LGBTI Domestic Violence Policy and Practice
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The document discusses the work of ACON's LGBTI Domestic and Family Violence Anti-Violence Project (AVP) in Australia. The AVP provides casework and advocacy for LGBTI people experiencing domestic violence, trains service providers, conducts research, and engages LGBTI communities. It has worked to build the capacity of mainstream organizations and develop resources like Another Closet. Current projects include a survey on experiences with domestic violence services, working with intersex and transgender groups, and producing a film about diverse LGBTI experiences with domestic violence. Challenges include continued funding and building the evidence base around LGBTI domestic violence.
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LGBTI Domestic Violence Policy and Practice
- 1. LGBTI Domestic & Family Violence policy & practice Australian Women’s Health Conference Moo Baulch Sydney, May 2013
- 2. We are on Aboriginal land. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Elders, knowledge and expertise, LGBTIQ people at AWHC 2013. Walking in the footsteps of activists who have fought for equality so that we are now able to work strongly in partnership with our allies from Women's Refuge Movement, Aboriginal Elders, other NGOs, government to Presenter: My name goes here
- 3. What do we do in the AVP? • Casework & advocacy – LGBTI people who have experienced DFV, homophobia, transphobia etc. • Training and toolkit – DFV services, Police etc • Research, building the evidence base. • Engage with LGBTIQ communities to increase awareness, campaigns etc. • Work with mainstream organisations and interagencies to build their capacity. • Work with government. Presenter: My name goes here
- 4. ACON’s LGBTI DFV Project, 2012-2014 • FaCHSIA-funded. Follows on from ACON’s previously funded same-sex domestic violence work. • Work from paradigm that DFV comes from the same place as homophobia, transphobia and discrimination and from premise that perpetrators of DFV are overwhelmingly heterosexual cisgender men. • Focus on training, resources and meaningful sustainable engagement with diverse LGBTI communities – intersex and trans*, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, CALD etc. Presenter: My name goes here
- 5. History of DFV work at ACON & Anti- Violence Project. Presenter: My name goes here Phase one: • Same Sex Domestic Violence Interagency. • There's No Pride campaign launched,2004.
- 6. Phase two: Another Closet www.anothercloset.com.au • In 2004, the NSW SSDVI (now the LGBTIQ Domestic Violence Interagency) created Another Closet. • Originally designed as a resource for gay and lesbian people experiencing DFV (later became a useful tool for service providers too). • Website, booklet, personal stories and z-card. Website updated regularly. • Biannual conference, Sydney: September 19-20th 2013. Presenter: My name goes here
- 7. Another Closet, 2004 – DV in gay and lesbian same-sex relationships Presenter: My name goes here
- 8. Phase three: SSDV Project, 2008 • Service mapping • Survey • Gap analysis & toolkit – One Size Does Not Fit All • Training and capacity building http://www.acon.org.au/sites/default/files/Gap%20Analysis.pdf Presenter: My name goes here
- 9. Phase four – 2012, LGBTI(Q) DFV • Training/working with NSW Police – GLLOs, DVLOs, Regions & LACS. • Raising awareness in diverse parts of LGBTIQ communities - Camp Out, Mardi Gras, RRR, Twenty10 etc. • “We're Family Too” – collaborative research project on homophobia and family violence in Arabic-speaking communities. www.wearefamilytoo.com.au • Submissions to government on DFV trends and issues, Provocation, Victims Comp. etc • Working with local DV services, Committees and DFV peaks, statewide orgs and wider networks to increase mainstream awareness. Presenter: My name goes here
- 10. New projects • 2012 survey on LGBTIQ people's attitudes to and experiences of DFV service provision, access, informal support. 570 responses, compiling the results in partnership with the National Centre for HIV Social Research. • Work with Organisation Intersex International Australia and the Transgender Anti-Violence Project to help mainstream sector better understand needs of intersex, trans* and gender diverse people (the travelling roadshow). • Housing, work with specialist homelessness sector and WRM. • Reviewing our resources – updating the most useful and creating new ones. Presenter: My name goes here
- 11. Tales from the Other Side: film project • Working groups with key partners – WRM, Police, ICLC, Women’s Legal Service, community members affected by DFV, filmmakers, ECAV, NSW Health, specialist organisations. • Produce 3 pilots showing a range of diverse LGBTI experiences of DFV. • Training tool for refuges, Police, other services. Presenter: My name goes here
- 12. Other work in 2013 • New campaign and resource targeting LGBTIQ friends, communities and informal supports. • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander DFV Advisory Committee. • Connecting with CALD support organisations to build their awareness of the context of family/domestic violence. • Look at models for working with LGBTI perpetrators. • Developing stronger networks with our partners. Presenter: My name goes here
- 13. Policy • Partnership projects with specialist organisations, HRC, peaks, statewide orgs, Clearinghouses, Centres of Excellence etc. • Research and creation of new best practice and policy for LGBTIQ people. • NSW Government – DFV Reforms etc. • Inclusion in federal policy agency practice through NSW Women’s Alliance – Centrelink, Medicare etc. Presenter: My name goes here
- 14. Practice • Exploring new ways to deliver info – Tales from Another Side, expanding Another Closet sections on trans* and intersex. • Participation at key mainstream Aboriginal community events, working with Aboriginal DFV specialists to create more culturally appropriate resources, access pathways etc. • Community Safety Ambassador networks. • Creating safe space for challenging conversations about the sticky topics – violence within our communities. Presenter: My name goes here
- 15. Challenges – 2013 and beyond • Funding… • Evidence base – building it and ensuring our diversity is included • Convincing governments and policy makers that LGBTIQ is important and keeping it on the agenda • Inclusion of LGBTIQ within a gendered framework • Finding a language that includes all Presenter: My name goes here
- 16. Things to be proud of… • Inclusion of gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex men in the NSW Men's Behaviour Change practice guide. • Being a part of the NSW Women’s Alliance. • Intersex inclusion – lots to be done still. • 2012 survey – largest body of evidence in Australia on LGBTIQ people and DFV. • Influence at government level and community (from federal to grassroots RRR). Presenter: My name goes here
- 17. Questions, comments, resources, collaboration? Presenter: My name goes here Moo Baulch LGBTI Domestic and Family Violence Anti-Violence Project, ACON 02 9206 2095 mbaulch@acon.org.au
Editor's Notes
- ACON AVP
- Only federally funded LGBTI DFV project in Australia – funded under the CAG stream of the National Plan to reduce violence against women and children. Builds on ACON’s previous work and the findings of the Gap Analysis. The project develops existing partnerships with agencies and organisations supporting intersex and trans* and gender diverse people as well as creating new and creative strategic connections throughout NSW. A key focus is the exploration of culturally appropriate methodologies to work with, engage and create sustainable relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and CALD communities as well as beginning a dialogue on the impacts of domestic and family violence for LGBTI people within their communities.
- ACON and the Anti Violence Project (AVP) have been working in the area of domestic and family violence prevention and awareness since the late 1990s when it first became evident that there was a need for specialist support and recognition of the existence and dynamics of domestic violence within lesbian and gay communities in NSW. Since then, ACON has nurtured strong partnerships with key stakeholders in the sector including NSW Police, NSW Health, welfare and support agencies, legal service providers and LGBTI community organisations to increase awareness of LGBTI domestic and family violence, improve equality of access to support for LGBTI people experiencing DV and educate our communities about healthy relationships. The highly successful “There’s No Pride in Domestic Violence” campaign was launched in 2004 and was the first major same sex domestic violence community awareness campaign in Australia.
- At the same time as the launch of There’s No Pride, the Another Closet resources (website, booklet, personal stories and z-card) were developed through ACON in conjunction with the Same Sex Domestic Violence Interagency (now the LGBTIQ Domestic Violence Interagency). The Another Closet website has historically been maintained by the AVP’s Same Sex Domestic Violence Officer and the Safe Relationships Project Coordinator at the Inner City Legal Centre in consultation with the Interagency. The LGBTI Domestic and Family Violence Project Officer continues to maintain and develop content for the site and to distribute Another Closet resources as part of this project. The website receives 1500-3000 unique hits a month and is considered one of the world’s leading online resources on domestic and family violence for people of diverse sex, sexuality and/or gender. Another Closet is primarily aimed at LGBTIQ people in NSW who might be experiencing domestic and family violence, their families and friends as well as support services. We regularly receive a significant number of interstate and international inquiries and the interagency has been approached by domestic violence campaigners overseas and interstate to collaborate on the production of similar resources and to expand the focus of the site to include interstate referrals and information.
- In 2008 the AVP received funding from the NSW Office for Women’s Policy to employ a Same-Sex Domestic Violence Project Officer. The project initially involved a mapping exercise of domestic violence support services across NSW. Following a survey of 65 services, a further 12 months funding was given by the NSW government to produce a toolkit for mainstream domestic violence service providers, to begin specialist training with support agencies and build the capacity of these services to deal sensitively with people of diverse sex, sexuality and gender who have experienced domestic violence. The project was acquitted in January 2012. http://www.acon.org.au/sites/default/files/Gap%20Analysis.pdf