FRSA invites you to submit an abstract to present at the FRSA National Conference 2026, which will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, 18-21 May.

The theme for the FRSA National Conference 2026, Showcasing: Practice, Evidence, Impact, recognises the breadth of work undertaken across the sector and its measurable impact on families, children, and communities.

With the federal government contemplating changes to the commissioning of community services, they have expressed a commitment to evidence-based decision making. It is therefore timely to reflect on what is working in our sector, why it works, and to share the outcomes of these interventions.

The Conference will provide an opportunity for the sector to share:

• the ways you are working to meet the needs of children, adults, families and communities
• the evidence underpinning and emerging from practice
• the impact that different practices and approaches generate for the people accessing services – and for your local communities.

The FRSA National Conference 2026 provides a platform to showcase and learn from on the ground practice, policy, and research. The Conference is a highlight event for the family and relationship services network and will, as always, deliver a prime opportunity to share the impressive work of the sector.

We welcome abstracts that speak to the conference theme – Showcasing: Practice, Evidence, Impact.

In preparing and making your submission, you are asked to select and position your abstract within one of the five following streams:

1. The early years
   (e.g. preconception to birth, the birth of a child, impact on family relationships and transitions into parenting, early child development, and school readiness).
2. Children and young people at the centre
   (e.g. child-focused and child-inclusive practice, supporting children and young people’s participation in policy development, service design and evaluation, school transitions, the safety and wellbeing of children and young people).
3. Relationship breakdown and re-partnering
   (e.g. family legal services, family dispute resolution, parenting after separation and sustaining the best interests and wellbeing of children, sole-parenting, tensions in extended family relationships).
4. Family Domestic Violence
   (e.g. identifying and managing family violence risk, child maltreatment, perpetrator interventions, adolescents using violence in the home, elder abuse).
5. Across the lifecourse
   (e.g. diverse and changing family structures, developing and maintaining respectful relationships, social connection, intersectionality and inclusion).

We are a rich and diverse society, and FRSA encourages presentations that show our sector’s work with different cohorts and communities – First Nations peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse peoples, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ people – and other cohorts who may face particular challenges in accessing safe and appropriate services.

The Call for Abstracts closes 11:59pm AEDT Wednesday, 5 November 2025. For more information, or to submit your Abstract, please visit the FRSA National Conference website here.