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Women with Disability & Domestic & Family Violence

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Publisher: People with Disability Australia and Domestic Violence NSW Inc., 2016

Status – CURRENT

Australian women with disability are 37.3% more at risk of domestic and family violence. In NSW, over 43% of women experiencing personal violence have disability or a long-term illness, meaning that they experience violence at twice the rate of other women. The toolkit is a package of 3 informative and practical documents designed to support a service to become disability inclusive:

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It’s gone wild out there: Women’s stories about sexuality and ageing

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Publisher: C Barrett, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society La Trobe University. Melbourne Australia, 2015

Status – CURRENT

This report outlines a project that sought to create safe spaces for older women to talk about sexual assault. The project explored whether broadening the focus from ‘sexual assault’ to ‘sexual wellbeing and safety’ would successfully engage older women. It aims to educate service providers and policy makers to develop policies and services for older women in this area.

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Responding to Child to Parent Violence

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Publisher: Responding to Child to Parent Violence 2015

Status – CURRENT

Child to Parent Violence (CPV) is the most hidden, misunderstood and stigmatised form of family violence. It involves teenage and younger girls and boys who use physical, psychological, emotional and financial abuse over time to the extent that parents/carers live in fear of their child. The project adopted an action research methodology motivated to understand practice and policy in relation to CPV in each partner country (Spain, Bulgaria, England and Sweden) and to learn how to improve both by reflecting on the changes made through project actions. The project aimed to raise awareness of child to parent violence, find out how countries across Europe deal with it and provide resources including films and toolkits for practitioners who work with young people and parents experiencing this problem. The project has raised awareness of two CPV intervention models currently in use – in particular Break4Change (Brighton & Hove City Council) and Non Violent Resistance (National University of Ireland, Galway) – and investigated how these models could be used effectively in other countries.

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Keep Your Boat Afloat

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Publisher: Women’s Health Goulburn North East, 2013

Status – CURRENT

WHGNE has operated a domestic violence specific No Interest Loans (NILS) program since 2007. As a result of this work we recognised that there was a need for resources identifying financial abuse as a form of family violence. Women who were separating from a partner were missing out on services available to them because they were not aware that the financial abuse they had experienced in their past relationship was in fact, family violence. We would regularly hear from women “He controlled all the money. I had nothing to spend on myself or the kids. But he never hit me. That’s not domestic violence is it?” The Federal Government’s National Plan of action to reduce violence against women and their children argues that because financial dependence is a major factor influencing a woman’s decision to remain with an abusive partner, and family violence is also often associated with poverty and homelessness; therefore financial independence and security are essential for leaving and staying away from an abusive partner.

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