Penrith
Women's Health Centre auspiced the Looking After Me (LAM)
Project – which provided educational/personal growth
groups on issues relating to healthy relationships and
domestic violence – targeting women with intellectual
disability. One of the outcomes from the LAM project was
a resource kit that contains visual aids to assist in
discussing DV issues with women who have an intellectual
disability.
Documents
Introduction
to Resource Kit (61KB)
Intro
provides a background and social context to the resource
kit as well as suggestions on how to use the kit.
Group
Rules Card Series (1.08MB)
Use the cards to discuss
behaviour in groups i.e. what makes people feel safe/scared/happy
in groups.
Body
Signs telling you to Be Careful - Poster
(147KB)
Body Signs and Early warning
signs are Visual worksheets that depicts body signs that
may manifest when a woman is feeling fearful or distressed
– to let her know something is wrong.
Early
Warning Signs Poster & Worksheet
(215KB)
Body Signs and Early warning
signs are Visual worksheets that depicts body signs that
may manifest when a woman is feeling fearful or distressed
– to let her know something is wrong.
The
Relationship Circle Interactive Tool
(736KB)
A relationship circle exercise
that addresses the appropriateness of different kinds
of touch by different people in different situations.
Healthy
Relationships Cards Series (815KB)
A set of 14 healthy relationship
cards that specifically depict images of harmony in relationships.
Domestic
Violence Cards Series (2.5MB)
A set of 13 DV cards that
specifically depict visual images of DV behaviour.
Story Book:
Celia's Story (1.6MB)
Three story books that contain
images relating to three different women's experience
of both healthy and DV relationships.
Story Book:
Mary's Story (2.3MB)
Three
story books that contain images relating to three different
women's experience of both healthy and DV relationships.
Story Book:
Sarah & Jason (1.2MB)
Three
story books that contain images relating to three different
women's experience of both healthy and DV relationships.
