Episode Details

In this episode I speak with Loren, who has predominantly worked within the domestic, family and sexual violence sector. Loren discusses how her career has intersected with other disciplines along the way and how these experiences have shaped how she practices as a social worker. Loren currently works as Senior Practitioner supervising an interstate team supporting victim-survivors of financial abuse with coaching.

Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:

• UNSW’s Tackling economic and financial abuse linked to domestic and family violence - https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2023/01/tackling-economic-and-financial-abuse-linked-to-domestic-and-fam

• Centre for Women’s Economic Security - https://cwes.org.au/ and https://www.financialsafety.org.au/

• Economic Abuse Reference Group - https://earg.org.au/

• MoneyMinded program - https://www.anz.com.au/about-us/esg/financial-wellbeing/moneyminded/

• NSW Health sexual assault services - https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/parvan/sexualassault/Pages/info-sexual-assault-victims.aspx

• Marrickville Legal Centre’s Savvy Finance program - https://www.mlc.org.au/savvy-finance/

• Commonwealth Banks’ financial abuse resource centre - https://www.commbank.com.au/support/financial-abuse.html?ei=resources

• Good Shepherd’s financial independence hub - https://goodshep.org.au/services/fih/

• Berry Street’s MoneyMinded program - https://www.berrystreet.org.au/learning-and-resources/our-training-and-consultancy-services/moneyminded

This episode's transcript can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13olBfUXrECy1kLoCGj5lhkC50Tp8gS8tKkF-8O6ck0w/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks to Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com for our theme music.