Supporting Women with Complex Needs
The relationship between substance use and domestic and family violence.
The Supporting Women with Complex Needs resource aims to provide readers with an introduction to supporting women who have experienced domestic and family violence who are also misusing alcohol or other drugs. This basic resource targeted at frontline workers was developed in partnership with the WA Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies with funding from the WA grants for Women Program, Department
for Communities and the Alcohol Education Rehabilitation Foundation.
'What is Domestic and Family Violence?' Community Education Booklet
'What is Domestic and Family Violence?' is a new resource from the Women's Council. It provides clients, service providers and the public with some general information about domestic and family violence including prevalence, forms of abuse, impacts on children and young people and the barriers to leaving a violent relationship. This community education booklet is avaliable now and can be ordered from the Women's Council.
HURT Training Resources
HURT is a new and innovative education tool for the domestci and family violence sector. The website and training materials allow users to view real people telling real stories about domestic and family violence.
The HURT training materials include a DVD that contacins video clips of women, children and men describing their experiences of domestic and family violence and an accompanying training guide that provides background information for facilitators and potential discussion topics/questions. These resources are avaliable now and can be ordered from the Women's Council.
Women's Refuges and Domestic Violence Services Pocket Directory
Currently in Western Australia, there are 18 Women's Refuges in the metropolitan and 22 in the rural and remote areas.
The Women's Refuges and Domestic Violence Services Pocket Directory contains contact numbers and service description of these Women's Refuges and other useful services in WA for women and children escaping domestic and family violence.
This Pocket Directory would be handy to carry when they are seeking help and would be a useful resource for service providers for referrals/transfers.
Women's Council e-Newsletter
The Women's Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services produces a quarterly electronic newsletter that is sent to our members and provides updates on sector developments and project work.
This is a good opportunity for all members to showcase programs, initiatives or upcoming events in their own services. Please send any contributions you would like included in the next newsletter to policy@womenscouncil.com.au.
Inside Out Project
In 2008 the City of Fremantle funded the Women’s Council to put on a gallery exhibition of art works produced by women and young people who have survived domestic and family violence. This exhibition was held on December 6th at Fremantle Education Centre and Princess May Park in support of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
Through Young Peoples Eyes
The purpose of Through Young People's Eyes was to provide children with a medium (expressive arts) through which they could describe and express their experiences of violence. Some of these artworks were then used to create a series of eight community education postcards about children's experiences of violence. The expressive arts therapy groups were facilitated by Georgie Stone.
Young people between the ages of 5 and 11 had participated in Expressive Arts Therapy Workshops to express and discribe their experience of domestic and family violence.
A series of postcards was developed through the workshops that can be used in various ways including to raise awareness about young people's experience e.g. to normalise the feeling associated with exposure to domestic and family violence.
Domestic and Dating Violence Peer Education Project Final Report
This document presents a report on a peer education program that was designed to raise awareness about domestic and dating violence among teachers and students in two secondary schools in metro and regional WA during 2007.
Violence Against Women in Western Australia
The report contains an overview of Australian domestic and family violence research including information about prevalence, violence after separation, police statistics, crisis accommodation, violence within Indigenous populations, the effects of violence on victims and children, and community attitudes. This document will provide easy access to reliable information about violence against women to be used in policy, funding submissions and media releases geared towards ending gendered violence.