In July 2024, The Age ran a media article entitled, Sexual strangulation can mean ‘minutes to death’, yet half of young people do it. This article, by Wendy Tuohy, discusses new Australian research on sexual choking covering the grave risks to your brain and your life. Women’s Health NSW senior project officer, Jackie McMillan, is…
Want to tell women accessing your service about It Left No Marks? This is a series of print-ready promotional resources designed to connect women to this Women’s Health NSW website and the information it contains about strangulation and sexual choking. Each of these print-ready PDFs resources are presented in CMYK with bleed and crop marks…
This recorded training has been designed to improve service provider responses to women who have experienced non-fatal strangulation and who may be suffering from an acquired brain injury. It will be useful to service providers working with women who have experienced strangulation and brain injury in the context of domestic, family, and sexual violence, or with women…
This Ask LOIS webinar was a collaboration between Women’s Health NSW and Women’s Legal Service NSW. The webinar was broadcast live on Wednesday 1 May 2024. In the webinar, Women’s Health NSW present on their work supporting and strengthening professional understanding of, and local capacity to respond to, non-fatal strangulation in the context of sexual…
This medical referral template was designed to support women’s self-advocacy with general practitioners when seeking medical assessment following non-fatal strangulation (NFS) and acquired brain injury (ABI). It will be useful to women’s health centres and other non-government organisations (NGOs) where women present after NFS and ABI in the context of sexual violence and require support…