21st Century Cures Act: Considerations for working with survivors of intimate partner violence

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Title: 21st Century Cures Act: Considerations for working with survivors of intimate partner violence

Date: June 23rd, 2021

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Description:New federal rules on the sharing of health care information/data went into effect in April 2021. Stemming from the CURES Act, these rules were put in place to stop the practice of “information blocking” and to promote better coordination of care. The rules require that requests for electronic health information, including most clinical notes, should be acted on and the information requested be shared between providers. These rules specify that the sharing of clinical notes must not be blocked form information exchanges unless an exception applies or there is a good reason why the information will not be shared.

For survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence—and the providers who serve them—these new rules raise serious concerns about how survivors’ health data will be shared, under what circumstances, and who can have access to the sensitive health information. Above all, survivors must maintain control over how their personal health care information is shared, and sensitive information must never be shared.

While the new federal rules contain exemptions for preventing harm and for maintaining privacy that will help support survivor privacy and confidentiality, a clear understanding of what the new rules mean and what the best practices are for providers will be critical.

This session will provide an overview of the new rules, explore how exemptions can be used to protect the confidentiality of survivor data, offer a space for questions, and consider promising practices for healthcare providers.

Speakers:
Deven McGraw Chief Regulatory Officer, Citizen Corporation
Dr. Kim Chang, Asian Health Services
Lena O’Rourke, O’Rourke Strategies

Facilitator:
Lisa James, Director of Health Futures Without Violence

Sponsors: Futures Without Violence and the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse

Questions?

Please email: health@futureswithoutviolence.org

Practical Tools for Supporting Survivors’ Mental Health in the Workplace (Part 2)

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Building Resilience:Practical Tools for Supporting Survivors’ Mental Health in the Workplace (Part 2)

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Description:

This workshop will explore practical and accessible tools for supporting survivors’ mental health in the workplace. Futures Without Violence will discuss how trauma and burnout impact job retention and what employers can do to build a more inclusive & resilient workplace for survivors. The primary audience for this session is supervisors and employers.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this webinar, the learner will be able to:

  1. Describe the current mental health challenges of survivors in the workplace, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment success.
  2. Identify the key elements of a supportive, trauma-informed and resilient work environment
  3. Recognize the 12 stages of Burnout
  4. Develop strategies that enhance and support employee/workplace resilience

Presenter:

  • Yoo-Jin Kang (Senior Training & Technical Assistance Specialist)
  • Carolyne Ouya (Senior Training & Technical Assistance Specialist)

Questions? Accessibility Needs? Please contact Carolyne Ouya at couya@futureswithoutviolence.org. 

Practical Tools for Supporting Survivors’ Mental Health in the Workplace (Part 1)

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Building Resilience: Practical Tools for Supporting Survivors’ Mental Health in the Workplace (Part 1)

 –  Eastern

This dialogue will be recorded and closed-captioned. The slides, recording and transcript will be posted here. 

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Description:

Futures Without Violence invites you to the first webinar of a two-part series that will explore practical and accessible tools for supporting survivors’ mental health in the workplace.

FUTURES will discuss how the impact of burnout and trauma affects survivors’ retention in the workplace and what agencies can do to better prepare survivors for successful employment. The primary audience for session one is victim-services provider agencies.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this webinar, the learner will be able to:

  1. Describe the current mental health challenges of survivors in the workplace.
  2. Identify the key elements for a supportive and person centered healthy. workplace/employment partners.
  3. Recognize the 12 stages of burnout.
  4. Develop strategies that enhance and support the mental health resilience of survivors.

Presenter:

  • Yoo-Jin Kang (Senior Training & Technical Assistance Specialist)
  • Carolyne Ouya (Senior Training & Technical Assistance Specialist)

Questions? Accessibility Needs? Please contact Carolyne Ouya at couya@futureswithoutviolence.org. 

Addressing Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking in the Health Center Setting

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Title: Addressing Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking in the Health Center Setting

Date: November 12, 2020

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Description: The coronavirus pandemic and consequent stay-at-home orders may increase danger for those at risk for or experiencing intimate partner violence and human trafficking (IPV/HT). Due to COVID-19, many health centers have shifted health encounters to virtual platforms, which offer unique opportunities to provide trauma-informed care and connect in new ways with those who may be experiencing abuse. Yet, telehealth and virtual visits also present health centers with new challenges related to privacy, safety and digital health equity. Given these changes in care delivery — and the inclusion of new Uniform Data System (UDS) data elements to capture IPV/HT diagnoses and services — health centers need information about how to identify and support patients at risk for or experiencing IPV/HT and leverage their health IT to provide and document care appropriately. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe how health centers can implement an evidence-based, trauma-informed intervention for IPV/HT called CUES during virtual or in-person visits
  2. Review the newly included UDS data elements designed to capture IPV/HT diagnoses and services taking place within health centers
  3. Outline key considerations around privacy, safety, and equity for providing care through virtual platforms to patients at risk for or experiencing IPV/HT.
  4. Feature promising strategies from health centers that have explored how to utilize health IT to support quality clinical care and data collection for IPV/HT

Questions?

Please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

All In For Kids Request for Proposal Information Session

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Title: All In For Kids Request for Proposal Information Session

Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 1 pm Pacific/2 pm Mountain/ 3 pm Central/ 4 pm Eastern (1 hour duration)

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Description: Genentech and Blue Shield of California Foundation have joined Futures Without Violence and Bay Area Region First 5’s to create All In For Kids, an initiative that focuses on young children (birth to 5 years of age) along with their families, caregivers, and communities. This new funding and learning initiative seeks to empower communities to work collectively to promote healthy childhood development; prevent childhood adversity; support racial, gender, and health equity; and heal trauma in the San Francisco Bay Area.

All In For Kids will provide grant funding and learning opportunities over the course of three years to public and non-profit organizations that work in collaboration with community partners and each other to strengthen the social, emotional, and physical well-being of children and families in the San Francisco Bay Area 12-county region.

This information session provides details of the All In For Kids Funding Opportunity and Request for Proposal, which closes on June 25, 2021.Presenters:

  • Tien Ung, Associate Director, Impact & Learning – Futures Without Violence
  • Esta Soler, President – Futures Without Violence
  • Rajni Dronamraju, Director, Corporate Charitable Giving – Genentech
  • Laura Hogan, Program Consultant – Futures Without Violence
  • Lucia Corral Pena, Senior Program Officer – Blue Shield of California Foundation

Questions?

Please email: AllinForKids@futureswithoutviolence.org

Strengthening Responses for Farmworkers on Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking During COVID-19 (A Learning Collaborative)

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Title: Strengthening Responses for Farmworkers on Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking During COVID-19

Description: Join Futures Without Violence to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and domestic violence on farmworkers and innovations to increase vaccine access and safety supports.  We will explore current community impacts and highlight promising practices from community-based outreach programs and others undertaken by health centers and community-based domestic violence programs. Faculty will share a new universal education tool that the cohort will help inform and refine. The tool will be nationally disseminated following the learning collaborative.  We will also introduce Futures Without Violence’s evidence-based “CUES” approach that may be implemented to share the newly developed tool with clients/patients.

Fee: No Cost/Free

Commitment: Accepted Learning Collaborative applicants are asked to attend a total of four learning collaborative sessions in June 2021.

How to apply: The application deadline has now passed.

Questions? Please email ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

 

Session Descriptions, Dates, and Times:

Activity 1: Listening Session 

Date and Time: Wednesday, June 16th @ 10AM PST/ 11AM MST/ 12PM CST/ 1PM EST (1 hour)

Description: Participate in a listening session with community health workers, health center staff and domestic violence advocates to discuss the impact of domestic violence and COVID-19. We will hear directly from participants about how experiences of domestic violence have influenced access to the vaccine for the communities that they serve with a particular focus on farmworker communities. The discussion will include conversations about a new safety card tool (in development) by FUTURES in collaboration with farmworker advocates, so that the participating learning collaborative cohort can further inform its development.

Learning Objectives — At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. List the ways in which domestic violence may limit access to COVID-19 testing, vaccinations and health care.
  2. Identify strategies to share vital information with underserved communities, including farmworkers.
  3. Name the supportive services that community-based domestic violence programs offer clients who receive warm referrals from health center and community outreach programs.

Activity 2: Implementation Session 

Date and time: Friday, June 18, 2021 at 10 AM PST/ 11AM MST/12PM CST/ 1PM EST (1 hour)

Description: This implementation session will share the safety card tool developed with farmworker advocates, DV advocates and community health center staff and informed by the earlier listening session.  Futures Without Violence will highlight how the “CUES” approach may be implemented to help share the card with clients/patients, along with other community outreach strategies.  The learning collaborative cohort will be invited to provide feedback on the new material to refine the final draft.

Learning Objectives — At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Provide feedback on the safety card tool developed specifically to address the intersection between domestic violence and COVID-19 testing, vaccination and health care access.
  2. Identify strategies to scale and spread messages about safety supports offered by DV advocacy programs and COVID-19 health care services (testing, vaccination and care).
  3. Define how the “CUES” strategy may help get messages out, without relying on client/patient disclosures.

Activity 3: Learning Lab on “CUES”

Date and time: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 10 AM PST/ 11AM MST/12PM CST/ 1PM EST (45 minutes)

Description: Participants will further discuss how Futures Without Violence’s “CUES” approach offering universal education on IPV regardless of client/patient disclosures—may be used in tandem with the newly developed tool to share information.  This is an opportunity for the participating cohort to raise any questions about “CUES” associated tools/resources and identify other unique strategies, or approaches to get messages out.

Learning Objectives — At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify how Futures Without Violence’s “CUES” approach promotes health equity.
  2. Define the 4 key concepts of the “CUES” moniker
  3. Know where to access supportive resources and tools, including a CUES infographic and other educational resources for health and advocacy programs.

Activity 4: Learning Lab on Building Partnerships Between Health Centers, Community Outreach Programs and Community Based DV Organizations

Date and time: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 10 AM PST/ 11AM MST/12PM CST/ 1PM EST (45 minutes)

Description: This Learning Lab will offer guidance on developing, formalizing and expanding partnerships between health centers or community outreach programs and community-based domestic violence advocacy programs.  Resources, including a sample MOU will be highlighted, as well as the ways in which bi-directional warm referrals can support both staff and clients/patients.

Learning Objectives — At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Name strategies to build and formalize partnerships between community health centers, community outreach programs and community-based DV programs.
  2. Identify an online toolkit that includes a sample MOU tool to help formalize partnerships between health centers, community outreach programs and DV advocacy programs.
  3. Name the supportive services offered by the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Stronghearts Helpline, and other local DV advocacy programs, more generally.

 

Learn more: Futures Without Violence, Farmworker Justice, and Lideres Campesinas – a network of farmworker women leaders based in California – are hosting a related national webinar, Domestic Violence and the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Farmworkers: A Conversation with Lideres Campesinas on Tuesday, June 8th (10am-11am PST/11am-12pm Mountain/12pm-1pm Central/1p-2p Eastern). This is an opportunity to learn more about the learning collaborative and the featured topics.  Register here.

Utilizing Health Information Technology to Address UDS requirements on IPV and HT

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Title: Utilizing Health Information Technology to Address UDS requirements on IPV and HT (A Learning Collaborative)

Description: Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Bureau of Primary Health Care, to work with health centers and systems to support those at risk of experiencing or surviving intimate partner violence (IPV) or human trafficking (HT) and to bolster prevention efforts. FUTURES will host a Learning Collaborative on “Utilizing Health Information Technology to Address UDS requirements on IPV and HT.”

Through four virtual sessions, this learning collaborative will bolster community health center (CHC) capacity to address the new UDS measures on IPV and HT, to improve quality of care for survivors and offer preventive health services.  The learning collaborative will offer: an overview on evidence based strategies to asses for and respond to IPV/HT; strategies to facilitate quality care, collect data in order to meet UDS measures on HT/IPV and promote patient privacy and confidentiality; an opportunity to meet with EHR platform developers to understand strategies to maximize HIT to support patient care and data collection; and an opportunity for peer exchanges among participating CHCs.

At the end of this learning collaborative participants will be able to:

1)      Describe new UDS measures on IPV and Human Trafficking
2)      Understand strategies to maximize health IT to collect data and promote quality of care
3)      Apply best practices on privacy and confidentiality when working with survivors of IPV and Human Trafficking

How to apply: 

This learning collaborative is open to 10 federally-funded community health centers across the U.S.

Ideally participating health centers should have two staff members attending the Learning Collaborative—including a clinician and an administrator responsible for HIT and/or data collection.

The deadline to apply has now passed.  

If you have any questions, please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org.

Session Descriptions, Dates, and Times:

  • Session 1: June 16 at 10amPST/11amMST/12pmCST/1pmEST (1 hour); “Overview of Intimate Partner Violence/Human Trafficking and Best Practices for Clinical Care, Documentation and Data Collection”
    • Description: This session will introduce participants to the learning collaborative faculty, cohort and goals and will offer CHCs guidance on how to offer universal education, health promotion and documentation and referrals using tools featured at www.ipvhealthpartners.org. This will include guidance what information should be collected for the new UDS measures and considerations for maximizing health IT to support identification and response to IPV and HT. We will offer systems and practice related questions and considerations for participants to bring back to their health centers.
  • Session 2: June 22 at 10amPST/11amMST/12pmCST/1pmEST (1 hour); “Designing Workflows and Maximizing Health IT When Responding to IPV/HT”
    • Description: This second session in the learning collaborative will serve as an orientation to sample workflows, and how best to maximize Health IT (i.e. using smart forms or other e-tools) to promote quality of care and data collection and address privacy and confidentiality considerations. We will provide sample workflows and privacy principles for participating members.
  • Session 3: June 29 at 10amPST/11amMST/12pmCST/1pmEST (1 hour); “Listening Session with EHR Vendors”
    • Description: We will invite primary EHR vendors used by CHC’s to join our LC in a listening session to share and receive recommendations related to the use of HIT to capture IPV/HT data to support interventions. The goal of the meeting will be to: 1) Identify best practices for IPV/HT and other SDOH screening and referral and highlight areas for improved identification; 2) Brainstorm several alternatives for more effective patient assessment and response; and 3) With IPV/HT as a use case, consider an integrated intervention prompt in SDOH tools that offers IPV “brief counseling” interventions during a visit and provider prompts to support better outcomes. Vendors attending the virtual meeting could join our discussion of strategies and prompts on brief counseling and health promotion specific to IPV/HT.
  • Session 4: July 7 from at 10amPST/11amMST/12pmCST/1pmEST (1 hour); “Peer Exchange Session”
    • Description: This final session will be an opportunity for the learning collaborative member to debrief previous sessions, promote peer exchange, and share additional tools and approaches. We will also review social intervention and referral platforms, patient portals etc. and offer considerations for best practices and privacy considerations using those platforms. We will also provide next steps plans for ongoing technical assistance after the learning collaborative sessions are complete.

 

 

Health Center Protocols to Address IPV and HT

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Title: Health Center Protocols to Address IPV and HT: Developing, Adapting, and Formalizing A Universal Education Protocol in Partnership with Community-based Programs (A Learning Collaborative)

Description: Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Bureau of Primary Health Care, to work with health centers and systems to support those at risk of experiencing or surviving intimate partner violence (IPV) or human trafficking (HT) and to bolster prevention efforts. FUTURES will host a Learning Collaborative on “Health Center Protocols to Address IPV and HT: Developing, Adapting, and Formalizing A Universal Education Protocol in Partnership with Community-based Programs.”

Through four online sessions, this learning collaborative will enable community health centers (CHC) to develop, adapt, and formalize organizational protocols to support their staff to address IPV and HT, and to support patients. The sessions will include planning activities to discuss the importance of having an organizational protocol, and developing formalized partnerships with community based domestic violence programs.  Health center staff will learn key components of the protocol including offering universal education, empowerment and support (the CUES approach) and offering warm referrals to community-based domestic violence programs (DVPs) for safety planning and other well-being support. The learning collaborative will offer guidance on adapting the protocol and operationalizing its use within the health center. Guidance on how to create working partnerships between CHCs/DVPs and establish memoranda of understanding (MOUs), an introduction to other tools and approaches featured on www.IPVHealthPartners.org, and an opportunity for peer exchanges among participating CHCs.

 

How to apply: 

This learning collaborative is open to HRSA-funded community health centers and other Health Center Program Grantees.

Health centers should have two staff members participate in this Learning Collaborative—this can be a number of roles, including: administrators, providers, quality improvement managers, etc.

Application period has now closed. 

Applicants will be notified on Monday May31st.

If you have any questions, please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org.

 

Session Descriptions, Dates, and Times:

Learning Collaborative Cohort Meeting: Part 1 – “Developing Organizational Protocols in CHCs to Address IPV and HT”

Date and Time: Tuesday, June 1st @ 11AM PST/ 12PM MST/ 1PM CST/ 2PM EST (1 hour)

As a result of today’s session participants will:

  • List key tools and technical assistance from Futures Without Violence.
  • Name a cohort of other CHCs and DVPs working on IPV and HT clinical practice change.
  • Describe the importance of organizational protocols to address IPV and HT with participating CHCs.
  • Describe FUTURES’ “CUES” universal education framework and partnership model with community-based domestic violence programs as foundational elements of any CHC organizational protocol to address IPV and HT.
  • List the critical elements of a model protocol to address IPV and HT in CHCs

 

Learning Collaborative Cohort Meeting: Part 2 – “Adapting a Health Center Protocol to Address IPV and HT”

Date and time: Thursday, June 3rd @ 1PM PST/ 2PM MST/ 3PM CST/ 4PM EST (1 hour)

As a result of today’s session participants will:

  • Identify key elements of a model protocol and list implementation strategies.
  • Know how to formalize a community health center & domestic violence program partnership using an MOU tool.
  • Learn how to use the CUES tool within clinical practice to provide universal education to patients around IPV/HT.
  • Define critical documentation and UDS reporting elements of the protocol.

 

Learning Lab: “Implementing a Health Center Protocol to Address IPV and HT – Part 1”

Date and time: Wednesday, June 9th @ 12 PM PST/ 1PM MST/ 2PM CST/ 3PM EST (1 hour)

As a result of today’s session participants will:

  • Identify key elements of a model protocol and list implementation strategies.
  • Describe how to enhance local partnerships with DV programs, and civil legal aid organizations to create a bi-directional referral base.
  • List three national resources for CHCs to support patients affected by IPV and HT.

 

Learning Lab: “Implementing a Health Center Protocol to Address IPV and HT – Part 2”

Date and time: Friday, June 11th @ 11AM PST/ 12PM MST/ 1PM CST/ 2PM EST (1 hour)

As a result of today’s session participants will:

  • Know how to document and how to conduct UDS reporting for implementation of the protocol.
  • Identify the safety and privacy considerations when documenting and conducting UDS reporting for patients.
  • List key strategies to promote bidirectional warm referrals for health center staff and patients to corresponding community based DV advocacy programs.

 

 

Domestic Violence and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farmworkers: A Conversation about Collaborations to Improve Access to Health Care Services for Farmworkers

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Title: Domestic Violence and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farmworkers: A Conversation about Collaborations to Improve Access to Health Care Services for Farmworkers

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Date: Tuesday, June 8th at10am-11am PST/11am-12pm MST/12pm-1pm CST/1pm-2pm EST

Fecha: Martes, 8 de Junio a las 10am-11am PST/11am-12pm MST/12pm-1pm CST/1pm-2pm EST

Description: Join Futures Without Violence, Farmworker Justice, and Lideres Campesinas – a network of farmworker women leaders based in California—for a webinar about domestic violence and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on farmworkers who are also experiencing domestic violence. The speakers will discuss innovative strategies developed by Lideres Campesinas to improve access to information about the pandemic and the vaccine to farmworkers, including those who may also be experiencing domestic violence. The presenters will also explore how collaborations between community health centers and community-based organizations such as Lideres Campesinas, that center the leadership and experiences of those most impacted by the pandemic, can improve access to safety and health care for farmworkers. Webinar will be held in both English and Spanish.

Learning Objectives:

1. Improve delivery of and access to health care services including COVID-19 services and the vaccine for farmworkers who may also be experiencing intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.

2. Explore collaborations between community-based organizations and community health centers to improve access to health care for farmworkers experiencing domestic violence.

3. Identify strategies developed by farmworker leaders to address the health and safety needs of farmworker communities.

Descripción: Únase a Futures Without Violence, Farmworker Justice, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas y Lideres Campesinas, una red de mujeres líderes trabajadoras agrícolas con sede en California, para un seminario web sobre la violencia doméstica y el impacto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en las trabajadoras agrícolas que también sufren violencia doméstica. Se discutirán estrategias innovadoras desarrolladas por la Alianza Nacional de Campesinas y Lideres Campesinas para mejorar el acceso a la información sobre la pandemia y la vacuna para las trabajadoras agrícolas, incluidas aquellas que también pueden estar experimentando violencia doméstica. Las presentadoras también explorarán cómo las colaboraciones entre los centros de salud comunitarios y las organizaciones comunitarias como Lideres Campesinas, que centran el liderazgo y las experiencias de los más afectados por la pandemia, pueden mejorar el acceso a la seguridad y la atención médica para los trabajadores agrícolas.

Objetivos de aprendizaje:

1. Mejorar la prestación y el acceso a los servicios de atención médica, incluidos los servicios COVID-19 y la vacuna para los trabajadores agrícolas que también pueden estar experimentando violencia de pareja íntima, agresión sexual y trata de personas.

2. Explorar colaboraciones entre organizaciones comunitarias y centros de salud comunitarios para mejorar el acceso a la atención médica para los trabajadores agrícolas que sufren violencia doméstica.

3. Identificar estrategias desarrolladas por líderes de trabajadores agrícolas para abordar las necesidades de salud y seguridad de las comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas.

Questions? ¿Preguntas?

Please email/ Por favor envíe un correo electrónico: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

 

National Health Initiative to Address Violence and Abuse: Core Values

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The National Health Initiative to Address Violence and Abuse is home to the health programs at Futures Without Violence, and includes the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence, the National Health Network on Intimate Partner Violence, Project Catalyst, the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention hospital program, and many more.

The Initiative has developed a set of core values, along with mission and vision statements, and a description of our approach:

Read our Core Values.  

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Mission: Our mission is to support the health and safety of individuals, families, and communities, and to promote the healing and wellbeing of those affected by domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking and exploitation.

Vision: We envision a world where health and safe relationships are a reality for all people, where policies and practices promote access to health care, housing, and economic and educational opportunities that center racial equity, immigrant rights, disability rights, individual, social and parenting supports.

Approach: We promote community-focused prevention and responses within health and advocacy programs and systems to create safe and equitable social conditions. In order to foster protective environments, we develop and host training, offer technical assistance, and develop model programs and tools for those working at the intersection of health and violence. Our strategies engage health providers, advocates, caregivers and community members across sectors to advance access to and the quality of health care and community-based advocacy for all survivors. These meaningful partnerships between survivors, providers, and advocates bring us closer to a world rooted in health, safety, and healing.

Commitment to Reflective Practice: The National Health Initiative to Address Violence and Abuse will regularly look to these values in team meetings to ensure they are being integrated into our programs. We will revisit these values every 6 months to assess our progress, and to update values as needed. We will also share these values publicly on our website to ensure external accountability as well, and we welcome feedback from partnering programs and individuals on our progress.

Last Updated: May 2021

Learning through Interactivity: How to Tell a Story, Part 2

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Title: Learning Through Interactivity: How to Tell a Story, Part 2

Date:  Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Time: 11 AM PST/2 PM EST

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Webinar Description: 

The Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED) presents the fourth webinar of a 4-part series on interactivity and adult learning. 

In Part 2 of this webinar, we will break down specific components of storytelling:  crafting narratives, interweaving experiences and emotions in storytelling, and setting the stage for a successful story. We will finish by discussing storytelling applications online and in-person as a method of education delivery. 

As a result of this session, participants will be better able to:  

  • Explain the brain science and adult learning theory of storytelling;  
  • Discuss anecdotal vs. allegorical methods of storytelling with a focus on accessibility considerations;  
  • Recognize narrative arcs in storytelling; and  
  • Determine how storytelling can be used in OVW grantees‘ own work while acknowledging cultural origins and diversities.  

Please note that registration will be capped at 100 participants to maximize participant engagement and interaction. This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants and will be uploaded on FUTURES website for additional viewing.

Presenters:

Donney Rose– Donney Rose is a poet, teaching artist, creative consultant, and community activist from Baton Rouge. He is also the Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Black Out Loud Conference, LLC, which held its inaugural conference in Baton Rouge in August 2018. In April 2018, Donney joined the ranks of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a 2018-2019 Citizen Artist Fellow.  

Donney is the author of The Crying Buck, an acclaimed chapbook of poetry that delves into Black masculinity and vulnerability through a critical lens, and Black Out Loud, a collection of prose-style poetic interpretations of Black History Month 2017. His work as a performance poet/writer has been featured in a variety of publications, including Atlanta Black Star, Blavity, Button Poetry, All Def Digital, Slam Find, [225], Drunk In A Midnight Choir, and Nicholls State University’s Gris-Gris literary journal. He is a member of the 2017 Greater Baton Rouge Business Report Forty under 40 class, the recipient of the Ink Festival’s inaugural Making a Mark award (2017, Tupelo, Miss.), and New Venture Theatre’s 2016 Humanitarian of the Year award.  

Jennifer White, Director for Learning and Leadership, Futures Without Violence

Rebecca Del Rossi, Program Specialist for Learning and Leadership, Futures Without Violence

Questions? Please contact Jeremiah-Anthony Righteous Rogers at jrighteous@futureswithoutviolence.org.

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This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K067, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Learning through Interactivity: How to Tell a Story, Part 1

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Title: Learning Through Interactivity: How to Tell a Story, Part 1

Date:  Thursday, July 8, 2021

Time: 11 AM PST/2 PM EST

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Webinar Description: 

The Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED) presents the third webinar of a 4- part series on interactivity and adult learning. 

As facilitators and educators of survivor-serving organizations, we use stories, experiences, and scenarios to disseminate information on violence intervention and prevention. As adult learners, we are 22 times more likely to remember a fact when it is told to us in a story.  This two-part webinar within our larger series focuses on storytelling as a mechanism for adult learning. In this first part, we delve into the history and tradition of storytelling in different cultures and the role of survivor stories utilized by DVSA and other survivor-serving organizations.   

As a result of this learning session, participants will be better able to: 

  • Recognize the history of storytelling as a central and formative aspect of non-European/western-centric model of education;  
  • Evaluate goals and intentions when engaging survivor stories;  
  • Identify storytelling as a tool of interactivity and adult learning; and  
  • Identify common themes/tools used as a mechanism of storytelling.  

Please note that registration will be capped at 100 participants to maximize participant engagement and interaction. This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants and will be uploaded on FUTURES website for additional viewing.

Presenters:

Twahna Harris, Founder and CEO of the Butterfly Society– Twahna has been a prominent advocate for victims and survivors of domestic violence for over 10 years and continues to work closely with the community.  The organization was created due to her own personal experience with abuse.  Twahna has gained recognition on both local and state levels for the ground work she does.  Recently, Twahna has been appointed to the Domestic Violence Task Force Commission for the State of Louisiana and the Women Advancement Committee for the City of Baton Rouge. She has been appointed to serve on the Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children for the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. 

Victoria Ybanez, Red Wind Consulting– Ms. Ybanez has been working to end violence against American Indian/Alaskan Native women and addressing housing needs for nearly 30 years. She developed and is the Executive Director of Red Wind Consulting, Inc. coordinating and providing Tribal Technical Assistance for recipients of the Tribal Governments Program for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) and Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative (DVPI) programs for Indian Health Service. She has more than 15 years’ experience in conducting strategic planning with a range of non-profit and for profit organizations and working with organizations and programs in developing strategies to address multiple forms of oppression. 

Jennifer White, Director for Learning and Leadership, Futures Without Violence

Rebecca Del Rossi, Program Specialist for Learning and Leadership, Futures Without Violence 

Questions? Please contact Jeremiah-Anthony Righteous Rogers at jrighteous@futureswithoutviolence.org.

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K067, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Learning through Interactivity: Creating Meaningful and Accessible Interactivity

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Title: Learning through Interactivity: Creating Meaningful and Accessible Interactivity

Date:  Thursday, June 10, 2021

Time: 11 AM PST/2 PM EST

*Closed Captioning will be provided.

Click here to view the webinar slides (PDF)

Click here to view the closed-captioned Zoom webinar recording

Click here to download the closed captioning transcript (PDF)

Webinar Description: 

The Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED) presents the second webinar of a 4- part series on interactivity and adult learning. 

When learning, adult learners may have individual preferences while still needing   a variety of learning styles, perspectives, and activities. As facilitators of adult learning, we cannot meet every need of each learner; however, integrating interactivity into your workshop, training, and/or learning session will help participants retain and apply information given to them. This webinar will discuss the importance and brain science of interactivity in virtual and in-person learning sessions for OVW grantees to utilize in their own work. 

As a result of this learning session, participants will be better able to: 

  • Define basic elements of interactivity in trainings, webinars, and workshops;  
  • Identify concrete examples of interactivity in virtual and in-person settings; and  
  • Recognize brain science theory of left and right hemisphere integration in learning.   

Please note that registration will be capped at 100 participants to maximize participant engagement and interaction. This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants and will be uploaded on FUTURES website for additional viewing.

Presenters:

Sandra Harrell, Associate Center Director, Center on Victimization and Safety at the Vera Institute of Justice. Prior to joining Vera, Sandra worked on the training and technical assistance team for Project Access of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She has been working in the area of ending violence against women for 15 years. Originally from Louisiana, Sandra began working at her local crisis line and volunteering at her local shelter while still in high school. Upon earning her undergraduate degree, Sandra worked for Turning Point Battered Women’s Shelter. After receiving her master’s degree from Goddard College where she focused on radical feminist analyses of sexual and domestic violence, Sandra became project director for Vanderbilt University’s Grant to Reduce Violent Crimes Against Women on Campuses. She worked for nearly five years to establish a comprehensive program to both respond to violent crimes against women and to prevent them from happening. The program—Project Safe—was institutionalized at Vanderbilt in 2004.  

Ayana Wallace, Training Specialist, Ujima Inc. Ayana Wallace, pronouns she, her, hers, serves Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community as the Training Specialist. She is primarily responsible for providing national training and technical assistance to service providers and the community at-large, that centers the needs, voices, intersections, and realities of Black women and girls.Before joining Ujima, Inc, she served as a client case coordinator providing direct services and support to survivors seeking emergency shelter. She has been instrumental in the national implementation of the Lethality Assessment Program—Maryland Model (LAP) and has served as the lead trainer for the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (MNADV), the state coalition in Maryland. She has worked for over a decade in the domestic violence field providing both direct service to survivors and technical assistance to advocates, law enforcement, community-based partners, and faith communities.

Jennifer White, Director for Learning and Leadership, Futures Without Violence 

Rebecca Del Rossi, Program Specialist for Learning and Leadership, Futures Without Violence 

Questions? Please contact Jeremiah-Anthony Righteous Rogers at jrighteous@futureswithoutviolence.org.

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K067, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Learning through Interactivity: Creating Curiosity through Learning Activities

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Title: Learning through Interactivity: Creating Curiosity through Learning Activities

Date:  Wednesday May 26, 2021

Time: 11 AM PST/2 PM EST

*Closed Captioning will be provided. 

Click here to view the webinar slides (PDF)

Click here to view the closed-captioned Zoom webinar recording

Click here to download the closed captioning transcript (PDF)

Webinar Description: 

The Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED) presents the first webinar of a 4- part series on interactivity and adult learning. 

When was the last time you felt like you truly learned something as an adult? Both the adult learner and the adult brain need different tools and experiences than instructional methods for youth and children in order to retain the information. Adults prefer to learn using examples that are relevant to their experiences and work and applicable to problem-solving or solution-finding. Providing a variety of learning activities can help you meet this unique need for adult learners. In this webinar, we will cover the elements and theories of learning activities for both in-person and virtual settings that are best suited for adult learners.  

As a result of this learning session, participants will be better able to: 

  • Describe a variety of learning activities for both in-person and virtual instruction; 
  • Determine which learning activities are best suited for their learning sessions goals;  
  • Identify the main theories of adult learning principals that encourage learning transfer and retention; and  
  • Give original examples of learning activities to implement in future learning sessions.  

Please note that registration will be capped at 100 participants to maximize participant engagement and interaction. This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants and will be uploaded on FUTURES website for additional viewing.

Presenters:

Jennifer White, Director for Learning and Leadership, Futures Without Violence 

Rebecca Del Rossi, Program Specialist for Learning and Leadership, Futures Without Violence 

Questions? Please contact Jeremiah-Anthony Righteous-Rogers at jrighteous@futureswithoutviolence.org.

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K067, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Integrating Behavioral Health Approaches to Address Gender, Violence and Homelessness

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Integrating Behavioral Health Approaches to Address Gender, Violence and Homelessness

Date: Friday, May 14, 2021

Watch the recording.

Download PDF slides.

Download handouts: HRSA UDS measures on IPV/HT for health centers, “Safe Harbor” information related to minors, Responding to Mental Health and Substance Use Coercion, EHR modules that are gender expansive, to find a HCH Program near you, CUES infographic, Safe Places to Rest Your Head Safety Card, Building Fruitful Partnerships Handout, Survivors of Trauma Brochure.

Description: Futures Without Violence and The National Health Care for the Homeless Council are excited to offer a national webinar addressing gender, homelessness and a constellation of intersecting issues including substance use disorder, mental health, homelessness, human trafficking (HT) and interpersonal violence (IPV). We will highlight strategies to strengthen the connections between health centers and the community partners who offer supportive services to IPV and HT survivors and build providers’ skills on providing universal education about healthy relationships. We recognize that this work is challenging, powerful, and at times overwhelming, so we will also offer strategies for staff as they navigate toward healing centered engagement. This webinar will include a panel of people with lived experience navigating service challenges. This discussion will include conversations about the ways health centers have been able to successfully engage with panelists and ways that health centers and domestic violence programs have created barriers to care.

Presenters:

  • Anna Marjavi, She/her/hers, Director, Health Partners on IPV & Exploitation, Futures Without Violence
  • Surabhi Kukke, MPH, She/her/hers, Consultant, Health Partners on IPV & Exploitation, Futures Without Violence
  • Rebecca Levenson, MA, She/her/hers, Consultant, Health Partners on IPV & Exploitation, Futures Without Violence 
  • Kelli Klein, BA, She/her/hers, Clinical Coordinator, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
  • Courtney Pladsen, DNP, FNP-BC, RN, She/her/hers, Director of Clinical and Quality Improvement, National Health Care for the Homeless Council

Subject Matter Experts:

  • Heather Walker-McConihe, she/her, Peer Support/Recovery Coach, Greater Portland Health, Portland, Maine
  • Alesha Alexcee, she/her/they/them, Research Project Associate Chapin Hall, University of Chicago
  • Tycelin Champagne, she/her, Peer and Outreach Worker, Austin, TX

Questions?

Please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals Part 3: Supporting Children with Therapy Animals: Human-Animal Interactions for Children Survivors of Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment

Posted by Kyle Coleman

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Part 3: Supporting Children with Therapy Animals: Human-Animal Interactions for Children Survivors of Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment 

This webinar is third in a three-part series. To learn more about Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals and register for Parts 1 and 2, please click here.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 12-1:30pm PST / 3-4:30pm EST

This dialogue will be recorded and closed-captioned. The slides, recording and transcript will be posted here. 

Click here to view the webinar slides (PDF) from Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®

Click here to view the webinar slides (PDF) from Florida Courthouse Therapy Dogs

Click here to view the closed-captioning Zoom webinar recording

Click here to download the closed-captioning transcript (Word)

Description: 

In Part 3 of this webinar series, the presenter will explore incorporating therapy animals as greeters at child advocacy centers, police stations, prosecutor’s offices, and courthouses. Additionally, the presenter will also engage attendees around the use of therapy animals during forensic interviews, medical/SANE examination, group/individual therapy, court preparation, and during courtroom testimony. 

Part 3 Learning Objectives:

Participants will:

  • Understanding the benefits and challenges of incorporating therapy animals with child survivors, including the difference between therapy animals, service animals, and assistance animals. 
  • Understanding the dos and don’ts of placing therapy animals as greeters, forensic interviews, medical examinations, therapy, court preparation and courtroom testimony. 
  • Understanding potential legal objections to incorporating therapy animals with child survivors 

Presenters:

Facilitator:

  • Wendy Mota, Program Manager, Children & Youth Program, Futures Without Violence

Resources:

  • Click here to download Therapy Animals Supporting Kids (TASK) Program Manual- Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®

Questions? Accessibility Needs? Please contact Anima Shrestha at ashrestha@futureswithoutviolence.org. 

These webinars are supported by Grant Number 90EV0434 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Points expressed in this webinar series are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the official positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals Part 2: Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)® – Actionable Insights from the Field

Posted by Kyle Coleman

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Part 2: Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®– Actionable Insights from the Field

This webinar is second in a three-part series. To learn more about Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals and register for Parts 1 and 3, please click here.

Wednesday, May 5th, 12-1:30pm PST / 3-4:30pm EST

This dialogue will be recorded and closed-captioned. The slides, recording and transcript will be posted here. 

Click here to view the webinar slides (PDF)

Click here to view the closed-captioned Zoom webinar recording

Click here to download the closed-captioning transcript (Word)

Description: 

In Part 2 of this webinar series, the presenters will share step-by-step strategies employed to transform programs and domestic violence shelters into animal-friendly spaces. Presenters will represent both inner-city and rural domestic violence programs and also include discussion on key collaborations and partnerships when becoming an animal-friendly domestic violence program. 

Part 2 Learning Objectives:

Participants will:

  • Identify key organizational strategies to begin the process of becoming an animal-friendly space 
  • Understand the different benefits & challenges of inner-city and rural settings when considering becoming an animal-friendly program 
  • Understand the importance of partnerships when becoming an animal-friendly domestic violence program. 

Presenters:

Facilitators:

Resources:

  • Click here to download Start-Up Manual – Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®
  • Click here to download Shelter Pet Policy – SAFE-Stop Abuse for Everyone

Questions? Accessibility Needs? Please contact Anima Shrestha at ashrestha@futureswithoutviolence.org. 

These webinars are supported by Grant Number 90EV0434 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Points expressed in this webinar series are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the official positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals Part 1: Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®- A global life-saving initiative for survivors of domestic violence

Posted by Kyle Coleman

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Part 1: Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®– A global life-saving initiative for survivors of domestic violence

This webinar is first in a three-part series. To learn more about Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals and register for Parts 2 and 3, please click here.

Wednesday, April 7th, 12-1:30pm PST / 3-4:30pm EST

This dialogue will be recorded and closed-captioned. The slides, recording and transcript will be posted here. 

Click here to view the webinar slides (PDF)

Click here to view the closed-captioned Zoom webinar recording

Click here to download the closed-captioning transcript (Word)

Description:

In Part 1 of this webinar series, the presenter will discuss the research supporting the need for pet-friendly housing and how preserving the human-animal bond can help survivors heal. Additionally, the presenter will explore the 4 different SAF-T Program® housing models and discuss strategies to receive and secure financial support for sheltering animals. Other topics will include: allergy concerns when sheltering animals, fear of pets and lack of space for pet housing. 

Part 1 Learning Objectives:

Participants will: 

  • Understand the research regarding families with pets experiencing domestic violence and barriers to safety. 
  • Learn 4 different pet-friendly housing models, common concerns and successful implementation. 
  • Learn how to financially implement and sustain a pet-housing program.
  • Learn how to handle common concerns such as pet allergies, fear of pets, objections from staff/residents. 

Presenter:

Facilitator:

  • Wendy Mota, Program Manager, Children & Youth Program, Futures Without Violence

Resources:

Click here to view additional resources on the Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)® website

Click here to download Start-Up Manual – Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®

Questions? Accessibility Needs? Please contact Anima Shrestha at ashrestha@futureswithoutviolence.org. 

These webinars are supported by Grant Number 90EV0434 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Points expressed in this webinar series are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the official positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Supporting Family Resiliency Through Relationships with Animals Webinar Series

Posted by Kyle Coleman

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Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals: A 3-part webinar series for programs working with families who have experienced  domestic violence

Hosted by Promising Futures, a project of Futures Without Violence in partnership with Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)® . This webinar series will be recorded and closed-captioned. The slides, recording and transcript will be posted here.

 

Who Should Attend These Webinars? 

Domestic violence professionals, including; dv advocates, child advocates and shelter staff, child and family trauma therapists, counselors, child welfare professionals, early childhood professionals, and educators.  

Series Learning Objectives:  
  • Understand how human-animal interactions can support resilience and healing for adult and child survivors of domestic violence.  
  • Understand how programs serving families who experience domestic violence can  increase their capacity to meet the diverse needs of survivors by becoming animal-friendly spaces  

 

Part 1: Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®- A global life-saving initiative for survivors of domestic violence

Wednesday, April 7th: 12-1:30pm PST/ 3-4:30pm EST  

Presenter: Allie Phillips, Animal Protection & Human-Animal Interaction Attorney Founder & CEO, Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®

Facilitator: Wendy Mota, Program Manager, Children & Youth Program, Futures Without Violence

Description: In Part 1 of this webinar series, the presenter will discuss the research supporting the need for pet-friendly housing and how preserving the human-animal bond can help survivors heal. Additionally, the presenter will explore the 4 different SAF-T Program® housing models and discuss strategies to receive and secure financial support for sheltering animals. Other topics will include: allergy concerns when sheltering animals, fear of pets and lack of space for pet housing. 

This webinar is the first in a three-part series. To learn more about Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals for Part 1, please click here. 

 

Part 2: Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®- Actionable Insights from the Field

Wednesday, May 5th: 12-1:30pm PST/ 3-4:30pm EST  

Presenters:

Facilitators:

Description: In Part 2 of this webinar series, the presenters will share step-by-step strategies employed to transform programs and domestic violence shelters into animal-friendly spaces. Presenters will represent both inner-city and rural domestic violence programs and also include discussion on key collaborations and partnerships when becoming an animal-friendly domestic violence program.

This webinar is the second in a three-part series. To learn more about Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals for Part 2, please click here. 

 

Part 3: Supporting Children with Therapy Animals: Human-Animal Interactions for Children Survivors of Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment

Wednesday, June 2nd: 12-1:30pm PST/ 3-4:30pm EST  

Presenter: Allie Phillips, Animal Protection & Human-Animal Interaction Attorney Founder & CEO, Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)®

Facilitator: Wendy Mota, Program Manager, Children & Youth Program, Futures Without Violence

Description: In Part 3 of this webinar series, the presenter will explore incorporating therapy animals as greeters at child advocacy centers, police stations, prosecutor’s offices and courthouses. Additionally, the presenter will also engage attendees around the use of therapy animals during forensic interviews, medical/SANE examination, group/individual therapy, court preparation; and during courtroom testimony. 

This webinar is the third in a three-part series. To learn more about Supporting Family Resiliency through Relationships with Animals for Part 3, please click here. 

 

These webinars will be closed-captioned. The recordings, slides, and closed-captioning transcript will be posted on our website here after the events. Please use the registration links above to register.

Questions? Accessibility Needs? Please contact Lilly Valore at lvalore@futureswithoutviolence.org  

 

These webinars are supported by Grant Number 90EV0434 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Points expressed in this webinar series are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the official positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Addressing Adolescent Relationship Abuse in School-Based Health Care

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Addressing Adolescent Relationship Abuse in School-Based Health Care

Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 from 11-12pmPST/12-1pmMST/1-2pmCST/2-3pmEST

Watch the recording.

Description: School-based health providers can play an important role in promoting healthy relationships among adolescents! Please join the School-Based Health Alliance for a webinar on strategies school-based health providers can use to discuss relationship abuse and trafficking with their adolescent patients. This webinar will feature Lisa James, Director of Health at Futures Without Violence and Meg Kane, Clinical Quality Coordinator for School Health Services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The presenters will provide a brief overview of adolescent relationship abuse. They will discuss considerations for implementing a protocol to address adolescent relationship abuse in the clinical setting, and they will share learnings from their practical experience.

Questions?

Please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking: Collaboration between Medical Legal Partnerships, FQHCs, and Domestic Violence Programs

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking: Collaboration between Medical Legal Partnerships, FQHCs, and Domestic Violence Programs

Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 10am Pacific/11am Mountain/12pm Central/1PM Eastern (1 hour duration)

Watch the recording.  

Description: Through this national webinar, the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) and Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) are joining forces to share strategies on how MLPs can successfully partner with FQHCs and community-based domestic violence programs to improve health outcomes, decrease isolation, and support health care for survivors. MLPs have unique opportunities to help prevent and address violence and exploitation in their work with health center patients. Presenters will highlight how civil legal service providers partner with FQHCs to address the increased needs of individuals affected by IPV/HT during COVID-19. Presenters include: Bethany Hamilton, JD, Co-Director, NCMLP Elena Josway, Program Director, Futures Without Violence Dr. Kimberly S.G. Chang, MD, MPH, Consultant, Futures Without Violence and Family Physician, Asian Health Services.

Presenters:

  • Bethany Hamilton, JD, Co-Director, NCMLP
  • Elena Josway, Program Director, Futures Without Violence
  • Dr. Kimberly S.G. Chang, MD, MPH, Consultant, Futures Without Violence and Family Physician, Asian Health Services.

Questions?

Please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

Aging with Respect: A Framework for Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Older Adults Learning Collaborative

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Aging with Respect: A Framework for Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Older Adults Learning Collaborative

Dates:

  • Tuesday April 20th from 9-10amPST/10-11amMST/11-12pmCST/12-1 EST
  • Thursday May 6th from 9-10amPST/10-11amMST/11-12pmCST/12-1PM EST
  • Tuesday May 18th from 9-10amPST/10-11amMST/11-12pmCST/12-1PM EST
  • Thursday June 3rd from 9-10amPST/10-11amMST/11-12pmCST/12-1 EST

Description: Intimate partner violence (IPV) in later life is often undetected by healthcare providers, in part due to misconceptions and the complexity of elder mistreatment. This learning collaborative will review the various forms of abuse and discuss approaches for successful prevention and interventions that focus on safety and wellness for older adult patients.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand how IPV assessment and response fits into screening initiatives for the social determinants of health
  2. Develop patient-centered counseling approaches tailored for older adults in harmful or unsafe relationships
  3. Identify strategies for building sustainable partnerships between health centers and community-based domestic violence programs and other service providers

Intended Audience: Health center providers and staff who care for older adults; domestic violence program staff

How to apply: Apply by 5pm EST on April 16, 2021.  Online application can be found here: https://ece.hsdm.harvard.edu/aging-respect-framework-addressing-intimate-partner-violence-older-adults-learning-collaborative . 

Questions?: Please email ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

Learning Series on Gender and Health Services

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Supporting Providers and Centering Survivors: Rethinking Success Through Partnerships and Innovations To Support People Experiencing Homelessness

Description:

Please watch our Welcome Video here:

Futures Without Violence and The National Health Care for the Homeless Council are excited to present a Learning Collaborative (LC) addressing the intersections of gender and homelessness. This four-session LC focuses on a constellation of intersecting issues including substance use disorder, mental health, homelessness, human trafficking (HT) and interpersonal violence (IPV).

We will work together to strengthen the connections between health centers and the community partners who provide supportive services to IPV and HT survivors and build providers' skills on providing universal education about healthy relationships. We also recognize that this work is challenging, powerful, and at times overwhelming, so we hope to build an LC community where participants feel supported as they navigate toward healing centered engagement.

Learning Collaborative Activities:

1. Learning Collaborative Cohort Meeting: Part I

  • Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 10am PT/ 11am MT/ 12pm CT/ 1pm ET (40 min)

2. Learning Collaborative Cohort Meeting: Part II

  • Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 10:45am PT/11:45am MT/12:45pmCT/1:45pm ET (40 min)

3. Learning Lab: CUES and Healing-Centered Engagement

  • Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 9am PT/ 10am MT/ 11am CT/ 12pm ET (60 min)

4. Learning Lab: Developing Community Partnerships to Support Inclusive Behavioral Health Services

  • Thursday, June 24, 20201 at 10am PT/ 11am MT/ 12pm CT/ 1pm ET (60 min)

For activity descriptions and registration information, visit the National Health Care for the Homeless Council's web page. 

Learn more: FUTURES and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council hosted a joint webinar, Integrating Behavioral Health Approaches to Address Gender, Violence and Homelessness on Friday, May 14, 2021. View the recording here.

Questions?: Please email ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

 

 

Health, Healing and Relationships: Intimate Partner Violence, Trauma and HIV

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A virtual training opportunity for HIV testing and care settings and their local domestic violence partner agency.

March 10th, 2021 9am PT/11am CT/12pm ET – 12pm PT/2pm CT/3pm ET

Register by Monday, February 15th!

The intersections between HIV and gender based violence are critical to address when trying to enhance both violence and HIV prevention efforts, and to improve health outcomes for survivors. Experiences of childhood and adulthood abuse are now recognized as risk factors for acquiring HIV and barriers to optimal engagement in and retention in HIV healthcare. Because trauma and PTSD are known to predict poorer HIV-related health outcomes, culturally-responsive interventions that effectively address the intersections of violence, connected forms of structural oppression, and HIV must be considered an integral component of HIV healthcare and domestic and sexual violence service provision.

Learning objectives

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

  • Define intimate partner violence (IPV) in the context of lifetime experiences of trauma.
  • Identify three ways (IPV) and trauma affects health for people living with HIV
  • Describe the intersection between gender based violence and STIs/HIV and how IPV affects HIV health outcomes and access to care
  • Identify elements of the CUES methodology to assess for relationship abuse and trauma and respond appropriately to disclosures
  • Describe harm reduction strategies including partner notification, health access and health promotion
  • Make a plan to build partnerships with local support organizations.

Featured Faculty:

  • Dr. Elizabeth Miller, Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
  • Dr. Suad Kapetanovic, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, USC Keck School of Medicine.

Training Components

This virtual training is designed for teams of HIV care providers and domestic and sexual violence advocates to learn the CUES intervention and get support implementing the approach in their communities. The virtual training is comprised of four main components:

  1. Pre-recorded sessions on IPV 101, the intersections between HIV and IPV, the health effects of IPV and a primer on the CUES methodology for IPV prevention and response
  2. Live 3 hour training on March 10, 2021 to discuss concepts and practice key strategies from the pre-recorded sessions 
  3. A podcast series, Expanding the Continuum, addressing the nuances of HIV care for survivors. 
  4. Follow up office hours to provide technical assistance for implementation in your communities. 
  5. Option to stay engaged in an on-going field building community.

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/usGFsQQi1EHafzzs8

We strongly recommend that you:

  • Identify a team of staff from the HIV clinic including key decision makers, clinical and support staff to participate in this training to improve the likelihood of sustainable implementation. Having a leadership team, composed of individuals from all parts of the organization, in place to learn the methodology together will serve its success.
  • Identify and invite partners from your local Domestic and Sexual Violence program to participate in this training with your team. This is especially important because the CUES methodology relies on local partnerships to make it successful. Having pathways for cross referral and support for survivors serves to make your services better for your whole community. If you do not already have a relationship with your local program, visit the National Domestic Violence Hotline website and search for your local program on their resource lists, organized by State and Territory.
    • For further technical assistance with identifying a domestic or sexual violence program partner, reach out to Abby Larson at alarson@futureswithoutviolence.org 

Commitment:

This Virtual Training Event will require a total of 7 hours over the course of one month, including the 3 hour live event on March 10, 2021, with optional office hours available for technical assistance on implementation. Listening to the podcast series, Expanding the Continuum, is also optional and can be accessed at any point before or after the training.

Continuing Education Credits 

Futures Without Violence/The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians – MDs and DOs. This Learning event is designated for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity, and are responsible for verifying the acceptance of education units with their respective accreditation boards.

Other health professionals may complete the CME evaluation to receive a certificate, and are responsible for verifying the acceptance of education units with their respective accreditation boards.

 

Collaborative Strategies and Tools to Meet the Needs of Survivors of Human Trafficking

Posted by marenas

Title:  Collaborative Strategies and Tools to Meet the Needs of Survivors of Human Trafficking

Date:  August 22, 2019

Click here to listen to the recording.

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Closed captioning script.

Upcoming training on: Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Handouts

Handouts and Resource List,  Including Links to Past Webinars

Needs and Resources Worksheet, Collaboration Roles & Human Trafficking Indicators

Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force – Sample Resources

List of Anti-Human Trafficking Resources, by Topic with Links

Webinar Description:

This webinar will highlight collaborative work undertaken by multi-disciplinary teams across the U.S. to support domestic and sexual violence and human trafficking (DV/SA/HT) survivors.  Presenters will share how their partnerships or task forces were initiated; strategies to enhance client services and case coordination; and tools and training opportunities to build or expand collaborative responses for HT survivors across communities and states.  The webinar will share lessons learned from a community-based DV/SA/HT advocacy program, a law enforcement-led program, and a statewide task force operated by the Attorney General’s Office. It will also feature technical assistance and training resources offered by Futures Without Violence.  Time will be included for audience question/answer and discussion.

After the webinar, participants will be better able to:

  • Define the unique service needs HT victims that differ from domestic violence and sexual assault.
  • Identify community and state-wide strategies to develop new collaborations or expand existing networks to support survivors of HT.
  • Clarify multidisciplinary professional and organizational roles in coordinating services for trafficked survivors.
  • Utilize resources to help build or expand multi-disciplinary teams and task forces to support survivors of HT.

Presenters: 

  • Mónica Arenas, Program Manager, Futures Without Violence
  • Elynne Greene, MA, Manager, Victim Services & Human Trafficking, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and head of the Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force
  • Anna Marjavi, Program Director, Futures Without Violence
  • Kathryn Moorehead, Director of VAWA and Human Trafficking Programs/ Coordinator of the SC Human Trafficking Task Force, South Carolina Office of the Attorney General
  • Katie Spriggs, BSW, Executive Director, Eastern Panhandle Empowerment Center, Martinsburg, WV

Target Audience:

OVW grantees, sub grantees, and potential grantees, advocacy staff, multidisciplinary teams and programs interested in initiating task forces or new collaborations to support survivors of human trafficking, including: Executive Directors, Program Directors/Managers/Coordinators, and Client Advocates.

Questions? Please contact Mónica Arenas at marenas@futureswithoutviolence.org.

This webinar is part of a project entitled Building Collaborative Responses Project, supported by the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K029, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Strengthening Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs for Trafficked Survivors: Enhancing Identification, Case Management and Advocacy

Posted by marenas

Title:  Strengthening Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs for Trafficked Survivors:  Enhancing Identification, Case Management and Advocacy

Date:  Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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Watch the recording.

View the closed captioning transcript. 

Handouts:

Webinar Description:

Domestic violence (DV) and sexual assault (SA) service staff increasingly provide assistance to survivors of human trafficking (HT). While there is no official estimate of the total number of HT victims in the U.S., the number of victims reaches into the hundreds of thousands when estimates of both adults and minors and sex trafficking and labor trafficking are aggregated.  Nationally, DV/SA programs are adapting their services and outreach to better meet the needs of clients who experience DV/SA/HT and to strengthen their collaboration with other community partners.  This webinar will feature two DV/SA advocacy experts who will offer actionable strategies to enhance services for survivors of DV/SA/HT within community based advocacy programs.  They will explore: how to identify staff needs and build capacity; changes to the intake process (identification); case management strategies; and the power of collaborative relationships.

After the webinar, participants will be better able to:

  • Recognize the intersections of human trafficking with domestic violence and sexual assault, and the unique needs of survivors of human trafficking.
  • Promote the importance of first enhancing staff capacity to address the needs of trafficked survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
  • Identify strategies to strengthen the intake process, identification, and support for trafficked survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault within community based advocacy programs.
  • Utilize tools and resources available to support service providers in enhancing services through the OVW-sponsored Building Collaborative Responses to Human Trafficking Project.

Presenters: 

  • Perla P. Flores, JD, MPA, Community Solutions and South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking.
  • Kiricka Yarbough Smith, Anti-Human Trafficking Consultant/Trainer.
  • Mónica Arenas, Program Manager, Futures Without Violence.

Target Audience:

Staff who work in domestic violence, sexual assault or human trafficking programs including: Executive Directors, Program Directors/Managers/Coordinators, and Advocates who work in OVW-funded programs.  Additional audience members may include programs collaborating with DV/SA/HT advocates; or others providing services to survivors of DV/SA/HT.

Questions? Please contact Mónica Arenas at marenas@futureswithoutviolence.org.

This webinar is part of a project entitled Building Collaborative Responses Project, supported by the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K029, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Increasing Staff Capacity to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence/Human Trafficking During COVID-19

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Increasing Staff Capacity to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence/Human Trafficking During COVID-19

Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 10-11amPST/11-12pmMST/12-1pmCST/1-2pmEST

View webinar slides.

Watch webinar recording.

See webinar transcript.

Description: This webinar offers a combination of self-care and organizational practice strategies to help prevent provider burn out and bolster staff readiness for implementing CUES, as well as trauma-informed and healing-centered practices. Lifetime exposure to violence is common and working with clients who are experiencing or have experienced trauma/violence can trigger painful memories and trauma for staff. A personal history of exposure to violence increases risk for experiencing secondary traumatic stress. We share trauma-informed approaches offered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that recognize how trauma affects all individuals involved with the program, organization, or system, including its own workforce. Numerous studies tell us that in order to do this complex work the needs of providers cannot be ignored. Providers need supports for themselves and within their systems to promote healing centered engagement, which will also be covered in this webinar.

Presenters:

  • Rebecca Levenson, MA, Health Policy Consultant, Futures Without Violence
  • Anna Marjavi, Program Director, Futures Without Violence
  • Kiricka Yarbough-Smith, Human Trafficking Consultant, Futures Without Violence

Questions?

Please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

Supporting Survivors at the Intersection of Immigration and Child Welfare

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Supporting Survivors at the Intersection of Immigration and Child Welfare

Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 3:00pm-4:30pm EST (12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. PST) 

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Description: 

This webinar is hosted by Futures Without Violence in partnership with Casa de Esperanza’s National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Latinos United for Peace and Equity (LUPE) of Caminar Latino, featuring Violence Intervention Program.

Audience: Domestic Violence advocates, Child Welfare workers, and Family Services providers. 

Over 18 million children in the US have at least one parent who is an immigrant. About 5.5 million children (including 4.5 million children who are U.S.-born citizens) live in mixed-legal status families with at least one parent who is an unauthorized immigrant. Immigrant survivors of domestic violence and their children often face additional barriers to safety and wellbeing. Abusers can use the threat of detention, deportation or being separated from children to maintain power and control. Systems can fail to support immigrant survivors.

This webinar will provide information and resources for advocates and child welfare workers. Presenters will share the current research about detention and the importance of trauma-informed approaches for survivors and their children. They will talk about special immigration remedies for survivors under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and Trafficking Victims Protection Act. They will discuss guidelines for child welfare to support family reunification when a parent is in detention and share how COVID-19 has affected immigrant families who are involved with child welfare. Finally, presenters will highlight the importance of enhanced safety planning to make sure immigrant survivors know their rights and can access help.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will: 

  • Understand the issues affecting immigrant survivors, particularly if they are involved in the child welfare system or at risk of detention;
  • Learn about immigration remedies and confidentiality protections under VAWA for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and trafficking;
  • Understand the rights of immigrant parents at the intersection of child welfare and immigration systems and how to support reunification efforts;
  • Learn about enhanced safety planning for immigrant survivors and promising practices

Presenters:

Resources: 

  • Click here to download Resource List – Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities
  • Click here to download Maria’s Case Study – Violence Intervention Program
  • Click here to download Personalized Safety Plans for Survivors – Violence Intervention Program

Questions? Accessibility Needs? Please contact Lilly Valore at lvalore@futureswithoutviolence.org logo-4-0These webinars are supported by Grant Number 90EV0434 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The content of these webinars does not necessarily reflect the view or policies of the funder, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Intimate Partner Violence/Human Trafficking: Building Partnerships Between Community Health Centers And Domestic Violence Advocacy Programs

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Intimate Partner Violence/Human Trafficking: Building Partnerships Between Community Health Centers And Domestic Violence Advocacy Programs

Date: Monday, December 14, 2020 from 11:00am-12:00pmPST/12:00-1:00pmMST/1:00-2:00pmCST/2:00pm-3:00pmEST

Watch the recording.

Download PDF slides.

Download MOU template and “Building Sustainable and Fruitful Partnerships” handout.

Description: This webinar will feature the critical role of domestic violence advocacy programs in supporting patients on intimate partner violence/human trafficking (IPV/HT) and how to build meaningful collaborations including initiating Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) and bidirectional warm referrals. FUTURES will help community health centers (CHCs) establish this partnership by detailing mutual partnership benefits; sharing an MOU template; and offering other tools featured on www.ipvhealthpartners.org, including guidance and agenda topics for their first meeting. Additionally, the MOU template (tool) and guidance will reflect procedural changes related to COVID-19. For example, rather than meeting in person at the start of the partnership, virtual engagement will also be suggested, as well as expanding on other collaborative strategies given social distancing.

Presenters:

  • Anisa Ali, MA, Senior Program Specialist, Futures Without Violence
  • Abby Larson, MSW Intern, Futures Without Violence
  • Rebecca Levenson, MA, Health Policy Consultant, Futures Without Violence
  • Anna Marjavi, Program Director, Futures Without Violence
  • Kiricka Yarbough-Smith, Human Trafficking Consultant, Futures Without Violence

Questions?

Please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org 

Expanding The Continuum

Posted by kvandertuig

A podcast exploring the intersections of HIV and intimate partner violence brought to you by Futures Without Violence and the National Network to End Domestic Violence Positively Safe Project. Hear luminaries in the field discuss the real implications of a health sector response to HIV and forms of intimate and patriarchal violence. Hosted by FUTURES’ Surabhi Kukke and NNEDV’s Ashley Slye. For more information about addressing IPV in HIV care settings check out our National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence. For more information email Kate Vander Tuig at kvandertuig@futureswithoutviolence.org.

 

Transgender Lives Can’t Wait – We Must Fight For Them Every Day

Posted by Kyle Coleman

“As a trans woman of color, I feel that Trans Day of Remembrance is every day for me. During this year’s commemoration I find myself asking what my contribution to the world should be and how I can raise the voices of trans women of color in America. When the one day the world chose to honor us ends, I don’t have the luxury to stop thinking about my ancestors who have been killed senselessly for no reason other than hate and the insecurities of others. Sadly this is my reality each day that I have been fortunate enough to survive through. Not every trans body is so lucky.
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Virtual Hill Briefing – Preventing and Addressing Elder Abuse during COVID-19

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Title: Preventing and Addressing Elder Abuse during COVID-19

Date: Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

Time: 12-1:00pm Eastern/ 9-10:00am Pacific

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3MEKmvAORpCxtuVrPog2Wg

Virtual Hill Briefing Convened by National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse, Elder Justice Coalition, Alzheimer’s Association and the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement:

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors are at increased risk for elder abuse and face unique barriers to receiving assistance. Join us to hear from leading health and advocacy experts to lift up these issues to better understand how seniors are more susceptible to abuse during this time and share timely policy solutions.

Honorary Congressional Hosts:
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Co-Chair of Bipartisan Elder Justice Caucus
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Co-Chair of Bipartisan Elder Justice Caucus

Speakers:

  • Tonya McFadden, MS, MSA, Director, Strategies for Health Equity at American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) (moderator)
  • XinQi Dong, MD, MPH, Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Laura Thornhill, Senior Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs at Alzheimer’s Association
  • Robert B. Blancato, National Coordinator, Elder Justice Coalition

Join us as we:

  • Share findings from the field on increase of incidents of abuse and neglect during COVID, including persons with dementia, and new state-level training available
  • Explore federal solutions, including the Elder Justice Act re-authorization and funding to include training for health care professionals to screen for abuse, long-term care ombudsman, elder abuse forensic centers, and adult protective services focusing on physical and neglect issues
  • Highlight innovative strategies to reduce frequency and severity of abuse later in life

Focused on finding solutions, the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse (NHCVA) reaches more than 850,000 health and allied health professionals among its member organizations and professional disciplines it represents.

Founded in 2003, the Elder Justice Coalition (EJC) works through national and grassroots advocacy to increase public awareness at the local, state, and national level about the tragedy of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

The Alzheimer’s Association leads the way to end Alzheimer’s and all other dementia – by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.

For additional information, please contact Sally Schaeffer, consultant, at sally@uncorkedadvocates.com,
or Lisa James, Director of Health at Futures Without Violence, at ljames@futureswithoutviolence.org.

This webinar is supported by the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (HRC) and the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse (NHCVA). The HRC is funded by a grant from the Family Violence Prevention & Services Program, Family & Youth Services Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Advancing Innovative School-Based Health Strategies to Reduce Trauma, Advance Equity, and Help California Children Heal

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Advancing Innovative School-Based Health Strategies to Reduce Trauma, Advance Equity, and Help California Children Heal

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2020

Watch the webinar recording with slides. 

Policy Paper: Expansion of School-Based Health Services in California: An Opportunity for More Trauma-Informed Care for Children.

 

Description: Futures Without Violence and Healthy Schools Campaign held an important conversation about the impact of trauma on California’s children and new strategies and funding that can help schools support health and address adversity, increase trauma-informed care for children,and prevent violence.

Learning Objectives:

  • Advance innovative strategies to expand school-based health services to increase trauma-informed care,enhance health and education equity,and prevent and address trauma.
  • Hear from California leaders working on the front lines to address these issues:
    • Dr. Daniel Lee, Deputy Superintendent of Equity, CA Dept.of Education
    • Richard Thomason, Director of Policy, Blue Shield of California Foundation
    • Mayra Alvarez, President,The Children’s Partnership
    • Lena O’Rourke, Futures Without Violence/Healthy Schools Campaign
    • Marc Philpart, Managing Director, Policy Link/Alliance of Boys & Men of Color
    • Virginia Duplessis, Futures Without Violence, Associate Director of Health
  • Learn first-hand from a school-based health center director and a student about how trauma-informed programs can help youth heal and promote health and education equity from: Lucero Garcia, James Morehouse Project, El Cerrito HS Health & Wellness Center & Alika Africa,El Cerrito High School,Class of 2020
  • Build momentum for a coordinated strategy to support this new opportunity to increase trauma-informed care in schools throughout California.

 

Questions?

Please contact Karen Herrling at: kHerrling@futureswithoutviolence.org

Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims Of Domestic Violence And Sexual Assault, Virtual Institute 2021

See the virtual institute flyer. 

Learning Objectives:

As a result of the Virtual Institute, participants will be better able to:

  • Strengthen multi-disciplinary collaborative strategies in responding to youth and adult trafficked survivors with domestic violence and sexual assault experiences.
  • Define and clarify professional and organizational roles and responsibilities in responding to trafficked survivors.
  • Identify the intersections of human trafficking, domestic and sexual violence.
  • Provide a victim-centered, trauma-informed response to trafficked survivors.
  • Create an action plan to develop and implement a collaborative response to address human trafficking in your community.

Institute Schedule: 

  • January 2021: Pre-Institute work, team collaboration, and pre-recorded webinar

Live, 2 hour webinars at 2:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. PST (subject to change):

  • Tuesday, February 2: Module 1 – Support for Survivors and Collaboration
  • Tuesday, February 9: Module 2 – Collaboration Strategies
  • Tuesday, February 16: Module 3 – Collaboration Sustainability
  • Tuesday, February 23: Module 4 – Collaboration Action Plan Exchange

Faculty:

  • Kiricka Yarbough-Smith, Human Trafficking Consultant
  • John Vanek, Lieutenant (retired), Human Trafficking Consultant
  • Perla Flores, Division Director for DV/SA/HT Programs, Community Solutions/ South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking
  • Cindy Liou, Anti-Human Trafficking Consultant
  • FUTURES staff and other guests/speaker

Who may attend?:

  • Multidisciplinary teams comprised of different organizations (teams of 3-5 people) which may include, but are not limited to: domestic violence/sexual assault program staff, healthcare staff, attorneys/legal experts, law enforcement, anti-human traffickingprograms and taskforce members, civil law enforcement agencies, social service programs, and other faith-based and community-based programs.
  • At least one of the team members needs to represent a DV/SA organization.
  • Priority will be given to groups that have recently started or would like to enhance their existing efforts and strategies to improve support and meet the needs of human trafficking survivors, through an anti-human trafficking task force, coalition, or other multidisciplinary partnership.
  • Teams should represent diverse decision makers with at least one designated lead person to help implement the multidisciplinary work.

How to apply:

For questions, please contact: Mónica Arenas, marenas@futureswithoutviolence.org 

International Day of the Girl

Posted by Kyle Coleman

On October 11th the world celebrated the International Day of the Girl.  And this year, we at FUTURES, tip our hat off to a program that, through working with men and boys, makes it possible for girls to live a more secure and fulfilling life. One where if one day they do not show up for school someone steps up, searches for them, takes a stand to make sure they are counted,  and endeavors to provide them with the opportunity to learn and grow.  This a world where girls will grow up knowing that their presence is vital and their absence is noticed.

When school administrators, coaches, or youth service providers visit the official Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) site, www.coachescorner.com, they are seeking programs that can advance positive and respectful relationships among youth, they are seeking programs that can help young men see their role in society in a more positive light where healthy and respectful relationships are the norm, where bullying or homophobic taunts are not tolerated, and where young men take pride in being up-standers and see as much harm in standing silent while another is abused as if they threw the first punch themselves.  CBIM was founded on the premise that athletic coaches play an extremely influential and unique role in the lives of young men. Because of these relationships, coaches are poised to positively influence how young men think and behave, both on and off the field. Often, though, when schools or coaches seek the tools and trainings provided by CBIM they don’t realize how it also serves as a transformative experience in the lives of those who instruct as much as those who listen and learn.   (more…)

International Day of the Girl

Posted by Kyle Coleman

On October 11th the world celebrated the International Day of the Girl.  And this year, we at FUTURES, tip our hat off to a program that, through working with men and boys, makes it possible for girls to live a more secure and fulfilling life. One where if one day they do not show up for school someone steps up, searches for them, takes a stand to make sure they are counted,  and endeavors to provide them with the opportunity to learn and grow.  This a world where girls will grow up knowing that their presence is vital and their absence is noticed.

When school administrators, coaches, or youth service providers visit the official Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) site, www.coachescorner.com, they are seeking programs that can advance positive and respectful relationships among youth, they are seeking programs that can help young men see their role in society in a more positive light where healthy and respectful relationships are the norm, where bullying or homophobic taunts are not tolerated, and where young men take pride in being up-standers and see as much harm in standing silent while another is abused as if they threw the first punch themselves.  CBIM was founded on the premise that athletic coaches play an extremely influential and unique role in the lives of young men. Because of these relationships, coaches are poised to positively influence how young men think and behave, both on and off the field. Often, though, when schools or coaches seek the tools and trainings provided by CBIM they don’t realize how it also serves as a transformative experience in the lives of those who instruct as much as those who listen and learn.   (more…)

Strengthening Patient and Provider Responses to Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Strengthening Patient and Provider Responses to Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking

Dates: April-May 2021

Description: This learning collaborative will work with 10 health centers to adapt a safety card (used in the CUES approach) to craft a new national version specifically for health centers working in partnership with community-based DV programs. The learning collaborative will explore updating messages on intimate partner violence, trafficking, and health, including social determinants of health and COVID-19 support. Upon completion, participating health centers and partnering programs will have the opportunity to tailor the safety card’s back “resources” panel to reflect their own local or state hotlines/programs/information, and logos.  

Applications will launch in Spring 2021 If you are interested in applying, please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org

Adapting and Formalizing Health Center Protocols on Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking in Partnership with Community-based DV Programs

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Adapting and Formalizing Health Center Protocols on Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking in Partnership with Community-based DV Programs

Dates: April-May 2021

Description: The goal of this learning collaborative is to work with 10 health centers and 10 community-based DV programs to help the development of a new national protocol on IPV and trafficking. The new national protocol will include guidance on implementing the CUES approach, the new Uniform Data System (UDS) measures and ICD-10 codes on IPV and trafficking, and building meaningful partnerships with community-based DV programs.

Applications will launch in Spring 2021. If you are interested in applying, please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org

Healing Centered Engagement for Patients Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Healing Centered Engagement for Patients Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence

Description: The National Health Network on Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Bureau of Primary Health Care, works with health centers and systems to support those at risk of experiencing or surviving intimate partner violence (IPV) or human trafficking (HT) and to bolster prevention efforts. The National Health Network on IPV and HT will be holding a Learning Collaborative on “Healing Centered Engagement for Patients Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence.”

Through four online sessions, this learning collaborative will bolster community health center (CHC) staff capacity so they can best support their patients on IPV and HT, including offering universal education, empowerment and support (the CUES approach) and offering warm referrals to community-based domestic violence programs (DVPs) for safety planning and other well-being support in the time of COVID-19. The learning collaborative will offer guidance on a range of topics including how to establish partnerships between CHCs/DVPs and establish memoranda of understanding (MOUs); staff self-care and organizational practices to help prevent provider burn out and bolster staff capacity; adapting the CUES approach for telehealth; an introduction to other tools and approaches featured on www.IPVHealthPartners.org, and an opportunity for peer exchanges among participating CHCs and DVPs.

How to apply: This learning collaborative is open to 10 federally-funded community health centers, working in partnership with 10 domestic violence programs across the U.S.

Health centers should have two staff members participate in this Learning Collaborative—this can be a number of roles, including: administrators, providers, quality improvement managers, etc.

DV programs that are partnering with health centers should have 1 staff member participate in the Learning Collaborative.

Please fill out the online application by Wednesday, December 9, 2020 if you are a community health center interested in applying. For DV programs, please reach out to your partnering health center so that they may apply. If you would like assistance identifying a health center near you, please visit: www.findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov. If you would like additional support, please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org.

Applicants will be notified on December 11, 2020.

If you have any questions, please email: ipvhealthpartners@futureswithoutviolence.org.

Session Descriptions, Dates, and Times:

  • Session 1: December 14th from 11:00am-12pmPST/2:00pm-3pmEST: “Building Intimate Partner Violence/Human Trafficking Partnerships Between Community Health Centers and Domestic Violence Advocacy Programs” (National Webinar): This webinar will feature the critical role of community based domestic violence programs in supporting patients on IPV/HT and how to build meaningful collaborations including initiating MOUs and bidirectional warm referrals. FUTURES will help CHCs establish this partnership by detailing mutual partnership benefits; sharing an MOU template; and offering other tools featured on www.ipvhealthpartners.org, including guidance and agenda topics for their first meeting. Additionally, the MOU template (tool) and guidance will reflect procedural changes related to COVID-19. For example, rather than meeting in person at the start of the partnership, virtual engagement will also be suggested, as well as expanding on other collaborative strategies given social distancing.
  • Session 2: January 14th, 2021 from 9:30am-11amPST/12:30pm-2pmEST (Learning Collaborative Cohort Session): This second session in the learning collaborative will serve as an orientation and an opportunity for the cohort to get to know one another. We will also provide an overview of the learning collaborative workplan/timeline and next steps. Time will also be provided to debrief the webinar, “Building Intimate Partner Violence/Human Trafficking Partnership Between Community Health Centers and Community-based Programs,” and materials provided to participants before beginning the learning collaborative, including an infographic for the CUES approach, and other FUTURES resources and tools.
  • Session 3: January 20th, 2021 from 9am-10:30amPST/12pm-1:30pmEST “Increasing Staff Capacity to Respond to IPV/HT During COVID-19” (National Webinar): This webinar will offer a combination of self-care and organizational practice strategies to help prevent provider burn out and bolster staff readiness for implementing CUES, as well as trauma-informed and healing-centered practices. Lifetime exposure to violence is common and working with clients who are experiencing or have experienced trauma/violence can trigger painful memories and trauma for staff. A personal history of exposure to violence increases risk for experiencing secondary traumatic stress. We will share trauma-informed approaches offered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that recognize how trauma affects all individuals involved with the program, organization, or system, including its own workforce. Numerus studies tell us that in order to do this complex work the needs of providers cannot be ignored. Providers need supports for themselves and within their systems to promote healing centered engagement, which will also be covered in this webinar.
  • Session 4: January 22nd, 2021 from 11am-12:30pmPST/2-3:30pmEST (Learning Collaborative Cohort Session): This final session will be an opportunity for the learning collaborative to debrief the webinar on increasing staff capacity and answer questions, promote peer exchange, and share additional tools and approaches. We will also discuss other next steps to promote their partnership and utilize the online toolkit, www.ipvhealthpartners.org to undertake additional systems change actions as a partnership.

 

Supporting the Health and Economic Needs of Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault and Trafficking Survivors during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Posted by marenas

Title: Supporting the Health and Economic Needs of Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault and Trafficking Survivors during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Date: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020

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Resources on COVID-19 & Human Trafficking, Domestic and Sexual Violence Response 

Telehealth, COVID‐19, Intimate Partner Violence, and Human Trafficking:  Increasing Safety for People Surviving Abuse – Guide

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Overview of Presenters 

Description: 

Human trafficking and domestic and sexual violence victims/survivors are experiencing increased isolation and danger as a result of social distancing measures during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The COVID-19 public health emergency has illuminated both urgent and ongoing health care needs for survivors, as well as economic and employment impact. This webinar will discuss the ways in which advocacy programs and collaborative partners are shifting their in-person and virtual approaches to meet the needs of trafficking survivors. The webinar will also identify tools and approaches for anti-human trafficking collaborations or task forces to expand their partnerships with health care and workforce development partners, to enhance safety and wellness for survivors.

Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Learn how domestic violence and sexual assault programs are adapting their services to meet the needs of human trafficking/domestic violence/sexual assault survivors during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
2. Know how to initiate and/or expand formalized human trafficking collaborative partnerships with community health centers.
3. Describe how to develop and/or strengthen partnerships between and among victim service providers and local workforce development and educational service providers to address human trafficking.

Speakers:

Anisa Ali, MA, Futures Without Violence

Anna Marjavi, Futures Without Violence

Sarah Gonzalez Bocinski, MPP, Futures Without Violence

Tina Pennington, The Beloved Haven

Kiricka Yarbough Smith, North Carolina Department of Administration

Questions?

Please contact Mónica Arenas at: marenas@futureswithoutviolence.org 

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K029, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.. 

Legal Services & Advocacy Collaboration to Support Trafficked Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault During COVID-19

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Title:  Legal Services & Advocacy Collaboration to Support Trafficked Survivors of Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault During COVID-19. Peer exchange webinar.

Date:  September 22, 2020

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Resources on COVID-19 & Human Trafficking, Domestic and Sexual Violence 

Overview of Presenters 

Description: 
Access to and provision of legal and advocacy services for human trafficking and domestic violence/sexual assault (DV/SA) survivors have changed due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. This peer exchange webinar will highlight the ways in which advocacy and legal programs are shifting their in-person and virtual approaches to meet the legal needs of trafficking survivors and collaborative strategies to provide support. Join us to hear from two national experts, for a peer exchange of strategies, and to identify new resources and approaches to support the legal and advocacy needs of trafficking and DV/SA survivors.

Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Recognize how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered delivery service models, and impacted the effectiveness of providing legal and advocacy services to survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault.
2. Exchange legal service adaptations and modifications to collaborations with courts, law enforcement, and other stakeholders, to address challenges due to COVID-19.
3. Identify tools and resources to build collaborative responses between domestic violence advocacy programs and legal programs to support survivors of human trafficking.

Speakers:
Cindy Liou, Esq., State Policy Director, Kids in Need of Defense
Kiricka Yarbough Smith, Anti-Human Trafficking Consultant/Trainer, North Carolina Department of Administration

Biographies for Speakers

Facilitators: 
Anisa Ali, MA, Senior Program Specialist, Futures Without Violence
Mónica Arenas, Program Manager, Futures Without Violence

Target Audience: 
Staff who work in domestic violence, sexual assault or human trafficking programs including: Executive Directors, Program Directors/Managers/Coordinators, Advocates, Attorneys, and legal service providers who work in OVW-funded programs.  Additional audience members may include programs collaborating with DV/SA/HT advocates; or others providing services to survivors of DV/SA/HT.

Questions?
Please contact Mónica Arenas at: marenas@futureswithoutviolence.org 

This webinar is part of a project entitled Building Collaborative Responses Project, supported by the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K029, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.. 

Organizational Resiliency in Managing Challenges within Survivor-Serving Organizations

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Title:  Organizational Resiliency in Managing Challenges within Survivor-Serving Organizations

Date:  Wednesday, September 30, 2020

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Webinar Description:

Leaders within domestic violence and sexual assault organizations are often tasked with leading and managing challenges due to transitions, natural disasters, health emergencies, and financial crises, among others. Now more than ever, organizations are grappling with a panoply of needs and concerns amidst great uncertainty. Organizations that concentrate on leadership and operational practices that strengthen collective resilience can learn and grow from these experiences and thereby serve communities better. This round table will include a facilitated peer exchange and panel discussions to share strategies to help build and sustain organizational resiliency.

As a result of this webinar, you will be better able to:

  • Recognize the science of resilience to help mitigate or buffer the effects of stress and trauma.
  • Discuss resiliency strategies to lead during uncertainty, change, and the current health crisis.
  • Identify leadership and organizational capacities that foster resiliency within a DV/SA organization.
  • Utilize tools and resources to manage change, challenges and build resiliency.

 

Presenters:

  • Rachel Valentine, Executive Director, Orange County Rape Crisis Center
  • Gretta Gardner, Deputy Director, Ujima Inc.
  • Cherrise Picard, Executive Director, Chez Hope Inc.
  • Tien Ung, PhD, Program Director, Impact & Learning, Futures Without Violence
  • Jennifer White, JD, Program Director for Curriculum Development & Program Design, Futures Without Violence

To learn more about the presenters, visit Brief Overview of Presenters.  

Questions? Please contact Monica Arenas at marenas@futureswithoutviolence.org.

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K047, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

 

August 9-15, 2020 is National Health Center Week!

Posted by Anisa Ali

August 9-15, 2020 is National Health Center Week, which aims to raise awareness about the mission and accomplishments of federally-funded community health centers over the past five decades. Community health centers are community-based and patient-directed organizations that deliver care to the nation’s most vulnerable individuals and families, including people experiencing homelessness, agricultural workers, residents of public housing, and veterans. During COVID-19, health centers have been on the front lines providing care, and many providers, staff, and patients have lost their lives. This year’s National Health Center Week will serve as a week of remembrance to honor the lives lost during COVID-19. Each day of the week also has a particular focus area:

FUTURES has been partnering with community health centers for a number of years to support the health and safety needs of survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and human trafficking. Through Project Catalyst, FUTURES is currently working with state leadership teams in Georgia, Minnesota, and Ohio (from the state DV coalition, the primary care association, and the department of health/public health) to promote an integrated and improved response to IPV and human trafficking in community health centers, in partnership with local domestic violence programs.

As of July 1, 2020, FUTURES operates the National Health Network on Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Bureau of Primary Health Care. The National Health Network on Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking works with health centers and systems to support those at risk of experiencing or surviving intimate partner violence (IPV) or human trafficking (HT) and to bolster prevention efforts. FUTURES joins a cohort of twenty other NTTAPs, which provide training and technical assistance (T/TA) to address the operational, clinical, access, and technology needs of health centers.

For more information on building community health center and domestic violence program partnerships, visit www.IPVHealthPartners.org.

The Enduring Value of Simplicity: Reflections on the FUTURES Campus Leadership Program

Posted by Anisa Ali

If someone were to ask me to pick one word to summarize my experience as a fellow in the FUTURES Campus Leadership Program, I think that I would choose the word, bittersweet. I am certain you are thinking, “How unoriginal,” and I cannot help but to agree. Nevertheless, I have given this much thought, and sometimes, the most seemingly unoriginal thing is also the perfect thing. Let me explain: A friend once told me a story about overcoming the largest hurdle of their dissertation project with an everyday kitchen utensil. To put it briefly (and in a language far more palatable), my friend was attempting to heat an awfully expensive chemical solution, yet every attempt resulted in a small fire and reprimand from my friend’s advisor. After coming up with a number of high-tech solutions all to no avail, a research assistant’s mother suggested the use of a basic kitchen whisk. Lo and behold, the fires ceased, and the project was able to continue on without a hitch.

In many ways, this short anecdote is illustrative of the mental traps that all of us, not just those in academia, can fall into. In our society, complexity tends to be inextricably tied to value. However, the most complex or technical solution is not always the most impactful, nor is it always the most valuable―Futures Without Violence understands this entirely.

Bringing together a small group of graduate students from all over the United States who are committed to addressing sexual violence on their campuses may not appear to be innovative, but it is. FUTURES saw our potential to make a change, and equipped us with a ticket to what seemed like a never-ending supply of resources for our communities. But most importantly, they provided us with a network. For many of us who may feel alone in advocating for sexual assault prevention, education, and improved services for victims on our campuses, the FUTURES campus fellows program forms a network that is crucial to continuing the fight. Throughout duration of the program, fellows were not only able to share valuable tools and resources, but we were also able inspire and encourage each other, celebrate our achievements, and provide support during setbacks.

Much of my work as a campus fellow could not have been completed without this network, though equally significant were the supplies that were afforded to us during the program. Two of the most valuable during my time with FUTURES included the ThatsNotCool curriculum, and as well as the Caring Relationships, Healthy You LGBTQ safety cards.

Due to my work with a local NGO for adolescent girls who are victims of sex trafficking, the information on teen dating violence piqued my interest. While a number of groups are offered to clients at the organization, issues surrounding healthy dating had predominantly been limited to discussions between the client and her case manager. Upon my return from the campus fellows orientation, I was able to discuss implementing a group on teen dating violence using the ThatsNotCool curriculum with the director of the organization. While the idea was initially tabled, in February 2020, an extraordinarily successful three-week teen dating violence group was held with FUTURES curriculum used as a supplementary guide. Plans for future groups are in the works, which will hopefully lead to a permanent group on teen dating violence at the NGO.

Back at my university, I was able to begin to forage a relationship with my institution’s LGBTQIA+ Center. With the majority of the discussion surrounding sexual violence on campus being focused on those who are not members of the LGBTQIA+ community, it was important to make FUTURES’ LGBTQ specific Caring Relationships, Healthy You safety cards available to our student body. After a few conversations with the associate director of the Center, the safety cards were placed in the front office and passed out at campus events. Such a simple tool ensured that members of the LGBTQIA+ community attending our campus were not only included in the discussion, but also received information that could be critical to their wellbeing.

My major goal during my time as a campus fellow was to hold a Lunch and Learn series for Women’s History Month, and here is where it becomes bittersweet. The room was booked, flyers were circulated, and sent out on graduate and undergraduate student listservs. The Lunch and Learn speakers were confirmed and comprised of a discussion of Hispanic college students’ preferred sexual coercion intervention approaches, non-consensual porn in the US, and commercial sexual exploitation in South Florida. Then COVID-19 occurred. This global health crisis forced us indoors, away from our friends, family, and peers. Universities and businesses closed, and while we may be in the process of reopening today, we are uncertain of the future that is to come. For those of us who are committed to social justice, our work may feel especially daunting right now. However, we must remember that some of the simplest things can make a big difference. While our solutions may not be in a drawer in our kitchens, they may be found in our networks, our community organizations, or even in a safety card.

 

 

NHCVA Webinar – Telehealth Visits: Increasing Safety for People at Risk for Abuse

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Title: Telehealth Visits: Increasing Safety for People at Risk for Abuse

Date: Thursday, June 25th, 2020

Time: 12-1:30pm Pacific/ 1-2:30pm Mountain/ 2-3:30pm Central/ 3-4:30pm Eastern

Webinar Resources:

Download the webinar slides (PDF with active links).

Download FUTURES’ Telehealth Recommendations and Clinical Pathway.

View the webinar recording.

The coronavirus pandemic and consequent stay-at-home and other physical distancing measures have increased danger for those at risk for or experiencing family violence. Shifting non-emergent health encounters to telehealth platforms offers unique opportunities to provide trauma-informed care and to connect in new ways with adults and children who may be experiencing abuse. Telehealth and virtual visits also present new challenges related to privacy, safety and digital health equity.

Download the webinar flyer.

Visit the www.nhcva.org website.

This webinar is CME eligible for MDs/DOs/Physicians. Certificates are only available to those who participated in our live event. We do not distribute certificates for viewing the recording of the event.

Learning Objectives:

This National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse (NHCVA) webinar will:

  1. Examine challenges, opportunities and guiding principles for telehealth and other virtual visits through an equity and trauma-informed perspective;
  2. Highlight inequities in digital health tools and opportunities to apply an equity framework in an era of expanded patient access to data and care;
  3. Describe a clinical provider’s experiences around transitioning to telehealth visits; and
  4. Introduce resources that can guide optimal approaches to promote safety and well-being through virtual visits.

Presenters:

Dayna Long, MD, FAAP, Pediatrician and Director, Center for Child and Community Health, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
Jorge A. Rodriguez, MD, Clinician and Investigator at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA
Lisa James, MA, Director of Health, Futures Without Violence and NHCVA Member
Facilitated by: Elaine Alpert, MD, MPH, Massachusetts Medical Society and NHCVA Member

Questions? Please contact NHCVA Staff: health@futureswithoutviolence.org

www.nhcva.org

This webinar is supported by the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (HRC) and the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse (NHCVA). The HRC is funded by a grant from the Family Violence Prevention & Services Program, Family & Youth Services Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Futures Without Violence’s HRC  is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physician – MDs and DOs. The HRC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity, and are responsible for verifying the acceptance of education units with their respective accreditation boards.

The Facts on Violence Against American Indian/Alaskan Native Women

Posted by Anisa Ali

ai-an-fact-sheet-cover American Indian women living on Indian reservations experience unique challenges that intensify the epidemic of violence against them. The scope of this data collection examines violence committed against American Indian women and issues around the effectiveness of the local, state and federal responses.

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Q & A: Creating Virtual Education That Sticks

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Title: Q & A: Creating a Virtual Education That Sticks

Date:  Wednesday, June 17, 2020 

 

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Resources: 

Facilitating Support Groups Online

Translating Your In-Person Education Online: Tips for Piecing it All Together

 

Webinar Description: 

Last month, The Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED) hosted a short webinar as an introduction to transitioning your face-to-face education to an online forum. It was clear that participants wanted more time and the opportunity to ask lots of questions. To meet your needs, I-LED will host a 90 minute Q & A: Creating Virtual Education That Sticks, with special guest and expert virtual educator, Dr. Karen Richardson.

This Q&A will serve as an opportunity participants to dictate the content based on your current needs, concerns, and struggles. Participation will be limited to 100 registrants in order to maximize interactivity and engagement. We will record the session for further dissemination and if need arises, host a second session. We hope you will register and share your burning questions. Please take a moment to fill out this SurveyMonkey to let us know what questions you have and information you are interested in.

Presenters:

Dr. Karen Richardson is the owner of Ivy Run LLC, a company focused on educational technology. For nearly 30 years, she has been helping educators learn to integrate digital technologies into their classrooms to enhance and engage the educational environment. Dr. Richardson is the Executive Director of the Virginia Society for Technology in Education and in that capacity, works to develop and implement online and face-to-face educational technology professional development experiences for educators. Karen has 25 years of experience in education. She has taught high school English, middle school language arts and technology, and now focuses her attention on pre-service and in-service teachers, teaching both face-to-face and online courses related to educational technology and school leadership and administration.Karen is an advocate for teachers and equity in technology. She lives on a farm in rural southeast Virginia. You can check out her website at ivyrun.com

Jennifer White, Futures Without Violence 

Rebecca Del Rossi, Futures Without Violence 

Questions? Please contact Rebecca Del Rossi at rdelrossi@futureswithoutviolence.org.

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K067, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Supporting the Health and Economic Needs of Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault and Trafficking Survivors during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Posted by Anisa Ali

Title: Supporting the Health and Economic Needs of Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault and Trafficking Survivors during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Date: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020

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Closed Captioning Script

Handouts

Resources on COVID-19 & Human Trafficking, Domestic and Sexual Violence Response 

Telehealth, COVID‐19, Intimate Partner Violence, and Human Trafficking:  Increasing Safety for People Surviving Abuse – Guide

Handouts in large print 

Overview of Presenters 

Description: 

Human trafficking and domestic and sexual violence victims/survivors are experiencing increased isolation and danger as a result of social distancing measures during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The COVID-19 public health emergency has illuminated both urgent and ongoing health care needs for survivors, as well as economic and employment impact. This webinar will discuss the ways in which advocacy programs and collaborative partners are shifting their in-person and virtual approaches to meet the needs of trafficking survivors. The webinar will also identify tools and approaches for anti-human trafficking collaborations or task forces to expand their partnerships with health care and workforce development partners, to enhance safety and wellness for survivors.

Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Learn how domestic violence and sexual assault programs are adapting their services to meet the needs of human trafficking/domestic violence/sexual assault survivors during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
2. Know how to initiate and/or expand formalized human trafficking collaborative partnerships with community health centers.
3. Describe how to develop and/or strengthen partnerships between and among victim service providers and local workforce development and educational service providers to address human trafficking.

Speakers:

Anisa Ali, MA, Futures Without Violence

Anna Marjavi, Futures Without Violence

Sarah Gonzalez Bocinski, MPP, Futures Without Violence

Tina Pennington, The Beloved Haven

Kiricka Yarbough Smith, North Carolina Department of Administration

Questions?

Please contact Mónica Arenas at: marenas@futureswithoutviolence.org 

This project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K029, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.. 

Racism, Domestic Violence & Black Maternal Mortality – What Can Advocates Do?

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Title: Racism, Domestic Violence & Black Maternal Mortality – What Can Advocates Do? [hosted by UJIMA and co-sponsored by FUTURES]

Date: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

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Description: 

Over the past year, there has been increased attention on the poor health outcomes and inequities for Black birthing people. At the same time, many Black birthing people have experienced Domestic violence. But how can domestic violence programs help address this crisis? This webinar will help advocates understand the unique and important roles that doulas and midwives can play in supporting Black pregnant survivors, and how domestic violence programs can partner with them effectively. Policy opportunities to increase access and improve the healthcare response to racism, domestic violence and Black maternal mortality will also be discussed.

Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this webinar, participants will be better able to:
1. Understand the intersection of racism, domestic violence and poor maternal health outcomes for Black birthing people.
2. Define the roles and scope of doulas and midwives.
3. Build the capacity of domestic violence programs to partner effectively with doulas and midwives.
4. Identify policy opportunities to improve systems of care for Black birthing people.

Speakers:

Megan Simmons, Senior Policy Attorney at Ujima, Inc.

Virginia Duplessis, MSW, Program Director at Futures Without Violence

Jessica Diggs, LA based Midwife, Doula, and Educator

Malika Hook Muhammad, Washington DC based Social Worker and Doula

Questions?

Please contact Ujima, Inc. at: ujimainfo@ujimacommunity.org

This webinar is being co-sponsored by Ujima, Inc and by Futures Without Violence’s National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence, the Family Violence Prevention & Services Program, Family & Youth Services Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. DHHS, and is also part of the technical assistance FUTURES provides for the US Department of Health and Human Services. 

Innovation on Demand Part 1: Implementing Culturally-Responsive and Trauma-Informed Telehealth Services and Family-Centered Practice During COVID-19

Posted by Kyle Coleman

Innovation on Demand Part 1: Implementing Culturally-Responsive and Trauma-Informed Telehealth Services and Family-Centered Practice During COVID-19

Monday, May 4, 2020, 3:00pm – 4:30pm EST (12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. PST) 

This virtual dialogue is part of a three-part series. To learn more about the rest of the series, please click for Part 2 and Part 3. To download our event flyer (PDF), please visit: https://wp.me/a8nsIW-6eT

Please click here to view the recording (Zoom link)

Please click here to download the closed-captioning transcript (Word) 

 

Child Witness to Violence Project Materials: click here to download Telehealth Tip Sheet (PDF), click here to download Informed Consent to Telehealth Counseling Form (PDF)

House of Ruth Materials:

Description: 

In Part 1, presenters will share how they offer virtual services with families impacted by domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Panelists will discuss equity and safety issues with telehealth counseling. They will share what it takes to create safer virtual environments with children and adult survivors of domestic violence and abusive partners.

This dialogue will be recorded and closed-captioned. The slides, recording and closed-captioning transcript will be posted here. 

 

Presenters:

 

Questions? Accessibility Needs? Please contact Jess Fournier at jfournier@futureswithoutviolence.org 

 

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These webinars are funded through the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau, Grant #90CA1850-01, and Grant Number 90EV0434-01-00 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The content of these webinars does not necessarily reflect the view or policies of the funder, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products or organizations imply endorsement by the US Department of Health and Human Services.