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The webinar will provide an overview of the responses to the commonly asked questions from DV and SA advocates who are interested in learning more about the Homeless Continuum of Care Coordinated Entry (CE) requirements and process to promote CE access and safe housing options for survivors. The discussion will draw from regulations and other guidance from HUD and USICH and will offer strategies and resources for DV / SA providers who want to contribute to the creation and implementation of the CE process in their communities.
A strong, accurate budget is the backbone of any organization. In this webinar you will learn how to build an organizational budget that will be a useful tool for the entire year. Understanding how to project revenue and expenses, integrating grant budgets into the organizational budget, accounting for grant restrictions and a step-by-step process for laying it all out – these are the highlights of this training. If you are a beginner at creating budgets or if you have struggled with the budget writing process, then this webinar is for you. Presenter: Christy Long, MCEDSV Finance Director.
This webinar is hosted by the Battered Women’s Justice Project and is open to the public.
Over the past 15 years, domestic violence (DV) and sexual assault (SA) programs have worked tirelessly to bring a trauma-informed approach to their work. This, in turn, has generated a need for tools that programs can use to assess the effectiveness of their efforts. In this webinar, we will describe the development of a new tool to assess trauma-informed practice that DV and SA programs can use to evaluate and improve their work. The Trauma Informed Practice (TIP) Scales measure the degree to which programs engage in trauma-informed practices from the perspective of program participants. The Scales assess six domains of trauma-informed practice, including Environment of Agency and Mutual Respect, Access to Information on Trauma, Opportunities for Connection, and Emphasis on Strengths, Cultural Responsiveness, and Inclusivity, and Support for Parenting. We also present new research to demonstrate the relationship between these aspects of practice and increased safety-related empowerment among survivors.
Webinar from the Center for Court
Innovation
Meeting the Needs of Justice-Involved Women:
Specialized Court Responses to Victim-Defendants
Thursday, March 30th / 3:00 p.m. EST (90 minutes)
Content: Research on justice system responses has shown that a one size-fits-all approach is not
effective. For female defendants, it is especially critical that their needs are met in an individualized,
gender-responsive way. Justice-involved women have complex histories of trauma and abuse that
can be masked if courts aren’t assessing them effectively. This can be complicated further when the
line between victim and defendant blurs, particularly in cases involving intimate partner violence and
human trafficking.
This webinar will discuss best practices for working with justice-involved women. It will highlight the
work of the Queens Human Trafficking Intervention Court in New York, which has a Hidden Victims
Project that identifies victims of human trafficking and links them to services.
Faculty: Robyn Mazur, Center for Court Innovation, Afua Addo, Center for Court Innovation, Judge
Toko Serita, Queens Human Trafficking Intervention Court, New York
This webinar is hosted by the Battered Women’s Justice Project and is open to the public.
CONTENT
This webinar will discuss how court systems across the country, instead of protecting victims of abuse, are actually abetting batterers. The authors will discuss the evolution of criminal justice response to domestic violence from “prying open courthouse (back) doors”, to criminalizing domestic violence, encouraging arrests, and prosecuting and sentencing abusers. Jessica and Andrew Klein’s analysis of many jurisdictions shows that the real problem in preventing domestic violence lies in criminal justice agencies’ commitment, rather than their ability to do the job.
PRESENTER
Andrew Klein and Jessica Klein, authors of Abetting Batterers: What Police, Prosecutors and Courts Aren’t Doing to Protect America’s Women.
This webinar is hosted by Battered Women’s Justice Project and is open to the public.
CONTENT
Often when the police are called for domestic violence, men who batter are arrested, convicted, and then likely sent to a batterers intervention program. What community support, programming, facilitation, and skills are needed to address men’s violence against women in a batterers intervention program? When men who batter are court ordered to group process, there needs to an analysis of key elements of abusive behavior and then a process to identify alternative beliefs and behaviors. The group process needs to be reflective and encourage critical thinking.
This webinar will address the following:
Who should facilitate BIPs and who maybe should not;
Co-facilitation;
Dialogue without judgment;
Exposing contradictions;
Facilitate men ‘reading their world’;
Looking at beliefs, “skill” building, and use of role plays;
How to facilitate accountability with men who batter;
Collusion.
PRESENTER
Melissa Scaia, MPA, Director of International Training at Global Rights for Women, Co-Founder of Domestic Violence Turning Points, and former executive director of Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs “the Duluth Model.”
Basics of Advocacy is a must have for any advocate looking to increase their capacity to support diverse LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence. This workshop will establish a strong foundation for the rest of the 2017 webinar series and include basic information like decoding the LGBTQ “alphabet soup” as well as advanced analysis for understanding the unique and crosscutting issues facing LGBT survivors.
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This webinar is hosted by the Battered Women’s Justice Project and is open to the public.
CONTENT
Stalking is a pattern of behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. Often, violations of no contact orders, calls from jail, and other forms of harassment constitute violations of stalking laws, yet these violations are often not prosecuted to the full extent. Because stalking laws often have stiffer statutory penalties, practitioners should know how to document evidence of stalking and request that prosecutors issue new charges. Supervising agents and other system players should educate stalking victims to recognize and document stalking in a way that allows the system to be the primary presenter of evidence during a trial. Community partners who understand the nature and dynamics of stalking can enhance public safety and help save lives. This session will provide an overview of stalking and suggestions on how to supervise probationers and parolees who engage in stalking behavior.
Participants will be able to:
Discuss the challenges and opportunities related to the community supervision of stalking offenders/cases;
Describe the critical role that community corrections professionals can play in holding stalking offenders accountable for their crimes and promote the safety of victims; Identify resources available to assist community corrections in supervising stalking cases;
Be able to recognize and document stalking behavior.
PRESENTER
James Henderson, Technical Assistance Provider, Probation Project, BWJP
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.
Presenters: Hon. Shaun Floerke, Judge, Minnesota’s Sixth Judicial District Court, and Nancy Ver
Steegh, Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
A court’s decision is only as good as the information it receives, but this information has to be presented
correctly to be sure it’s considered. With the safety and well-being of your clients and their children at
stake, getting the necessary facts before the court is crucial. Courts have rules about evidence so that
judges will make decisions based on reliable information, not gossip and guesswork. Although the rules
can be confusing, they are designed to protect the parties’ rights, and they should be used to help plan
for your client’s court appearance. This webinar will introduce the nuts and bolts of evidence and allow
you to support your client with a better understanding of what happens in court. (60 minutes)
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