Reproductive Coercion and Abuse Lunchbox Learning: Featuring Jill McKay and Christy Fischer

Event description
To acknowledge Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month this May, Children by Choice is hosting an online lunchbox session that aims to shed a light on reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA) in the Australian sexual and reproductive sector. This event will feature Chief Executive Officer of Children by Choice, Jill McKay, and Senior Team Leader, Christy Fischer, to discuss what RCA is, how it can be used as a tool to restrict the autonomy of women and pregnant people, what it looks like in health systems and communities in Queensland, as well as how RCA is intrinsically connected to domestic and family violence via perpetrators or systemic barriers to access. This event will explore how health practitioners can embed compassionate reproductive justice into care by acknowledging and screening for RCA. 

About Jill McKay: Jill has over 17 years of leading high-performing teams in the not-for-profit sector. She has a sound understanding of feminist practice and champions women in the workforce. Her most recent position was as a Director of Working Women Queensland Basic Rights QLD leading a team of 14 multidisciplinary professionals while reinforcing and upholding a feminist model of service delivery. Her experience cuts across Leadership, Management, Program Design, Training and Facilitation, Lobbying, campaigning, fundraising, governance, and data analysis.

About Christy Fischer: 

About the session: In this session Jill and Christy will introduce you to the topic and examples of reproductive coercion and abuse. You will gain a better understanding of how RCA impacts individuals, systems, and health professionals, and how we can work towards universal access to reproductive autonomy in Australia. 

Aim of session: To build the capacity of all professionals working directly or indirectly in the health provision and/or domestic and family violence space to understand and identify forms of reproductive coercion and abuse in communities and health systems across Australia.

Time and assessment 
This webinar will take approximately 1 hour.

On completion of this webinar, a Certificate of Completion will be issued on request.

Target audience
This webinar is for anyone who has an understanding of reproductive and sexual health, in particular pregnancy options and abortion provision, and anyone who has or is working in the human services, and community services sector. 

Other enquiries: ed@childrenbychoice.org.au

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Children by Choice acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities.

In particular, we acknowledge the country north and south of the Brisbane River, as the home of both the Turrbul and Jagera nations. We pay our respect to them, their culture, and to their Elders both past and present.

Children by Choice reserves the right to alter this program or facilitator/s without further notice, however, the program is intended to run as agreed. Children by Choice reserves the right to cancel this training workshop, and if this occurs, registrants will be notified and any advance payments refunded in full. This event is offered in accordance with Children by Choice's pro-choice framework. Children by Choice reserve the right to refuse registrations and remove individuals from the event and to hold sessions virtually if needed due to current Queensland Health advice.