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 […]
Domestic and Family Violence and Disability Resource Training – WorkUP QLD
Domestic and Family Violence and Disability Resource Training – WorkUP QLD Resources Hub The Working Well with Women with Disability online webinars series project, completed in 2022, was a collaboration between WorkUP QLD, WWILD-SVP Association Inc. and Queenslanders with a Disability Network (QDN). This workshop series were co-designed, developed and delivered with women with disability. […]
Experiences of Reproductive Abuse for Women with Intellectual Disability Webinar
SPARK Webinar: Pregnancy decision making support for women with intellectual or learning disability who are experiencing reproductive coercion and abuse Date Recorded: 27th October 2021 Presented by: WWILD SVP Association, Children by Choice and Workup QLD. This SPARK Webinar presented the consumer’s lived experience of the challenges and the skills required to work with pregnancy […]
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 […]
Options After Experiencing Sexual Violence In Queensland – Easy Read Resources
Options After Experiencing Sexual Violence In Queensland – Easy Read Resources In 2023-24, WWILD’s Listen Up! project worked alongside lived experience expert consultants with intellectual disability to create easy read resources talking about options after experiencing sexual violence in Queensland. This project was supported with funding from the Commonwealth Department of Social Services. Contacting […]
Listen Up! Project’s Online Training for Workers
Listen Up! Project’s Online Training for Workers We have created videos to share our learning and experiences from the Listen Up! Project. These training videos have been co-designed and co-presented with the WWILD peer workers. Take a look through the videos, as they are tailored for workers across various fields. See which ones spark […]
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 […]
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 […]