The Child Custody/Child Protective Service “Sandwich”
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (Central Time)
Presenter: Joyce Yedlosky, Team Coordinator with the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Description: Battered Women and Their Children are often “sandwiched” between child custody proceedings and the Child Protection System. This webinar will focus on the systemic structures, assumptions and beliefs of family courts and child welfare that can result in barriers for safety and present options for systemic change that address these barriers. Can child protection be a “partner” with battered women to protect children when battering behaviors create a level of harm to children requiring state intervention? The presenter will share changes in West Virginia that have made such a partnership possible.
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Pornography and the Abuse of Women
Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (Central Time)
Presenters: Walter S. DeKeseredy, Ph.D. is the Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University; Rus Ervin Funk is the Executive Director of MensWork, eliminating violence against women; and Angelita Velasco Gunn is the Associate Director for the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence.
Description: The faculty will discuss research on the significant contribution of pornography and “porn culture” to violence against women. They will examine the impact of the pornography industry on the sexual exploitation/coercion and economic oppression of women. Faculty will describe challenges to the porn industry and the culture of distain and subordination of women that it promotes. Organizing initiatives to curtail the pervasive degradation of women through pornography in the media/internet and pop culture will be discussed.
Article: DeKeseredy, W.S. & Olsson, P. (2011). “Adult Pornography, Male Peer Support, and Violence Against Women: The “Dark Side” of the Internet.” Eds. Martin, Garcia-Ruiz & Edwards. Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Information Science Reference. Hershey, PA. And various other articles and publications of the faculty.
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Intersection Between Interpersonal Violence Exposure and Military Service
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm (Central Time)
The Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP) is pleased to announce a webinar on the intersection between interpersonal violence exposure and military service. Women make up about 15% of the active duty force. Like women in the civilian community, women in the military are sometimes victims of interpersonal violence. The violence can occur before, during, and/or after military service and may be at the hands of an intimate partner or perpetrated by others. This webinar will present data from research conducted in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Women veterans were surveyed and interviewed about their experiences with intimate partner violence victimization and sexual assault while in the military and how these experiences affected their military service. Whether you work in Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, or in a community-based program, this webinar will enhance your knowledge of the experiences of women who choose to serve our country that can be applied to improving the services provided for these women.
Presenter: Melissa Dichter, MSW, PhD, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP), Philadelphia VA Medical Center
Discussants: Greg Jacob, Policy Director, Service Women’s Action Network, Veteran of the United States Marine Corps; Glenna Tinney, Military Advocacy Program Coordinator, BWJP
Moderator: Glenna Tinney, Military Advocacy Program Coordinator, BWJP
Description: This webinar will address interpersonal violence victimization, including intimate partner violence and sexual assault in the context of military employment and how and why this is different for women in the military than for women in the civilian community. Did you know that some women enter and/or leave military service because they are coerced to do so by an abusive intimate partner? Were you aware that interpersonal violence victimization may affect military promotion or the ability to remain in the military? What is the role of the service member’s commander in responding to interpersonal violence victimization? This webinar provides an opportunity to hear about current research and from a former commander about his observations and experiences with responding to interpersonal violence in the context of military service.
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Reproductive Coercion and Intimate Partner Violence
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (Central Time)
Presenter: Rebecca Levenson, Consultant, Futures Without Violence
Description: Reproductive Coercion is a relatively new concept in the field-simply defined, it is when a partner is trying to get a woman pregnant against her will or control the outcome of a pregnancy through threats, intimidation or by tampering with contraceptive (birth control) methods. Emergency Contraception (also known as EC or the “morning after pill”) can be taken up to 5 days after unintended/unwanted sex to prevent pregnancy by a perpetrator. Various domestic violence programs across the country have been integrating assessment for reproductive coercion and helping survivors get EC during intake or within a 24-hour time period after arrival to shelter. For some programs, this was simple to implement, others experienced some resistance and confusion. This webinar will explore successes,barriers and discuss promising practices.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Define reproductive coercion for staff providing domestic violence services.
- Define Emergency Contraception (EC) and how it works.
- Describe the impact of domestic violence on reproductive health outcomes.
- Learn from domestic violence programs about their experiences integrating EC, including how to support staff who may have discomfort or concerns about this activity.
- Understand how to develop an MOU between a local shelter and public health program, or reproductive clinic and how allied health services can support access to EC for survivors.
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Male Peer Support & Violence Against Women:
The History and Verification of a Theory
Date: Friday, February 28, 2014
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (Central Time)
Presenters: Martin D. Schwartz, Ph.D. is Visiting Professor at George Washington University, and Professor Emeritus at Ohio University, and the author, co-author or editor of 14 books and over 130 articles, chapters and essays; Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University.
Description: “The problem is simple. In most cultures, most of the time, all men, most men, or at least a great many men receive male peer support for the victimization of females.” So write Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz in their latest book, Male Peer Support & Violence against Women: The History and Verification of a Theory. The theory, first announced by DeKeseredy in 1988, holds that certain all-male peer groups encourage, justify, and support the abuse of women. DeKeseredy and Schwartz will discuss the history and development of the theory, the extensive evidence and support it has received over the past 25 years in numerous publications, and how it plays out in different settings including the Internet.
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SOURCE: Battered Women’s Justice Project
