Shelter Practices & Sustainability Workshops
A New Post Disaster Model of DV Services
Mary Claire Landry
Workshop 1I
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10:05 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 4
If you could completely re-design your services would they look the same as they do now? This presentation will highlight the re-design of service delivery and housing alternatives when re-thinking transitional models was paramount due to Hurricane Katrina. This is our story of survival, re-visioning, inspiration and incredible resiliency.
Learning Objectives: (1) Thinking outside of the box and of non-traditional ways of doing this work. (2) Lessons learned out of disaster and re-building.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services
Country: Lousiana, United States of America
Successes and Challenges Integrating Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Services
Amy Siniscalchi and Lauren Pesso
Workshop 2G
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11:25 a.m.- 12:25 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 2
Emergency shelters that have traditionally served domestic violence (DV) victims can fill a critical service need for human trafficking survivors. This session will discuss lessons learned from integrating trafficking and DV services in a shelter setting. It will be relevant to attendees who serve or are considering serving trafficking survivors.
Learning Objectives: (1) Participants will gain knowledge about the successes and challenges of integrating shelter and other case management services for human trafficking survivors into the work of a domestic violence agency. (2) Participants will build the capacities of their own organizations in determining effective strategies for combining services to survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence.
Keywords: Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services, Trafficking
Country: New York, United States of America
Foundations for Innovative Children's Programming
Kathlene Russell and Casey Keene
Workshop 10G
Date & Time: Thursday, 11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 2
This workshop will review key elements and considerations for building a healthy agency to support effective children’s programming, offering examples of creative approaches that can be implemented with limited resources. Recommendations are provided by a mother/daughter team who will recount and reflect on their experiences as survivors of domestic violence.
Learning Objectives:
(1) Think critically about certain policy and structural shifts that may strengthen their agency’s ability to deliver the most effective and impactful services for battered mothers and children. (2) Learn concrete strategies for employing a paradigm shift for service provision to battered mothers and their children that promotes family team-building and that more effectively addresses the needs of battered mothers, employs a strengths-based perspective, and enhances counseling techniques with children that will value their coping skills and experiences.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability, Working with Battered Mothers, Working with Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
Country: Pennsylvania, United States of America
Missouri’s Project to Reduce Rules in Shelter
Laura Zahnd and Lisa Fleming
Workshop 2H
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11:25 a.m.- 12:25 p.m
Room: National Harbor 3
This workshop explains how Missouri domestic violence programs examined their rules for communal living in shelter. Presenters describe the influence on advocates and organizations when they reduced or eliminated rules, and how this project opened doors to change in agencies statewide. The workshop includes lecture, resource materials and a question-and-answer session.
Learning Objectives: (1) Examine how rules and practices of a domestic violence shelter can affect women and children living in shelter. (2) Learn how residential programs in Missouri conducted their examination of rules and how they implemented a variety approaches to enhance communal living and reduce rules within shelter programs.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability
Country: Missouri, United States of America
Dance/Movement Therapy with Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Robin Memel Fox and Anna Harper
Workshop 8J
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 5
This workshop and discussion will explore the uniqueness, triumphs and challenges of shelter life and leading dance/movement therapy groups with survivors of abuse. Content of the workshop will also include discussion of the holistic model being implemented at Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse. Participatory experiential activities will also be shared.
Learning Objectives: (1) Identify and evaluate successes and challenges of working with survivors of domestic abuse/violence in shelter and community based settings.(2) Learn and practice how to apply experiential DMT activities in participants’ own work with trauma survivors, while understanding the unique implications for using dance/ movement therapy with survivors of domestic abuse in culturally diverse programs.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Holistic Approaches
Country: Arizona, United States of America
Three Countries’ Experiences Evaluating Shelters
Dr. Cris M. Sullivan, Sharon O’Halloran, Dr. Cheryl Sutherland Stewart, and Dr. Eleanor Lyon
Workshop 7A
Date & Time: Wednesday, 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Room: Maryland Ballroom
There is increasing demand on shelters to demonstrate their effectiveness. Partners from Ireland, Scotland, and the U.S. have designed a survivor-centered protocol that shelters can use to evaluate their work. By the end of the workshop, participants will have the tools and knowledge needed to evaluate their own shelter programs.
Learning Objectives:This session will result in delegates understanding: (1) how shelter staff can evaluate their work through brief surveys completed by shelter residents; and (2) how outcome evaluation information can be used to improve services and satisfy funders’ expectations.
Keywords: Research/Evaluation, Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability
Country: Ireland, Scotland, United States of America
Saving Lives by Identifying Victims of Strangulation
Morag McLean and Sister Lucinda May Patterson
Workshop 2C
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11:25 a.m.- 12:25 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake E
Strangulation is a readily available weapon of domestic violence used to control, subdue, and kill. An assessment tool has been developed to assist shelter advocates understand the lesser well-known signs of strangulation and to identify victims. This tool could change best practices in your shelter and save lives.
Learning Objectives:(1) Learn how to identify a survivor of strangulation. (2) Learn how to use the strangulation identification tool
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability, Danger Assessment
Country: Canada
Practical Frameworks for Change Project
Carolyn Goard, Ian Wheeliker, and Kerri Potvin
Workshop 2D
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11:25 a.m.- 12:25 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 6
ACWS and eight shelters formed a learning collective to work toward the development of promising-practice knowledge and practice in Alberta’s shelters. The project included multiple training initiatives focused on danger assessment, cultural competence, assessment of readiness through the domestic violence survivor assessment, legal aid training and trauma training.
Learning Objectives: (1) Share with participants what we have gained from our action-based research into the benefits of embracing diversity, change, and promising practices drawn from a multitude of experiences across our shelters. (2) Describe how eight shelters engaged in an action research project. (3) Describe the characteristics of women in today’s women’s shelters in Alberta. (4) Discuss some of the trends in characteristics and service needs in Alberta.(5) Share findings from the project including danger levels, stages of change, legal and health needs. (6) Present overall project recommendations and how all shelters can work towards delivering services based in promising practice.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability, Research/Evaluation
Country: Canada
Improving Practice: Ensuring Consistency Across Shelters
Ash Kuloo
Workshop 2F
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11:25 a.m.- 12:25 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake G
Ensuring quality among shelter services is not an issue unique to Scotland, but one that is international. Having standards and evidencing processes means that globally we can begin describing what shelters do that is unique from other non-specialised service. Services across the world can learn from our standards development processes.
Learning Objectives: (1) Gain knowledge and understanding on the development of service standards and how these standards can improve shelter practice, including how to promote the standards to funders and other key stakeholders. (2) Gain knowledge and understanding of the peer assessment process and the benefits of using this process
Keywords: Shelter/Program Sustainability; Program/Shelter Services; Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders; Working with Underserved Communities
Country: Scotland
Client-Centered Safety Assessment/Risk Management
Nathaniel Fields and Liz Roberts
Workshop 1G
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10:05 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 2
When making decisions about their safety, domestic violence victims consider a complex web of intertwined risks. At Safe Horizon, we have developed a client-centered practice model which responds to this reality. We will describe our practice model and discuss several organizational strategies we are using to implement the model.
Learning Objectives: (1) Be able to describe Safe Horizon’s client-centered safety and risk management practice model for intervention with victims of domestic violence. (2) Be familiar with a multi-faceted implementation strategy to support practice change in victim assistance programs.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Research/Evaluation
Country: New York, United States of America
Arab-Danish Partnership Between Rehabilitation and Aftercare
Outaleb Fatima and Henriette Højberg
Workshop 3C
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2:10 p.m.- 3:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake E
We will focus on different methods and approaches applied in shelters in Denmark and in MENA on rehablilitation, aftercare and adequate skills.This session will focus on bringing stakeholders and activits from different horizons to debate, exchange and adapt approaches to GBV. Our focus will be on opportunities and challenges of sheltering in view of ensuring sustainability.
Learning Objectives: Highlight how women’s urgent needs impact shelters agenda and services.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness; Economic Justice/Empowerment; Housing for Survivors/Victims; Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders; Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability
Country: Denmark and Morroco
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Survivors of Domestic Violence
Laura Grube
Workshop 7J
Date & Time: Wednesday, 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 5
This workshop addresses how traditional yoga can be adapted to include sensitivity to the trauma history and physical health concerns of residents in a domestic violence shelter. This sensitivity makes it possible for survivors to access the calming benefits of yoga while minimizing the possibility of PTSD symptoms being triggered.
Learning Objectives: (1) Identify how yoga can benefit survivors. (2) Learn and experience trauma-sensitive yoga techniques.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services
Country: New York, United States of America
Healing from Domestic Violence: A Biodynamic Approach
Sharon O'Halloran, Denise Saint Arnault, Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak, and Mary Molloy
Workshop 8F
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake G
This workshop describes evidence about the effectiveness of biodynamic therapy for women who have suffered domestic violence. We present projects including workshops with frontline domestic violence staff and a research study of a similar workshop for survivors. Implications for use of biodynamic principles in shelters will be proposed.
Learning Objectives: (1) Describe the biodynamic theory about the nature of trauma. (2) Describe how biodynamic treatment might be helpful for the health of frontline workers and survivors.
Keywords: Health of survivors and front line workers, Trauma-informed services, Program/Shelter Services, Research/Evaluation
Country: Ireland
Issues and Approaches to Developing Safe Housing
Peg Hacskaylo
Workshop 1D
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10:05 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 6
This session will outline various approaches to developing new shelter/safe housing facilities for victims of domestic violence and various issues to consider, including evaluating housing options, assessing different models for housing, obtaining financing, planning for development, handling community relations, preparing for facility management and security, and determining program suitability.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn the different options for providing safe housing for survivors and the impact of each. (2) Learn the development process and factors for establishing new/expanded shelter and safe housing.
Keywords: Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Sustainability
Country: Washington, DC, United States of America
Using Strengths-Centered Advocacy to Transform Shelters
Julie Havener
Workshop 9A*
Date & Time: Thursday, 9:50 – 10:50
Room: Maryland Ballroom
This engaging workshop will introduce you to strengths-centered advocacy, an innovative approach that transforms and individualizes services to battered women and their children, while creating a more positive and supportive workplace for advocates! You will leave with renewed energy for advocacy work and practical tips to use in your program.
Learning Objectives: (1) Gain knowledge about strengths-centered advocacy and its multi- layered benefits for shelter programs. (2) Learn how to begin creating a more strengths-based program.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Empowering & supporting advocates
Country: Nebraska, United States of America
Purple Roof : One Feminist Foundation, Three Experiences
Feride Dorothy Yıldırım Güneri and Berna Ekal Şimşek
Workshop 9D
Date & Time: Thursday, 9:50 – 10:50
Room: National Harbor 6
This session has the purpose of sharing different stages in the life of Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation, faced with difficulties of financing while trying to keep the shelter autonomous, and discussing the role of state agencies and the question of autonomy in the case of Turkey.
Learning Objectives: Negotiation and working with governments
Keywords: Program/Shelter Sustainability, Working with Governments
Country: Turkey
Girls Empowerment Village Model: Positive Cultural Practices in Sheltering
Betty Makoni
Workshop 8G
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 2
There are positive cultural practices in sheltering in Girls Empowerment Villages model developed from 400 years ago in Zimbabwe. They are now revived to protect girl child rape victims in Zimbabwe by Girl Child Network. Victim to leader transformation is a community responsibility, no wonder project is anchored in communities.
Learning Objectives: (1) Enhance knowledge on positive cultural practices to transforming girls from victims to leaders using an empowerment model that is community based and cost effective. (2) Replicate the Girls Empowerment Model in rural areas.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Sexual Violence, Working with Community, Victim to leader transformation
Country: Zimbabwe
Getting Strategic: Integrated Communications Planning
Rose Mary Romano
Workshop 7I
Date & Time: Date & Time: Wednesday, 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 4
Good communication cuts through the clutter, it doesn’t add to it. This session on strategic communication planning will describe a process for defining audiences, main messages and narratives and selecting tactics. The session will examine traditional media channels and social media tools and discuss ways for incorporating into campaigns.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn how to define audiences, main messages and narratives. (2) Learn about which tools are most effective to deliver those messages and narratives.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness
Country: Washington, DC, United States of America
How to Make & Measure Impact on Social Media
Heidi Overbeck
Workshop 8I
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 4
Social media has dramatically changed how we create, consume and share information and how we influence each other. This session will explore how to build influence among your key audiences and justify investments in social media by providing tangible ways to plan social media campaigns and measure their impact.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn new ways to plan, measure and track the impact of your social media efforts. (2) Understand how to create social media content that is influential to your audience.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness; Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders; Research/Evaluation; Social Media
Country: Washington, DC, United States of America
Online Individualized Safety Plan
Pat Vargas
Workshop 8H
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 3
This tool is an interactive series of questions, in which based on the responses, a customized safety plan will be produced for the client, including specific action items for any high-risk category. The workshop will describe the tools used, why it is important to have automated safety planning, how services can be improved, and how it can reach isolated communities. An illustration on how the tool is used will be shown.
Learning Objectives: (1) Increase awareness on how technology can help shelters to transfer knowledge. (2) Increase awareness on how to develop an individualize safety plan. (3) Increase capacity to use the tool with modifications pertinent to the people we serve.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability, Working with Underserved Communities
Country: Canada
Improving Shelters Services for Women and Girls in Post-Conflict Developing Countries
Rosana D. H. Schaack and Beverly Goll-Yekeson
Workshop 11D
Date & Time: Thursday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 6
Presenters will showcase some good and bad practices that have worked in shelters established in Liberia. The workshop will discuss successful advocacy programs to prevent, educate and increase awareness, but will also discuss the importance of providing timely assistance to victims.
Learning Objectives: (1) To understand the cultural issues and dual stressors of succeeding in a mainstream culture–especially for girls and women and influences of cultural pressures and desires to have strong self-identity as Liberians. (2) To will learn about the atmosphere of apathy in the persecutions of rapists, the stigmatization associated with rape violence, and the tolerance for rape crisis in post-war Liberia. (3) Discuss the challenge of giving a voice and raising awareness for victims.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services; Sexual Violence; Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders; Working with Abusers/Batterers
Country: Liberia
Children Exposed To Violence Initiative (CEVI) / Working with Children Within Shelter
Jane Ellison, Patty Hackett, Marion Burger and Marlene Villavicencio Sarmiento
Workshop 11H
Date & Time: Thursday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 3
This workshop looks at two models of working with children in shelter. Anna Marie’s shelter works with community partners in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota to provide in-shelter services to children. They bring together a child psychiatrist, play therapist, family educators, clinical social work, nurse practitioner, and art therapist to provide early intervention to traumatized children. The second model is from Ecuador, which looks at how children are affected by gender violence. “Maria Amor” developed a specific methodology for assisting children and adolescents based on the same approaches used in their work with women: self-esteem, empowerment, participation and autonomy.
Learning Objectives: (1) Understand the importance of addressing the mental health needs of children in their shelter, especially children from birth to five years old. (2) List elements of and challenges inherent in a successful children’s mental health intervention in the context of a domestic violence shelter. (3) Focus on how to include the children in the recovery processes of their mothers.
Keywords: Housing for Survivors/Victims; Program/Shelter Sustainability; Program/Shelter Services; Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders; Children’s Services
Country: Ecuador and Minnesota, 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
Systemic Interventions for Domestic Violence
MSc H. Rus, Susana Franklin, Aleid van den Brink
Workshop 6F
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake G
Three systemic approaches in women’s shelters from the Netherlands and Mexico highlight the possibilities of addressing the needs of the women and children involved, but also those of spouses/fathers and other family-members. Why and how this is done, how safety can still be maintained, is shown by these experiences.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn about the views underlying the shift from working with victims of domestic violence to systemic approaches. (2) Safety issues in working with families will be adressed as well as the specific needs of children and the (im-)possibilities of continued contact with both parents whilst living in the shelter. (3) Conclusions and dilemma’s from this new approaches will be shared.
Keywords: Housing for Survivors/Victims; Program/Shelter Services; Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders; Working with Abusers/Batterers; Working with Underserved Communities; Systemic interventions for domestic violence
Country: Mexico and The Netherlands
Reproductive Coercion Assessment & Intervention
Rebecca Levenson, Tanya Draper Douthit, and Mikisha Hooper
Workshop 6D
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 6
This workshop examines emerging models of service provision that reach survivors of abuse directly in programs by assessing for sexual assault and reproductive coercion during initial intake, as well as ways to respond with evidenced-based interventions to promote health and well-being of survivors of violence.
Learning Objectives: (1) Define reproductive coercion and how to assess for partner violence and reproductive coercion. (2) Examine strategies advocates can use to respond to those experience reproductive coercion. (3) Understand the role of the National Domestic Violence Hotline in identifying reproductive coercion with callers and providing essential education and referrals to promote health.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Research/Evaluation, Sexual Violence
Country: United States of America
Sheltering Women Victims of Domestic Violence in France
Maryvonne Bin-Heng and Christine Clamens
Workshop 6B
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake D
FNSF will present its national organisation from the national helpline (3919-Violences Conjugales Info) to the emergency or long-term shelters of the FNSF network. Using real stories of women, we will illustrate the French organization to help a woman escape from domestic violence then to reconstruct her life and that of her children. We will review French policies regarding sheltering of women victims of domestic violence and the field work of the associations’ teams to protect women as best they can.
Learning Objectives: (1) How to work with a woman so she will recover her dignity and her personal insurance through a ‘de-victimization” process while she is in a shelter. (2) Which points we developed/used to preserve specific entries and a specific sector in sheltering women victims of domestic violence in a new public plan (SIAO).
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Working with Governments
Country: France
Holistic Response to Violence Against Women: The Polyclinic of Hope Model
Mary BALIKUNGERI and Annette MUKIGA
Workshop 2J
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11:25 a.m.- 12:25 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 5
The presentation shares the Rwanda Women Network holistic approach; The Polyclinic of Hope Model that responds to the plight of women survivors of sexual and gender based violence by addressing their psycho-social, shelter and socio-economic needs and working towards women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Learning Objectives: (1) To offer an African perspective on alternatives that can be used in cases where it is still difficult to set up formal shelters. (2) To promote the replication of the approach to address the effects of Violence Against Women during conflict especially for conflict and or post-conflict countries.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment, Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services, Sexual Violence
Country: Rwanda
Multi-systemic Treatment in a Unique Center
Workshop 5C
Date & Time: Wednesday, 9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Room: Chesapeake E
Most of NA'AMAT's activities in the field of combating domestic violence are done in the Glickman Center for the Treatment and Prevention of Domestic Violence, which is a unique model integrating a shelter for abused wives and their children as well as a treatment center which offers a host of family services for women, men and their children who suffer from a terrorized life full of fear. Our system is unique because it combines psychotherapy and making sure the women’s rights are exhausted to the maximum. The attorney’s office is in the Glickman facility, to make it easy for the women to approach her for every legal issue, criminal or civil. She helps them in sorting out any financial debts, arranging their legal status, pursuing their rights (national insurance, discounts in payments and taxes to the authorities, obtaining waivers for hospital bills, help with rent). She accompanies the victims and helps them claim for damages.
A woman’s economic independence is essential so that she can complete her separation out of her own free will and not feel that she does not have any options.
Learning Objectives: (1) Gain an understanding of a unique model that combines a shelter, treatment center and family and legal services
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Economic Justice/Empowerment, Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability, Working with Governments, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Working with Abusers/Batterers, Working with Underserved Communities
Country: Israel
Strengthening Community-Based Shelters and Safe Spaces
Grace Mbugua, Jane Frances Mufua and Chongsi Ayeah Joseph
Workshop 6C
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake E
The concept of community-based shelters and safe spaces in urban and rural informal settlements in Africa is a timely concept that has been instrumental in realizing the support, protection and security for women survivors of sexual and gender based violence. The establishment of these shelters has been a critical tool to indicate the community unique and untapped resources where they can support their centers.
Learning Objectives: (1) Increase understanding on adoption and tailor-making shelters according to the beneficiary communities. (2)
To create a learning platform on the promising practices in establishing community based shelters among women.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment, Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders, Access to Justice for Survivors
Country: Kenya and Cameroon
Impact of External Accreditation on an Australian Women’s Shelter: Lessons learned
Workshop 8B
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake D
Using a case-study approach, this workshop examines the impact of compulsory external accreditation on a small high security women’s shelter in Victoria, Australia. The case-study focuses on the benefits and costs for a small non-government-organisation, including the impact on staff, board and service delivery of the organisation as a whole.
Learning Objectives: (1) Gain an understanding of the impact on a small agency of undergoing external accreditation. (2) Gain an understanding of two examples of quality standards that are applied to homelessness services in Victoria, Australia.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Working with Governments
Country: Australia
Preparing Your Shelter for Formerly Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors
Brenda Clubine-Coolbaugh and Sandie Diamond
Workshop 6H
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 3
Utilizing the "Sin By Silence" award- winning documentary, we will be able to show the direct connection between every day victims of violence against women and those who have been incarcerated for being forced to protect their lives from their abuser.
Learning Objectives: (1) Increase understanding of the complexities of abuse related to incarcerated victims after watching "Sin By Silence."
(2) Learn several skills to implement within their shelters when working with formerly incarcerated survivors. (3) Increase understanding of the unique dynamics present in the lives of formerly incarcerated survivors who are seeking safety in their communities. (4) Utilize presenters’ expertise to discuss potentially difficult situations/scenarios. (5) Discuss existing statistics pertaining to this population.
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Working with Incarcerated survivorsCountry: United States of America
Not In My Back Yard
Workshop 11C
Date & Time: Thursday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake E
"Not In My Backyard" is a documentary about homeless battered women, their children, and their everyday struggle to survive in a country which refuses to see this epidemic. Through the eyes of these victims living in underground shelters, Jacquelyn Aluotto shows us the crude reality of violence and abuse in America.
Country: United States of America
DASH – Safe Housing for All
Peg Hacskaylo and Melissa Hook
Workshop 3B
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2:10 p.m.- 3:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake D
Through a 12-minute documentary, we will offer an introduction to DASH - the District Alliance for Safe Housing - an innovative organization providing access to housing and housing resources for victims of domestic and sexual violence in Washington, D.C.
Country: Washington, D.C., United States of America
Decreasing Domestic Violence in Vietnam through a Shelter System and Empowering Victims
Nguyen Thi Tuyet
Workshop 10B
Date & Time: Thursday, 11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake D
Introduction of Peace House shelter project will be developed in English about the first ever model of shelter supporting women and children who are victims of domestic violence in Vietnam, its way of operating, the challenges and achievements.
Country: Vietnam
The Nordic Women's Secret Services
Gudrun Jonsdottir, Lene Johannesson, Tove Smaadahl and Angela Beausang
Workshop 9B
Date & Time: Thursday, 9:50 – 10:50
Room: Chesapeake D
A documentary film, by Halla Kristín Einarsdottir, about the Nordic Shelter movement, founded in February 1994, followed by panel discussion on feministic society work. Thousands of women from the 8 countries have been running secret services for hundreds of thousands of nameless women and their children for more than 30 years.
Country: Iceland and Denmark
‘Punarnawah’ – Back to life!
Workshop 7B
Date & Time: Wednesday, 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake D
At Punarnawah Shelter Home, we believe and therefore have worked to lay foundations of a care and protection system along the lines of professionalism, transparency and accountability. This 10-minute documentary focuses on different aspects of shelter care and services given to the survivors and also the challenges in the process. The documentary is in English and Hindi, with English subtitles.
Country: India
Umberela
Umberela is a 30-minute film showing different types of violence. It also shows how the provision of holistic support through providing shelter, food counseling, medical care, legal support, skills and self-defense training increases victims’ confidence and makes it possible for them to develop a positive self-perception enabling them to initiate the final break from violence and capacity to rebuild their lives.
