Women’s Health Tasmania: Non-Fatal Strangulation and Reproductive Coercion Webinar

Women’s Health Tasmania is presenting a webinar on Non-Fatal Strangulation and Reproductive Coercion: New health-related offences in family violence on Tuesday 12 April.

This webinar will interest community and health sector workers and volunteers. It covers

·         What is non-fatal strangulation and reproductive coercion?

·         How to identify these patterns of behaviour and how to support clients experiencing them

·         The relationship to other forms of family violence

·         Proposed changes to the law around these behaviours

Guest speaker Elise Whitmore is a Principal Solicitor at the Women’s Legal Service Tasmania, and works mainly in the Domestic Violence Units in the North of Tasmania. Elise has worked across numerous Community Legal Centres over the past decade, practising in the areas of family law and family violence, as well as discrimination, employment and sexual harassment law. 

Register in advance for this Webinar