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 4: Resources and support for working with Women with Disability

This workshop will focus on the intersection of support from the disability sector and the Domestic and Family Violence, Sexual Violence and Women’s Health sectors. Understanding limitations of service support, and how to fill gaps when working with women with disabilities experiencing gendered violence.

Date: Thursday, 28 October 2021

Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm

Learning Objectives

This workshop will cover:

Utilising system mapping to better understand the intersection of supports across sectors
- How to maximise support by utilising integrated responses
Focus on the NDIS and its capacity in providing responses to women with disability experiencing gendered violence.
What advocacy supports look like, and where to access them
Understanding changes in support delivery if a client has an appointed decision maker
- How to ensure the client remains at the centre of decision making
Resource sharing and advice from specialist workers and 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.