SHine SA, October 2016 You are warmly invited to an interactive forum which will be held as an adjunct to the Australasian Sexual Health Conference being held in Adelaide, November 2016. Who is this for? Teachers, community educators, health promotion officers, registered nurses and midwives, doctors, counsellors and other interested people. Forum Themes • Taking gender and sexual diversity...
Marie Claire (US), Mar 30 2016 Sexual assault is perceived as a straight issue, perpetrated by men against women. Thanks in part to the battered women’s movement of the 1980s and the growing awareness of the current rape culture in the United States—from assaults on college campuses to abuse within relationships—we’ve been hearing a predominantly heterosexual story. But...
SBS news, 26 Mar 2016 There are growing calls for targeted services for survivors of same-sex domestic abuse with evidence suggesting rates of family violence in the LGBTI community are rising. Researchers believe one in three same-sex couples experience family violence and figures released by Victoria’s Crimes Statistics Agency show rates have been increasing over the past five years. Read...
SHine SA is hosting a ReFRESH forum for: Workers supporting clients who are experiencing domestic violence Health professionals and community workers are welcome to attend SHine SA’s forum on supporting clients who are experiencing Domestic Violence. Domestic Violence is a traumatic experience for survivors and can have huge impacts on their health and wellbeing. That’s why it’s important for us...
Huffpost Queer Voices Blog, 02/09/2016 Today, most research investigating IPV and other forms of sexual and partner violence focuses on heterosexual women as victims and heterosexual men as perpetrators, a notion that is justifiable in the realms of empirical evidence. However, when focusing on development, implementation and evaluation of effective intervention strategies to address IPV, current...
CFCA Practitioner Resource – December 2015 People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer (LGBTIQ) experience intimate partner violence at similar rates as those who identify as heterosexual. There has been an invisibility of LGBTIQ relationships in policy and practice responses and a lack of acknowledgement that intimate partner violence exists in these communities...