Women with Disabilities Victoria has partnered with the Genetic Support Network Victoria (GSNV) to offer one half-day training session to employees, network members and the related community. The workshops will focus on introducing participants to gender and disability inequality, violence against women and primary prevention of violence against women with disabilities.

The training will draw from the Our Watch Change the Story framework for violence prevention as well as the Prevention Violence against Women and Family Violence Capability Framework.

The session will follow WDV’s standard cofacilitation model.

Module 1: Introduction to Prevention of Violence against Women with Disabilities

Module 2: Prevention in Action

Olivia Franklin is a passionate feminist and advocate for women's rights, health and safety. She has been working for five years in the women's rights space with roles spanning family violence response, international development, gender and disability advocacy and the prevention of violence against women.

Tess Karambelas is a social worker who has worked for Women with Disabilities Victoria for 3 years. She has a lived experience of Cerebral Palsy which she uses to inform her training to deliver PVAW gender and disability intersectionality training to disability and social service organisations.

For the first time the GSNV has collaborated with Very Special Kids (VSK), a Victorian based children’s charity that helps approximately 850 families across the State who have a child with a life-threatening condition. They provide ongoing support from diagnosis all the way through to recovery or bereavement. 

Loss and bereavement can take many forms, not only linked to life threatening conditions, so it is fitting to bring you this workshop by the experienced team at VSK.

This workshop will explore:

• Defining grief, trauma, and primary and secondary losses
• Common misunderstandings
• Contemporary approaches
• Practical tips to support someone experiencing all types of grief and loss

Places are limited for this FREE event.

 
Lucinda Fraser is a family support practitioner at Very Special Kids, covering the Loddon Mallee region. She has previously worked in the areas of trauma, grief, loss, suicide prevention and postvention across paediatric and adult hospitals and community settings.

As a social worker, she is drawn to areas such as palliative care that are often stigmatised and enjoys the work that comes with bearing witness to vulnerability and allowing people to be heard whilst grieving.