Dating and Domestic Violence

Removing Barriers for Survivors with Disabilities Seeking Protection Orders

Protection orders can help survivors of domestic violence to ensure the safety their selves, their family, and their property. For survivors with disabilities, there are barriers to applying for and …
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Removing Barriers for Survivors with Disabilities Seeking Protection Orders

Protection orders can help survivors of domestic violence to ensure the safety their selves, their family, and their property. For survivors with disabilities, there are barriers to applying for and receiving protection orders. To provide effective assistance in protection order cases, advocates and attorneys must identify the barriers that may arise and help clients overcome them. This webinar will review each stage of the protection order process and barriers that may arise as well as strategies to overcome any such barriers.

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Autonomy is Safety: Using Supported Decision-Making to Facilitate the Safety of People with Disabilities

People with disabilities are more likely to experience domestic and sexual violence than people without disabilities. Society has traditionally responded to this increased likelihood of violence by limiting the choices …
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Autonomy is Safety: Using Supported Decision-Making to Facilitate the Safety of People with Disabilities

People with disabilities are more likely to experience domestic and sexual violence than people without disabilities. Society has traditionally responded to this increased likelihood of violence by limiting the choices that people with disabilities can make, using strategies such as institutionalization, mandatory reporting, and guardianship. Limiting the amount of autonomy people with disabilities have, however, has actually increased their risk of victimization. Alternatively, providing people with disabilities with control over their own lives empowers them and better facilitates their safety. This webinar will outline the problems with historic responses to violence against people with disabilities and review supportive strategies that can be applied to help people with disabilities live safer, more autonomous lives.

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Preserving the Right to Parent: Custody Issues for Survivors with Disabilities

Survivors of domestic violence face barriers within the family court and child welfare systems. When a parent is a survivor with a disability, the odds of losing custody of their …
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Preserving the Right to Parent: Custody Issues for Survivors with Disabilities

Survivors of domestic violence face barriers within the family court and child welfare systems. When a parent is a survivor with a disability, the odds of losing custody of their child(ren) increase exponentially. As of 2012, 35 states still listed disability as grounds for termination of parental rights even without evidence of abuse or neglect. This webinar will provide an overview of some of the unique difficulties survivors with disabilities may face in child custody and welfare cases – and provide suggestions for improvements to the system to ensure that survivors with disabilities are not separated from their children because of their disability.

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Measuring Success: Using the Indicators for Disability Grant Program Grantees

This webinar provides an overview of the Performance Indicators to assist organizations in measuring their capacity and commitment to serve survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors.

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Measuring Success: Using the Indicators for Disability Grant Program Grantees

This webinar provides an overview of the Performance Indicators to assist organizations in measuring their capacity and commitment to serve survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors.

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Addressing Trauma in the Lives of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Trauma can have a lasting effect on a person’s mental, emotional, and even physical states. When a person has an intellectual or developmental disability, the impact of trauma can be …
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Addressing Trauma in the Lives of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Trauma can have a lasting effect on a person’s mental, emotional, and even physical states. When a person has an intellectual or developmental disability, the impact of trauma can be even more pronounced and unique methods for addressing the trauma are necessary. This webinar will explore the complicated manifestation of trauma in individuals with I/DD who have experienced domestic and/or sexual violence, as well as techniques for supporting survivors with intellectual and developmental disabilities experiencing trauma to facilitate the healing process.

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Serving Both Sides: Navigating Domestic Violence Amongst Service Users

This webinar explores the importance of policies to ensure effective and safe services for all people served when there is domestic violence amongst service providers as well as some important …
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Serving Both Sides: Navigating Domestic Violence Amongst Service Users

This webinar explores the importance of policies to ensure effective and safe services for all people served when there is domestic violence amongst service providers as well as some important considerations when developing a related policy at your organization.

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Raising the Bar: Best Practices for Legal Advocacy for People with Disabilities

Navigating the legal system can be challenging in the best of circumstances. When you also have a disability, additional barriers will arise. This webinar explores best practices for legal advocates …
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Raising the Bar: Best Practices for Legal Advocacy for People with Disabilities

Navigating the legal system can be challenging in the best of circumstances. When you also have a disability, additional barriers will arise. This webinar explores best practices for legal advocates as well as innovative ideas to help survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors navigate the legal system.

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Serving Culturally Diverse Survivors with Disabilities

Victims of sexual or domestic violence come from every race, ethnicity, and background imaginable. One of the most challenging aspects of serving survivors is ensuring that you are providing culturally …
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Serving Culturally Diverse Survivors with Disabilities

Victims of sexual or domestic violence come from every race, ethnicity, and background imaginable. One of the most challenging aspects of serving survivors is ensuring that you are providing culturally competent services to all, no matter what their background. This webinar explores the complicated goal of providing culturally specific services to survivors with disabilities.

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You Report? Everyone Reports? Mandated Reporting Obligations When a Survivor Has a Disability

This webinar provides an overview of mandatory reporting in the context of sexual and domestic violence and some of the unique dynamics that arise when a survivor of sexual or …
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You Report? Everyone Reports? Mandated Reporting Obligations When a Survivor Has a Disability

This webinar provides an overview of mandatory reporting in the context of sexual and domestic violence and some of the unique dynamics that arise when a survivor of sexual or domestic violence has a disability.

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Promoting Accessibility and Accountability: Law Enforcement and Survivors with Disabilities and Deaf Survivors

It is important that law enforcement officers are aware of best practices when serving survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors to ensure that their response to these survivors is effective …
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Promoting Accessibility and Accountability: Law Enforcement and Survivors with Disabilities and Deaf Survivors

It is important that law enforcement officers are aware of best practices when serving survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors to ensure that their response to these survivors is effective and appropriate. During this webinar, two innovative programs will share their experiences related to working with law enforcement. They will provide an overview of the common barriers that survivors with disabilities, and specifically those with intellectual and developmental disabilities and those who are Deaf, face when interacting with law enforcement. Additionally, they will provide strategies for how law enforcement can build safe and effective relationships with these communities

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