OVW LAV Conference 2016 – Workshop Materials

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Agenda

Plenaries
 

 

Opening Remarks

 
 

The History of the Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program

 
 

Remarks from the Office of the Vice President

 
                 

Providing Services to Sexual Assault Survivors 

 

 Cross Cultural Capacity Building 

 

 

 Self Care – Quality of Self Equals Quality of Service 

                                                 

 

White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable and Federal Resources for Violence Against Women Advocates

 
  

 Ethics Challenges in Holistic Legal Representation of Domestic and Sexual Violence Assault Survivors

                                                                                      

 

 Rights of Survivors to Protection from Eviction and Access to Law Enforcement Assistance

 

  A Survivor’s Experience

 



  


 

Workshop A
                  

A-1: Litigating with Interpreters:Language Access & Your Clients   

   

 

A-2:  A Practical Approach to Recognizing,Evaluating, and Responding to Domestic Violence in Child Custody Disputes           

 

A-3:  The Power of Three: Strategies forBuilding an Effective and Supportive Lawyer/Advocate Collaboration with Clients

 

 

 A-4:  Helping Survivors Navigate a CampusResolution Process  

 

 

A-5:  Addressing Violence Against Native Americans and Alaskan Natives:  How to Leverage Existing Resources in Advocating for Tribal Clients 

 



Workshop B
                      

B-1:  Improving Legal System Access for LGBTQ Survivors of Intimate Partner & Sexual Violence 

 

 

B-2:  Working with Survivors with Disabilities 

 

B-3:  Workplace Violence Ripped From the Headlines:  Case Studies         

 

B-4:  Consumer Rights for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors Initiative 

 

B-5:  Seeking Safety Across Borders: Battered Mothers  and the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction 



Workshop C

             

C-1:  Promoting Protection of Survivors and Their Children Through Civil Processes

 

C-2:  Advocating for Young Survivors 

 

C-3:  Trauma-Informed, Victim-Defined: Practice Issues for Lawyers  

 

C-4:  Sexual Assault and the Military  

 

C-5: Breaking Silos: Enhance Your Advocacy for Immigrant Survivors         

 

C-6:  Advanced Confidentiality  


Workshop D
                 

D-1: Building Community Collaboration to Address the Legal Needs of Human Trafficking Survivors 

 

D-2: Engaging Men:  Men Stopping Violence’s Organizing Model to End Male Violence Against Women 

 

 

D-3: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Helping Survivors with Interstate Custody and Relocation Cases 

 

D-4: Working with Survivors when Abusers Misuses Technology 

 

D-5:  Be the Light at the End of the Tunnel: How to Effectively Serve Immigrant Survivors Released from Family Detention