Advisory Panel - Laurel House
Involved on the Laurel House Advisory Group developing training for health professionals to respond to sexual violence against people with disability
Advisory Panel - National Domestic and Family Violence Recovery Alliance
National Domestic and Family Violence Recovery Alliance
What helped Lili after surviving domestic violence in childhood
By Kellie Scott
Posted to ABC News, 29/07/25 – 3:08pm (Updated 06/08/25 – 8:49am)
The program coordinator for Engender Equality’s Advocates for Change says advocacy is a chance for victim-survivors to rebuild community and reclaim their voice.
“When you step into advocacy spaces, you get to experience allyship … you get to celebrate strength and resilience.”
Coercive Control: Abuse in Hiding
Coercive control is insidious. It is strategic. It is abuse in hiding.
He: didn’t look for someone to love; he looked for someone to control.
She: Easy going, friendly, positive person = gullible to manipulation.
The dangerous form of abuse around food that often goes unnoticed
By Kellie Scott
Posted to ABC News, 07/02/23 – 6:00am
Food control is a form of coercive control that is often invisible and potentially life-threatening. Identifying its signs, and pathways to help is important and can take time.
Victim-survivors of domestic violence share how we can help them feel safer to disclose abuse
By Kellie Scott
Posted to ABC News, 15/02/24 – 2:06pm (Updated 15/02/24 – 4:24pm)
Disclosing abuse can be incredibly difficult. Victim-survivors fear they won’t be believed, often blame themselves, and have a lot of shame around the violence they are experiencing.
But there are ways we can help those in our lives feel safer to share.
Ten years and $200,000: the cost in Australia of protecting a child from an abusive ex-partner
By Kate Lyons
Posted to The Guardian, 17/05/24 – 01:00
When Caroline left her husband after years of emotional, financial and physical abuse, she thought she and her toddler were finally free.
But it was only the start of a new kind of trauma – the world of family law proceedings.
Financial abuse in relationships and ways to protect yourself
By Kellie Scott
Posted to ABC News, 22/05/24 – 10:04am (Updated 22/05/24 – 11:27am)
One in six women in Australia experience financial abuse. It can happen at any income level, often alongside other forms of domestic and family violence.
We share three ways that can increase your financial safety.
The invisible epidemic of brain injuries among domestic violence survivors
By Stephanie Wood
Posted to PRIMER, 2023
Domestic violence is frighteningly common. Now experts are worried that many women who sustain head trauma suffer from undiagnosed brain injuries.
Panels & Presentations - Family and Sexual Violence Alliance Panel speech by Advocate
Speech by Ellie, an Advocate for Change at the Family and Sexual Violence Alliance Panel held at Parliament House in Hobart on 11th September 2024