On Monday the 2nd of November, four budding performing and creative arts students from Roebourne District High school left Roebourne to embark on a 6 day adventure exploring the arts in Sydney. The long distance travel (and the rain!) was exhausting but an incredible week of amazing experiences was had...

Risk Factors for the Perpetration of Youth Violence Research on youth violence has increased our understanding of factors that make some populations more vulnerable to victimization and perpetration. Risk factors increase the likelihood that a young person will become violent. However, risk factors are not direct causes of youth violence;...

The Ride by James Rigg We were planning on riding the some 578km in 6 days, or so I was lead to believe. I was thinking this was a manageable effort when invited to join, worked out at a little under 100km each day. Little did I know that this...

Our inaugural Ride For Unity launched on the 24thof August this year with a team of 15 enthusiastic cyclists and a dedicated support crew heading out from the town of Port Hedland in W.A’s far north west with nearly 600kms in their sights. The IF Foundation’s Ride For Unity aimed...

Check out our latest video on Stopping the Violence and our approach to tackling this devastating community issue.

Amanda Banks, Legal Affairs Editor. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN A teenager committed a “cowardly” and fatal one-punch attack on a fellow prisoner in a WA jail after a minor spat over who could sit where in the dining room, a Perth could was told today. Robert Thomas Garlett was sentenced to...

Nicky Phillips Science Editor, Sydney Morning Herald The number of women presenting at emergency departments with alcohol-related injuries is increasing at an alarming rate, a new national study has found. Between 2005 and 2012 the number of women who arrived at hospital with these kind of injuries increased by 44...

IF Foundation is tackling violence prevention using an evidence‐based public health approach that targets the root causes and risk factors underlying the likelihood of an individual becoming involved in violence, and that recognizes the need for improved services to mitigate the harmful effects of violence when it does occur. The...

Developing life skills can help young people to avoid violence, by improving their social & emotional competence, teaching them how to deal effectively & non violently with conflict & helping to find them employment. The WHO briefing for preventing violence by developing life skills in children & adolescents (2009), defines...