Agenda
| Thursday, October 4, 2007 | ||||
| 6:00 pm | - | 8:00 pm | Early Registration & Opening Reception Networking Reception Kaiser's PEACE Signs Theatre Program Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theatre Programs will be presenting scenes from their play, PEACE Signs. PEACE Signs is a multi-intervention program for students in grades 3-6 focusing on peaceful conflict resolution and violence prevention. The scenes presented will highlight how children are affected by witnessing domestic violence and where they can go to seek help. |
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| Friday, October 5, 2007 | ||||
| 7:45 am | - | 12:00 pm | Conference Registration | |
| 9:00 am | - | 4:30 pm | Information Tables | |
| 8:00 am | - | 10:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 am | - | 9:00 am | Welcome Ceremony Speaker: Pending |
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| 9:00 am | - | 10:00 am | Plenary Session One Children Exposed to DV- Presenting the Facts Screening of Digital Stories Panel: Linda Perez, PhD, Oliver Williams, PhD, Jeffrey Edleson, PhD & Sudha Shetty, JD |
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| 10:15 am | - | 11:45 am | Workshop A1 - How Parents and Professionals Can Help Young Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Presenter: Patricia Van Horn, PhD This workshop will briefly discuss the impact of violence on young children's development, and will discuss some particular strategies that both parents and professionals can use to help restore violence-exposed children to a more positive developmental path. |
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| Workshop A2 - The Impact of Domestic Violence on African American Children: Innovative Strategies and Community Engagement Presenter: Oliver Williams, PhD This workshop will explore the impact that domestic violence has on African American Children. The presenter will explore how young children and adults exposed to violence as children, describe their experience. He will also offer some recommendations to address the problem within the African American family and community, along with recommendations from those exposed to it. One theme will focus on the significance of healthy parenting and how key people (Angels) can make a difference in a child’s development. |
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| Workshop A3 - Are We Doing Enough for Battered Mothers of Color and Their Children? Presenter: Sudha Shetty, JD & Susun Kim, JD Battered mothers of color face complex dynamics around issues of culture and immigration when confronted with civil litigation regarding custody of and access to their children. Ms. Shetty will discuss how to strategically plan with battered mothers to maximize their own safety and economic stability and that of their children. She will draw on her experiences as an immigrant mother and weave the voices and lives of other battered women of color into her presentation. |
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| Workshop A4 - Social Norms and Domestic Violence: A Systematic Approach to Prevention Presenters: Larry Cohen, MSW & Greta Tubbesing, BA This workshop will use a multimedia format to provide participants with an overview of primary prevention of domestic violence, emphasizing the imperative for a comprehensive, environmental approach. It will examine in-depth the role of social norms in prevention of domestic violence and childhood exposure. Using the Spectrum of Prevention as a guide, the presentationwill explore current and potential strategies for primary prevention and norms change, with an emphasis on changing the organizational practices of institutions both antagonistic and sympathetic to the cause of violence prevention. |
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| 12:00 pm | - | 1:30 pm | Luncheon | |
Plenary Session Two Professors Edleson and Williams have spent their careers developing and evaluating programs that intervene to end domestic violence. Both the presenters have specifically focused on working with men who batter and have jointly edited a new book entitled Parenting By Men Who Batter (2007, Oxford University Press). Working with violent men on their parenting is a controversial topic. The presenters will address widespread concerns about engaging violent men as fathers, point to opportunities and models to offer safe interventions with these men and conduct a dialogue on when we should and should not move forward to work with violent men on their parenting. |
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| 1:45 pm | - | 3:15 pm | Workshop B1 - Innovations in Co-parenting Therapy: Helping Young Children and Their Families After Domestic Violence This workshop will describe an intervention model for working with young children and both their offending and non-offending parents in child-parent psychotherapy after the family has separated following incidents of domestic violence. Vignettes will be used to describe the clinicial model, the challenges that it presents, and the kinds of change that can be accomplished with families using this model. |
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| Workshop B2 - Emerging Research, Policy and Practice with Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Presenter: Jeffrey Edleson, PhD Dr. Edleson will review some of the basic research on children’s exposure to adult domestic violence, their involvement in these events and the level of known co-occurring child maltreatment and domestic violence in families. He will review some recent trends in legislation and programs responding to these children and their families and draw on his work with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges’ guidelines published in Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy & Practice (commonly called the Greenbook) and the federally funded “Greenbook Initiative”. |
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Workshop B3 - Prevention Strategies - Promoting Resiliency in Children and Youth Presenters: Brian O’Connor, Family Violence Prevention Fund, Sharon Turner, STAND! Against Domestic Violence, Rhonda James, Community Violence Solutions. |
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| 3:30 pm | - | 4:30 pm | Closing Plenary & Closing Ceremony Moderator: Pending |
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