Upcoming Virtual Event
Serving Survivors of Sexual Assault with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
April 27
2 - 3:30 pm ET

Each April, we come together to pause, to reflect, and to uplift the experiences of sexual assault survivors. Please join us as we honor Sexual Assault Awareness Month with a conversation centering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) who are more likely to experience sexual assault. In this webinar, you will learn about the unique risks they face, barriers they encounter when seeking services, and best practices that you can implement to serve survivors with I/DD effectively. Also, a self-advocate will share their experiences and provide tips for ways in which you can increase survivors' comfort, be trauma-informed, and meet the needs of those most likely to experience sexual assault.
Panelist/Presenters

Leslie Myers is a Senior Program Associate at the Center on Victimization and Safety. In this presentation, she will be joined by Leigh Ann Barry, a self-advocate and survivor who now works as a peer advocate at the Disabled Persons Protection Commission's Sexual Assault Response Unit in Massachusetts.
ID: Leslie Myers, a white woman with grey, short hair, gold earrings and glasses, smiles at the camera.
ID: Leigh Ann Barry, a white woman with her brown hair pulled back, smiles at the camera while holding a card.
American Sign Language interpreting will be provided for all webinars in this series. Closed captioning and other accommodations for the live session are available upon request. If you register less than one week before the session, accommodations cannot be guaranteed.

We use Zoom webinar for all of our virtual trainings.
The National Center on Ending Abuse of People with Disabilities is a resource center funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women to bring together people with disabilities, policymakers, practitioners, and other community members to better serve people with disabilities and Deaf people who have experienced violence. The National Center fosters dialogue and provides guidance on addressing problems that impede access to services, developing promising practices, and works to center the needs of people with disabilities and Deaf people when developing solutions and responses to crime. For more information, reach out to us at cvs@vera.org.