Getting Ready for Outreach to Immigrant Communities Building Long-Term Collaborations to Help Immigrant Crime Survivors

Moderators: DFBova, glpendleton

Moderators: DFBova, parisser

This interactive course explores the fundamentals of safety planning for the survivors remaining with abusive partners as well as those fleeing their abusers. In addition, the course emphasizes the importance of survivor-centered services informed by empowerment philosophy.

Moderators: DFBova, Sarah DeWard, Admin1

This forum discusses steps that domestic violence advocates can take to develop and foster collaborative relationships with legal system personnel, which can enhance the experience of a victim of domestic violence when navigating the legal system.

Moderator: DFBova

We know that domestic violence crosses all racial lines and that the root causes are sexism and the acceptance of violence against women in society. However, the dynamics of and contributors to domestic violence are culturally specific. This paper will highlight some of the common, complex and culturally specific contributors to violence against African American women. It will address the role of faith as a resource and a roadblock and offer concrete ways in which faith communities can respond to and support abused women and their children in the African American Community.

Moderator: amooreorbih

This forum explores the issue of elder abuse.

Moderator: dianachristen

Survivors report that abusers are increasingly using technology to perpetrate abuse with a high-tech twist. Technological tools such as phones, computers, and searchable databases are being used to monitor, harass, and threaten current or former intimate partners. This forum will explore the safety risks and benefits of technology and cover areas of confidentiality, co-location, and data sharing.

Moderator: Anzala ALozie

Moderator: lfontes

This forum addresses the nature and affects of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue and provides methods to identify and treat them.

Moderator: dtucker

This forum is designed as an interactive tool for discussion and learning amongst a virtual community on how ethical standards can be used to integrate a trauma-informed approach across systems. Areas for discussion include the ways trauma-informed ethics provides a vehicle for sustaining health care reform across systems that is responsive to the needs of trauma survivors and that can be applied to any setting, system and level of practice.

Moderators: steveharrington, wfinch

“When a person is harmed by a criminal act, the agencies that make up the criminal and juvenile justice systems have a moral and legal obligation to respond. It is their responsibility not only to seek swift justice for victims, but to ease their suffering in a time of great need.” (OVC, 2000)

Moderator: slaskey

The intent of this forum is to explore the implementation of Trauma Informed Services for our nation’s women and children who are victims of violence and have been traumatized and reside in Domestic Violence Emergency Shelters.

Moderator: steveharrington