In this episode I have two guests joining me for the first time. I speak with Robina and Belinda about their work in the Disability and Sexual Violence Team at the NSW Health Education Centre Against Violence. This portfolio funding has come out of the Royal Commission into responses to abuse in institutionalised settings to improve responses to people with disability who have experienced sexual violence, as well as for children and young people who are using problematic and harmful sexualised behaviours. They have both had incredible careers demonstrating an ongoing commitment to furthering an intersectional understanding of structural and interpersonal forms of violence and inequalities while trying to cultivate reflective, trauma-informed and socially just responses in direct practice and advocacy.  They believe providing education and training is a crucial part of social work practice, as well as social work clinicians being involved in lobbying for structural change.

Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:

AASW Social Workers in Disability Practice Group - https://www.aasw.asn.au/new-south-wales/groups/swid

Council for Intellectual Disability - https://cid.org.au/

New Street services - https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/parvan/hsb/Pages/new-street-services.aspx

NSW Health Education Centre Against Violence (ECAV) - http://www.ecav.health.nsw.gov.au/

NSW Service for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors - https://www.startts.org.au/

People with Disability Australia - https://pwd.org.au/

Royal Commission final report, understanding child sexual abuse in institutional contexts - https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/final-report

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability - https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html

This episode's transcript can be viewed here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jhWFyMVZH1BucGSzyXpq-9zpqrjoZXaNSLw_FiT_x9c/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks to Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com for our theme music.