This guide arose from the need to acknowledge the difficulty of death and to provide staff with support and a resource. Natural causes, accidental death, suicide, and overdose are all possible causes of death or near-death in violence against women (VAW) shelters. Deaths in the community, such as women killed by their partners, have a significant impact on VAW shelters. Regardless of where the death occurs, it is extremely difficult and traumatic for the organization and its employees. While deaths and near-deaths in VAW are uncommon, the issue of overdose deaths in the community as a whole is intensifying and growing, and this has the potential to impact the VAW sector.
The organizations’ mandate is to ensure that the voices of women with lived experience are integral to the development and implementation of public policy. In 2014, encouraged by the Board of Directors, WomenatthecentrE embarked on a participatory action research project to explore the physical and emotional impact of strangulation on women survivors who had experienced strangulation within the context of an intimate partner relationship.
As a young women’s movement, YWCA is committed to elevating the voices of young women in global gender equality work.The advice and information you’ll find here is drawn from a multitude of resources written by policy and advocacy experts. This toolkit is specifically to advocate for gender equality and/ or other issues affecting women, young women, girls and people of marginalised genders in Australia. However, the mechanisms contained within also illuminate a framework to meaningfully and effectively engage in advocacy priorities.
Rainbow Seniors are part of the 2SLGBTQI+ community. This infographic shares actions that service providers can take when supporting Rainbow Seniors. It was created in consultation with leZlie lee kam, a 2SLGBTQI+awareness consultant and workshop facilitator who focuses on the issues affecting 2SLGBTQI+ seniors / older adults and the barriers they are forced to overcome on a daily basis.