Lessons Learned About Survivor-Centered Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Title: Lessons Learned About Survivor-Centered Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic (3-part Webinar Series)
Dates: March 23th, 2022, 11AM PST/ 2PM EST
April 27th, 2022, 11AM PST/2PM EST
May 25th, 2022, 11AM PST/2PM EST
Register for all three sessions here.
Please join us for a webinar series to learn more about the issue brief Lessons Learned About Survivor-Centered Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Intimate Partner Violence Advocates, Pediatric Healthcare Providers, and Child Welfare and Family Violence Advocates. This brief focuses on best practices and innovative strategies that IPV advocates and IPV service agencies can implement to form stronger support networks for survivors of violence and abuse that continue to function in emergency conditions. Developed through a collaborative effort of the Improving Services for Violence Against Children and Women project (by Futures Without Violence, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and from research by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh), brief explores the connections between IPV and child abuse, the intersection of family violence with the COVID-19 pandemic, the inequities that shape them both, and practice and systems change recommendations for the field to better serve adult and child survivors during a national crisis.
Session 1: Intimate Partner Violence Advocates
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Access slides and resource list here.
Description: Please join us for a webinar to learn more about the issue brief Lessons Learned About Survivor-Centered Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Intimate Partner Violence Advocates. This brief focuses on best practices and innovative strategies that IPV advocates and IPV service agencies can implement to form stronger support networks for survivors of violence and abuse that continue to function in emergency conditions.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this training, participants in attendance will be able to:
- Identify at least two organizational policy and practice recommendations for IPV service agencies; and
- Describe at least two systems-level improvements to promote equity across the service landscape and address disparity gaps and underlying root causes of IPV during and post-pandemic.
Speakers:
- Jennifer Haddad Bell, MTP, Program Consultant, Futures Without Violence
- Arlene Vassell, Vice President of Programs, Prevention & Social Change, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
- Shirley Luo, Resource Center Coordinator, Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
Session 2: Pediatric Healthcare Providers
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Pediatric Healthcare Quality Assessment/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) Tools:
- Addressing Adolescent Relationship Abuse in the Pediatric Healthcare Setting
- Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in the Pediatric Healthcare Setting
Description: Please join us for a webinar to learn more about the issue brief Lessons Learned About Survivor-Centered Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Pediatric Healthcare Providers. This brief focuses on best practices and innovative strategies that pediatric healthcare providers and pediatricians can implement to form stronger support networks for survivors of violence and abuse that continue to function in emergency conditions.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this training, participants in attendance will be able to:
- Identify at least two practice recommendations for pediatric healthcare providers; and
- Describe at least two organizational policy improvements to promote equity across the service landscape and address disparity gaps and underlying root causes of family violence during and post-pandemic.
Speakers:
- Jennifer Haddad Bell, MTP, Program Consultant, Futures Without Violence
- Maya Ragavan, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC - Ashley Starr Frechette, MPH, Director of Health Professional Outreach
Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Webinar 3: Child Welfare and Family Violence Advocates
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Description: Please join us for a webinar to learn more about the issue brief Lessons Learned About Survivor-Centered Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Child Welfare and Family Violence Advocates. This brief focuses on best practices and innovative strategies that child welfare and family violence advocates can implement to form stronger support networks for survivors of violence and abuse that continue to function in emergency conditions.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this training, participants in attendance will be able to:
- Identify at least two practice recommendations for child welfare and family violence advocates; and
- Describe at least two organizational policy improvements to promote equity across the service landscape and address disparity gaps and underlying root causes of child abuse and family violence during and post-pandemic.
Speakers:
- Jennifer Haddad Bell, MTP, Program Consultant, Futures Without Violence
- Melinda Cantu, MSSW, LCPAA, (She/ Her/ Hers), Vice President Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention Services, SAFE
- Neena McConnico, Ph.D, LMHC, Executive Director, Child Witness to Violence Project, Boston Medical Center
- Lonna Davis, MSW, Director of Children & Youth Program, Futures Without Violence
Questions?
Please e-mail: health@futureswithoutviolence.org
This project is supported by the Cooperative Agreement Number, NU38OT000282, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.
