Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence Presents Our First Annual Conference
Affirming Our Past: Building Our Future (1978 - 2008)
Sunday, June 29 – Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Colorado Springs Marriott Hotel
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Registration deadline is Friday, June 6!
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CCADV or DAAP Member Registration Fee – Full 3 Days of Conference – $100
CCADV or DAAP Member Registration Fee – 2 Days of Conference – $75
CCADV or DAAP Member Registration Fee – One day of Conference – $50
Non-Member Registration Fee – Full 3 Days of Conference – $200
Non-Member Registration Fee – 2 Days of Conference – $150
Non-Member Registration Fee – One day of Conference – $100
AGENDA & SPEAKER INFORMATION
Keynote Address presented by Sarah Buel, Esq.
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Sarah Buel has spent the past 30 years working with battered women, abused children, and juveniles within the legal system. Currently, Ms. Buel is the Clinical Professor at the University of Texas Law School. She started and now co-directs the Domestic Violence Clinic. Previously, Ms. Buel served as a victim advocate, state policy coordinator, and legal aid paralegal. As a domestic violence survivor, Ms. Buel has been committed to improving the court and community response to abuse victims. She was a welfare mother for a short time before working full-time in the day and going to school at night for seven years to obtain her undergraduate degree in 1987. She then graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1990, where she founded the Harvard Battered Woman's Advocacy Project, the Harvard Women in Prison Project, and the Harvard Children and Family Rights Project.
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Tuesday Luncheon Plenary presented by Sujata Warrier, PhD
"Intersectionality, Oppression(s) and Domestic Violence"
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Sujata Warrier is the Director of the New York City Program of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. In this position, she has trained numerous healthcare, criminal justice, and social and human service professionals on the issue of domestic violence. Her areas of emphasis are cultural competency and battered immigrant women. Sujata received her Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and her dissertation focused on the neglect of female children in South Asia. She has written and worked on the issue of violence against women for fifteen years.
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Wednesday Luncheon Plenary presented by Linda A. Osmundson
"Three Decades of Sheltering and Keeping our Philosophy"
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Linda A. Osmundson has directed Community Action Stops Abuse (CASA), in St. Petersburg since 1989, and was one of the founders of the clemency movement for battered women in Florida. She was a founding member of the Governor's Task Force on Domestic Violence and received the 1995 Florida Governor's Peace at Home Award, the 2001 Liberty Bell Award and the 2002 Community Service Woman of the Year Award. She is a past president for the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence and she also served on the Steering Committee of the National Coalition as co-chair of the Battered/Formerly Battered Women's Task Force. She currently serves on the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Strategic Planning Group.
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Leadership Institute for People of Color, Monday June 30, 1 – 8pm
"How Do We Effectively Talk About our Needs"
with Sujata Warrier
The Institute will include skill-building, gathering time, and celebration. The workshop will explore the needs of women of color both as advocates and as clients. It will examine the ways in which the needs are similar to and different from those of others in the domestic violence movement. Once the needs are identified, participants will explore ways in which to communicate them to others in ways that help people understand the importance of addressing these needs. It will then help participants work together to effectively communicate these needs to others in clear and concise manner that achieves results. The workshop will be inclusive of all women of color and men from different ethnic groups as well as physical disabilities, class, sexual orientation, religions and languages.
Self Care Day
In need of a massage?
Or maybe a little yoga?
Join us on Sunday, June 29th for a free chair massage and learn about the benefits of yoga. A Body Shop representative will be present to pamper you with rich and luxurious body products.
Agenda**
Sunday, June 29
3 - 6pm Self-Care Day - free massage and yoga
5 - 8pm Rural Issues Committee Meeting & Dinner
Monday, June 30
8 - 9am Breakfast and Registration
9 - 10:30am Opening ceremony and Keynote with Sarah Buel
10:45- 12:15pm Concurrent Workshops:
- Strangulation (Advanced)
- Family to Family: What Advocates Need to Know
(Advanced)
- The Partnership Between a Nonprofit Governing
Board & the Organization's Staff Members (Executive)
- Strengths-Based Advocacy Skill Building (New
Worker)
12:15 - 1pm Lunch
1 - 8pm People of Color Leadership Institute: "How Do We
Effectively Talk About our Needs" with Sujata Warrier
1 - 2:30pm Concurrent Workshops:
- Working with Deaf Victims (Advanced)
- Witness Tampering in DV Cases (Advanced)
- Learn How to Love Succession Planning & Prepare
Your Organization for the Executive Director Transition (Executive)
- Criminal & Civil Legal Systems Overview (New
Worker)
2:45 - 4:15pm Concurrent Workshops:
- Legislative Advocacy (Advanced)
- Civil Law and the Domestic Violence Victim
(Advanced)
- Leading for Organizational Change (Executive)
- Technology Safety & Domestic Violence (New
Worker)
Tuesday, July 1
8:30 - 9:30am Breakfast and Registration
9:30 - 11am Concurrent Workshops:
- New Directions for Domestic Violence Offender
Treatment (Advanced)
- Civil Law and the Domestic Violence Victim
(Advanced)
- Recruiting, Retaining & Motivating Top Quality
Staff (Executive)
- Dynamics of Batterers (New Worker)
11 - 12:45pm Luncheon Plenary: "Intersectionality, Oppression(s) and
Domestic Violence" with Sujata Warrier
1 - 2:30pm Concurrent Workshops:
- Health Enabling for Language Professionals
(Advanced)
- Planetary Exploration: Understanding the Orbit &
Goals of Fatherhood, Healthy Marriage & Domestic Violence (Advanced)
- 8 Step Strategic Approach to Grants (Executive)
- Helping Parents Prepare their Children for the
Future without Family Violence (New Worker)
2:45 - 4:15pm Concurrent Workshops:
- DV and Domestic Relations Cases (Advanced)
- Strangulation (Advanced)
- Board Recruitment & Engagement (Executive)
- Privilege & Confidentiality (New Worker)
6 - 7:30pm Reception & Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, July 2
8:30 - 10:30am CCADV Membership Business Meeting
10:45- 12:15pm Concurrent Workshops:
- Address Confidentiality Program Application Assistance
(Advanced)
- Meeting at the Crossroads: A Multi-Faith panel
on Domestic Abuse and Spirituality (Advanced)
- Board Members Can Be Great Fundraisers Without
Asking for Money! (Executive)
- Freeze Frame: Domestic Violence from a Different
Point of View (New Worker)
12:15 - 1:30pm Luncheon Plenary - "Three Decades of Sheltering and
Keeping our Philosophy" with Linda A. Osmundson
1:45 - 3:15pm Concurrent Workshops:
- Serving LGBT Survivors: From Rhetoric to
Practice (Advanced)
- Expert Witness in DV Cases (Advanced)
- The Inclusive Leader (Executive)
- Law Enforcement & Domestic Violence (New Worker)
3:30 - 4pm Closing Ceremony
**Agenda subject to change
LOCATION & LODGING INFORMATION
Colorado Springs Marriott Hotel
5580 Tech Center Drive
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919
Phone: 719-260-1800
Fax: 719-260-1492
Reservations: 1-888-236-2427
This luxury Colorado Springs hotel nestled in the foothills of Pikes Peak offers guests a breath of fresh air and spectacular mountain vistas. Recently renovated, the Colorado Springs Marriott boasts upscale amenities, delectable Southwestern dining, and elegantly appointed event space.
For more information about the hotel, including directions and to BOOK ONLINE, click here.
For tax exemption of your sleeping room, you must download, complete and bring a Colorado Springs Tax Exempt form and your agencies tax exempt form with you to the hotel at check-in. Click here for the form.
For more information on the city of Colorado Springs, click here to visit their website.
Nearby Restaurants:
- Edelweiss (719) 633-2220, German
- MacKenzie's Chophouse (719) 635-3536, American
- New South Wales (719) 260-6555, American
- Olive Branch (719) 475-1199, Vegetarian
- The Famous (719) 227-7333, Steakhouse
CCADV is Celebrating 30 Years of Working to End Domestic Violence – 1978 to 2008!
Also celebrating 30 years of advocacy on beehalf of battered women and their children:
Jane Doe Inc., The Massachusetts Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
Michigan Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
North Dakota Council on Abused Women's Services
South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
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