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• WDV PD: Preventing Violence Against Women with Disabilities (all three sessions)

  • Start
    23 Apr 2024
  •  
    12:30 PM
  • End
    7 May 2024
  •  
    3:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
  • Spaces left
    4

  Registration is closed

  Women and girls with disabilities are twice as likely to experience violence as those without disabilities.

  This is a series of three (3) online workshops, for social and community service professionals, to learn about how gender and disability inequality drives violence, and how you can prevent it. See below for session details. 

  This is the registration page to register for all three sessions.

  If you prefer to sign up for one or two sessions, individual registration pages can be found at the links below: 

  Session 1: Introduction to Prevention of Violence against Women with Disabilities 

  Session 2:  Gender and Disability Drivers of Violence 

  Session 3: Prevention in Action 
  

  Details 

  Session 1: Tuesday 23 April, 12:30pm–3:30pm 

  Session 2: Tuesday 30 April, 12:30pm–3:30pm 

  Session 3: Tuesday 7 May, 12:30pm–3:30pm 

  Location: Online via Zoom (details will be provided upon registration) 

  Register by: Tuesday 9 April 2024

  What you will learn 

  Session 1: Introduction to Prevention of Violence against Women with Disabilities (Prerequisite for Sessions 2 and 3) 

  • How gender and disability inequality intersect to create disadvantage for women with disabilities 

  • Impacts of violence against women with disabilities 

  • New models of understanding disability and addressing ableism

  Session 2: Gender and Disability Drivers of Violence

  • How our everyday actions and practice can contribute to violence against women with disabilities 

  • How gender and disability equitable practice can create change to end violence 

  • Introducing concepts of inclusive and accessible practice

  Session 3: Prevention in Action  

  • Strategies and tools to prevent violence against women with disabilities

  • Resistance and backlash

  • Bystander action

  The series is facilitated by women with lived experience of disabilities and centres the voices of lived experience. It is evidence-based, aligning with the latest research on disability, Our Watch’s Changing the Landscape, and the Preventing Family Violence & Violence against Women Capability Framework.  

  All sessions will be recorded.   

  For more information contact the Gender and Disability Workforce Development Team (03) 9286 7800 or GandD@wdv.org.au. 

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• WDV PD - Session 3/3: Prevention in Action

  • When
    7 May 2024
  •  
    12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
  • Spaces left
    5

  Registration is closed

  What you will learn 

  Session 3: Prevention in Action   

  • Strategies and tools to prevent violence against women with disabilities
    

  • Resistance and backlash

  • Bystander action

  This is the registration page for Session 3: Prevention in Action

  This is the third session in a series of three. Session 1 and Session 2 are prerequisites for this session. 

  To register for all three sessions: https://wwdv.wildapricot.org/event-5569925 
  

  Register by: 23 April 2024

  Location: Online via Zoom (details will be provided upon registration)  
  

  The session is facilitated by women with lived experience of disabilities and centres the voices of lived experience. It is evidence-based, aligning with the latest research on disability, Our Watch’s Changing the Landscape, and the Preventing Family Violence & Violence against Women Capability Framework.   

  The session will be recorded.

  For more information contact the Gender and Disability Workforce Development Team (03) 9286 7800 or GandD@wdv.org.au.   

  
  

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