DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WORKSHOP
THURSDAY, JUNE 3RD, 2010
9:00AM-4:30PM
Registration Starts at 8:30am
Cornerstone Manor
150 E. North Street, Buffalo, NY 14203
This one-day training is designed for social workers, counselors, clergy, attorneys, judges, court personnel, teachers, probation officers, police, hospital personnel, and other professionals and individuals who are interested in receiving foundational information about domestic violence from the perspective of the National Battered Women's Movement.
The state-of-the-art information presented by the faculty will include:
- Statistics on who is abused
- Sexism, the roots of domestic violence, and the need for comprehensive social change
- Dynamics of domestic violence, understanding battered women and their safety needs including specific safety needs of victims living in rural communities
- What we can do in our practice and with our policies to address domestic violence
- Answering the question of "What do we do with the men who batter?"
Presenters:
Laura Grube, LCSW-R
Coordinator, Child & Family Services Haven House
Counseling and Advocacy Program
Remla Parthasarathy, JD
Clinical Instructor, Women, Children,
and Social Justice Clinic, SUNY at Buffalo School of Law
Community Relations Chair, Erie County
Coalition Against Family Violence
Gregory R. White
Director, Catholic Charities Domestic Violence
Program for Men - A New York Model for Batterer Programs
