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.
Family violence for LGBTIQA+ adults and young people with disability occurs at a significantly higher rate than for those within the LGBTIQA+ community without disability. For LGBTIQA+ people with disability, experiences of family violence can be more extreme, more sustained,
and likely to include multiple perpetrators across their lifetime. LGBTIQA+ people with disability may experience family violence from an intimate partner, a parent, paid or unpaid caregiver, service provider, co-resident, or any person they consider to be in a ‘family like relationship’ with. Family violence may occur within multiple settings including their home or an alternative home-like setting, within a service or medical setting.
About this resource: Thorne Harbour Health can provide specific support for people experiencing FV from the Rainbow Community. Thorne Harbour Health also have resources and information for LGBTIQA+ community wanting information on the NDIS.
Applying this resource: For specialist family violence and sexual assault organisations and practitioners and people from LGBTIQA+ community.
About this resource: A guide for communications and engagement to support primary prevention of family violence experienced by LGBTIQ communities.
Applying this resource: For specialist family violence and sexual assault organisations and practitioners and people from LGBTIQA+ community.
About this resource: Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services (Opening Doors) details findings from a multi-phase, mixed method study that considers how to improve family, domestic and sexual violence (FDSV) service accessibility and safety for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
trans and gender diverse, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people in Australia.
Applying this resource: For specialist family violence and sexual assault organisations and practitioners and people from LGBTIQA+ community.
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 within LGBTIQA+ relationships.
https://www.loveisrespect.org/lir-files/LGBT-Power-and-Control-Wheel.pdf
Applying this resource: For practitioners and people experiencing family violence.
About this resource: ReVisioning is a group for gay, bisexual or queen men (including cisgender or trans men) can learn about breaking patterns of violence, abusive or controlling behaviours.
Applying this resource: For practitioners working with persons using violence from LGBTIQA+ community.
About this resource: There are a significant number of Autistic people who also belong to the LGBTIQA+ community, an intersection that is reflected in formal research, rich anecdotal evidence from around the world and from the lived experience. The I Can Network has developed resources for young people, family members and professionals and services to assist in meaningful inclusion and engagement of LGBTIQA+ young people who are Autistic.
Applying this resource: For practitioners to utilise in practice with Neurodivergent LGBTIQA+ young people and families they are supporting. Professional development is also available.
About this resource: A website for LGBTIQA+ people with disability, co-designed with LGBTIQA+ people with intellectual disability. It contains accessible booklets, fact sheets, videos, posters and more.
Applying this resource: For people with disability and practitioners.
About this resource: Black Rainbow is a national volunteer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBQTIA+SB social enterprise to pursue positive health and wellbeing of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
LGBQTIA+SB community located in the Top End capital, Darwin, Northern Territory.
On the Black Rainbow Website, access the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQASB+ Mental
Health and Wellbeing Report which explores Trauma; Racism; Discrimination; and Violence; and
connection to Culture, Community and Country as significant factors impacting Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander LGBTIQASB+ people’s social, emotional and cultural wellbeing.
Applying this resource: For specialist family violence and sexual assault organisations and practitioners and people
from LGBTIQA+ community
About this resource: Many people with intellectual disability have experienced breaches of their bodily autonomy and privacy and/or practices which restrict or deny their sexual or gender identity. Research indicates people with intellectual disability experience higher rates of violence and abuse including sexual assault. These rates are higher again for women with intellectual disability.
Having access to information regarding healthy relationships and safe sex practices in ways that is accessible vital to empower people with intellectual disability to have healthy relationships and be safer from harm.
Applying this resource: For people with disability and practitioners.
About this resource: Created alongside people with disability, this resource provides information to LGBTIQA+ people with disability about their rights to express their sexual or gender identity and feel safe in their communities.
Applying this resource: For people with disability and practitioners.
About this resource: A critical assessment tool for ensuring that resources being created or provided are accessible and useable for LGBTIQA+ people with intellectual disability.
Applying this resource: For organisations and practitioners.
About this resource: An accessible resource to assist LGBTIQA+ people with intellectual disability to connect to other people and their community.
Applying this resource: For people with disability and practitioners.
About this resource: An accessible resource that provides information about LGBTIQA+ identity, experiences, sexuality, gender and bodies for people with intellectual disability and their supporters.
Applying this resource: For people with disability and practitioners.
About this resource: The NDIA has written a strategy with LGBTIQA+ people for LGBTIQA+ people outlining the NDIA’s commitment to ensure LGBTIQA+ people are treated with respect when talking with the NDIA. This is an accessible resource for people with disability that provides a summary of the Strategy in an Easy
English format.
Applying this resource: For people with disability and practitioners.
About this resource: LGBTIQ+ Liaison Officers are positioned state-wide. The program aims to providing a policing service that is fair, equal and accessible to all. You can ask for an LLO to provide discrete, non-
judgmental advice and assistance when accessing policing services. LLOs receive specific training to identify and respond to prejudice motivated crimes and incidents, ranging from homophobic, biphobic or transphobic slurs and taunts through to serious crimes such as physical assault against LGBTIQ+ community members.
Applying this resource: For LGBTIQA+ community and practitioners.
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