-average risk of using or experiencing violence.’ |
| Indigenous Family Violence Primary Prevention Framework [Victoria] (58) | ‘Interventions targeted at the early signs of violence.’ |
| Free from violence: Victoria’s strategy to prevent family violence and all forms of violence against women (59) | ‘Aims to ‘change the trajectory’ for individuals at higher-than-average risk of perpetrating or experiencing violence.’ |
| North Metropolitan Health Service Family and Domestic Violence Framework 2021–2026 (60) | ‘Early intervention of FDV [family and domestic violence] involves the detection of at-risk individuals and those exhibiting early signs of experiencing or perpetrating abuse. It seeks to prevent escalation and address issues arising from FDV.’ |
| A Public Health Model for the Prevention of Violence Against Women (23) | ‘Is targeted to individuals and groups who exhibit early signs of perpetrating violent behaviour or of being subject to violence. They can be aimed at changing behaviours or increasing the skills of individuals and groups. Early intervention may also be targeted to environments in which there are strong signs that violence may occur or has begun to occur (i.e. sports).’ |