Identifying economic abuse for women with disability in Victoria: A toolkit for service providers and people affected by family violence: Final Report (Pdf)
2019
This project, Identifying
economic abuse for women with disability in Victoria: A toolkit for service
providers and people experiencing family violence 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 (Maher et al.,
2018). 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.
The research team would like to thank the women who
participated in the focus groups and final consultation as well as those who
shared their stories with us for the original ANROWS-funded research upon which
this project is based. We would also like to extend our thanks to the numerous
stakeholders and experts who contributed so generously during the focus groups
and afterwards.
We thank the Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust for funding this
project as part of their small grants program in 2018-2019. We would also like
to acknowledge the ANROWS funding for Women Disability and Violence: Creating Access to Justice that
began this work and we would like to thank members of the research team with
whom we worked on this project, Dr Claire Spivakovsky and Professor Jude
McCulloch from Monash University, Kara Beavis from Oueensland University of
Technology, and Dr Jessica Cadwallader, Meredith Lea and Therese Sands from
People with Disability Australia.
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