This webinar is for practitioners working with people with disabilities.
About this Event
The webinar will encourage participants to engage and think more deeply about service responses for people with disabilities. Participants will walk away from the webinar energised and thinking critically about the individual, organisational and systemic changes they can influence. This webinar will also prepare and engage participants for future WorkUP inclusion focused activities.
WorkUP Queensland is delivered by The Healing Foundation and ANROWS to build and grow capability and capacity of the sexual violence, women's health and domestic and family violence sector over the next five years.
This is a live webinar. We will email participants the login details the day before.
You can visit our website at WorkUP Queensland to find out more about our work and the development of the regional workforce plans.
Who should attend
Practitioners in the Sexual Violence, Domestic and Family Violence and Women’s Health and Wellbeing sectors.
Mode of Delivery
Live Webinar Delivered via Zoom
About the facilitators
BJ Newton
BJ Newton is a proud Wiradjuri woman and has a double degree in Social Work/Arts (Hons in Sociology), and a PhD in Social Policy. She is a Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre within UNSW Sydney, specialising in qualitative inquiry, Indigenous research methods and child protection research and policy. BJ's particular area of interest is in developing the knowledge and evidence-base of Aboriginal people from their perspective, particularly in child protection, using participatory and community-based methods. BJ is also a lecturer and cultural advisor for Indigenous Social Work students at UNSW, providing cultural supervision, mentoring and support.
Sally Robinson
Professor Sally Robinson leads research and academic practice in Disability and Community Inclusion in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. Her work is focused on opportunities and barriers to flourishing lives for people with disability, generally co-produced with people with disability. She works collaboratively across disciplines, with government and in community organisations to address key social concerns such as safety and abuse, wellbeing, participation, and funding and organisation of community services.
kylie valentine
kylie valentine is Deputy Director of the Social Policy Research Centre UNSW, Sydney. Her research interests include the application of methods and concepts from the sociology of knowledge to new areas and concerns, with a specific focus on social disadvantage and exclusion. kylie also conducts evaluation research on integrated service delivery and programs for children and families and has expertise in qualitative methodologies and evaluation design.