Responding to domestic violence in the wake of disasters: Exploring the effects on services and workers

Abstract

In: L. Roeder (Ed.), Issues of gender and sexual orientation in humanitarian emergencies. Humanitarian solutions in the 21st century. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.<br/ ><br/ >Focuses on the ways in which disasters affect social service agencies and their employees and clients experiencing domestic violence. It reports on interviews conducted with workers from domestic violence services and first responder organisations in Townsville after Cyclone Yasi in 2010 and on a survey conducted with 67 workers across Australia who had experienced a natural or technological disaster.