A 3 hour workshop for practitioners working in Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCP)

Ideally co-designed and delivered in partnership with representative specialist services across CALD, LGBTIQA+, disability and aged care sectors

This workshop builds practitioners’ understanding of what it means for services to be genuinely inclusive and responsive to the full diversity of victim survivors and people who use violence, beyond Aboriginal cultural safety alone. Participants will explore practice considerations across culturally and linguistically diverse, LGBTIQA+, disability, older person and remote or fly-in/fly-out contexts.

Participants will examine CALD-specific practice considerations, including language barriers, working with interpreters, and how migration-related circumstances and visa status can create additional risk factors and barriers to safety that practitioners need to understand and respond to.

The workshop covers LGBTIQA+ inclusive practice, including recognising and responding to male and non-heteronormative victim survivors, alongside disability responsive and neurodiverse inclusive practice that adapts engagement, risk assessment and support to individual communication and access needs.

Participants will also explore practical adaptations for older people and for people in remote or fly-in/fly-out locations, and why genuine co-design with representative specialist services and communities, rather than services designing in isolation, is central to getting this right. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to identify diversity-related barriers to safety and support, and adapt their practice to be genuinely inclusive across these cohorts.

Duration: 3 hours

Audience: Practitioners working in Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCP)