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July 2019
Housing Child Trafficking Victims: A Look at the National Landscape
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
The Center for Victim Research invites you to attend our upcoming webinar, “Housing Child Trafficking Victims: A Look at the National Landscape" on Thursday, July 25, 2019 from 2 to 3 pm ET. As our national understanding of child and youth trafficking has grown, so has the need for information regarding effective response. The issue of specialized residential placement is of particular interest to advocates and other service providers. The presenters of this webinar joined in a researcher-practitioner partnership to examine policies,…
August 2019
Creating Meaningful Collaborations Among Mainstream and Culturally-Specific Programs
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
Part of the Mobilizing Communities: Engage for Change series Although rates of violence vary from group to group, research indicates that beyond the individual level, historically marginalized communities simultaneously experience multi-layered interpersonal and structural violence. To work alongside and mobilize historically marginalized communities and partners, practitioners must find non-traditional methods of engagement. This series will help organizations understand the critical components of building effective and sustainable alliances. Presented by Caminar Latino Registration closes August 5
Building Cross Cultural/Multi-Disciplinary Partnerships
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
Part of the Mobilizing Communities: Engage for Change series Although rates of violence vary from group to group, research indicates that beyond the individual level, historically marginalized communities simultaneously experience multi-layered interpersonal and structural violence. To work alongside and mobilize historically marginalized communities and partners, practitioners must find non-traditional methods of engagement. This series will help organizations understand the critical components of building effective and sustainable alliances. Presented by Women of Color, Inc. Registration closes August 12
Creating a Family Wellness Plan and Mission Statement
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
This webinar will examine the benefits of creating a Family Wellness Plan and Mission Statement. We will discuss how future planning can help decrease stress and anxiety and increase fun and connection with your family. We will talk about how to build your individual and family wellness plans and the complementary Mission Statements. The Innocent Justice Foundation offers OJJDP- funded mental health and wellness training to law enforcement officials exposed to child pornography and child sexual abuse investigations.
Collaborative Strategies and Tools to Meet the Needs of Survivors of Human Trafficking
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
Webinar Overview: 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. Presenters include: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, South Carolina Office of the Attorney General, Eastern Panhandle Empowerment Center, WV,…
A Trauma-Informed Care Approach to Healthcare: Providers’ Interactions with Families and Friends of Homicide Victims
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
The Center for Victim Research invites you to attend our upcoming webinar, “A Trauma-Informed Care Approach to Healthcare: Providers' Interactions with Families and Friends of Homicide Victims" on Thursday, August 22, 2019 from 2 to 3 pm ET. Dr. Jeanne Mastrocinque and Dr. Elizabeth Cerceo, the presenters of this webinar, will discuss findings from their research with families and friends of homicide victims (FFHV), which focused on interactions with the healthcare system and healthcare providers in the aftermath of a loved one's…
Building Sustainable Partnerships between Human Trafficking Services and Workforce Development Programs
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
Webinar Description: Partnerships between organizations serving human trafficking survivors and workforce development programs can improve survivors’ access to a range of high-quality education and employment opportunities. This webinar will focus overcoming common challenges when building cross-sector collaborations between victim service providers and workforce development programs to help foster a strong foundation that mutually benefits collaborating agencies and survivors of human trafficking. Presenters include: Restore NYC, New York University and Osaka University, and Futures Without Violence This webinar is part of a PEOST project supported by Grant…
September 2019
Tribal Protection Orders
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
This webinar will review best practices for drafting tribal protection orders to meet the needs of victims, invoke the Full Faith and Credit requirements of VAWA 2013, explore enforcement issues and review some of the promising strategies for enforcement of protection orders in outside jurisdictions.
Trauma & Brain Science: Why Can’t I Think My Way Out of This?
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
This webinar will address how trauma responses, protective during traumatic experience, change our brain function and physiology in ways that are not subject to our voluntary control. It will explain how those changes can result in negative impacts to our functioning, thinking, relationships and work if they are not addressed. Skills for addressing trauma responses will be presented.
What We Know About the Polyvictimization of Youth
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
This webinar will focus on poly-victims, the subgroup of youth that endure the highest burden of victimization. We will cover how it has been studied, how often it occurs, what we know about its adverse effects and what we can do to respond to the needs of this highly victimized group of children.