Building Partnerships To Sustain and Enhance Services Workshops
Redefining Peace (UN 1325): Developing a Popular Education Methodology to Work with Women and Men
Vera Vieira
Workshop 5E
Date & Time: Wednesday, 9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 7
It is necessary to create new strategies to end this entrenched epidemic named domestic violence, consider innovative projects seeking to turn the tide, and create a safer world for our mothers, daughters, sister and friends. For the women and feminist movement, it is time to include men in the process of gender education.
Learning Objectives: (1) Share an unprecedented proposal since the main goal is to have a specific focus on working with women and men (perpetrators or not), redefining both: peace and popular education. (2) Continuing to work with the amplified meaning of peace, according to UN Resolution 1325.
Keywords: Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Program/Shelter Services, Research/Evaluation
Country: Brazil
Shelter Based Health Services
Dr. Phyllis Sharps, Janice Miller and Patty Wilson
Workshop 10E
Date & Time: Thursday, 11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 7
This workshop will describe a sustainable academic-shelter partnership for health care. Nurse faculty offer services to empower abused women to make informed health care decisions for themselves and their children. Nurses help families to obtain health insurance, find primary care providers and keep children current with immunizations and annual exams.
Learning Objectives:(1) Learn the process for developing a sustainable academic-shelter collaborative partnership for the provision of shelter based health care.(2) Understand the mutual benefits of a collaborative academic-shelter partnership. (3) Learn about the Community Health Nursing Case Management Model for addressing health concerns for battered women.
Keywords: Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability, Working with Underserved Communities
Country: United States of America
Engaging Men As Allies
Rus Ervin Funk
Workshop 5A
Date & Time: Wednesday, 9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Room: Maryland Ballroom
At the core of efforts to engage men this critical question -- how does an organization focus on supporting and empowering women, while also reaching out to and engaging men? This workshop will examine this question and explore ways to effective engage men as allies to prevent domestic violence at the local level.
Learning Objectives: (1) Identify ways to define violence against women as a men’s issue. (2) Identify some of the main barriers to engaging men to prevent domestic violence. (3) Define ways to overcome these barriers in order to engage men. (4) List specific and concrete ways to engage men and what men can do to prevent violence against women.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Engaging Men and Boys
Country: United States of America
Take back the lead! Advocates reclaim leadership of interagency responses to violence against women
Graham Barnes and Denise Eng
Workshop 5H
Date & Time: Wednesday, 9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 3
Advocates have dramatically changed system responses to DV cases over the last thirty years. Government agencies have slowly embraced specialized responses to domestic violence and sexual assault. However, these hard-won changes often focus more on agency needs than victim/survivors. We offer strategies for advocates to re-position as conduits for the least powerful.
Learning Objectives: (1) Identify the central and historical role of victim advocacy agencies within a coordinated community response to domestic violence cases. (2) Assess local agency’s level of leadership within the CCR. (3) Describe leadership strategies that will prioritize the safety and autonomy of victims.
Keywords: Working with Governments, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Coordinated Community Response
Country: United States of America
Enhancing System Response for Men Who Use Family Violence
Robyn Trainor and Judy Kneale
Workshop 9G
Date & Time: Thursday, 9:50 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 2
This session will present both the challenges and opportunities in enhancing responses to survivors through developing partnerships and in the delivery of men’s programs for Men Who Use Violence. We will provide a brief historical overview of the Australian context with practical case-studies to facilitate discussion of the ways we may go forward as a movement to end violence.
Learning Objectives: (1) Introduce Australian context of domestic and family violence response and the development of programs for men within the broader service system. (2) Discuss experiences of developing relationships, protocols and practices between women’s and men’s services in responding to domestic and family violence and will facilitate a dialogue. (3) Provide an overview of the Australian context of integrated and coordinated response to family violence and include practical case-studies to assist participants to develop knowledge and practice in developing safety led responses for women and children experiencing family violence and/or at risk of homelessness.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Research/Evaluation, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Working with Abusers/Batterers
Country: Australia
How Collaboration Creates Coordination and Capital
Vicki Lutz, Esq. and Julie Kunce Field, J.D.
Workshop 8E
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 7
This workshop focuses on how Crossroads Safehouse has formed 70 partnerships in northern Colorado to end relationship abuse and concludes that collaboration is not only necessary as a means to ending domestic violence and sexual assault but also as a means of garnering the funding needed to sustain that work.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn ideas about how and why to partner and with whom. (2) Be offered a dozen tips for maintaining and growing their coordinated community response partnerships. (3) Be presented with a dozen tried-and-true ideas about co-locating their services and why this is beneficial.
Keywords: Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Coordinating a community response network to end domestic violence
Country: United States of America
Police & Shelter Partnership to Enhance Services to Victims
Ian Wheeliker , Cpl. A.T. (Sandy) McKechnie, Tosha Duncan and Kate D.M. Wyse
Workshop 9F
Date & Time: Thursday, 9:50 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Room: Chesapeake G
The Domestic Crime Unit is a partnership between shelter, police, and key agencies. We will give an overview of the work of the unit, the group that oversees the partnership, and the high risk conference process that has been created as a result the collaboration between police and shelter.
Keywords: Working with Governments
Country: Canada
Enhancing Violence Against Women Programs for Aboriginal Youth
Rhiannon Wong and Shirley Slann
Workshop 9I
Date & Time: Thursday, 9:50 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 4
Participants will explore two innovative approaches to support Aboriginal youth from Violence Against Women Programs in Canada and Australia. The workshop will discuss the different models and principles, the impact that the program has made on local Aboriginal communities and how Violence Against Women programs can replicate the models in their communities. It will also explore the issues of domestic and family violence affecting the whole family and affecting generation to generation and how we may be able to look at the underlying issues and ways to break the cycle of violence. The issues facing Indigenous people as compared to Non-Indigenous people will be discussed as well as the criminal justice system and the high impact of Indignous incarceration rates as compared to Non-Indigenous.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn the importance of cross-sectoral partnerships in order to meet the needs of Aboriginal youth exposed to violence. (2) Be able to identify pieces of the models presented and bring them back to their community for implementation.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Indigenous Populations, Working with Governments, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholder, Working with Abusers/Batterers, Impact of violence
Country: Canada & Australia
Suicide Prevention: Engaging Battered Women & Allies
Barbara J. Hart, J.D. and Dr. Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Workshop 1H
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10:05 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 3
This workshop will present an assessment for shelter workers on identification of potential suicide risk factors and research and stories of battered women attempting/completing suicide. We will examine the high risk of suicide attempts for battered women who are severely battered and entrapped and review healthcare and shelter screening tools.
Keywords: Working with Underserved Communities, Health & Injury, Lethality Risk Assessment
Country: United States of America
Sexual Assault on the Streets: Meeting Homeless Survivors' Most Urgent Needs
Jessica Mindlin, Esq., Laura Mahr and Doreen Binder
Workshop 1F
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10:05 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 7
Even a single sexual assault can lead to homelessness; the homeless are exponentially more vulnerable to sexual assault. In this interactive, multi-media workshop, presenters discuss the challenges homeless SA survivors confront in accessing legal and other services and innovative models for delivering know-your-rights information and services to homeless SA survivors.
Learning Objectives: (1) Describe the link between sexual assault and homelessness and how each can lead to the other. (2) Identify challenges sexual assault and other victim service providers confront – and need to address – to effectively serve homeless sexual assault survivors.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment, Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter, Sexual Violence, Working with Underserved Communities, Homelessness, Legal advocacy
Country: United States of America
Model for Chain Cooperation
Liesbeth van Bemmel and Riekje Kok
Workshop 2B
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11:25 a.m.- 12:25 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake D
This workshop will present the Model of Chain Cooperation, followed by an interactive session. The model distinguishes five phases in the evaluation of domestic violence and is designed to determine per phase which interventions and investments are necessary and most effective. This can be done in cooperation with all the necessary partners to decide which organization is doing what and also which organization per phase is responsible for the coordination of the interventions (focal point).
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn how they can use the Model for Chain Cooperation for developing multidisciplinary policy aiming at the eradication of domestic violence. (2) Learn how they can use the model in discussions with policy makers, politicians, police, other aid organizations, municipalities and other stake holders.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Program/Shelter Services, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Chain Cooperation
Country: Netherlands
Ishkuteu Project: A Native/ Non Native Shelters Partnership
Manon Monastesse and France Robertson
Workshop 7C
Date & Time: Wednesday, 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake E
Creating dialogue and ties between Native and non-Native shelters is challenging because they approach domestic violence from different perspectives. Shelters that had been very isolated created ties that lasted well beyond the training session. The evaluation described how the session changed their intervention practices and led to subsequent innovations.
Learning Objectives: (1) Building partnerships. (2) Adapting practices.
Keywords: Indigenous Populations, Program/Shelter Services, Research/Evaluation, Working with Underserved Communities
Country: Canada
Workplace Training on Woman Abuse: Changing and Saving Lives!
Saundra-Lynn Coulter, Barb MacQuarrie Veronica McAlea Major and Shelley Yeo
Workshop 6G
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 2
This workshop will address how women’s advocates, workplaces and government collaborated to train employers and workers to recognize and respond to abuse of women and violence. ‘I Step Forward to end violence and abuse’ and ‘Make It Our Business’: two workplace initiatives shifting workplace cultures and training champions to end abuse in communities, workplaces and homes.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn how women’s advocates can build collaborations with local government, community leaders, unions and employers to support initiatives to work towards ending violence and abuse as well as engage employees in becoming champions for peace in the home, community and workplace. (2) Learn about strategies employed to train an entire workplace to recognize and respond to abuse of women, sexual violence, and family violence; enhance safety; and access supports for victims of abuse. (3) View videotaped scenarios developed as tools for training.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Research/Evaluation, Working with Governments, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Workplace Training
Country: Canada
Holding Abusers Accountable: Two Perspectives
Gregory R. White, Kate Wiggins, Myles Ball and Lisa Heslop
Workshop 6A
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: Maryland Ballroom
This session will describe two perspectives on holding abusers accountable. In both the United States and Canada, projects operate with the same goal but using different models. Participants will learn about the New York Model Batterer Program, which operates within the context of the justice system, and a model used in Canada to enhance safety and provide evidence-based outcomes.
Learning Objectives: (1) Understand the key components and benefits of providing assistance to men who engage in abusive behavior. (2) Understand the realities, limits, and risk of having a batterer program within their community and the implication for partners of men who attend these programs and misleadingly imply a sense of false-hope for him ending his abuse of her. (3) Workshop attendees will understand the differences and similarities of the two models presented to best figure out what could work in their own community.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Working with Abusers/Batterers, Offender Accountability, Victim Safety
Country: United States of America and Canada
Feminist Activism, Growth and Partnerships in NSW, Australia
Catherine Gander, Patricia (Trish) Whyman, Aileen Harris, Erica Mitchell, Elizabeth (Liz) Smith, Marcia Barker and Kaylene Sharpley
Workshop 6I
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 4
This workshop has two presentations; The first is about the NSW Women’s Refuge Movement, its 30 year feminist history, development and activism as a peak, including its expansion into direct service delivery. The second is about the remote Orana Far West Aboriginal Women’s Safe Houses Network, its significant achievements in skills development, staffing, buildings and funding through a major partnerships project.
Learning Objectives: (1) Hear an overview of how a 30 + year old feminist Peak, the NSW Women’s Refuge Movement has predominately retained a collective approach to its structure throughout its growth and development. (2) Gain insight into the organization's history, activism, challenges and achievements, including its recent expansion into direct service delivery through the successful development of a unique business arm. (3) Showcase how a group of Indigenous Women’s Safe Houses in remote communities in NSW have worked together as a Network with their communities, the NSW Women’s Refuge Movement, numerous State and Federal agencies to successfully advocate for improved funding, training and significant improvement in resourcing to build better services and responses to domestic and family violence in their communities. Representatives from the Network will bring together key learnings about these partnerships and remote delivery of Indigenous Family Violence Services.
Keywords: Indigenous Populations, Program/Shelter Sustainability, Working with Governments, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Working with Underserved Communities, Feminist Activism/Growth
Country: Australia
Faith & DV: Spotlight on Muslim Families
Salma Elkadi Abugideiri and Bonita R. McGee
Workshop 10C
Date & Time: Thursday, 11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake E
Using the Muslim population as an example, this workshop will outline the role of faith, and the ways in which religion can be either a resource or a roadblock. Presenters will discuss challenges in working with Muslim families, as well as best practices when working with people of faith.
Learning Objectives: (1) Increased understanding of the significance that faith plays in relationship to domestic violence. (2) Increased understanding of how religion can be both a resource and a roadblock. (3) Strategies for utilizing faith/religion as a resource. (4) Best practices when working with faith communities.
Keywords: Immigrant Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services, Working with Underserved Communities
Country: United States of America
Safe and Sustainable Housing for Women and Children Leaving Domestic Violence Using a “Housing First” Approach
Tracy Howe, Penny Wood, Heather Morley and Brigitte Baradoy
Workshop 11E
Date & Time: Thursday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 7
Our services are witness to the complex interplay of issues surrounding domestic violence, poverty and homelessness. We are increasingly called upon to respond to different women’s experiences and realities. Our presentation details successes and challenges of implementing “Housing First” programs in Australia and Canada within the context of domestic violence.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn about our experience developing and implementing a new program. We will speak to program design and evaluation results which will detail outcomes, challenges and successes. (2) Learn about the relationship development between homeless serving and domestic violence communities including the cross-collaboration that enhances skills, knowledge and services to both communities to the benefit of our clients. (3) Learn about engaging government in embracing a housing first model in a pilot environment and the benefit of making the not for profit organization’s work complement government housing products, i.e., government/NGO collaboration. This includes information about the Australian NSW Government’s Start Safely private rental subsidy for women and children who have experienced domestic violence.
Keywords: Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services, Working with Governments, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Working with Underserved Communities
Country: Australia and Canada
Putting All the Services for Victims Under One Roof
Casey Gwinn, J.D., Gael Strack, J.D. and Mary Claire Landry
Workshop 11J
Date & Time: Thursday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 5
This session will focus on the growing Family Justice Center movement and similar models of services for victims of domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking that seek to put all services under one roof by co-locating police, prosecutors, advocates, counselors, civil attorneys, and medical services.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn about the Family Justice Center model and the lessons learned from the developing and operating Centers around the world. (2) Dialogue on the challenges, barriers, and obstacles to developing an integrated, co-located multi-agency service center with governmental and non-governmental organizations working together to meet the needs of victims and their children.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment, Working with Governments, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders
Country: United States of America
U.S. Violence Against Women Act: Lessons Learned in 20 Years, 1992-2012
Debby Tucker, Mary Lauby, Allison Randall, and Karma Cottman
Workshop 1J
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10:05 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 5
This session describes the development of the U.S. Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); challenges internal to the movement; and generating support in Congress, federal agencies, and across the country. Panelists include key leaders integral to the passage of VAWA 1994, updates in 2000 and 2005, and the proposed reauthorization in 2012. The discussion will emphasize creating political will for providing governmental financial support; urging changes in laws and professional practice by criminal justice, social service, and other practitioners; and highlighting lessons learned in partnering with U.S. federal agencies, determining the role of the movement vs. government, and balancing prevention and intervention.
Country: United States of America
Legal Reform, Survivor Reality, and Policy Advocacy Based on Direct Services
Cheryl Thomas, Loretta Frederick, Munkhsaruul Mijddorj and Enkhjargal Davaasuren
Workshop 6E
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 7
This workshop is for those who want to influence their government to draft, pass, and implement civil and criminal laws that support survivors of violence. It will provide tools to support the long-term safety and independence of victims and children and real accountability for perpetrators through effective legal reform.
Learning Objectives: (1) Discuss strategies on working with the government related to regulations and policy. (2) Be better able to contribute to drafting of effective laws on domestic violence. (3) Develop skills on how to assess laws for unintended consequences, and why the legal definition of domestic violence has major implications for survivors.
Keywords: Working with Governments, Legal Reform
Country: United States of America and Mongolia
