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Identifying economic abuse amongst women with disability in Victoria : a toolkit for service providers and people affected by family violence. Final report Jasmine McGowan, JaneMaree Maher, Tricia Malowney and Kate Thomas

By: McGowan.
Contributor(s): Maher, JaneMaree | Malowney, Tricia | Thomas, Kate.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, 2019Description: electronic document (35 pages) ; PDF file.Subject(s): Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre | DISABLED PEOPLE | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | ECONOMIC ABUSE | FAMILY VIOLENCE | INTERVENTION | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | PREVENTION | RESOURCES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE | TOOLKIT | AUSTRALIAOnline resources: Click here to access online | Toolkit Summary: This is the final report on this project which draws on data collected for the Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety funded project Women, disability and violence: Barriers to accessing justice. In that project researchers heard from 36 women in Victoria and New South Wales about their experiences seeking justice and safety in the context of family violence. Many of these women spoke specifically about economically coercive behaviours and the impact of this on their ability to secure safety. Researchers found a lack of awareness of the types of family violence perpetrated against women with disability and critically, a lack of accessible resources to assist in the identification of and support of women with disability to move away from such violence. In their final report researchers wrote that the ‘limited availability of resources for disability advocacy’ is a significant issue as these are ‘often a critical avenue for the disclosure of violence by people with disability’ (Maher et al., 2018, 31). The development of the toolkit for this project draws directly on the data gathered from these women. (From the website). The toolkit can be accessed the website, follow the second link. Record #6257
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This is the final report on this project which draws on data collected for the Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety funded project Women, disability and violence: Barriers to accessing justice. In that project researchers heard from 36 women in Victoria and New South Wales about their experiences seeking justice and safety in the context of family violence. Many of these women spoke specifically about economically coercive behaviours and the impact of this on their ability to secure safety. Researchers found a lack of awareness of the types of family violence perpetrated against women with disability and critically, a lack of accessible resources to assist in the identification of and support of women with disability to move away from such violence. In their final report researchers wrote that the ‘limited availability of resources for disability advocacy’ is a significant issue as these are ‘often a critical avenue for the disclosure of violence by people with disability’ (Maher et al., 2018, 31). The development of the toolkit for this project draws directly on the data gathered from these women. (From the website). The toolkit can be accessed the website, follow the second link. Record #6257