Changing the landscape and the story, in partnership with Our Watch
6 May 2025, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Tuesday 6 May, 12:00pm -1:00pm (AEST)
This session, delivered by Our Watch, will introduce attendees to the Change the story and Changing the landscape frameworks. The online, free session is designed for health promotion practitioners and is open to both AHPA members and non-members.
The session will provide an opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the gendered drivers of violence against women in addition to the intersecting drivers of violence for women and girls with disabilities. It will explore actions to address the drivers (e.g. challenge harmful stereotypes) in all fields of health promotion practice. The session will highlight new video and audio resources from the Changing the landscape suite of practice resources that centre lived experience of women with disabilities, and focus on transforming the evidence into action, while strengthening intersectionality in primary prevention work.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/n38YG1-GT96GBLonETuklw#/registration
Session presenters:
Natalie Russell
Natalie Russell (she/her) is a Sector Engagement Lead at Our Watch with over 20 years of experience in public health and health promotion. She has worked within local and state government, community health, and various non-profit and statutory organisations, both nationally and internationally. Drawing from her lived experience as a victim/survivor of family and domestic violence, Natalie has dedicated the past 12 years to preventing men's violence against women, promoting gender equality, and fostering healthier masculinities. During her tenure at VicHealth, Natalie led the development of the (En)countering Resistance to Gender Equality guide and the Framing Gender Equality and Masculinity message guides in partnership with a number of experts. She is slightly obsessed with utilising values-based messaging to effectively convey primary prevention messages.
Tess Whelan
Tess Whelan (she/her) is Practice Advisor, Preventing Violence against Women with Disabilities at Our Watch and was part of the team that developed the Changing the landscape practice resources over the past 2 years. Tess has enjoyed working on a range of projects and programs throughout her career with disability inclusion being a particular passion.