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Prevention of Violence Against Women with Disabilities Seminar Utah State University, The U.S. Department of Justice, Salt Lake Community College and Community Abuse Prevention Services Agency (CAPSA) will be hosting the upcoming "Prevention of Violence Against Women with Disabilities" seminar series. Featured Speaker: Will Hall, Co-Founder of the Freedom Center, a Northampton, MA support, advocacy and activist group run by and for people with severe mental illness. Now in its fourth year, the Freedom Center has provided free advocacy and support to hundreds of people. Mr. Hall's topic will be Working at the Intersection of Disabilities and Violence. People who work in the domestic violence/sexual assault fields generally have little information about people with disabilities. Similarly, people who work in the disabilities field generally have little information about domestic violence and sexual assault. As a result, domestic violence/sexual assault service providers may not know how to accommodate a client with disabilities. At the same time, disabilities service providers may not recognize when women with disabilities are victims of violence and they may not know how to refer them for appropriate services. August
16th, 2006
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Forum: Rural Victimization Assistance Jeannette Adkins is Executive Director of the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA). Prior to this appointment of April 2005, she served for 23 years as Director of the Victim/Witness Division of the Greene County Prosecutor's Office in Xenia, Ohio. She has a passion for turning the grassroots victim assistance field into a professional one, which she expressed through “An Argument for National Credentialing of Victim Service Providers,” an article published in the National Center for Victims of Crime's Networks magazine in 2001. She has a long history of paid and unpaid work in the victim advocacy field, as a national training consultant for NOVA and as a Certified Crisis Responder on NOVA's National Crisis Response Team. Teleconference:
Sex Offender Management August
16, 2006 from 9-11am Eastern (7-9am Mountain) The
primary goal of this training is to foster an increased understanding
of sex offender management among New York’s victim service providers
and law enforcement personnel. Topics covered will include: Sharon Doane, LMSW, has worked in the field of sex offender treatment for nine years. In her current position as Director of Forensic Services at Family Services, Inc. in Dutchess County, NY, she oversees programs for sex offenders and batterers as well as services for victims of crime. Sharon is a clinical member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and serves on the Board of Directors of its NYS chapter. She is also a Board member of the Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Dutchess County and Project Coordinator of the Dutchess County Sex Offender Management Project. Whitney Bonura has been working in the field of sexual violence since 1999 and began her work in Dutchess County in 2002. Currently, she is the Associate Director of the Crime Victims Assistance Program, a program of Family Services, Inc. in Poughkeepsie, NY. The Crime Victims Assistance is a comprehensive program providing advocacy, counseling, education and forensic examinations to victims of violent crime (including sexual assault) in Dutchess County.Whitney currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Dutchess County Sex Offender Management Project. If you have questions, please call Josie McPherson, Criminal Justice Collaboration Project Director at NYSCASA at (518) 482-4222 ex. 210.
Sexual Violence and the Spectrum of Prevention: Towards a Community Solution (2006) This National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) publication provides advocates, practitioners and educators with a guide for developing a comprehensive community approach to the primary prevention of sexual violence. It explores the Spectrum of Prevention tool, which outlines six levels of intervention and focuses on exploring conditions in an environment which allow sexual violence to occur and replacing current norms with norms that promote safety, respect and equality. Hurricanes Katrina/Rita and Sexual Violence: Report on Database of Sexual Violence Prevalence and Incidence Related to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (July 2006) National Sexual Violence Resource Center) In the weeks immediately following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a group of professionals from the fields of rape victim advocacy, law enforcement, emergency medicine, and prosecution began work on developing an anonymous database to measure the extent of sexual violence committed in the aftermath of these hurricanes. This preliminary report is based on the first six months of data collection. Explaining Counterintuitive Victim Behavior in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Cases When a victim alleges a domestic or sexual assault, the prevalence of myths surrounding domestic and sexual violence causes the public to search for a reason to doubt the allegation rather than to search for the truth. This article, just released from the Nation Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women, discusses the use of experts to educate jurors on ways in which the behavior of sexual assault and domestic violence victims might differ from their preconceived notions of how "real victims" act. Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Rape Victimization: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey (2006) by Patricia Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes. This report seeks to provide more in-depth information about the physical, social, and psychological consequences of rape victimization by further investigating the findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey on this issue.
Finding Common Ground Salt Lake Community College Social and Behavioral Sciences Division, in partnership with the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault (UCASA), Utah AIDS Foundation, Harm Reduction Project, Utah Now, Salt Lake Health Department, Rape Recovery Center, Planned Parenthood, and SLCC Health & Wellness Center, are pleased to announce the first annual summer workshop. This is an opportunity to participate in an inclusive workshop geared to all interested in addressing the lack of appropriate channels to discuss sex, sexuality, sexual abuse, and STD's. Service providers, educators, parents, students and all interested in creating an open forum in which to participate are invited. September
16th, 2006, 9am-1pm
UCASA Welcomes... Seekhaven's new Executive Director, Brooke Degraw. Brooke, who is replacing former Executive Director Teresa Minear, has been with Seekhaven for over four years in many capacities from Shelter Staff member, to School Educator, and most recently as Shelter Manager. Seekhaven is very excited to now have her in the Executive Director position. You can email Brooke at bdseekhaven@citlink.net Dove Center's new Rape Crisis/Sexual Assault Program Director, Caroline White. Caroline is replacing Jill Hymas, the Rape Crisis/Sexual Assault former Program Director. You can email Caroline at dove2@infowest.com
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