[DV_listserv] Webinar. Monday, April 21 @ 2 p.m. EDT - DV Fatality Reviews: Process and Outcomes

[Domestic Violence issues]

 Domestic Violence Fatality Reviews: Process and Outcomes

To Register, go to:
http://conferences.bwjp.org/webconferencedetail.aspx?confid=376

Date:   Monday, April 21, 2014
Time:   2:00 – 3:30 p.m. ET; 1:00 -2:30 p.m. CT,
            12:00 – 1:30 p.m. MT, and 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PT

Faculty:

Heather Storer, MSW is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington School of Social Work. Heather has worked nationally in the fields of dating abuse prevention and positive youth development. Her research interests include partnering with underserved youth in the primary prevention of dating abuse and other high-risk behaviors. Heather is currently investigating how macro-level factors such as school climate and larger social norms about intimate partner violence and youth agency influence youth’s perceptions of dating abuse and their proactive bystander behaviors. Heather was previously a National Institute of Mental Health Prevention Research fellow and is currently a National Institute of Health Clinical Translational Research Trainee.

Kelly Starr, MSW is the Director of Communications at the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She led the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review for six years, authoring the reports Every Life Lost Is a Call for Change and If I Had One More Day describing findings and recommendations from the fatality reviews. Kelly has worked in the violence against women movement for the past 20 years as a community-based, shelter, and legal advocate at domestic violence programs in both Indiana and Washington State, and was a member of the adjunct faculty of Antioch University in Seattle.

Taryn Lindhorst, PhD, LCSW is the Carol LaMare Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Washington.  Dr. Lindhorst spent 15 years providing social work services in public health settings in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Her research focuses on the social construction and reinforcement of inequality, especially as this relates to issues of violence against women and health.  Her mixed methods research has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Justice.  She is the author of two books, The Safety Net Health Care System: Practice at the Margins (with Gunnar Almgren) and Women and Children Seeking Safety: A Study of Domestic Violence and the International Hague Convention (with Jeffrey Edleson).

Jenny Aszman, LMSW has coordinated the Georgia Domestic Violence Fatality Review Project at the Georgia Commission on Family Violence for the last two years. She provides technical assistance to fatality review teams, supports family violence task forces as they work to implement fatality review recommendations, and conducts trainings on fatality review findings to a variety of audiences. Jenny also co-authors the Georgia Domestic Violence Fatality Review Project’s annual report that summarizes the data collected by fatality review teams across the state, highlights victim’s stories and makes recommendations for change.

Content:   The faculty will discuss research on Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) team initiatives.  DVFR teams are a means of identifying systemic gaps in the response to domestic violence and in clarifying opportunity points for prevention of femicide by legal and health systems, as well as community members and family/friends/co-workers.  Little is known about whether DVFRs facilitate change in community-level response to domestic violence. The research undertaken by the faculty evaluated whether the recommendations made by one state-level DVFR had an effect on community and organizational priorities and practices and whether these were implemented by the various institutions involved in coordinated DV response at the county level.  The faculty will also describe other models of DVFRs and the potential various DVFR approaches have for systemic reform.

Article: Storer, Lindhorst and Starr.  (2013).  “The Domestic Violence Fatality Review:  Can it Mobilize Community-Level Change?”  Homicide Studies, XX(X) DOI: 10.1177/1088767913494202

Report:  2013 Georgia Domestic Violence Fatality Review Report.
http://w2.georgiacourts.gov/gcfv/files/2013%20Fatality%20Review%<http://w2.georgiacourts.gov/gcfv/files/2013%20Fatality%20Review%25>20Report.pdf

WE CANNOT ACCEPT REGISTRATIONS AFTER 4/20/2014

To Register, go to:
http://conferences.bwjp.org/webconferencedetail.aspx?confid=376


Barbara J. Hart, J.D.
Director of Strategic Justice Initiatives
Muskie School of Public Service
P. O. Box 9300
Portland, ME 04104-9300
207/899-7771 (cell)

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