PRE-CONFERENCE INSTITUTES

Pre-Conference Institutes

Designed for those who want more in - depth information on specific areas of health care response to domestic violence. The institutes highlight the critical components of a clinical and system response to family violence for specific settings as well as new policy, research and educational approaches to violence prevention within the health care context. Presenters share comprehensive materials and critical teaching strategies that enhance learning.

FULL DAY SESSIONS $100

8:30 am-4:00 pm with lunch break from 11:30 am-1:00 pm

Improving the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities

Co-sponsored by The Indian Health Service, Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project and Sacred Circle
Course Leaders: Anna Marjavi, FVPF, Jeremy Nevilles-Sorell, Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project, Denise Grenier, The Indian Health Service, Elena Giacci, Sacred Circle .
Description: This training session is geared for all health care providers, administrators, and domestic violence advocates providing care to American Indian/ Alaska Natives in direct, tribal and urban health settings and communities. Drawing from a national initiative working with eighteen I/T/U health care facilities, the broad team of faculty and experts will discuss their particular approaches to serving AI/AN communities.

Building Academic Capacity and Expertise in Violence and Abuse: A Blueprint for Advancing Health Professional Education

Sponsored by: The Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA)
Course Leaders: Tasneem Ismailji MD, MPH, Connie Mitchell MD, Ellen Taliaferro MD, Debra Houry MD, MPH.
Description: In 2002 the Institute of Medicine released a report highly critical of health care education on violence and abuse. While there has been increased awareness of the health impacts of violence and abuse much work needs to be done to incorporate violence and abuse in health professional education. Help AVA create a blueprint with three panels of academicians and experts from nursing, medical, dental and public health. Working sessions after each panel will discuss the creation of improved curriculum recommendations for health professionals and possibly a new medical subspecialty. This symposium is geared towards medical and health professional students, academicians, clinicians and decision makers.

Beyond Identification, Response and Treatment: The Critical Role of Health Care in Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Before it Occurs

Course Leaders: Lisa Fujie Parks, MPH, Prevention Institute; David S. Lee, MPH, Prevention Connection, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault; Larry Cohen, MSW, Prevention Institute, Lynne Lee, Family Violence Prevention Fund
Description: This pre-conference training will focus on comprehensive primary prevention – that is, taking action before IPV is perpetrated to foster healthy environments and behaviors and reduce the likelihood that IPV will occur. Specific strategies for health care will be explored, including clinical practice, organizational practice and advocacy leadership. Comprehensive efforts such as CALCASA’s “My Strength Is Not For Hurting” campaign and the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s “Coaching Boys into Men” will be highlighted. The training is designed for leaders in health/public heath settings and domestic violence prevention advocates, and will include didactic information, highlights of example initiatives and action-planning

The Marcy Gross Research Symposium Research Priorities for IPV: Where do we need to go?

Course Leaders: Linda Chamberlain PhD MPH, Robert S. Thompson MD Jacquelyn C. Campbell PhD RN., Peter Cummings MD MPH, Rob Reid MD PhD MPH, and Diana Buist PhD MPH.
Description: How can we move forward in establishing the effectiveness of screening/assessment and intervention for IPV? We wills tart by looking at our gaps in knowledge, discuss the planned care models for multi-faceted, multi-level interventions which have met with success for our other health problems, experimental and non –experimental research designs, the pros and cons of multi-site collaborations for large scale longitudinal studies and intervention studies, and explore avenues for funding the needed research. This working session promises to include some of the best thinkers in the field.

HALF DAY SESSIONS $50

Morning sessions (8:30 am-11:30 am)

"What About Domestic Violence?": Experts Discuss Next Steps for Home Visitation Programs
(This course compliments the afternoon course "Parenting After Violence: Strategies for Home Visitation and other Programs Serving Families"

Course Leaders: David Olds, PhD, MD, founder of the Nurse Family Partnership program (NFP), Harriet MacMillan, M. Sc, F.R.C.P. Evaluator NFP domestic violence program, Rebecca Levenson, MA Family Violence Prevention Fund, Linda Chamberlain, PhD, MPH, Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, FAAN, Johns Hopkins University, Becky Ruffner, Healthy Famlies America
Description: Home visitation programs hold much promise to improve perinatal outcomes and intervene in child abuse. A common issue that has emerged is the high prevalence of Domestic Violence among home visitation clients and the challenge of how to safely and systemically address Domestic Violence during home visits. During this highly interactive session panelists will discuss how home visitation programs can best address past exposure to violence, current vicitmization, and the impact on health and parenting. Leaders in the area of home visitation and domestic violence will discuss best practices, next steps, and identify research needed to help inform the field.

Victim or Perpetrator?: Assessing and Intervening in cases of GLBT domestic violence.

Course Leaders: Kelcie Cooke, MA, LCSW, therapist and advocate; Peter Botteas, MA, Fenway Community Health. Boston
Description: Studies indicate that domestic violence in GLBT relationships is just as widespread as domestic violence in heterosexual relationships, with a prevalence ranging from 20% to 35%. However, few clinical settings are adequately equipped to assess the complexities of GLBT domestic violence and intervene appropriately. Fenway Community Health has developed and implemented a unique model for dealing with DV in a multidisciplinary setting. This session will examine the distinct features of GLBT DV, demonstrate assessment skills that are used to distinguish between perpetrator and victim (with an opportunity for audience participation, debate and discussion), and present the cutting-edge model used at Fenway.

Developing a Domestic Violence Medical Advocacy Program: The successes of the Bucks County, Pennsylvania and the Kansas City, Missouri Bridge
(This course compliments the afternoon course “Taming Pandora’s Box: Lessons Learned from Sustaining a Health Care Response to Domestic Violence”)

Course Leaders: Zita Surprenant, MD, MPH, Julie Beck, MSW, Rose Brooks Center’s Bridge Program, KC, MO, Mary Sonke, DV Medical Advocacy Program, A Woman’s Place, Bucks Co. Penn. Susan Miller, Executive Director, Rose Brooks Center, Kansas City, MO.
Description: This session will provide practical strategies to DV program administrators, advocate staff, health care providers, hospital administrators and educators who wish to start or expand a medical advocacy program (MAP). Staff from two of the country’s oldest programs will compare and contrast their experiences. The focus will be on strategies to develop, implement and expand medical advocacy programs and discussion of model protocols, procedures and lessons learned. Participants will receive a MAP Development and Implementation Toolkit, containing valuable resources: protocols, procedures, client intake and program service audit forms, staff and volunteer training material, and recommendations for health care trainings.

Afternoon sessions (1:00 pm-4:00 pm)

Parenting After Violence: Strategies for Home Visitation and Other Programs Serving Families
(This course compliments the morning course “"What About Domestic Violence?": Experts Discuss Next Steps for Home Visitation Programs”)

Course Leaders: Lonna Davis, MSW, Juan Carlos Areán, MM, and Rebecca Levenson, MA, Family Violence Prevention Fund
Description: How can perinatal and home visitation programs, Healthy Start, Headstart, batterers intervention programs, visitation centers, and fatherhood programs better engage mothers and fathers about parenting after exposure to violence? Adults who experience Childhood Exposure to Violence (CEV)have an increased likelihood of harsher parenting styles and perpetrating child abuse. CEV also increases the likelihood being either a perpetrator or a victim of domestic violence during adulthood. Given these issues, this panel will discuss how a focus on adult's childhood victimization in the context of parenting creates a venue for primary prevention, accountablity, healing, and healthier relationships. The work is based on the FVPFs Fathering After Violence initiative with the premise that men, who use violence can be held accountable for their behavior and, at the same time, be encouraged to change it by using fatherhood as a leading approach. The session will include case studies, exercises and practical strategies.

Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health: Responding to Complex Trauma in the Context of Ongoing Domestic Violence

Co-sponsored by: The National Training and Technical Assistance Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
Course Leaders: Carole Warshaw MD, Terri E. Pease, PhD, National Training and TA Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
Description: Advances in the fields of traumatic stress, child development and neuroscience are generating new models for understanding the impact of early experience on health and mental health. These models, particularly when grounded in survivor and advocacy perspectives, provide a more useful framework for addressing complex trauma in the context of ongoing domestic violence. This course will provide an overview of emerging research and perspectives on responding to domestic violence in the context of other lifetime trauma; offer practical recommendations for addressing these issues in clinical and advocacy settings and describe strategies for building cross-sector collaboration. Audience: Experienced advocates and clinicians

Taming Pandora's Box: Lessons Learned from Sustaining a Health Care Response to Domestic Violence
(This course compliments the morning course “Developing a Domestic Violence Medical Advocacy Program: The successes of the Bucks County, Pennsylvania and the Kansas City, Missouri Bridge”)

Course Leaders: Brigid McCaw, MD, MS, MPH – Family Violence Prevention Program, Kaiser Permanente; Leigh Kimberg, MD - San Francisco Department of Public Health, University of California - San Francisco; Nancy Durborow, MS, Health Projects Manager, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Description: Three of the most experienced experts in the country who have developed and sustained health care responses to domestic violence in public health clinics, hospitals and health systems will share their knowledge and skills about the elements essential to the successful institutionalization of a multi-disciplinary response to domestic violence. Topics will include