This social media collateral can be used by services to increase awareness of women’s health needs following strangulation. This set of four social media tiles include ones directed toward service providers, healthcare providers and women. If you would like help constructing text to accompany these images, please use this social media campaign explainer: This social…
Women’s Health NSW ran an event called Women, Violence and Brain Injury in late 2025. It brought together a range of experts on women’s brain injuries resulting from violence. These short stories are drawn from the presentations of our speakers. In this short story, Phoebe Nagorcka-Smith points out that we don’t have an accurate national…
This is a social media health promotion campaign about sexual choking. This harm reduction campaign is designed to build community knowledge relating to the risks of sexual choking, and support help-seeking behaviour. The evidence-informed approaches taken in each social media tile are drawn from Sexual choking: A health promotion approach. The digital environment normalises sexual…
In this HealthEd podcast, colleagues from the Mid Western Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program, Dr Josephine Braid, a Rehabilitation Medicine Physician, and Molly Banks, a Speech Pathologist and Program Manager, remind healthcare providers of the importance of investigating and managing brain injuries resulting from domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV). Dr Braid and Ms Banks explore…
Experiences of domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) can lead to brain injuries from strangulation, suffocation, blows to the head and neck, and being shaken violently. Despite the strong link between DFSV and brain injuries, there remains limited information to support women who have a brain injury resulting from violence. This practitioner guide is designed…