The Bridging the Gap: Creating a Community of Support for Deaf Survivors conference took place in 2013. The conference, designed for victim service professionals, including domestic and sexual violence program personnel, covered topics such as communicating with Deaf survivors, safety planning, and outreach.
Program
Presentations and Handouts
- Domestic Violence in the Deaf Community
- Communicating with Deaf Victims: Supporting Safety, Increasing Our Responsiveness Through Technology
- Team Approach: Locating, Assessing and Working with Sign Language Interpreters
- Building Deaf Allied Services: Vera House and the Syracuse Deaf Community (Part 1)
- Building Deaf Allied Services: Vera House and the Syracuse Deaf Community (Part 2)
- Preliminary Results of a Study of Intimate Partner Violence Affecting the Deaf Community
- Sexual Assault in the Deaf Community
- Deaf Community Accountability
- Audism and the Deaf Community: Deaf Community Cultural Wealth
- Become an Ally in the Deaf Community
- Technology Safety in the Deaf World
- Safety Planning with Deaf Survivors
- Deaf Survivors: Mental Health Implications
- Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration to Increase Access to Criminal Justice and Legal Services for Deaf Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Building Bridges with Deaf Male Survivors and Allies: Engaging Men in Sensitive Conversations on “Survivor Centered Advocacy”
- Deaf Women Survivors Being Stalked: A Redefinition of Collective Minority Empowerment
- Sexuality Education, Sexual Communication, Sexual Assault Knowledge, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Assault Experience Among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
- Integrating a Deaf Services Model: SafePlace
- Where Do We Go From Here: A Deaf Survivor’s Experience