Resources – violence and abuse

This is a collection of resources that promote safety from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation through teaching people about rights, responsibilities, relationships and where people can seek help.

Resources created by disability advocacy organisations:

Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities (ADEC)

•  Ask for help! Safeguarding the rights of people with disabilities from CALD backgrounds  (Easy Read resource available in 10 different languages)

Action for More Independence & Dignity in Accommodation (AMIDA)

• Housing – Know Your Rights (12 minute video)

Advocacy for Inclusion

• Staying Connected Podcast:  Episode 11 – Fixing the system: preventing violence, abuse and neglect of people with disability- with Bonnie Millen, Senior Policy Advisor

Council on Intellectual Disability (CID)

• What is a restrictive practice? (Easy Read resource)
• Abuse, neglect and bullying of people with intellectual disability

DACSSA Disability Advocacy

• Disability Abuse 

Down Syndrome Australia

• Healthy Relationships and Sexuality (Easy Read guide)
• Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: Information for people with Down syndrome and their families

Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (QAI)

• Violence against people with disability in their homes (videos)
• Is Somebody Hurting you? – Understanding violence and your rights (brochure)
• Are they allowed to do this to me? – A guide to understanding restrictive practices and your rights (brochure)

Victorian Advocacy League for Individuals with Disability Inc. (VALID)

• ‘Be friends not bullies’ poster  and video on YouTube
• Staying Safe flyer (and videos on YouTube)
• Complaints to NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (poster)
• My Home, my rights and my responsibilities (videos with Easy Read information for people with disability living in group homes)
• VALID Podcasts

People with Disabilities WA

• Disability Safe Week website, including factsheets

Women With Disabilities Australia

• Violence Against Women and Girls with Disability video
• Women with disability speak about the right to freedom from all forms of violence video (from WWDA’s human rights toolkit) 
• Your right to be safe from violence (Easy English)
• Sex and Your Body video
• Safety and Violence | Our Site (wwda.org.au)

Women with Disabilities Victoria

• Family Violence Response for Women with Disabilities Guide (Microsoft Word version); and,
• Family Violence Response for Women with Disabilities – A quick guide to safely managing disclosures (Microsoft Word version)
• Preventing and Responding to Violence Against Women with Disabilities: Family Violence and Disability Films
• Our Right to Safety and Respect (video and guidelines)

Other useful resources:

1800RESPECT

• Disability Support Toolkit including Easy English booklets and information on working with people with disability

• Sunny App

ACT Human Rights Commission

• e-Learning packages on Domestic Violence Awareness and Sexual Assault Education for the Disability Sector

Disability Media Australia

• Tell Someone video series
  • Introduction and physical family violence
  • Emotional family violence
  • Social family violence
  • Financial family violence
  • Sexual family violence

Deakin University

• Sexual Lives and Respectful Relationships 
• Talking about Rights – SL&RR
• Talking about Relationships – SL&RR
• Talking about Violence and abuse – SL&RR

Better Health

• Talking to young people with cognitive disabilities about sex

Community Legal Centres Queensland

• Webinar recording: Assisting clients with disabilities in domestic violence matters

Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria

• Information for women with disabilities
• Working with victim survivors with disability (for family violence workers)

Office of the eSafety Commissionner

• Being Safe Online (Easy Read guide for children and adults)
• Image-based abuse (Easy Read)
• What you can do about abuse through technology (Easy Read) 
• Online safety for young people with intellectual disability

Family Planning NSW

• All About Sex easy to read factsheets including
  • Sexual Assault
  • Where to go for help or advice
• Being a Healthy Woman resources including
  • Close relationships and sex 
• Info on training – Courses for disability workers
• Resources about Relationships on the “Planet Puberty” website that aims to provide parents and carers of children with intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder with the latest information, strategies and resources

Family Planning Tasmania

• Info on training – Sexuality and Disability and/or Additional Needs

Family Planning Victoria

• Working with victim/survivors with an intellectual disability (secasa.com.au)
• Talking to Children with Cognitive Disabilities
• Easy English Factsheets including ‘Sex and the Law’
• Other relevant Fact Sheets
• Info on training – Cognitive disability education and support 
• Doing ‘IT’ podcast – Episode #9: Cognitive Disability and Puberty

National Disability Services

• Zero Tolerance resources for the disability sector
• NDIS Quality and Safeguards resources

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

• Fact sheets
• Easy Read Information
• Worker Orientation Module

NSW Ageing & Disability Commission

• Training resources to improve detection and response
• Guides and tools

Lifeline

• Working with Women with disabilities eLearning  (dvalert.org.au)

Murray Mallee Community Legal Service

• Resources for teens with intellectual disability or autism, about consent and “sexting”

Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre

• Women, Disability and Violence: Knowledge Translation and Exchange Workshop, (stories videos and workbooks)
• Identifying economic abuse for women with disability in Victoria: A toolkit

Ombudsman NSW

• Resource guide for disability services – Initial and early response to abuse or neglect in disability services

Scope’s Communication and Inclusion Resource Centre

• Speak Up and Be Safe (Communication Toolkit and Resources)

Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT

• SoSafe! Program resources for purchase and licensing
• Info on training – SHFPACT workshops 

Sexuality, Education, Counselling and Consultancy Agency

• SECCA App
• Questions and answers that can help when using the app with students with a disability

Shine SA

• Teaching It Like It Is – Inclusive Education: Relationships & Sexual Health Education for Students with a Disability
• More resources and info on training for workers

South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence (SECASA)

• Making rights reality for Sexual Assault victims with a disability
• Planning for your safety
• Dealing with Danger: Staying safer with online technology

True QLD

• Disability resources 
• Info on training – Looking after me education packages

Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission

• Reporting crime: your rights (Easy English)

Women’s Community Health Network WA

• Easy Read Family and Domestic Violence Factsheet.

Women’s Legal Centre ACT

• Easy English Factsheets on Family Violence

WorkUP Queensland

• Disability Workforce training and resources

WWILD

• You Deserve to Be Safe (Easy read booklet about sexual assault)
• You deserve to be safe– a simple English booklet about Domestic and Family Violence.
• What is counselling?
• Online Modules – Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence and Supporting Recovery from Trauma

If you know of any useful resources, email Siobhan at policy@dana.org.au with your suggestions.