Workshop 3: Good practice in working with women with disability (Online)
Event description
This workshop series is co-designed, developed and delivered with women with disability. It is targeted to people who work in the sexual assault, women’s health and wellbeing and domestic and family violence workforce.
The aim of the ‘Working well with Women with Disability’ series is to build confidence, knowledge, and skills to work well with people with disability experiencing sexual, domestic, or family violence. It also provides information about where and how to access additional resources to support this work and good practice examples. At an organisational level the series explores what it means to provide a service that is accessible, welcoming, and inclusive to people with disability.
We invite you to join us for the whole series of workshops as each session will build on from the previous workshop’s learning, or just the ones of interest to you. Handouts and resources from each workshop will be made available to participants including those unable to attend all.
After all workshops have been completed videos will be created and resources developed that will be online and freely accessible to all. Your participation will help us to shape these to meet the needs of the sexual assault, women’s health and wellbeing and domestic and family violence workforce.
This series is created by WWILD and QDN in partnership with WorkUP Queensland. *As this series is co-designed with women with disability there may be adjustments to learning outcomes.
Workshop 3: Good Practice in working with women with disability
This workshop we will deep dive into best practice when working with women with disabilities. This session will give practical tips and share experiences from women with a lived experience of gendered violence. This workshop will provide information on navigating disability services to support effective responses for women with disability who experience gendered violence.
Date: Thursday, 14 October 2021
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Learning Objectives
This workshop will cover:
Focus on communication
- Concrete vs Abstract Language
- Making accessible resources
- How to best utilise support workers and other supporters of clients to assist in engagement and communication
- How to determine if the supporter is a safe person and a useful option
- Tips for inclusive counselling approaches
- Tips for navigating risk assessments, safety planning and other complex processes to ensure safety
Focus on accessibility
- Tips of ensuring physical accessibility to workplaces
- Tips to ensure your organisation can be easily identified by women with disability as being accessible
- Suggestions and examples of adapting practice to be accessible
Advice and shared experiences from women with disability
Who should attend
Anyone working in the domestic and family violence, women’s health and wellbeing and sexual assault sector will find this workshop series beneficial.
Information shared will be in the Queensland context.