Events and Workshops

Empowering Disability Employment and Leadership Within Your Organisation

Program aims:

To reduce barriers to employment within the health, social and community service sectors for women or gender diverse people with disabilities.
To build the confidence of health, social and community organisations to recruit, employ and retain women with disability at all levels of their organisation.
To increase the exposure of women with disability within the workforce and highlight their beneficial and valuable workplace skills and contributions.

What you will learn:

Understanding Disability
Advantages of employing women with disabilities
Creating an accessible workplace
Question: accessible employment
Income barriers of women with disability within the workplace
Issues & barriers of women with disability within the workplace
Expert’s experience of discrimination
Pre-employment accessibility
Inclusive recruitment process
Access Needs / Reasonable & Necessary process
Leadership pathways for women with disability
Resources for employers and attendees

Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025

Times: 1pm – 4pm

Location: Online via Zoom (Details will be provided upon registration)

Register by: Monday 3 March 2025

For more information contact Hannah Pennington on (03) 9286 7800 or [email protected].

Two-Part Professional Development: Enhancing Gender and Disability Inclusive Practice

This is a series of two (2) workshops, for social and community service professionals, to learn about how gender and disability inequality drives violence, and how you can prevent it. See below for session details.

Details:

Part 1: Wednesday 19th March, 10:00am–3:00pm
Part 2: Thursday 20th March, 10:00am–3:00pm

Both sessions include a lunch break and additional short breaks. Lunch will be provided. Please advise us of any dietary requirements via the registration form.

Location: Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Ballam-Ballam (Ground Floor), 210 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, VIC 3000

Cost: $350 employed professionals, $250 student/ concession

A limited number of subsidised places are available. Please contact [email protected] if cost is a barrier to participating.

To receive an invoice for payment, please select ‘offline payment’ option when registering.

To ensure we can accommodate any access requests, please register by Wednesday 5th March 2025.

What you will learn:

Part 1: Introduction to Prevention of Violence against Women with Disabilities + Gendered and Ableist Drivers of Violence

How gender and disability inequality intersect to create disadvantage for women with disabilities
Impacts of violence against women with disabilities
New models of understanding disability and addressing ableism
How our everyday actions and practice can contribute to violence against women with disabilities

Part 2: Gender and Disability Prevention in Action

How gender and disability equitable practice can create change to end violence
Introducing concepts of inclusive and accessible practice
Strategies and tools to prevent violence against women with disabilities
Resistance and backlash
Bystander action

The series is facilitated by women and non-binary people with disabilities and centres the voices of lived experience. It is evidence-based, aligning with the latest research on disability, Our Watch’s Changing the Landscape, and the Preventing Family Violence & Violence against Women Capability Framework.

For more information contact the Gender and Disability Workforce Development Team at (03) 9286 7800 or [email protected].

New Podcast - From the Outskirts - Regional and Rural Women with Disability

Welcome to one in a series of podcasts about women from rural and regional Victoria and Melbourne outer east living with disabilities.

In this episode, Liz Wright talks with Elise Stewart, CEO of Deaf Hub, Bendigo. Whilst Elise discusses some challenging topics, she’s funny and honest and this is a really fascinating conversation.

Some of the content contains swearing and some of the content may be considered triggering.

Please enjoy and if you have any issues, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Community Hub Events

WDV facilitates five leadership networks (Hubs) for women and non-binary people with disabilities in local regions. Our Hub members get together regularly and support each other in their leadership, advocacy and empowerment goals. Join a hub to get involved in their events.

Quarterly Conversations

Quarterly Conversations are online events that deliver a guest or panel every three months, talking about topics and ideas of interest to our members.

The next event is in March, 2025.

This will be a free event for members, via Zoom. Keep an eye on our social media or your emails for a link to register once that’s available!