Upcoming ASID Symposium: Working with People with Intellectual Disability who have Experienced Trauma: September 15th – 9am – 2pm
Australia Society for Intellectual Disability (Queensland division) presents: Working with People with Intellectual Disability who have experienced Trauma: For Individual Practitioners within Community and Service Systems People with Intellectual Disability experience violence and trauma through stigma, social exclusion, social and economic disadvantages, structural and systems inequality structural and poor individual workers’ practice. In this […]
Intellectual Disability and Domestic and Family Violence Webinar – 21.5.2020
Intellectual Disability and Domestic and Family Violence Webinar Date recorded: 21st May 2020 Presented by Jane Barrett and Siobhan Gibbs This webinar focuses on the intersection of intellectual disability and domestic and family violence. In particular on some key aspects of working with people who have an intellectual disability including: Identifying intellectual disability, cognitive and […]
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 of Children and Young People at WWILD and the Guide to Identifying and Managing Online Risks. Key updates to the policy include: Introduction of a National Police Checks policy and procedure for staff. Improving […]
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 participants had experienced either domestic and family violence, or sexual violence, or both. Women and non-binary people with intellectual disability were included at all levels of the project. The aim of the project was to […]
Women are three times more likely than men to report violence by their partner, as rates of sexual harassment fall – ABC News
By Maani Truu and Nicole Asher Posted Wed 15 Mar 2023 at 11:02am Women are three times more likely than men to report an incident of physical or sexual violence at the hands of a partner they’ve lived with, while one in five women have experienced sexual violence since the age of 15. More broadly, two in five […]
The disability royal commission heard shocking evidence of abuse in public spaces this week. These were just some of the stories – ABC News
The disability royal commission heard shocking evidence of abuse in public spaces this week. These were just some of the stories ABC News Posted by national disability affairs reporter Elizabeth Wright, and Specialist Reporting Team’s Penny Timms and Evan Young. Posted Saturday 15 Oct 2022 at 7:46am, updated Sat 15 Oct 2022 at 10:29pm Sexual assaults on public transport. Physical […]
Sexual assault reports in Australia hit all-time high. What’s driving the increase? – ABC News
Sexual assault reports in Australia hit all-time high. What’s driving the increase? PM – By Nassim Khadem Posted 29.7.2022 New data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this week shows the number of sexual assaults reported around Australia has risen to an all-time high. Key points: There were a record 31,000 sexual assaults reported […]
Report on Young Women and Non-Binary People’s Experiences of Gender-Based Violence across Australia – WWDA & NATSIWA
Report on Young Women and Non-Binary People’s Experiences of Gender-Based Violence across Australia – WWDA and NATSIWA The Australian Women Against Violence Alliance’s much-awaited Report on Young Women and Non-Binary People’s Experiences of Gender-Based Violence across Australia was launched at 1pm today (17.2.2022) at an online event run in collaboration with Women With Disabilities Australia […]
Family, domestic and sexual violence service responses in the time of COVID-19 – AIHW
Family, domestic and sexual violence service responses in the time of COVID-19 Published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; 16 DEC 2021 and made available by the Australian Analysis Observatory (APO) Since early 2020, there has been growing concern about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family, domestic and sexual violence […]
Technology increasingly used to ‘victimise and control’ women with intellectual disability – ABC News
Technology increasingly used to ‘victimise and control’ women with intellectual disability – ABC News By disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella and the Specialist Reporting Team’s Celina Edmonds 1/09/2021 Excerpt of article: Women with cognitive and intellectual disability are increasingly being abused through technology, with perpetrators monitoring their behaviour, tracking their movements and encouraging them to share naked images, […]