Preventing and Responding to Family Violence Experienced by Lgbtiq Communities
Tracks
Ballroom 2
| Wednesday, November 29, 2023 |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
Overview
Belinda O'Connor & Julia Earley, Rainbow Health Australia
Speaker
Julia Earley
Rainbow Health Australia
Preventing and Responding to Family Violence Experienced by Lgbtiq Communities
Biography
Belinda O'Connor
Manager Prevention & Strategy
Rainbow Health Australia
How we got here: Progress in the Family Violence Sector for LGBTIQ+ communities in Victoria and nationally
Abstract
Over the last few years there has been growing understanding and collaboration on how gender inequality drives violence against LGBTIQ communities in addition to men’s violence against women. This shared understanding has opened up lots of possibilities for shared work and solidarity across the family violence and LGBTIQ sectors with encouraging progress being made.
This session will explore this progress including the shared drivers of violence against women and violence against LGBTIQ people, and profile success stories and promising practice from Victoria and nationally.
We’ll provide an overview of ARCSHS’/Rainbow Health Australia’s work in LGBTIQ family violence – from research to practice, and response to prevention including:
• Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services (2022 report)
• LGBTIQ Family Violence Prevention Project (Pride in Prevention)
• Practice learnings from working in partnership across sectors.
For further info see:
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/work/opening-doors
https://rainbowhealthaustralia.org.au/pride-in-prevention
This session will explore this progress including the shared drivers of violence against women and violence against LGBTIQ people, and profile success stories and promising practice from Victoria and nationally.
We’ll provide an overview of ARCSHS’/Rainbow Health Australia’s work in LGBTIQ family violence – from research to practice, and response to prevention including:
• Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services (2022 report)
• LGBTIQ Family Violence Prevention Project (Pride in Prevention)
• Practice learnings from working in partnership across sectors.
For further info see:
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/work/opening-doors
https://rainbowhealthaustralia.org.au/pride-in-prevention
Biography
Belinda O’Connor (she/her) is the Manager of Prevention and Strategy at Rainbow Health Australia. Her work focuses on addressing evidence, policy and practice gaps and supporting sector capacity building to effectively prevent and respond to family violence experienced by LGBTIQ communities. Belinda has extensive experience across the family violence, gender equity and women’s health sectors, with a focus on workforce development, partnership coordination, and training and facilitation.
