Calendar

Topic: Advocacy Strategy Session: Emerging Issues

Hosted By: Praxis International

Date/Time: Jul 7, 2022 2:00pm - 4:00pm CDT

Description: This training will explore emerging issues in advocacy and will showcase cutting-edge work. Participants will have opportunities to engage with the presenters and each other. Specific session topics will be determined closer to the date of the event.

Location: via Zoom

Topic: Abuse in Later Life: A webinar series for Civil Attorneys and Legal Advocates

Hosted By: American Bar Association Fund For Justice And Education

Date/Time: Jul 11, 2022 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Description: Part one of five of a progressive five-part webinar series that will support civil attorneys and legal advocates identify and respond to abuse in later life.

Location: via Zoom

Topic: Domestic Violence and Technology Part One: Technology Abuse and Digital Evidence Foundations

Hosted By: American Bar Association Fund For Justice And Education

Date/Time: Jul 12, 2022 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

Description: This webinar is part one in a two-part series about technology and domestic violence cases. This webinar will help you better serve clients who have experienced technology abuse and prepare for cases involving digital evidence. You will learn about the relevance of technology to domestic violence lawyering, the use of technology as a means of abuse, how to identify and document digital evidence, how to improve digital evidence.

Location: via Zoom

Topic: Collaborative Partnerships: Co-locating Community Victim Service Providers on Campus

Hosted By: Clery Center for Security On Campus

Date/Time: Jul 13, 2022 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Description: In this webinar, we will discuss establishing victim services on campus through a collaborative partnership with our local community victim services provider; will provide overview services available for students prior to agreement, assessment of campus context, existing resources, and benefits/drawbacks of the model.

Location: via Zoom

Topic: Understanding Dissociation and Sexual Violence: Grounding

Hosted By: Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault

Date/Time: Jul 13, 2022 2:00pm - 3:00pm CDT

Description: Grounding is a coping strategy that helps survivors who dissociate stay connected to the present moment. Grounding often involves connecting with the five senses to stay in the here and now. Join part four of a four part panel discussion to learn more about grounding, a variety of techniques to ground, and what advocates can do to help survivors stay grounding. Panelists joining for these conversations include Olga Trujillo, a survivor and expert on dissociative identity disorder, Nicole Matthews, an expert on sexual violence and advocacy in Native communities, and Kris Bein, an expert on advocacy skills. Closed captions in English and Spanish language interpretation will be provided during the webinar.

Location: via Zoom

Topic: Safety Net's 10th Annual Virtual Tech Summit

Hosted By: Safety Net

Date/Time: Tuseday July 19 1:00 PM-5:15 PM EST

Description: We use the term “tech safety” to encompasses the many ways that technology can impact a survivor’s experience of abuse. We include experiences of both harm and healing, as well as efforts to prevent harm or promote healing. Any aspect of a technology or technology product can be relevant to tech safety, from original design, to implementation and use, to its evolution or when it’s obsolete. Thinking about technologies in multifaceted ways is essential to effective survivor advocacy work and safety planning. To be survivor-centered and meet survivors where they are, advocates must consider the many ways technology is a part of survivor’s lives and their experiences of abuse. Technologies can be misused as a tactic of abuse and can pose significant privacy risks, but they can also be harnessed strategically to increase safety and privacy and provide more options for healing. This session will discuss the scope of tech safety work and some of the most common ways that technology can impact survivors.

Location: via Zoom

Topic: Safety Net's 10th Annual Virtual Tech Summit

Hosted By: Safety Net

Date/Time: Wednesday July 20 1:00 PM-5: 15 PM EST

Description: Since 2017, our research group at Cornell University has been looking at the role of technology in intimate partner violence (IPV) contexts. We have worked with victim-survivors, support professionals and advocates to design the Clinic to End Tech Abuse (CETA), a voluntary-run service that pairs victim-survivors of tech abuse with privacy and security experts to identify and respond to threats and harms posed by the abuser. In this talk, we will share the origins of our model and show how our research can blend with practice to equip victim-survivors with the skills and knowledge to help navigate their technology concerns in a supportive and caring environment. We impart some considerations for how other professional services might adopt some of these approaches in their own work . We are grateful to have worked with many collaborators including our primary partner The Mayor's Office to End Domestic and GenderBased Violence (ENDGBV) and clinic volunteers, please see the website for Computer Security and Privacy research and the Clinic to End Tech Abuse for more information.

Location: via Zoom

Topic: Safety Net's 10th Annual Virtual Tech Summit

Hosted By: Safety Net

Date/Time: Thursday July 21 1:00 Pm-5:15 Pm EST

Description: The pandemic has highlighted opportunities to use technology in our work with survivors. Yet, how we use technology can directly impact survivors’ privacy and safety. In our 2021 Needs Assessment, over half of respondents said they routed hotline calls to home and about 1 in 5 responded that they had added text messaging or web chat to their hotline. For ongoing work with survivors, most people said they used voice calls and about half said they used text or video. Over a third of respondents shifted support groups to video. In this session, we’ll look at the benefits and challenges of these tools, and what lessons we should take with us into the future.

Location: via Zoom

Topic: Supporting Advocate Wellbeing: Virtual Gathering

Hosted By: Praxis International

Date/Time: Jul 26, 2022 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT

Description: The past two years have brought disruption and difficulty for so many, and they have drastically changed how we all live and work. We know that the months ahead will continue to bring new challenges for many. Advocates from around the country have found it beneficial to come together in solidarity and support. Please join us on 7-26-22 for a time of respite, a time to nourish ourselves and recharge for what lays ahead. You deserve time for yourself.

Location: via Zoom