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Summit Workshops Download a copy of the Workshops here! Note: Participants are asked to select one workshop to attend for both Morning and Afternoon sessions. |
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Workshop #1 What's Love Got to Do with It? Contributing Factors to Violence Against Women |
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Workshop #2 Consequences of Violence: How Long Will You Tolerate This? |
Participants bypass the notion that violence is a perverse expression of 'love' to focus on negative effects of traditional gender roles, socio-economic disparities and unequal power relations supported by micro-cultural systems and practices. The focus will include the role of men in changing the social landscape, policy and system/practice responses to help women overcome these factors. |
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Participants assess the full spectrum of negative consequences of violence against women including losses in the areas of health, economy, education, emotional development of children and families and extended family and community survival and resilience. The focus will include policy and practice to facilitate women's access to opportunities that can enhance the potential for families and the community to benefit from the full value of the contributions of healthy women. |
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Workshop #3 Inclusion For a Solution: Practitioners & Survivors in Partnership to End Violence |
Practitioners and survivor participants will illustrate vividly the multiple forms of violence against women especially domestic violence and trafficking. Focus will include improvements for survivors at the systemic, policy and human rights levels through closing legal loopholes protecting violators. |
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Workshop #4 Safety by Design: Creating Safe Communities - Sites and Settings of Violence |
Participants explore a variety of public and private settings in which violence against women occurs, the factors that may facilitate that violence and potential mitigations in environmental design and organizational policy and procedure. The focus will include workplace violence, campus safety, neighborhood safety, women in prison, and assessment of the role that the media plays in depicting and reporting violence against women. |
Workshop #5 Effecting Positive Change from Lifespan Perspectives: Identifying Gaps in Service to Underserved Populations |
Common themes crossing violence against girl children, teens, girls and women with disabilities, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered populations, elderly and incarcerated women will be explored with the purpose to identify action steps and public policy to address structural barriers creating chronic under service across the lifespan. |
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Workshop #6 Stop in the Name of Love: Intervention & Prevention of Violence Against Women |
Participants focus on prevention, intervention and the development, production and use of appropriate data to inform the design of effective and integrated approaches and investments to prevent violence against women and to intervene when it has already taken place. |
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