We Are Recruiting: Victims of Crime Case Manager Position – 30hrs/pw
We Are Recruiting: Victims of Crime Case Manager Location: Brisbane North Employment Type: Part-time 30 hours/week, locum July – November Wage: Level 4 SCHADS Award About Us WWILD – Sexual Violence Prevention Association Inc. is a community-development-based organisation dedicated to achieving social justice and systemic change to uphold the rights of people with intellectual […]
NSW Health Education Centre Against Violence – Easy read resources available!
NSW Health Education Centre Against Violence – Easy read resources available! People with disability co-designed and co-produced these resources with NSW Health and includes: 13 Easy Read Guides for people who have been sexually assaulted; 5 Plain English sexual assault booklets for people who have been recently sexually assaulted; Informational videos in Easy Read These resources […]
Speak Up and Be Safe from Abuse – Communication Toolkit and Resources
Speak Up and Be Safe from Abuse – Communication Toolkit and Resources Abuse is not ok. Everyone has the right to speak up. Scope was supported by the Victorian Government to produce a communication toolkit and resources for people with communication difficulties, to assist individuals to identify and report abuse. Click on Speak Up and […]
Little has changed since disability royal commission exposed deep institutional failings – ABC News
Little has changed since disability royal commission exposed deep institutional failings ABC News – By the Specialist Reporting Team’s Evan Young “Devastated.” “An insult.” “A failure of leadership.” That’s what the disability community said a year ago when the federal government released its initial response to the $600 million Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect […]
Blurred Borders Queensland Resource Kits
Blurred Borders Queensland Blurred Borders Queensland project provides a set of accessible plain English resources designed to help people understand the law and their legal rights, and was adapted for Queensland by Legal Aid QLD. The resource kits have been designed for use by a wide range of service providers across the legal, education, health, public […]
2026 Workshop at WWILD: Trauma Counselling for Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities
2026 – Workshop at WWILD: Trauma Counselling for Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities Please email or phone to put your name on a waitlist. We will be releasing a date in early 2026. WWILD provides trauma counselling to people with intellectual disabilities who have experienced sexual, domestic and family violence and other types of abuse […]
Health outcomes for people with intellectual disability remain ‘comparable to third world countries’ – ABC News
Health outcomes for people with intellectual disability remain ‘comparable to third world countries’ – ABC News By national disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella and the Specialist Reporting Team’s Evan Young Australians with intellectual disability continue to experience unconscious bias in the medical system and much poorer health outcomes than people without disability. On average, they die 27 […]
New 2025 You and Me Relationships Group Starting Soon – 22nd May – 24th July 2025
WWILD’s You and Me Relationships Group Starting Soon The You and Me Relationships Group is a small group of people with intellectual disabilities who come together in a weekly group with ‘facilitators’ (WWILD workers) to talk about how to be happy and safe in relationships with family, friends and partners. Starting Date: Thursday 22nd May Time: […]
Easy Guide – Tips for Identifying if Someone May Have an Intellectual or Learning Disabilities
Tips for Observing or Noticing if Someone may have an Intellectual or Learning Disabilities It can be difficult to know if someone is presenting at your service may have an intellectual or learning disability. Some people do not feel comfortable sharing that as they may have had bad experiences of discrimination in the past and […]
Understanding Domestic And Family Violence Videos – Queensland
Domestic and Family Violence Videos – Queensland In 2023-24, WWILD’s Listen Up! project worked alongside lived experience expert consultants with intellectual disability to create accessible resources talking about Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland. This project was supported with funding from the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, the Investing in Queensland Women grant program: Office […]