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Online only May 27, 2022 1:00 – 4:00pm

Free Professional Development: Gender, Disaster and Financial Wellbeing

WIRE is offering free online training sessions for Victorian financial counsellors and financial capability workers to help increase gender responsive support services in preparation, response and recovery to disasters.


The free, two-part training has been developed by the Gender, Disaster and Financial Wellbeing project. The training focuses on providing an increased awareness of barriers to economic security for women before, in and following disasters such as bushfire, and what workers can do to address these barriers in gender-sensitive, strengths-based and trauma-informed ways.

The development of the training has been done in consultation with both impacted women and financial counsellors and capability workers in areas recovering from the Black Summer Bushfires, 2019-20.

The two-part training suite is designed to:

Places are limited, so please RSVP soon!

The project is funded by the Office for Women (Department of Families, Fairness and Housing), through the Bushfire Recovery Fund.

 


Gender, Disaster and Financial Wellbeing: Providing gender sensitive, strength based service to women before, in, and following Disasters

Gender, Disaster and Financial Wellbeing builds on and shares learnings from professionals working across Black Summer Bushfire response, and focuses on providing services to improve economic security for women before, in and following disasters in gender sensitive, strengths-based and trauma-informed ways.

Gender, Disaster and Financial Wellbeing includes:

Dates:


Access

For any access needs for any training session please email Ella Reed ereed@wire.org.au

Content and support:

These trainings have content about bushfire, financial abuse, family violence. If you or a client needs support around issues raised by the training you can contact:

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