2006 Conference Workshops and Presenters

Advocacy

Balance in Our Work: Self-Improvement as a Worker for Battered Women (Lydia Walker)

Beyond the Obvious: Understanding Dual Assault (Mark Wynn)

What Does Empowerment Mean Anyway?  A Critical Look at Our Terminology, Philosophy and its Relationship to our Daily Work in the Battered Women's Movement (Susan G. S. McGee)

Passing the Promising Practice Along: How we became a Nationally Recognized Innovative Service Provider within a Large Multi-service Social Service Agency (Brynna Fish, MSW & Jennifer Simon-Roth, LISW, Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland)

Moving Beyond Shelter: Creating a Continuum of Residential Services (Janice Miller, House of Ruth Maryland)

Taking Action in Remembrance: An Empty Place at the Table (Deborah Vangeison Svoboda & Judy Copeland, A.C.S.W., Women’s Resource Center, Inc.)

What Stops Her?  A New Way to Address Rules and Structure in Domestic Violence Shelter Programs (Terri Pease & Carole Warshaw, Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative)

Interpersonal Violence: The Complex Role of Culture in Violence and Healing (Olga Trujillo)

The Safe Return Initiative Oliver Williams, The African American Institute on Domestic Violence) 

Firearms and Domestic Violence: Unconcealing the Weapons (Janette Tucker& Roberta Valente, National Council on Juvenile and Family Court Judges) 

Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health: A National Dialogue (Carole Warshaw & Terri Pease, Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative)

Working with Police Perpetrated Domestic Violence (Tori-Lynn Heaton, Cranston Police Department & Diane Wetendorf)

Why Every Advocate Should Care about Voter Registration and How to Do it Safely with Battered Women (Julianna Koob, Sheila Wellstone Institute, Katie Hobbs, Sojourner Center & Cheryl O’Donnell, National Network to End Domestic Violence)

Batterers

If Batterer Treatment Does Not Work, Then What?  An Innovative Response: The New York Model for Batterer Programs (Gregory White, Catholic Charities of Buffalo, N.Y.  - Domestic Violence Program for Men, Phyllis B. Frank, VCS Community Change Project - Domestic Violence Program for Men & Gwen Wright, New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence)

Batterers’ Programs: Are They Really Allies of the Battered Women’s Movement? (Graham Barnes, & Michael Paymar, Battered Women’s Justice Project)

The Emerging Batterer Program Industry: Where Do Local Advocates and State Coalitions Go from Here? (Connie Neal, New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence)

Child Custody & Parenting

After the Silence is Broken: Using Up-to-Date Research to Help Protective Mothers (Barry Goldstein & Dr. Mo Therese Hannah, Chair Battered Mothers Custody Conference)

Why Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchanges are a Critical Issue for Advocates (Jennifer Anne Rose, Beth McNamara, Tracee Parker, Safe Havens Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange California Demonstration Project & Leslie Landis, Mayor’s Office on Domestic Violence)

Parent Education: The Battered Woman’s Friend or Foe? (Victoria L. Lutz, Crossroads Safehouse, Inc.)

International Child Abduction and the Escape from Domestic Violence (Paula Lucas & Whitney Zeigler, American Domestic Violence Crisis Line)

Children, Youth and Teens

From the Mouths of Babes: An Innovative Youth-Led Approach to Addressing Dating Violence and Sexual Assault among Urban Youth (Tania A. Araya & Olayinka Lawal, House of Ruth Maryland) 

Cultivating Young Activists: Adults Partnering with Youth for Social Change (Kate Barrett Wilkinson, Abused Women’s Advocacy Project) 

Methods for Creating Student Activists (Tiffany Card & Candy Pittari, Rockland Family Shelter)

Children’s Windows Program: Art as a Healing Tool for Children (Cathy Salser & Nellie Newman, A Window Between Worlds) 

“Remote Control”: Stop, Rewind and Press Play to Talk about Teen Dating Violence (Lindsey Baxter, Deana’s Fund)

Recognizing Injury, Signs of Physical and Sexual Child Abuse (Lydia Walker)

Restoring Trust with Youth: Youth-Adult Social Change Partnership (Mitru Ciarlante, National Center for Victims of Crime)

Community Organizing, Social Change & Social Justice

Building Collective Power through Multi-Racial, Anti-Racist Organizing (Lisa Calderón, Anne Tapp, Tsunemi Maehara Rooney, Lisa Olcese & Yolanda Arredondo, Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence) 

The Hotel Connection: Community Organization for Safety (Rita Clark, Project Debby, Inc.) 

Addressing Domestic Violence within Culturally Diverse Communities through Grassroots Community Organizing (Virginia Dearani, Roots and Fruits, The Reverend Virginia Marie Rincon, Tengo Voz, Fatuma Hussein, United Somali Women & Florence Olebe, Sudanese Development Institute)

Increasing our Power to END Domestic and Sexual Violence: How to Put Organizing into Action in your Community (Julianna D. Koob, Sheila Wellstone Institute)

Volunteer!  Sustained Community Engagement as a Means to End Violence (Bhavana Nancherla, Sakhi for South Asian Women)

Training for Change (Lydia Walker)

Examining our Roots, Organizing our Community to Strengthen our Collective WINGS (Zulema Ruby White Starr, Family Violence Department, National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges)

Surviving at the Margins: Social Justice and Trauma Recovery in a Domestic Violence Shelter (Lisa Blitz & Linda Illidge, Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services/Genesis Domestic Violence Shelter)

Reviving Social Justice: Resisting the Service Delivery Appeal (Ulester Douglas & Dick Bathrick, Men Stopping Violence)

Organizing for Social Change in the Nonprofit Age (Jennifer Margulies, Texas Council on Family Violence, Andrea Ritchie, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence & Paul Kivel)

Organizing for Power: Addressing Violence, Subjugation and Revitalizing Politics (Nancy Meyer, Washington, D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence)

Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color: Another Reason to Develop Community-Based Responses to Domestic Violence (Andrea Ritchie, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence)

Transitioning: Race Gender and Generation (Suzanne Pharr, Paulina Hernandez & Caitlin Breedlove, Highlander Research and Education Center)

Courts & The Criminal System

Ensuring Access to Justice: The Vital Role that Sensitivity to Domestic Violence Plays in Court Interpretation (Saveen Kaushal, Sakhi for South Asian Women)

When Women who are Abused are on Probation (Connie Neal, New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence)

Building Bridges for Incarcerated Women (Jane Reed Farmer, Family Crisis Services)

Disabilities

Now That We’ve Met, What Do I Say? (Cindy L. Daniel, The Arc of Northern Virginia)

Creating Access: Making Your Program Accessible to Women with Disabilities (Sandra Harrell, Project Access—California Coalition Against Sexual Assault)

Economic Justice

Microenterprise Development: An Economic Option for Survivors (Elizabeth Wilson & Natallie Keiser, Association for Enterprise Opportunity)

Show Us the Money!  Domestic Violence Advocates Organizing for Economic Justice (Mette Earlywine & Ilene Stohl, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence)

Economic Well-Being and Intimate Partner Violence: New Findings about the Informal Economy (Loretta Pyles, Tulane University School of Social Work)

What’s Money Got to Do with It? (Mette Earlywine & Ilene Stohl, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence)

Passing State Laws to Promote Economic Self-Sufficiency for Survivors (Deborah Widiss, Legal Momentum)

Global

Gender Oppression and Violence Against Women in the U.S. & Worldwide: A Model for Training (Susan G. S. McGee)

Trafficking in Women and Social Disempowerment: A Global Perspective (Shamita Das Dasgupta Manavi & Praxis International)

Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence Advocacy (Robin Hassler Thompson)

Human Trafficking (Olga Trujillo)

The Challenges Working to End Domestic Violence in a Conflict Zone (Irit Umani, STAND! Against Domestic Violence)

Female Genital Mutilation: The Way of the Ritual Death (Abeer Ibrahim & Abby Ferber, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs & Anne DePrince, University of Denver)

Immigration

Supporting Immigrant Victims/Survivors in a Frightened Nation (Joy Elena Soler & Stacey Stanley, The Brewster Center Domestic Violence Services)

Legal Rights of Immigrant Victims: Issues Concerning Immigration, Family Law, Public Benefits and Beyond (Amanda Baran & Leslye Orloff, Legal Momentum, Immigrant Women Program)

Latina

Listening to their Voices: What Latina Immigrant Survivors Need from Us (Belsie Gonzalez)

Serving Domestic Violence Victims from Mexico (Gina Orona-Ruiz, La Casa, Inc. & Madeline Gillette, School of Social Work, New Mexico State University)

Domestic Violence in the Latino Community and its Challenges (Lu Rocha)

Legal

Domestic Violence Advocates and Judges: We All Speak the Same Language, Don’t We?  Or Do We?  How Can We Hear Each Other Better? (Billie Lee Dunford-Jackson & Peter Macdonald, Family Violence Department, National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges & Loretta Frederick, Battered Women’s Justice Project, Criminal Justice Center)

Interviewing Skills for Legal Advocates (Jan Russell, Chicago Police Department)

Pursuing a Vision for Family Justice Centers Across the United States (Casey Gwinn & Gael Strack, San Diego Family Justice Center)

Legislative

How to Lobby (Jill Morris, NCADV)

LGTB

Welcoming the LGTB Community to Domestic Violence Shelters (Diane R. Dolan-Soto, LCSW,  New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project & Allegra Perhaes, Safe Horizon)

It Takes More than Posters: Domestic Violence Work with People Who Identify as LGTB (Mary Allen, Minnesota Network on Abuse in Later Life)

Media & Communications

The Power of Media in Enabling and End to Domestic Violence (Purvi Shah, Sakhi for South Asian Women)

Communicating for Change (Toni Troop, Jane Doe, Inc, Nicky Blanchard, Maine Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Cheryl O’Donnell, National Network to End Domestic Violence)

Identifying and Overcoming Media Influences on How We Think about Violence Against Women (DeeDee Burnett, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence & Andrea Isabel Quijada, New Mexico Media Literacy Project)

Oppression & Racism

Agism: How Does it Effect our Work, the Lives of the Women we Serve and our Own Lives (Ann Turner, National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life, Mary Allen & Char Thompson, Minnesota Network on Abuse in Later Life)

The Elephant in the Living Room: Homophobia and Oppression in the Battered Women’s Movement (Karen Tronsgard-Scott, Tri-County Help Center)

Racism and our Programs: Resisting the Endangerment of the Woman of Color Advocate (Tonya Lovelace, Women of Color Network, Desiree Allen-Cruz, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, Dept. of Children and Family Services)

Organization Improvement

Taking the “F” Word Out of Fundraising (Carolyn Fish, Rockland Family Shelter)

Strategies for Team Empowerment: Ideas that Work (Ruth Zwald, The Center For Women In Transition)

Is There a Method to our Madness? Addressing Community Program Development, Meaningful Collaborations/Partnerships and Evaluation (Norma Timbang)

Organizing with Men

A Call to Men: Ending Violence Against Women (Anthony Porter, A Call to Men:  The National Association of Men and Women Committed to Ending Violence Against Women )

Voices of Men (A Theatrical Performance) (Ben Atherton Zeman)

Reaching Boys and Young Men: Stopping Violence and Building Community (Paul Kivel)

Native Women

Building Collective Power through Sovereignty: Supporting Survivors; Supporting Sovereignty (Julie K. Johnston, The Brewster Center Domestic Violence Services & Sarah Deer, Tribal Law and Policy Institute)

Building Community Awareness and Empowerment in Tribal Communities (Lisa Thompson, Wiconi Wawokiya)

Religion, Faith & Spirituality

A Journey Towards Freedom:  Healing from Domestic Violence Through a Community Passover Seder (Alison Iser, FaithTrust Institute, Michelle Lifton, Jewish Family Service & Ruz Gulko, Project DVORA)

Religion and Spirituality in Domestic Violence Work: Views from a Secular and a Faith-Based Program (Ellyn Loy, LCSW-C, House of Ruth Maryland & Nancy Aiken, Ph.D., Counseling Helpline and Aid Network for Abused Women)

Building Alliance with Faith Leaders (Jee Suthamwanthanee, Asian Women’s Shelter)

Faith Communities: Roadblock or Resource to Ending Domestic Violence (Marie Fortune & Aleese Moore-Orbih, FaithTrust Institute)

The Interfaith Network: Leveraging the Faith Community to Assist Victims of Domestic Violence (Subha Lembach)

Muslim Domestic Violence Survivors (Manar Waheed, National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, Bonita R. McGee & Yasmin Diallo Turk)

Research Track

The Health Sector Response: Organizing the Health Sector to End Violence Against Women (Vathsala Jayasuriya, University of Sri Jayewardempura & Pia Axemoa, Uppsala University)

The Safety and Accountability Audit: A Community-Based Tool for Institutional Reform (Casey McGee, Praxis International & Rhonda Martinson, Battered Women’s Justice Project)

Grand Forks, North Dakota – Small City, Rural State: Collaborative Research for a Greater Community Response to Domestic Violence (Marcia Mikulak, University of North Dakota & Julie Christianson, Community Violence Intervention Center)

Domestic Violence Research as a Tool for Social Change (Julia Perilla, Georgia State University)

Quality of Life among Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (Kristie Thomas)

Court Response to Offender Noncompliance with Batterer Programs: A Research Practitioner Partnership in Action (Phyllis Frank, New York Model of Batterer Programs, Melissa Labriola, Center for Court Innovation)

Restorative Justice

Survivors of Domestic Violence and Restorative Justice (Debra K. Adams, Connie Sue “Pinkly” Brown, Dee Koester & Linda Caballero Kroum, Survivors In Service, Inc. / Sisterhood Association)

Rural

Strengthening Grassroots: Collaborating for Success in Rural Areas (Brenda Cameron & James Cameron, Hope’s Door)

Reaching Rural Battered Women (Lydia Walker)

Stalking

Stalking and Counter Stalking (Mark Wynn)

Stalking and Technology (Sandy Bromley, National Center for Victims of Crime)

Substance Abuse

Improving Services to Battered Substance Abusing Women through Interagency Collaboration (Barb Rindels, Connie S. Wood, LMSW, Karen Nielson, William Downs & Megan Jones, University of Northern Iowa Integrative Services Project)

She’s Got All Kinds of Troubles: Domestic Violence and Methamphetamine (Patricia Bland, Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault)

What Addicted Battered Women Need from Advocates (Kelly Otte)

Survivors

Women’s Windows Program: Art as a Healing Tool for Battered Women (Cathy Salser & Olivia Piacenza, A Window Between Worlds)

Still I Rise: A Model for Empowering Victims to Move to Survivors, Thrivers, and Social Change Agents (Pamela Y. Cook & Candace, Southwest Women Working Together)

Silence Speaks: Using Digital Media to Promote Healing and Domestic Violence Prevention (Amy Hill, Center for Digital Storytelling)

Survivors Organizing for Change (Lucy Pope, Afterwords)

VAWA 2005

VAWA 2005 Implementation: New Changes and Working with Grants (Jill Morris, NCADV & Allison Randall, The National Network to End Domestic Violence)

Confidentiality: Before and After VAWA 2005 (Rob Valente, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges & Julie Field)

VAWA 2005 Prevention and Health Provisions (Kiersten Stewart, The Family Violence Prevention Fund)

Understanding How Housing Laws and New Provisions in VAWA Can Help Survivors Secure Safe and Stable Housing (Deborah Widiss, Legal Momentum & Naomi Stern, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty)

VAWA 2005 Children, Youth and Teen Provisions (Lucy Melvin, Girls Inc.)

The Role of Advocates in Preparing VAWA Self-Petitions (Joanne Lin & Leslye Orloff, Legal Momentum, Immigrant Women Program)

Workplace

Train-the-Trainers Program: Domestic Violence in the Workplace Seminars (Johnny Lee, Peace @ Work)