![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ENGLISH_Coercive_Control_Brochure_page-0001.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nADS Team Leader, Emerging Communities, Settlement and Community Services, Magdaline Shenton-Kaleido is a member of the St George Domestic Violence (DV) Committee and served on the committee\u2019s sub-working group to develop the brochures. She said: \u2018Coercive control is an overwhelmingly common experience in abusive relationships, and has been found to be a significant factor in most deaths resulting from domestic violence. \u2018Yet most people in the community don\u2019t know about coercive control or don\u2019t understand how it might manifest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018The St George DV Committee wanted to help people to understand how you can still be in an unhealthy or abusive relationship even where there is no physical violence. And that\u2019s why we produced the brochures \u2013 in English and five community languages.\u2019 Ms Shenton-Kaleido said ADS\u2019s bicultural officers proofread and amended translations from the English version of the brochure before printing, which was a tremendous help with the project. She also pointed out that the brochures provide a healthy relationship checklist as well as information about support services available in the St George region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The checklist asks if there is someone in your life who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018<\/em>Any of these actions may be signs of coercive control or abuse,\u2019 Ms Shenton-Kaleido said. \u2018Coercive control is an abusive behaviour used to cause fear and\/or control a person or situation. \u2018This type of domestic violence is known as domestic abuse and can go undetected in intimate partner relationships for years.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n If not recognised, controlling behaviours like gaslighting, stalking and technological abuse can escalate to physical, life-threatening violence, Ms Shenton-Kaleido said, so people should seek advice and support even if they\u2019re unsure this is what they\u2019re experiencing. \u2018Our aim in launching A Pocket Guide to Relationships, Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control<\/em> is to help people find the support they need before the violence escalates and to show that support is available in the community to help them build healthier relationships.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n ____<\/p>\n\n\n\n Download the coercive control brochures from the ADS website here<\/a> or visit the Moving Forward website at: http:\/\/www.movingforward.org.au\/resources\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n See what you made me do <\/em>is on SBS On Demand<\/a> until May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are worried about domestic violence, call the 24 hour Domestic Violence Hotline on: 1800 656 463. Always call the Police on 000 if you are in danger. For more information on Domestic Violence please visit: https:\/\/www.facs.nsw.gov.au\/domestic-violence<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ____<\/p>\n\n\n\n Caption: Magdaline Shenton-Kaleido and other ADS staff were pivotal in helping to produce six easy-to-read, pocket-sized brochures about coercive control released in May.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Advance Diversity Services has played a pivotal role in producing six easy-to-read, pocket-sized brochures about coercive control released in May to coincide with Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month. The launch of the brochures in six languages \u2013 English, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Nepali, Thai, and Bengali \u2013 also coincided with Jess Hill\u2019s See what you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"\n Advance Diversity Services has played a pivotal role in producing six easy-to-read, pocket-sized brochures about coercive control released in May to coincide with Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The launch of the brochures in six languages \u2013 English, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Nepali, Thai, and Bengali \u2013 also coincided with Jess Hill\u2019s See what you made me do<\/em>, a three-part series exploring the scourge of domestic violence in Australia, which premiered on SBS, NITV and SBS On Demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADS Team Leader, Emerging Communities, Settlement and Community Services, Magdaline Shenton-Kaleido is a member of the St George Domestic Violence (DV) Committee and served on the committee\u2019s sub-working group to develop the brochures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said: \u2018Coercive control is an overwhelmingly common experience in abusive relationships, and has been found to be a significant factor in most deaths resulting from domestic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Yet most people in the community don\u2019t know about coercive control or don\u2019t understand how it might manifest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018The St George DV Committee wanted to help people to understand how you can still be in an unhealthy or abusive relationship even where there is no physical violence. And that\u2019s why we produced the brochures \u2013 in English and five community languages.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms Shenton-Kaleido said ADS\u2019s bicultural officers proofread and amended translations from the English version of the brochure before printing, which was a tremendous help with the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also pointed out that the brochures provide a healthy relationship checklist as well as information about support services available in the St George region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The checklist asks if there is someone in your life who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018<\/em>Any of these actions may be signs of coercive control or abuse,\u2019 Ms Shenton-Kaleido said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Coercive control is an abusive behaviour used to cause fear and\/or control a person or situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018This type of domestic violence is known as domestic abuse and can go undetected in intimate partner relationships for years.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n If not recognised, controlling behaviours like gaslighting, stalking and technological abuse can escalate to physical, life-threatening violence, Ms Shenton-Kaleido said, so people should seek advice and support even if they\u2019re unsure this is what they\u2019re experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Our aim in launching A Pocket Guide to Relationships, Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control<\/em> is to help people find the support they need before the violence escalates and to show that support is available in the community to help them build healthier relationships.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n ____<\/p>\n\n\n\n Download the coercive control brochures from the ADS website here<\/a> or visit the Moving Forward website at: http:\/\/www.movingforward.org.au\/resources\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n See what you made me do <\/em>is on SBS On Demand<\/a> until May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n