Our position
- Crisis and emergency housing should be available to all women* with disabilities who require these services in the ACT.
- The domestic violence services must work with disability services and Disability People’s Organisations to share expertise and improve understandings of an intersectional approach to avoid creating silos in the sector.
- Information about how domestic violence services can and will cater to women* with disabilities should be explicit and easily accessible.
- Women* with disabilities who contact domestic violence services should be asked what their immediate care needs are.
- All women* with disabilities who seek crisis and emergency housing should promptly be put in touch with an individual advocacy organisation to support them through the process.
- All crisis and emergency housing in the ACT should be accessible for women* who have physical disabilities including those women* who use mobility aids.
- Crisis services should ensure current important information on accessing the service is made accessible (e.g., Easy English, plain English, screen reader friendly information)
- Women* with disabilities must be consulted about how to improve services.
- Data on the number of women* with disabilities requesting, accessing, or being turned away from domestic violence services should be kept and made public.
You can learn more by reading our position statement linked below.