Combatting Economic Coercive Control: What Practitioners Need to Know

Registration to this Webinar is now closed. You can watch the live feed on YouTube on the ACWA/CCWT channel, or watch the recording shortly after on the CCWT Coercive Control webpage. 

Combatting Economic Coercive Control: What Practitioners Need to Know is the first in a series of six new Coercive Control Webinars CCWT is presenting in partnership with with the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) in 2025 called Effective Interventions & Coercive Control. This is part of the NSW Government's work to assist the sector on new laws about coercive control

This webinar will run on Thursday 20 February, from midday 12:00pm to 1:30pm.

It will explore:

• the intersection of coercive control and economic & financial abuse
• the prevalence of economic abuse
• NSW's coercive control legislation
• the impacts of abuse on victim-survivors
• practical skills to identify warning signs
• how practitioners can respond effectively

Our panel of experts:

• Facilitator Karen Bevan, CEO of Full Stop Australia 
• Rebecca Glenn, Founder of the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety (CWES)
• Tristan Saltnes, Manager of Family Violence Services at Good Shepherd
• Amelia Klein, Supervising Solicitor, Financial Abuse Service at Redfern Legal Centre

Questions can be submitted during registration and may be answered during the discussion.

The webinars in this series are for NGO staff and frontline service workers in the Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence (DFSV) sector. They may also be valuable to staff who work with children, young people, and their families who have experienced DFSV including coercive control.

We encourage teams to join the webinars as a group. Only one registration per device is required.

This event will be recorded, and will be available to watch on the CCWT Coercive Control webpage. More information about training is also available on this page.