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This training will share the latest information on non-fatal strangulation in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence, and sexual choking. Facilitators will explore the role healthcare providers play in identifying, screening and addressing the short- and long-term needs of women who experience strangulation.

The facilitators will share key insights from the Pathways Project and the 21 Women’s Health Centres operating throughout NSW that implemented referral pathways and protocols for responding to women who experience strangulation and/or engage in sexual choking.

All the information provided in the training comes from our evidence brief and is supported by Australian and international research, as well as advice and opinions gathered from experts working in this space.

Presented by:

Women's Health NSW

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the different context in which patients can experience strangulation and how these contexts require different health responses
2. Identify when to suspect and screen for non-fatal strangulation and sexual choking
3. Reflect on barriers that may prevent patient disclosure of strangulation and/or sexual choking
4. Identify language considerations that may help patients overcome barriers to disclosing
5. Describe the benefits of a multidisciplinary response for patients who may have sustained a brain injury from strangulation and/or sexual choking
6. Identify practical advice for patients on how to manage a brain injury caused by strangulation and/or sexual choking
7. Reflect on how health promotion messaging may diff er between communities and among diverse groups

Target audience: GPs, nurses and Allied Health Professionals

In partnership with Hunter New England Central Coast PHN and Nepean Blue Mountains PHN.

**Please note that attendance records including contact details will be shared with the partnering PHNs.

*Please note GP Registrars who wish to register for CPD events and do not have a member number will need to contact the CPD Department on 1300 986 991