Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy Review
Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy Review WWILD has completed a review of its Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy and developed two new supporting resources: the Guidelines for Supervision
WWILD’s Loud and Proud Project
WWILD’s Loud and Proud Project – 2024-2026 WWILD worked alongside women and non-binary people with intellectual disability on an exciting 2-year violence prevention project called the Loud and Proud Project. The project
Module 8: Putting it all into practice
This module focuses on what knowledge and skills support workers and organisations need to ensure they are meeting the needs of people who have a disability after an experience of domestic, family and/or sexual violence.
Module 7: Supporting people to make their own decisions
This module focuses on how to support people with a disability to make their own decisions, after an experience of domestic, family and/or sexual violence.
Module 6: Responding to domestic, family and sexual violence
This module focuses on how to support people who have a disability, after they share an experience of domestic, family and/or sexual violence. Including what to say, what to do and how to ensure the person with a disability remains in control as much as possible.
Module 5: Recognising domestic, family and sexual violence
This module focuses on recognising domestic, family, and sexual violence in the lives of people who have a disability and shares tips around how to approach a discussion with someone you are working with, if you are concerned that they might be experiencing violence.
Module 4: Sexual Violence
This module focuses on defining sexual violence and affirmative consent in the ACT. The facilitators also discuss the significant role support workers play in the lives of people who have a disability, when role modelling and sharing information about consent.
Module 3: Domestic and Family Violence
This module focuses on defining domestic and family violence in the ACT; discusses the different types of domestic and family violence experienced by people with a disability and shares why people with disability experience violence differently, then those without a disability.
Module 1: Disability Experiences
This module focuses on the different models of disability and how they affect the way people with a disability are viewed and treated. Facilitators discuss the importance of using an intersectional lense and outline why all workers need to ensure they are working in a culturally safe way, when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have a disability.
Module 2: Why does violence against people with a disability occur?
This module focuses on why people with a disability experience domestic, family, and sexual violence at such high rates.
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.”
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