CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
2018 Rural Domestic Violence Training Institute
May 16 – 17, 2018| Dade City, FL
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2018
The Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence (FCADV) will hold its 21st annual Rural Domestic Violence Statewide Training Institute on May 16 and 17, 2018 in Dade City, FL.
FCADV is seeking individual or team presentations, panel discussions, interactive workshops, and interagency presentations featuring a variety of disciplines responsible for domestic violence advocacy, perpetrator accountability, and direct service provision of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence and stalking in rural communities.
The Rural Training Institute brings attention to the unique needs of rural communities serving survivors of intimate partner violence. Students, direct service advocates, law enforcement, child protection, health care providers, allied agencies, professionals and other individuals who work in the domestic violence arena throughout Florida will come together to increase their knowledge of emerging trends in assisting survivors and their children. Workshops should address a wide range of topics and be accessible to experienced and new advocates and allies..
Preferred domestic violence related topics for this conference include but are not limited to:
Cultural & Linguistic Capacity
Working with Faith Based Communities
Trauma-informed Mental Health
Batterer Intervention
Later in Life Abuse
LGBTQI services
Substance Use/Abuse
Sexual Violence
Working within Culturally Specific Communities
Healthcare Screening
Traumatic Brain Injury
STIs, HIV, AIDs
IPV Homicide
Self-Care Strategies
Use of Technology
Impact of Violence on Children
Prevention Programs
Teen Dating Violence
Child Welfare Programs
Law Enforcement Response
Legal Remedies/ Responses
Human Trafficking
Immigration
Anti-Oppression
Other Related Topics
For more information about this event, please contact Reisha Williams, by email at Williams_Reisha@FCADV.org.