The Disability Information and Resource Centre

Do you want to know more about the services provided by Ombudsman SA and the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s office?

The next Ombudsman Outreach session at the Women’s Information Service is coming up on:

Tuesday 28 May from 10am – 12pm

You can pop into the WIS shopfront (Ground Floor, Chesser House, 91-97 Grenfell Street, Adelaide) or phone and speak to the staff while they are onsite on 8303 0590 or 1800 188 158.

Appointments are not necessary.

8303 0590  I  1800 188 158

shannon.peake@dcsi.sa.gov.au

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The Stop the Violence Project (STVP) is a national project which aims to improve service delivery for women and girls with disabilities who are experiencing or at risk of violence.

The project headed by Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is undertaking research to build the evidence base to support future reform of the service system to better respond to the needs of women and girls with disabilities.

A survey is currently being conducted and closes on the 31st of May. Click on the link below for more info.

http://www.stvp.org.au/

Shannon Peake

Community Information Worker

Women’s Information Service

Department for Communities + Social Inclusion

Ground floor, 91-97 Grenfell Street

Adelaide SA 5000

8303 0590  I  1800 188 158

shannon.peake@dcsi.sa.gov.au

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Charmaine, a Women’s Health Nurse for Southern Primary Health – Southern Women’s, will present this free 8-week group for women.
Wisemove is an 8-week program, which will support women to increase and sustain their physical activity, to improve their health and wellbeing.
Sessions are free and run for 2.5 hours on Mondays (except Tuesday 2 April), with a walk or other activity of 30-45 minutes. Each week is devoted to a specific topic such as motivation and benefits of physical activity, positive effects on lifestyles, body image / comfort, healthy eating, getting better with age and maintaining momentum.

WHERE: The Family Relationship Centre, 38 Beach Road, Christies Beach
WHEN: Mondays from 11 February – 2 April, from 9.30am to 12pm
WHAT: Please bring a bottle of water, hat, sunscreen and flat walking shoes.

For more information, including to book a place in the program, childcare or transport from Southern Women’s to the Family Relationship Centre, please call Charmaine on 8384 9555.

Please click here to download the flyer.

Closing 24 November 2012

Creator, Gaelle Mellis, is truly a trailblazer and has made an enormous contribution to South Australian arts as both a theatre designer and a disability activist.

Take Up Thy Bed & Walk is a subversive performance about women, disability and fiction. It starts out from the portrayals of disabled women in 19th century literature and ends up at the most infamous intervention by a major recording artist with disability within popular culture. Made collaboratively by a creative team that includes former members of acclaimed theatre-makers Ladykillers and an all-star cast, Take Up Thy Bed & Walk will be an intelligent, beautiful, unsettling and humorous performance event not to be missed.

 Accessible, Audio described, Auslan interpreted, Guide dogs, Companion card

Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide

For more info call 08 8447 6211 or http://takeupthybed.org or www.vitalstatistix.com.au or www.bass.net.au/events/take-up-thy-bed-and-walk.aspx

Women With Disabilities South Australia (WWDSA) and Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) are presenting an experiential workshop and dialogue for women living with disability.

The two-day workshop provides the opportunity for people to explore issues affecting women living with disability, including the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and women’s safety.

When: Saturday 17 November 10:00am – 2:00pm AND Sunday 18 November 10:00am – 3:00pm

Where: JFA Purple Orange (Our Space), 104 Greenhill Road, Unley SA 5061

Registration: Please contact eigram1@optusnet.com.au

Please direct all queries regarding the above information to eigram1@optusnet.com.au

Stephanie Ortoleva and Hope Lewis have just released a new 228-page report: “Forgotten Sisters – A Report on Violence against Women with Disabilities: An Overview of Its Nature, Scope, Causes and Consequences” (August 21, 2012), Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 104-2012. The complete report and an abstract can be downloaded on the Social Science Research Network website at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2133332 and on the Women Enabled website at http://www.WomenEnabled.org  under “news.”