All people and communities are free from family violence and have freedom and choice over their lives
All people and communities are free from family violence and have freedom and choice over their lives
The Disability Inclusion and Safety Resource Hub has been developed for organisations and practitioners who are working with people with disability who are experiencing or using family violence.
The Resource Hub provides ready access to important resources that promote safety, accessibility, equity and inclusion of people with disability which can aid in reducing barriers and increasing safety. Resources are relevant to Organisational Leaders, Specialist Family Violence and Sexual Assault Practitioners, Disability Services, Health, Family Support, Education and others.
People with disability from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities experience additional barriers to accessing services. These resources provide information about barriers and best practice when supporting a person with disability from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities. This
section also includes resources for parents of children with disability in community languages, and Family Violence safety plans in community languages.
About this resource: It is important that services respond well to the needs of people from non-English speaking backgrounds who have a disability. This position papers examines the significant additional
barriers and discrimination faced by people from a non-English speaking background who have a disability, and their families. Although written for the Queensland context, there are still relevant recommendations to assist government, service providers and other community organisations with strategies to better support and reduce barriers of access for people with disability from non-English speaking backgrounds.
Applying this resource: For community service organisations and practitioners.
About this resource: AMPARO Advocacy has produced several translated fact sheets to provide
information to people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with a disability, their families and communities, including:
• Understanding Disability in Australia
• What is the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
• NDIS and Participants Rights
• NDIS Information for Interpreters and Translators (English only)
• Working with Interpreters and Cultural Competence (for professionals)
Application:
Applying this resource: A resource to support people from CALD backgrounds with translated information in community languages.
About this resource: A comprehensive suite of information and accessible resources to assist services who are supporting people who are experiencing family violence.
Applying this resource: For people with disabilities and practitioners.
About this resource: These resources are designed to support both women experiencing family violence and family violence service providers, building on recent government initiatives and legal developments.
The resources are aimed at two distinct audiences.
Understanding Coercive Control- Simple English Guide for Migrant and Refugee Women offers
clear, accessible information to help migrant and refugee women recognise coercive control, take
practical measures to stay safe, document evidence, and seek support. It addresses the unique
barriers these women face, which can increase the opportunity for coercive control to occur-
including cultural, linguistic, and systemic challenges.
Understanding Coercive Control- Comprehensive Guide for Family Violence Service Providers is
aimed at professionals supporting victims of family violence and offers in-depth insights into the
dynamics of coercive control within migrant and refugee communities. It includes strategies for
identifying coercive control, culturally sensitive intervention, tools for supporting women effectively,
and information on the specific expressions of coercive control in these communities.
Applying this resource: For people people from CALD backgrounds who are experiencing family violence and practitioners community.
About this resource: Multilingual Information Access (MiAccess) is a website developed by Cultural Perspectives that brings together available translated information relevant to people with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, their carers and communities. This includes
information about the NDIS.
Applying this resource: A resource to support people from CALD backgrounds with translated resources in community languages.
About this resource: The Raising Children Network has resources and information for parents about disability available in community languages.
Applying this resource: A resource to support people from CALD backgrounds with translated resources in community languages.
About this resource: FVREE have developed a Safety Plan booklet to support people experiencing family violence to develop a safety plan. The My Safety Plan booklet has been developed in the following languages:
Applying this resource: A resource for people experiencing violence and practitioners .
About this resource: The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (Royal Commission) wanted to identify safeguards and good practice in terms of providing access to appropriate accessible services for people with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. The Royal Commission funded UNSW Sydney and the National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) to identify characteristics of good practice, using a desk top study of evidence and practice, and through consultations with key stakeholders. The project focused on four sectors:
Recommendations for good practice are made at a system, organisational, professional and individual level.
Applying this resource: A resource for organisations and practitioners working with culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability.
About this resource: For victim-survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), receiving help from formal services such as specialist family violence, health, or criminal justice services can be critical for their safety and well-being. Previous research has found cross-cultural differences in the rates of help-seeking behavior, with women from non-Anglo-Saxon communities less likely to seek formal help than Anglo-Saxon populations.
Based on a thematic synthesis approach, five key themes that captured specific cultural norms that influence formal service engagement were identified: (1) gender roles and social expectations,
(2) community recognition and acceptance of abuse,
(3) honor-based society,
(4) the role of religion, and
(5) cultural beliefs and attitudes toward formal services.
These findings have important implications for responses to family violence, particularly concerning family violence education for non-Anglo-Saxon ethnically diverse communities and best-practice strategies to improve the cultural relevancy of formal service providers.
Applying this resource: A resource for organisations working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities and people experiencing violence.
About this resource: Family violence is a pattern of behaviors used to gain or maintain power and control.
The Power and Control Wheel was created by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, MN, and serves as a diagram of tactics that an abusive partner uses to keep their victim in a relationship.
The Power and Control Wheel diagram assumes she/her pronouns for survivors and he/him pronouns for partners. However, the abusive behavior it details can happen to people of any gender or sexuality.
The inside of the wheel makes up subtle, continual behaviors over time, while the outer ring represents physical and sexual violence. Thus, abusive actions like those depicted in the outer ring reinforce the regular use of other, more subtle methods found in the inner ring. For more information about tactics outlined in the Wheel of Violence and their meaning see link below:
https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wheels/understanding-power-control-wheel/
The Power and Control Wheel has been adapted to outline abusive behaviours for different people with intersectional identities and experiences including intimate partner violence towards within Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities.
Power and Control Wheel – Violence towards immigrant women
Power and Control Wheel in community languages
Applying this resource: For practitioners and people experiencing family violence.
About this resource: A glossary of LGBTIQA+ Multilingual Terminology translated into community languages including
English, Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Korean, Spanish, Thai and Vetnamese.
Applying this resource: For translators, interpreters, LGBTIQA+ community members and allies.
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