PRESENTED BY: Betty Taylor

In this one hour webinar, expert domestic violence practitioner and CEO of the Red Rose Foundation, Betty Taylor, discusses aspects of responding to non-lethal strangulation in domestic violence contexts such as:

• Defining domestic violence strangulation
• Occurrence within an intimate relationship
• Health impacts
• Crisis and post-crisis health imperatives
• How to raise the issue
• Documentation
• Referral
• Ongoing check ups

PRESENTED BY: Jatinder Kaur

• Vulnerabilities and risk factors faced by migrant and refugee women
• Holistic bio-psycho-social assessments of migrant and refugee victims of intimate partner violence
• Cultural, linguistic and religious factors which may be barriers associated with intimate partner violence responses
• Physical, mental and sexual-reproductive trauma and treatment options specific to migrant and refugee women who are victims of intimate partner violence

PRESENTED BY: Liz Price

This one hour presentation on domestic violence and reproductive coercion provides an overview of the sexual assault and reproductive health impacts of domestic violence, specifically looking at:

• The patterns and prevalence of unplanned pregnancy and abortion in those affected by domestic violence
• Reproductive coercion as a perpetrator practice, and its role in the over representation of those affected by domestic violence presenting with unplanned pregnancy and abortion
• A health care practitioner’s role in screening and responding to the needs of people subjected to reproductive coercion with a specific focus on contraceptive counselling and abortion access
• Practitioner resources available