28th Annual Domestic Violence Conference

The Office of Gender-Based Violence Prevention, in partnership with the Domestic Violence Council, invites you to attend the 28th Annual Virtual Domestic Violence Conference. Participants will be provided with concrete tools and frameworks for understanding how to effectively engage in the work and cultivate strong communities with an overarching culture of safety, equity, and respect.

To register, click on each session below.

DAY 1: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Welcome and Keynote: 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Elevating the Voices of Survivors of Domestic Violence, April McGill

The Red Women Rising Project is dedicated to uplifting the voices of Urban Indian survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault through increasing awareness around Urban Indian women’s domestic violence issues and enhancing survivors' access to domestic violence services.

Workshop 1: 11:00am - 12:30pm

Exploring the Intersections of Gender-Based Violence and Homelessness

Violence against women can take various forms and generate complex intersections. Roughly 40% of IPV survivors are sexually assaulted by their partner and the majority of sex trafficking survivors are trafficked by an intimate partner.

Workshop 2: 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Overcoming the Impact of Domestic Violence by Economic Empowerment

The workshop will discuss the barriers domestic violence survivors face and their path to overcoming these barriers through innovative methods of economic empowerment. Moreover, this workshop will cover employment rights and economic opportunities, and programs for DV survivors.

DAY 2: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22

Welcome, Awards, and Keynote: 9:30am – 11:00am

Transgender Resilience, Sera Fernando

This presentation will focus on how domestic violence / intimate partner violence deeply affects transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive communities, specifically, Black, Brown, and Indigenous transgender women, and how to support the liberation of transgender identities.

Workshop 3: 11:00am – 12:30pm

Coercive Control in the Law: Origins and Implications of SB 1141

This workshop will discuss the origins of the bill in the Penal Code, its current iteration in the Family Code, and implications for survivors and attorneys in both family and criminal courts, including practical examples of a DVRO petition and case briefs.

Workshop 4: 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Piloting AB372: Lessons from Year One

As part of AB372, County of Santa Clara agencies and community organizations partnered to pilot innovative programming, which provides a cognitive behavioral curriculum to individuals on probation for domestic violence.

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