Using your own money: Discussion guides (Word)

This tool has been written for 3 reasons:

To
help people with disability to talk about their own money.
To
tell people where to get help if somebody is not using their money in the
right way.
To
help people who want to help people with disability know what questions to
ask.

Support workers and other people, such as trusted friends or neighbours,
can use this tool to help people with disability. The tool can also be used by
workers whose job it is to help people whose money is not being used in the
right way.

Sometimes when people don’t use your money in the right way it is family
violence. If people are not using your money in the right way there might be
other family violence happening too. Using these questions might help you to
think about whether somebody is not using your money in the right way. There
are people who think that not using your money in the right way is OK. It is
not OK and you should know that there are things to do and people who can help
to stop it from happening.

The research team would like to thank the women who participated in the
focus groups and final consultation as well as those who shared their stories
with us for the original ANROWS-funded research upon which this project is
based. We would also like to extend our thanks to the numerous stakeholders and
experts who contributed so generously during the focus groups and afterwards.

We thank the Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust for
funding this project as part of their small grants program in 2018-2019. We
would also like to acknowledge the ANROWS funding for Women Disability and Violence:
Creating Access to Justice that began this work and we
would like to thank members of the research team with whom we worked on this
project, Dr Claire Spivakovsky and Professor Jude McCulloch from Monash
University, Kara Beavis from Oueensland University of Technology, and Dr
Jessica Cadwallader, Meredith Lea and Therese Sands from People with Disability
Australia.

本工具开发出于三大初衷：
其一，助力残障群体（people with disability）自主讨论自身财务事宜；
其二，告知残障群体在自身财务被不当处置时可获取的援助渠道；
其三，协助有意帮扶残障群体的人士明确应提出的问询要点。

助残工作者、可信赖的友人或邻里等群体，均可借助本工具为残障群体提供协助。此外，负责处置残障群体不当财务使用问题的相关从业者，也可使用本工具。

当他人不当使用你的钱财时，有时可能涉及家庭暴力。若存在此类不当处置行为，或许还伴随其他形式的家庭暴力。通过本工具提供的问询要点，可辅助你判断是否存在他人不当使用自身钱财的情况。部分人群可能认为不当使用他人钱财并无不妥，但此种认知是错误的。你需知晓，已有可行的解决途径与援助人员，可阻止此类行为的发生。

本研究团队谨向参与焦点小组（focus groups）与最终咨询会的女性参与者，以及为本项目所依托的、由ANROWS资助的原创研究分享自身经历的受访者致以诚挚谢意。同时，感谢在焦点小组及后续环节慷慨贡献意见的众多利益相关方与专家。

我们感谢维多利亚妇女慈善信托基金（Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust）于2018-2019年通过其小额资助项目资助本项目。我们亦感谢ANROWS为"女性、残障与暴力：获取司法正义途径"（Women Disability and Violence: Creating Access to Justice）项目提供的启动资金，该项目正是本工作的缘起。此外，感谢参与本项目合作的研究团队成员：莫纳什大学（Monash University）的克莱尔·斯皮瓦科夫斯基博士与裘德·麦卡洛克教授、昆士兰科技大学（Queensland University of Technology）的卡拉·比维斯，以及澳大利亚残疾人协会（People with Disability Australia）的杰西卡·卡德瓦拉德博士、梅雷迪思·利与特雷莎·桑兹。