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This two-day training event focuses on expanding the capacity of domestic violence advocates to provide children’s advocacy services. National and local experts will present on topics including: mandatory reporting laws, fostering resiliency in children exposed to violence, and enhancing child welfare responses to domestic violence.
Registration will open soon.
Child maltreatment has a wide range of short and long-term effects on the individual, family, and community, however; professionals implementing trauma informed practices can help to mitigate these effects and promote resilience and healing. During the webinar, you will review the impact of trauma and focus on strategies to address the mental health needs of victims, including tips for coordinating care among agencies investigating and prosecuting child maltreatment. Specific therapeutic models for treating trauma in children and adolescents will also be discussed.
https://ncjtc.fvtc.edu/training/details/TR00003843/TRI0003844/strategies-for-supporting-resilience-and-healing-in-victims-of-child-maltreatment?utm_source=ncjtc&utm_campaign=MEC%20webinar&utm_medium=email&utm_content=strategies%20for%20healing
Presented by: Detective Michael Wallace, Gael Strack, JD
For years, multidisciplinary teams have worked together in the field of child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse and human trafficking.
Multidisciplinary teams have been extremely successful across the United States because at the heart of a MDT is a group of professionals from diverse disciplines who come together to provide comprehensive assessment and consultation in abuse cases. While their primary purpose is typically to help team members resolve difficult cases, teams may fulfill a variety of additional functions – including implementation of a new law.
Currently 40 States have now passed some form of a felony strangulation law to increase awareness, enhance offender accountability and victim safety. But most states have failed to implement their new strangulation law effectively.
In this webinar, a panel from Shasta County will discuss the development and operation of a new emerging multi-disciplinary team – the Strangulation Response Team.
The Panel will discuss why their group came together, who is part of their team, their goals, challenges and recent accomplishments since their Strangulation Response Team was formed.
Gael Strack will share best practices currently emerging across the United States and hopefully inspire you to do MORE.
This project is supported all or in part by Grant No. 2014-TA-AX-K008 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6155608527443457026?utm_source=Summer+2016+Fall+and+Summer+Webinar+Series&utm_campaign=Webinar-VOICES&utm_medium=email
This June, LCADV and LaFASA will co-host the Spark the Change, Share the Vision Conference, three days of education and networking opportunities for domestic violence and sexual assault advocates.
For more information:
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ec5aszqi982bd5d5&llr=chqohtcab
Home-visitors play an important role in supporting families but are often asked to go into homes with domestic violence perpetrators and/or survivors without support for assessing risk in the home. This webinar will discuss how the Safe and Together model can support programs comply with MIECHV benchmarks. Participants will discuss techniques for assessing personal safety, identifying safety concerns for survivors and their children, and ways to work with perpetrators of domestic violence. Participants will be able to identify how to focus on parenting as a motivator for perpetrators’ behavioral change. Finally, participants will discuss resources and ways to support survivors and children in various circumstances.
http://www.bwjp.org/our-training-and-services/rural-domestic-violence-custody.html
This webinar is hosted by the Battered Women’s Justice Project and is open to the public.
Dr. Melanie Shepard is a Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Minnesota Duluth and Melissa Scaia, MPA is the Executive Director of Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Program (DAIP).
Dr. Shepard will present findings from two studies: a study exploring the perceptions of rural women on custody and visitation arrangements with abusive ex-partners and an examination of the successes and challenges reported by rural domestic violence programs that was part of the comprehensive rural TA Needs Assessment conducted by Praxis International on behalf of the Office on Violence Against Women’s Rural Grant Program. Ms. Scaia, MPA will consider the implications of the research for practice. Ms. Scaia will discuss her experiences developing and overseeing the supervised visitation program that serves 6 northern MN counties. Ms. Scaia will also describe strategies for working with the courts to address post-separation child custody and visitation issues.
The Safe and Together model has a growing body of data and evaluation to support its effectiveness. This webinar will introduce the research, data and anecdotal experiences of Safe and Together users. In addition, participants will learn about how the model, when implemented effectively, can be expected to impact outcomes for families. Finally, participants will learn about how to build upon the experiences of previous Safe and Together participants to create a sustainable Domestic Violence Informed system. This webinar serves as an invitation to any one who has been looking to know more about the Safe and Together Model’s effectiveness or to explore creative strategies to incorporate it into their own agency.
https://events-na7.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/1109628478/en/events/event/shared/1520091018/event_landing.html?sco-id=1508192962