Meredith PWDA

Just letting you know that @MegPWDA has taken over violence prevention and justice work @PWDAustralia - follow her for updates on these issues!

“PWD are also a priority given that they are overrepresented in all places of detention, including prisons and forensic mental health centres as well as locked psychiatric wards, closed community-based residences for people with #disability and compulsory care facilities.” #OPCAT

New easy-read resource by and for women with disability on bring safe from violence & abuse. Great work from ⁦@WDVtweet⁩ with ⁦@accesseasyengli⁩. ⁦@WWDA_AU⁩ ⁦@Deakin_DI⁩ ⁦@MeredithPWDA⁩ ⁦@ClaireSpiv⁩ ⁦@almcewinddc⁩ wdv.org.au/wp-content/upl…

Sadly, phoning the Hotline does not mean the causes of abuse are addressed. The need for a Royal Commission remains pressing. Hundreds report abuse of people with disability in government-funded services: frontpagereport.com.au/hundreds-repor…

Well done @wdvcasnsw @TanyaMWDVCAS for an awesome day @ #WDVCAS18 conference. Some standout presentations, good value, well organized and PACKED!!

Yay! @MeredithPWDA talking about our collaborative project with @PWDAustralia & @DV_NSW to increase access to services for women with a disability #wdvcas18 #dfv #homelessness This is super-important as ‘siloing’ of services needs to be eliminated.

@MeredithPWDA @PWDAustralia project sees women with lived experience as the experts in their own lives and with the best skills to educate. #WDVCAS18

Packed house at the inaugural @wdvcasnsw conference #wdvcas18 Thanks to everyone for joining the conversations today and for making this important event happen, working together to Achieve Justice and Positive Change.

Monique Dam of @DV_NSW at #wdvcas18 highlighting issue of women experiencing #dfv while on temporary visas. Agree with her view this is a ‘national crisis’ in #homelessness - crisis services are overwhelmed with referrals. Our shelters certainly are.

Our #PeerEducators received their training certificates today! All ready to deliver training to women with #disability on Sexuality & Respectful Relationships ⁦@MeredithPWDA⁩ ⁦⁦@MelPWDA⁩

Fun day at @PWDAustralia today - most of our peer educators were in the office to celebrate the end of our train-the-trainer #respectfulrelationship sessions. Some peer educators also spoke to @HarrietTatham at the ABC about our work. Bring on the peer educator led sessions!!

Another busy day catching up with @PWDAustralia #peereducators. Today has taken Paulina & I to Bowral & Wollongong! It was great to chat with Michelle, Elise & Chloe about their next steps: delivering respectful relationships training to other women with intellectual #disability

Follow #CultureIsInclusion for launch of groundbreaking report from @FPDNAus @ScottTheHolWrld twitter.com/fpdnaus/status…

"People with disability are forced to go through a system that is broken and isn’t delivering outcomes" @SamPWDA speaking about Disability Employment Services reforms on @3CR this morning 3cr.org.au/tuesday-breakf…

Moving welcome to country from Aunty Yvonne Weldon to open the #DFV and Acquired Brain Injury project launch. @wdvcasnsw looking forward to presenting alongside our colleagues from other DFV orgs

We don’t support a ban on #plasticstraws and we want campaigners to listen to people with #disability about why it is bad idea. Many alternatives won’t work for people with disability. We support people who want to #skipthestraw #refusethestraw but a #ban will hurt many #pwd