Scholarship Round 5 is now open
Scholarship Round 5 is now open
Scholarship round 5 is now open for applications. If you work in the domestic and family violence, sexual assault or women’s health and wellbeing sectors in Queensland and you are interested in study to enhance you career opportunities, consider joining our information session on 7 October 2022 or checking out our Scholarship Program webpage for more information.
Applications close on Friday 4 November at 5pm.
NAIDOC Week 2022 - Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
NAIDOC Week 2022 - Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
WorkUP Queensland would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners, sovereign people Elders and Ancestors of the lands in which our staff reside, work and walk. We are promoting some upcoming NAIDOC events within the community worth checking out.
This years NAIDOC theme is Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! Let’s all get involved in this years NAIDOC week celebrations. Turn up and support some of your local events within your communities.
Please check out some other NAIDOC events around on offer in your region. Below are some examples:
- https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/naidoc-week-events/cairns-naidoc-breakfast
- https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/naidoc-week-events/naidoc-march
- https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/naidoc-week-events/capricorn-coast-naidoc-walk-and-community-event
To find your local event you can also check out the NAIDOC website on https://www.naidoc.org.au/local-events/local-naidoc-week-events
Another option is to check your local city council sites for NAIDOC events within your local area. We have some examples below within our region:
- Brisbane City Council Areas- Musgrave Park Family Day on the 8th of July
https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/community-and-safety/community-support/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-programs/naidoc-week-celebrations - Ipswich City Council, will be celebrating on the 7th of July
https://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/live/our-community/indigenous/indigenous-events - Logan City Council has some Library Events and NAIDOC at the Pools
https://loganlibraries.org/whats-on/event/celebrate-naidoc-week-2021/
https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/naidoc-week-events/logan-naidoc-pools
Solidarity Series Podcast Episode 2: Now Available
Solidarity Series Podcast Episode 2: Now Available
Our second episode of the Solidarity Series podcast series is now available on our website. In this episode you will hear from Karyn Walsh, CEO from Micah projects talking about her experiences, leadership and the importance of integrated work across the sector for the people we work with. Listen now here: https://workupqld.org.au/solidarity-safety-justice-wellbeing/
Copies of presentations from Symposium 2 now available
Copies of presentations from Symposium 2 now available
The second symposium was a wonderful success. The room was buzzing with conversation and ideas as people came together face to face for the first time in a long time. The presentations were engaging, inspiring and challenging, prompting a lot of discussion amongst panelists and participants alike. Now available on the WorkUP website are some of the presentations from day. Check those out here: https://workupqld.org.au/solidarity-safety-justice-wellbeing/
Soon we will have recordings of the presentations available for you to view, so keep an eye out for updates.
Scholarship Round 4 is now closed
Scholarship Round 4 is now closed
Round 4 of the WorkUP Queensland Scholarship Program is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted an application. We will be in touch soon with an outcome.
WorkUP will conduct another round later in 2022. Sign up below to receive updates from WorkUP, including information about scholarships.
Speakers announced for Solidarity Symposium 2!
Speakers announced for Solidarity Symposium 2!
Symposium 2: Justice will focus on the complexity of the justice system. Joining us, face to face in Caboolture on June 8 will be Aimee McVeigh, (CEO, QCOSS), Susan Beattie (Manager of the Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Unit, Coroners Court Qld) and Tracy Linford (QPS). Find out more about our speakers and the series here: https://workupqld.org.au/solidarity-safety-justice-wellbeing/
Joining us again will also be broadcaster, Karina Hogan who’s lived experience as survivor of domestic violence and as an Aboriginal women will help us ground the discussion. More speaker announcements to come soon. If you would like to attend the event and are a member of our target group, you can apply for assistance to travel to the event via the registration page.
Professor Sandra Creamer to join speakers at the first symposium of the Solidarity: Safety, Justice, Wellbeing Series
Professor Sandra Creamer to join speakers at the first symposium of the Solidarity: Safety, Justice, Wellbeing Series
Professor Creamer, Wannyi/Kalkadoon women and CEO of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance will be participating in our first symposium. Sandra has worked with Indigenous women in Australia and globally, and believes it is important to empower Indigenous women for self-determination, equality of their rights, and understanding how they can challenge issues that affect their communities and work with them to find solutions.
Professor Creamer will be sharing her experience and wisdom with a case study that will demonstrate the power and impact of community led collaborative change. Register now to join Sandra and the other fantastic speakers we have lined up for this event, the first in our 2022 series.
Speakers for Symposium 1 of the Solidarity: Safety, Justice, Wellbeing Series announced
Speakers for Symposium 1 of the Solidarity: Safety, Justice, Wellbeing Series announced
We are delighted to announce our first tranch of speakers for our innagural Solidarity series symposium. Our keynote address will be delivered by Amy Remeikis, political reporter for the Guardian. Additional speakers includes Cathy Humphreys (University of Melbourne) talking about her role in implementing the Safe and Together framework and the role of service navigators. Paul Monsour (Anglicare) will be providing his perspective on safety as a practitioner in a DFV perpetrator intervention program. And Karina Hogan (Broadcast Journalist and First Nations woman) will be speaking on resilience from her own story. For more information about this Series visit: https://workupqld.org.au/solidarity-safety-justice-wellbeing/
Working well with Women with Disability
Working well with Women with Disability
Over the past 8 months our team has been working in partnership with National Disability Services Qld and Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence to design, deliver and develop training and resources to enable the disability workforce to recognise and respond to domestic and family violence. This project is now complete and the resources ready for use by the disability sector.
We learnt throughout this project that women with disability are at far greater risk of sexual, domestic and family violence, they can find it harder to access support and when they do access support it might not meet their needs. This makes it easy for them to slip through the cracks. We realised that to ensure that women with disability receive the best support possible we also need to focus on professional development and resources for the domestic and family violence, sexual assault and women’s health and wellbeing sector.
Our response is ‘Working well with Women with Disability’, a five-part series that starts in September. We are delighted to be working in partnership with WWILD & QDN in development of this important series that is co-designed, developed and delivered with women with disability.
The aim of the series is to build confidence, knowledge, and skills to work well with people with disability experiencing sexual, domestic, or family violence. It will provide information about types of disability, gendered violence in the context of disability, communication, and resources and where and how to access additional resources or support when required. Advice, real stories and case studies from women with lived experience will make the series practical and engaging. As our sector is striving for increased inclusivity, the last session will explore organisational responses to ensure that services are inclusive for clients and staff with disabilities.
We invite you to join us for the whole series of workshops as each session will build on from the previous workshop’s learning, or just to take part in the ones of interest to you. Handouts and resources from each workshop will be made available to participants including those unable to attend all workshops.
The five sessions include:
- Foundational knowledge – women with disability
- Gendered violence in the disability context
- Good practice in working with women with disability
- Resources and support for working with women with disability
- Inclusion of women with disability in organisations as clients and staff
To find out more please go to: https://events.humanitix.com/tours/working-well-with-women-with-disability
Your engagement in this series will help shape the development of a recorded series and resources that will be freely available to all.
Keep in touch on Facebook where we will introduce you to the facilitators over the coming weeks.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WorkUpQLD