Speakers: Hamish Sinclair of manalive in San Francisco and Rhea Almeida of the Institute for Family Services in Somerset, NJ. Additional faculty TBD. Hosted by: Barbara Hart, Muskie School. The topic for discussion will be on community organizing to build support networks and strong mentoring relationships for men working to end their violence toward their intimate female partners.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We are accepting proposals for symposia, workshops, individual papers, and posters. Acceptable proposals may address theory, research, and/or practice issues related to interpersonal violence and focused on one or more of the conference threads. Symposia will be 90 minutes, and papers should be 20-25 minutes. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference and may be either a half day or a full day (3 or 6 hours)
Symposia and Papers Due: December 1, 2009
Posters Due: December 18, 2009

Please join us for a screening of Straightlaced - How Genders Got Us All Tied Up and fundraiser for GroundSpark. Straightlaced unearths how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens. With a fearless look at a highly charged subject, this film highlights more than 50 teens from diverse backgrounds.

January 2010 will mark the 7th observance of National Stalking Awareness Month (NSAM). Throughout the next month, the Stalking Resource Center and the Office on Violence Against Women will be updating the National Stalking Awareness Month Web site. This Web site offers fact sheets, media tools, brochures, posters, and artwork, and much more for you to download and use in your local activities during Stalking Awareness Month.

CALCASA is proud to be hosting the 2010 National Sexual Assault Conference in Los Angeles. For registration details and information, click on the link to access a survey.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Office of Justice Programs 23rd Annual Conference on Crime Victims will be held on May 26- 28, 2010. Have you or your organization conducted interesting research lately? Developed an innovative program? Improved your program management? Established public policy initiatives, policies or procedures? Created new collaborations or reached out to expand your service capacity? Have “lessons learned” to share? If so, submit a presentation proposal! Submissions are due Friday, November 20, 2009 For proposal forms contact Alicia Nichols, Conference Director, 651.201.7318, Alicia.nichols@state.mn.us

The Northland Women's Policy Forum is a gathering designed to bring together policy makers, community leaders, advocates, and all those interested learning more about the intersection of women and public policy.
Guests include: Amy Brenengen, Office on the Economic Status of Women; Deb Fitzpatrick, Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey institute; Deborah Schlick, Affirmative Options Coalition; Suzanne Koepplinger, Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center; Kathleen Murphy, Constitutional Amendment For Equality (CAFE)

The Stalking Resource Center, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, will host a Webinar at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (12:00 p.m. CST, 11:00 a.m. MST, 10:00 a.m. PST) on December 14, 2009, in preparation for the seventh National Stalking Awareness Month (NSAM). Topics to be addressed will include:
•The history and evolution of NSAM
•Resources available for communities working to raise awareness about stalking
•Planning for National Stalking Awareness Month 2010.
Participants will have an opportunity to share ideas for NSAM events and activities for January 2010. If you would like to participate in this Webinar, please register at the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=iJJQKpjFrfsR9oIv0wUOYA_3d_3d

This presentation will provide an overview of the following topics:
• Intro to CAST and its programs
• Providing awareness on human trafficking
• Federal anti-trafficking laws
• Task Force Model: Federal, state, and NGO collaborations
• Protections available, including immigration relief, for victims of trafficking
• Effective service models for assisting victims of human trafficking

This memorial service recalls the lives of those killed in the past 12 months due to anti-transgender violence. TransVoices will sing as part of the program.

This conference is applicable to all youth service providers - social workers, educators/administrators, mental health professionals, youth program providers, all who work with youth. You will learn the specific consequences necessary to stop the child’s seven big guns of: truancy, running away, suicidal threats, violence, disrespect, sexual promiscuity, and drug and alcohol abuse. You’ll leave with a full tool kit for helping parents improve their parenting skills and knowing how to reach the resistant child or adolescent.

The APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition is the oldest and largest gathering of public health professionals in the world, attracting more than 13,000 national and international physicians, administrators, nurses, educators, researchers, epidemiologists, and related health specialists. APHA's meeting program addresses current and emerging health science, policy, and practice issues in an effort to prevent disease and promote health.

This two-day summit and premiere training event will help advance capacity to deliver quality family violence prevention services in the Ohio region. It will offer a slate of workshops featuring nationally recognized experts from the field while also showcasing Ohio-based expertise, prevention examples and resources. The event will provide a collective forum for stakeholders in child abuse, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse to join together to address preventing perpetration before it may occur and incorporate technology, interactive teaching, and local data to engage and empower communities and social service organizations for greater impact.

This training is tailored for new advocates and is designed to lay the philosophical framework and foundation of knowledge they will need to be an effective advocate. Please join us for this highly interactive and informative training.

Breaking Free would like to invite everyone to join us at our 7th Annual event to end prostitution as we remember the many women and girls who have been killed while involved in prostitution and to make a statement in the community that prostitution is violence against all women and girls. This event will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. After a brief introduction, we will all join in a short walk down University Ave (known as a high trafficked prostitution area) peacefully protesting (in cooperation with the St. Paul Police) the violence of prostitution.

Sexual assault and abuse can have serious mental health consequences for women and children. Understanding the range of potential mental health needs of survivors and how to address them within an empowerment-based framework is an important part of providing services for survivors that enhance their safety and wellbeing. This presentation will provide an overview of current research on mental health, violence, and abuse and will offer steps that advocates and other professionals can take within their agencies and organizations to address mental health issues in sensitive, appropriate, and empowering ways. Registration is Required (by Wednesday, November 4, 2009), contact amy.kenzie@state.mn.us

This series offers a vehicle for researchers and practitioners to discuss the implications of the findings, emerging theories, policy recommendations and "best practice" guides that are flowing out of the burgeoning research industry on violence against women.

The series is intended to inform practitioners about significant research findings related to women's experience with intimate partner and sexual violence. The audioconferences also seek to promote dialogue between researchers and practitioners - to examine methods, findings and implications of research in the field and to foster collaboration in research design, analysis and utilization.

The training is designed for designed for judges, court clerks and other court personnel, probation and parole officers, prosecutors, defense bar, and domestic violence advocates. This training is especially useful for those who work in batterer programs and those who work with domestic violence offenders in other venues.

The Stalking Resource Center (SRC) of the National Center for Victims of Crime and the Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP) are pleased to announce a new and exciting training opportunity. The national conference, “Intimate Partner Stalking Advanced Training for Prosecutors, Law Enforcement, and Victim Service Providers,” will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 2-3, 2009.
This advanced training is being offered only to individuals who have attended one or more of the previous national conferences hosted by the SRC or a locally hosted Stalking Resource Center training, and will build on participants' foundational knowledge of intimate partner stalking by providing concrete skills and tools to use in the investigation and prosecution of intimate partner stalking cases and when providing services to victims.
The training will feature an array of nationally renowned trainers on the issues of intimate partner stalking. Conference participants will receive in-depth training on:
-Investigation skill building
-Prosecution strategies
-Intervention, safety planning, and risk assessment
As always, our training will provide an opportunity to network with your colleagues from across the country about challenges facing practitioners in this field.
Registration is free of charge.