Working with Aboriginal People Impacted by Coercive Control: What Practitioners Need to Know

Working with Aboriginal People Impacted by Coercive Control: What Practitioners Need to Know

This is the fourth webinar in the Effective Interventions & Coercive Control series of six new Coercive Control Webinars presented in partnership between CCWT and the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) This is part of the NSW Government's work to assist the sector on understanding and implementing practice that supports the new laws about coercive control.

This webinar will be held on Tuesday 19 August, from midday 12:00pm to 1:30pm.

By the end of the session, it is expected participants will:

• Recognise the experience of Coercive Control within Aboriginal communities

• Contextualise the experience of Coercive Control to broader issues of violence experienced by Aboriginal women and children

• Build familiarity with the NSW Coercive Control legislation

• Clarify their understanding of the experience and impacts of abuse on Aboriginal victim-survivors and children

• Identify language and explanatory concepts to use in supportive responses with Aboriginal communities

• Outline how practitioners can respond effectively and supportively with and alongside different Aboriginal communities

Our panel of experts:

• Michelle Rogers (Guthrie), Nyumba Consulting

• Dr Mareese Terare, Independent Research Consultant, Yamurrah

• Aunty Donna Bond, Aboriginal Family Health and Domestic Violence Case Worker at Waminda South Coast Women’s Health and Wellbeing Aboriginal Corporation

• Karrina Casey, Family and Domestic Violence Case Worker at Waminda

• Rebekah Little, Staying Home Leaving Violence Case Worker at Waminda

• Terrieanne Hughes, Manager of Aboriginal Services & Development at DV West

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.