Between 2018 and 2020, WWDA developed a virtual centre for women, girls, feminine identifying, and non-binary people called Our Site, a website developed in co-design with over 100 women and girls with disabilities across Australia.
WWDA is pleased to announce that in 2022, we have received funds from the Department of Social Services, Family Violence Branch to create a newly expanded section of Our Site that will allow us to continue with this ground-breaking work that will focus on sex, relationships, relationship education, and to address the multiple forms of violence and abuse that women and girls with disabilities experience.
WWDA will do this by continuing to use an extensive co-design framework that will include workshops, consultations, and expert advisory panels to create new, highly accessible content to meet the specific needs of women, girls, feminine identifying, and non-binary people through these new and updated web-based resources and online tools.
Our Site 2.0 Project Steering Committee
In 2022 we selected a new committee to work together for the next two years to help steer the project and ensure it is delivered in a co-designed framework.
Our Site ‘Have Your Say’ workshops
The Our Site team held workshops from May to August 2023. There were 5 in-person workshops held in Perth, Brisbane, and Adelaide. With 6 online workshops for people who were unable to attend in person. There were separate workshops for women and gender-diverse people with disability, parents and carers, and sector representatives.
Participants were shown an outline of the new website and asked for their feedback. They were given the opportunity to share their thoughts and recommendations on what women and gender-diverse people with disability need when seeking advice about preventing and reducing violence in an online resource.
There will be 4 more in-person workshops in Perth and Brisbane during October and November. This will allow the Our Site team to present the website to the original workshop participants with much of their feedback incorporated.
Our Site ‘Have Your Say’ national online survey
The Our Site team conducted a national survey in July. This was created as a way to reach a wider range of participants than those who could join the workshops. Survey questions focused on what is most useful in an online resource when seeking advice about preventing and reducing violence.
The survey received over 100 responses. If you took the time to complete it, thank you! Your feedback is valuable.
Your input will help us understand what information you would find most helpful on this topic. That will help us to build the best resource for you. We heard from our members, friends, parents and carers, networks, and the wider community. Not only women, girls, feminine identifying, and non-binary people with disabilities, but also people who work in gender-based violence-related fields.
The winners of the gift cards have been drawn and notified.
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