women with disabilities and violence - training

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Women with disabilities and violence – inclusion and awareness training

 

This workshop is focused on increasing the community’s capacity to support women with disabilities experiencing violence. Facilitators and speakers include women with disabilities.

 

Workshop examines:

 

•             What do we know about women with disabilities?

•             What is the lived experience of disability?

•             What does violence look like for women with disabilities?

•             Disability and its intersection with gender and violence

•             Institutionalisation

•             Understanding human rights and legislation

•             Models of disability

•             What services and supports are available?

•             What does inclusion look like?

•             Being inclusive – how can I do it?

 

This workshop is highly interactive and includes examples, question and answer sessions, small group work, and individual worksheets and scenarios. Participants will gain an understanding of the barriers facing women with disabilities in addressing violence in their lives and good practice strategies to address these barriers.

 

A comprehensive manual of resources is included.

 

When

Thursday 2 October 2014 - 9.30 am – 4.30 pm

 

Where

Room 9, Level 2 Griffin Centre

20 Genge Street, Civic

 

Cost

Community organisation workers - $130.00

Government workers       - $180.00

 

To register for this workshop go to: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/women-with-disabilities-and-violence-inclusion-and-awareness-training-tickets-12683126573