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

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

This is the third 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 20 May, from midday 12:00pm to 1:30pm.

It will explore:

• the intersection of coercive control and LGBTQ+ relationships
• the prevalence of coercive control in the LGBTQ+ community
• NSW's coercive control legislation
• the experience and impacts of abuse on LGBTQ+ victim-survivors and their children
• practical skills to identify warning signs
• how practitioners can respond effectively within different communities

Our panel of experts:

• Facilitator Karen Bevan, CEO of Full Stop Australia
• Jade Parker, Acting Manager, Sexual, Domestic, & Family Violence at ACON
• Cecelia Henry, lawyer at The Inner City Legal Centre
• Starlady, Director at Zoe Belle Gender Collective

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.