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July | August | Semptember | October | November
JANUARY
January Workshop: Eliminating The “Language Barrier”: Strategies for Language Accessibility
Presenter: Isela Arras, KDVA
Date: January 22, 2010
Registration Deadline: January 18th, 2010
Description: This workshop will discuss the responsibilities of recipients of federal funds to provide language assistance and meaningful access to non-English speakers, strategies to ensure language assistance while keeping maintaining expertise and how to manage an interpreted session. We will also discuss the role of the interpreter during the provision of services and the necessary components of a language accessibility plan.
Objectives:
- Discuss Title VI and the responsibilities of recipients of federal funds to provide meaningful access to programs.
- Define “meaningful access” and provide strategies to achieve “meaningful access” to programs.
- Provide an overview of the role of the interpreter in order to maintain professional expertise.
- Discuss strategies and guidelines that assist monolingual providers to effectively work with interpreters.
- Review the components of an LEP plan.
Cost: $40.00
FEBRUARY
February Workshop: U Visas: Helping Investigative Agencies and Victims Alike
Presenter: Gretchen Hunt, JD
Date: February 18th, 2010
Registration Deadline: February 15th, 2010
Description: Find out about an important tool to ensure that all victims of serious crimes, regardless of immigration status, report violence, cooperate with law enforcement and receive the protection they deserve. U Visas were designed to help law enforcement and investigative agencies such as child protective services gain the trust of immigrant victims who often feared deportation. New U Visa regulations were issued in 2007, making U Visas a new issue for many agencies and individuals. This workshop will answer questions about who can apply, what proof is needed for a U Visa, the role of a certifying agency and other concerns about the visa process.
Objectives:
- Participants will be able to correctly identify the types of crimes and the level of cooperation needed for a victim to qualify for a U Visa.
- Participants will become familiar with different types of certifying agencies and how to complete a U Visa certification.
- Participants will assemble an example case with samples of proof that would be included in a final application.
Cost: $40.00
MARCH
March Workshop: Responding to Abuse of Individuals with Disabilities
Presenter: Project SAFE Faculty
Date: March 16th and 17th, 2010
Location: The Center for Women and Families, 927 S. 2nd Street, Louisville, KY
Registration Deadline: May 19th, 2010
Description: Individuals with disabilities are among the most likely to be abused and least likely to receive appropriate assistance. This workshop provides a multi-disciplinary overview of critical issues, including: unique dynamics of abuse and safety planning strategies, Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, and Kentucky mandatory reporting laws, guardianship, and other legal issues.
Objectives:
- The participant will be able to define “disability” as used in the Americans With Disabilities Act and the implication on program policy and service provision.
- The participant will have a greater understanding of the dynamics of domestic violence and sexual assault particularly as they relate to individuals with disabilities and will learn about safety planning and other tools for protection.
- The participant will understand the Kentucky laws related to reporting suspected abuse and neglect including when reports are required and when they are not required.
Cost: FREE, but pre-registration is required.
March Workshop: Facilitating Support Groups -- Almost Everything You Need to Know
Presenter: Lisa Holmes, Executive Director, SpringHaven, inc.
Date: March 19th, 2010
Registration Deadline: March 15th, 2010
Description: Facilitating support groups can often be stressful work. Budget short-falls and constraints may limit a facilitators’ ability to have new materials to use in support groups. This interactive workshop will give participants the opportunity to experience a support group while practicing newly acquired skills. Participants will also learn about free resources for support group materials.
Objectives:
- Participants will gain knowledge of the support group process.
- Participants will gain knowledge of free support group materials.
- Participants will gain knowledge of facilitator skills.
Cost: $40.00
APRIL
April Workshop: Fund Raising 101
Presenter: Beth Workman, IDA Program Coordinator, KDVA
Date: April 7th, 2010
Registration Deadline: April 2nd, 2010
Description: Fundraising is an important part of our work, yet one of the most intimidating. This workshop will offer strategies to become more confident fundraising through knowledge of donor behavior and a better understanding of basic fund raising. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss potential ideas for fundraising.
Objectives:
- To gain knowledge of donor behavior
- To gain a better understanding of basic fund raising
- To empower nonprofit employees to become more confident in asking for money
Cost: $40.00
April Workshop: Advocacy and Survivors’ Use of Violence
Presenter: Connie Burk, Executive Director, The NW Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse
Date: April 7th, 2010
Registration Deadline: April 2nd, 2010
Description: This workshop will develop practical and analytical skills to improve advocates’ work with survivors who are and have used force to resist abuse. Participants will learn about advocacy strategies that avoid victim blaming while supporting survivors to act as full agents in their own lives.
Objectives:
- Create advocacy strategies that avoid victim blaming while supporting survivors to act as full agents in their own lives;
- Develop assessment skills and increase understanding of the context, intent and effect of violent behaviors
- Discuss survivors’ use of violent behaviors in the context of surviving domestic abuse
- Learn about unique concerns facing survivors who have used violence
- Practice addressing survivors’ use of violence in community education workshops
- Problem solve around typical barriers within domestic violence service programs when working with survivors who have used violence
- Evaluate their organizational capacity to create and sustain meaningful change in this area.
Cost: FREE, but open ONLY TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAMS AND OPEN DOORS COMMITTEE MEMBERS
April Workshop: Immigrant and Refugee Children and the Social Service System
Presenter: Cori Hash, Maxwell Street Legal Clinic, Liz Epperson, Bluegrass Community Health Center, Gretchen Hunt, Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Bree Pearsall, Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center
Date: April 15th, 2010
Registration Deadline: April 12th, 2010
Description: Immigrant and refugee children have unique and complex social service and legal needs. This workshop will provide information on immigrant and refugee children's social service, mental health and legal needs. The workshop will also discuss important topics that impact immigrant and refugee children such as child trafficking, mental health needs, language barriers, and immigration protections and remedies for children. Participants will leave with an enhanced understanding of how they can best serve immigrant children in a culturally- sensitive and comprehensive way.
Objectives:
- Increase participant knowledge of the issue of human trafficking. Special focus will be on the screening considerations, intervention techniques, and community resources available to assist child victims of human trafficking.
- Understand legal rights of children (and parents) who are limited English proficient under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
- Discuss strategies for developing language access plans and advocating for language access.
- Provide information about immigrant and refugee children's social service, mental health and legal needs.
Cost: $40.00
MAY
May Workshop: Children Exposed to Batterers
Presenter: Kristie Adams
Date: May 14th, 2010
Registration Deadline: May 7th, 2010
Description: Domestic violence affects every member of the family, including the children. Batterers create a home environment where children live in constant fear. Children react to their environment in different ways, and reactions can vary depending on the child's gender and age. This workshop will provide an understanding of the developmental process of children and the effects of exposure to battering. Participants will also learn strategies for safety planning with children and families.
Objectives:
- To understand the developmental process of children
- To understand the effect that the exposure to battereing has on children.
- Safety planning with children
- To identify resources and activities available for working with children.
Cost: $40.00
May Workshop: Considerations for Victims of Domestic Violence and Their Families: A Faith- based Approach
Presenter: LeTonia Jones, MSW, KDVA and Danielle Duckett, MA, University of KY
Date: May 19th, 2010
Registration Deadline: May 14th, 2010
Description: This 6-hour workshop will provide faith based leaders with information about domestic violence and ways the faith-based community can be proactive in preventing the occurrence of domestic violence, respond to victims and their families when it occurs, and hold abusers accountable for their violent behaviors.
Objectives:
- Participants will participate in interactive discussion about domestic violence.
- Participants will explore ways that the faith-based community can be both proactive in preventing domestic violence and responding to victims when it occurs.
- Participants will have a better understanding of the resources available as well as have an opportunity to explore development of support within their own organizations.
Cost: $40.00
May Workshop: Responding to Abuse of Individuals with Disabilities
Presenter: Project SAFE Faculty
Date: May 26th and 27th, 2010
Location: Warren County Justice Center, 1001 Center Street, District Courtroom D, 2nd Floor, Bowling Green, KY
Registration Deadline: May 19th, 2010
Description: Individuals with disabilities are among the most likely to be abused and least likely to receive appropriate assistance. This workshop provides a multi-disciplinary overview of critical issues, including: unique dynamics of abuse and safety planning strategies, Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, and Kentucky mandatory reporting laws, guardianship, and other legal issues.
Objectives:
- The participant will be able to define “disability” as used in the Americans With Disabilities Act and the implication on program policy and service provision.
- The participant will have a greater understanding of the dynamics of domestic violence and sexual assault particularly as they relate to individuals with disabilities and will learn about safety planning and other tools for protection.
- The participant will understand the Kentucky laws related to reporting suspected abuse and neglect including when reports are required and when they are not required.
Cost: FREE, but pre-registration is required
May Workshop: Measures of Coercive Control: Implications for Therapeutic and Advocacy Interventions in cases of Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking
Presenter: Maria Almario, MS, EdS
Date: May 28th, 2010
Registration Deadline: May 24th, 2010
Description: Coercive control is at core of most cases of domestic violence, sexual abuse and human trafficking. However, the expression of these factors might be different in each of these crimes. This workshop helps advocates and practitioners discern between these crimes and obtain the necessary information to support cases in the legal system and gain pivotal information that could be important in the therapeutic process.
Objectives:
- To gain a comprehensive understanding of coercive control and how it is expressed in cases of domestic violence, sexual abuse and human trafficking.
- To increase skills related to the use of instrumentation that confirm the presence of coercive control in power based crimes.
- To gain a deeper understanding of the impact of coercive control on victims as well as the nuances that each particular type of crime implies.
- To obtain knowledge related to the type of interventions needed in advocacy and treatment of victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and human trafficking.
Cost: $40.00
JUNE
June Workshop: Responding to Abuse of Individuals with Disabilities
Presenter: Project SAFE Faculty
Date: June 2nd and 3rd, 2010
Location: Somerset Community College, Harold Rogers Community Room, 808 Monticello Street, Somerset, KY 42501
Registration Deadline: Friday, May 28th, 2010
Description: Individuals with disabilities are among the most likely to be abused and least likely to receive appropriate assistance. This workshop provides a multi-disciplinary overview of critical issues, including: unique dynamics of abuse and safety planning strategies, Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, and Kentucky mandatory reporting laws, guardianship, and other legal issues.
Objectives:
- The participant will be able to define “disability” as used in the Americans With Disabilities Act and the implication on program policy and service provision.
- The participant will have a greater understanding of the dynamics of domestic violence and sexual assault particularly as they relate to individuals with disabilities and will learn about safety planning and other tools for protection.
- The participant will understand the Kentucky laws related to reporting suspected abuse and neglect including when reports are required and when they are not required.
Cost: FREE, but pre-registration is required
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June Workshop: HIV/ AIDS: What Everyone Needs to Know
Presenter: Christophre Woods
Date: June 11th, 2010
Registration Deadline: June 4th, 2010
Description: This workshop will allow attendees to step outside of their comfort zone in discussing the provision of services to HIV positive people and people in situations where there is a large degree of risky behavior. Topics covered will include a harm prevention approach to substance use and commercial sex work as well as differing values for sexual behaviors which increase HIV risk.
Objectives:
- Identification of risk factors for HIV
- Integration of harm reduction focus in client interactions around risk factors
- Learning ways to employ effective partnerships/resources to address victims’ needs
Cost: $40.00
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June Workshop: Reproductive Health and Domestic Violence: The Issue of Pregnancy in Intimate Partner Violence
Presenter: Gabriela Alcalde, MPH, Kentucky Health Justice Network
Date: June 18th, 2010
Registration Deadline: June 14th, 2010
Description: This workshop will provide an overview of how reproductive health plays a role in addressing the needs and circumstances of domestic violence victims and survivors, with a special focus on pregnancy in the context of an intimate partner violence relationship.
Objectives:
- Become aware of the intersections of reproductive health and domestic violence
- Identify specific areas of reproductive health that are particularly affected by domestic violence
- Be familiar with the overall research findings in terms of reproductive health impact of domestic violence
- Understand the unique circumstances of pregnant victims of intimate partner violence
- Identify some ways in which domestic violence programs can support women in a holistic way, including the reproductive health needs of women and their families
Cost: $40.00
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JULY
July Workshop: Dismantling Classism
Presenter: Khalilah Collins, Women in Transition
Date: July 30th, 2010
Registration Deadline: July 26th, 2010
Description: This session will be an interactive workshop led by current and former low income people, members of Women In Transition that will highlight and subsequently tear down stereotypes commonly held of people in poverty.
Objectives:
- To present participants with the current stereotypes of people in poverty, along with systemic injustices that perpetuate poverty and those stereotypes
- To highlight and challenge those stereotypes with the true resiliencies and resourcefulness of poor people
- To highlight efforts of grassroots organizations to address poverty in the community and ways for which participants can become involved in the struggle for economic justice
Cost: $40.00
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AUGUST
August Workshop: The Right to Parent: Economic Justice and KY Families
Presenter: Khalilah Collins, Women in Transition
Date: August 6th, 2010
Registration Deadline: August 2nd, 2010
Description: Using an economic human rights framework, this workshop will highlight the intersection of economic justice and reproductive justice, specifically as it relates to the right to parent using the Claiming Our Rights, Reclaiming Our Children (CORROC) Campaign of Women In Transition.
Objectives:
- To introduce and familiarize participants with the intersection of economic justice and reproductive justice
- To introduce and familiarize participants with the CORROC campaign of Women In Transition
- To explore the intersection and also look at times for intervention coming from justice/human rights framework
Cost: $40.00
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August Workshop: Domestic Violence Victimization and Substance Abuse
Presenter: Stephanie Ratliff, MSW, CSW, Program Coordinator, University of Kentucky Targeted Assessment Program
Date: August 27th, 2010
Registration Deadline: August 20th, 2010
Description: The relationship between domestic violence victimization and substance abuse is significant and complex. A brief overview of research findings regarding domestic violence and substance abuse will be presented. Participants will be provided with concrete assessment and intervention skills, emphasizing the importance of providing clients with safe, effective, and comprehensive treatment.
Objectives:
- Participants will learn about the role that the abuse of substances play in relationships where power and control exists.
- Participants will learn effective and empowering assessment and counseling skills for working with persons affected by substance abuse and domestic violence.
- Participants will gain resources to use with survivors of domestic violence with substance abuse problems.
Cost: $40.00
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SEPTEMBER
September Workshop: Social Service Providers and a Human Rights Perspective
Presenter: Khalilah Collins, Women in Transition
Date: September 17th, 2010
Registration Deadline: September 13th, 2010
Description: This workshop will introduce a human rights framework as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and look at ways for social service providers to integrate it into their work.
Objectives:
- To introduce and familiarize participants the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- To present ways of interventions that uses a human rights framework
Cost: $40.00
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OCTOBER
October Workshop: Building an Economic Empowerment Program
Presenter: Mary O’Doherty, KDVA, Economic Empowerment Project Director
Date: October 1st, 2010
Registration Deadline: September 27th, 2010
Description: Economic justice programming can take many different forms. This workshop will explain why economic empowerment work is important and how to make it happen even when your funding is limited. Knowledge about funding sources, tools to engage communities and collaboration strategies are key to economic empowerment work and can serve to build programming.
Objectives:
- Identify funding sources
- Find training opportunities for advocates
- Develop tools service providers can use to engage survivors
- Partner with other non-profits to provides services
Cost: $40.00
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October Workshop: Theater of the Oppressed
Presenter: Khalilah Collins, Women in Transition
Date: October 15th, 2010
Registration Deadline: October 11th, 2010
Description: This workshop will highlight voices of the oppressed through community based theater and introduce interactive ways of highlighting stories of struggle and resistance.
Objectives:
- To introduce and familiarize participants with Theater of the Oppressed
- To introduce stories of oppression and tools for resistance using a theatrical approach
- To engage participants in Theater of the Oppressed techniques
Cost: $40.00
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October Workshop: The Intersections of Faith and Domestic Violence
Presenter: Melissa Gee, Kentucky Health Justice Network
Date: October 29, 2010
Registration Deadline: October 25, 2010
Description: Faith has been a tool to control and oppress and yet it also has been a source of healing and hope for domestic violence survivors. This workshop is designed to look critically at the role of faith in the lives of survivors and help advocates learn how to engage churches.
Objectives:
- Participants will be aware of myths and facts that exist at the intersection of domestic violence and faith.
- Participants will be able to recognize faith practices that oppress domestic violence survivors and faith practices that support and strengthen survivors.
- Participants will be able to begin the process of engaging institutions of faith in their work with domestic violence survivors.
Cost: $40.00
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NOVEMBER
November Workshop: Eliminating The “Language Barrier”: Strategies for Language Accessibility
Presenter: Isela Arras, KDVA
Date: November 5th, 2010
Registration Deadline: October 29th, 2010
Description: This workshop will discuss the responsibilities of recipients of federal funds to provide language assistance and meaningful access to non-English speakers, strategies to ensure language assistance while keeping maintaining expertise and how to manage an interpreted session. We will also discuss the role of the interpreter during the provision of services and the necessary components of a language accessibility plan.
Objectives:
- Discuss Title VI and the responsibilities of recipients of federal funds to provide meaningful access to programs.
- Define “meaningful access” and provide strategies to achieve “meaningful access” to programs.
- Provide an overview of the role of the interpreter in order to maintain professional expertise.
- Discuss strategies and guidelines that assist monolingual providers to effectively work with interpreters.
- Review the components of an LEP plan.
Cost: $40.00
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