This webinar will review the need for sexuality education for people with disabilities, issues around consent to sex for people with disabilities, how to talk to people with disabilities about consent, and resources for discussing sexuality with people with disabilities with the ultimate goal of promoting safe and autonomous sexual relationships. Save the date for the second webinar in the series on September 18, 2018.

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Teens are at a much higher risk of sexual violence than adult members of the community yet often are the least empowered to seek the services they need. This rural webinar will provide an opportunity for rural advocacy agencies to come together and learn about best practices in support teen sexual assault survivors. Topics will include outreach to rural teens, accommodations in services, holistic practices, and working with the parents and guardians of teen survivors.

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Results of a recent survey indicate mandated reporting impacts domestic violence survivors, and most often that impact is detrimental. 50% of survivors in the survey said the mandatory report made things "much worse." Youth under 18 and trans* and gender variant people were especially impacted - almost half said that they had avoided seeking support for fear that they would be reported. Youth and especially LGBTQ youth are not talking to trusted adults about their relationships because of fear of being reported. In this webinar, we will unpack the impact of mandatory reporting on help seeking and identify practical strategies advocates can use to decrease negative consequences of reporting and increase survivor safety and self-determination.

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This webinar for judicial officials will provide an overview of how immigration issues related to domestic violence intersect with civil proceedings. At the end of this webinar, participants will be better able to: explain the dynamics of immigration-related abuse; examine how immigration issues may impact judicial proceedings related to DV/SA, including the U visa certification process; assess how criminal and civil findings intersect with an immigration matter.

This webinar is pending OVW Approval. 

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Session I of the series will engage participants in learning to recognize and respect individual cultural differences regarding language and communication as important to working in a sensitive and effective manner with survivors with limited English proficiency. Ensuring meaningful access to limited En glish proficient (LEP) survivors of domestic and sexual violence means recognizing how gender bias and cultural identity may prevent access to services. This webinar will examine the challenges LEP survivors encounter while seeking to access services because of limited culturally and linguistically responsive systems of help. This is part one of a three part webinar series.

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Most CCR models have been developed and implemented in urban and non-rural communities. As a result, advocacy programs often grapple with how to adapt these efforts to account for rural realities. This webinar features Daryl Chanthus, ED of Wo/Men's Resource and Rape Assistance Program (WRAP), Jackson, TN to discuss how in 2017 their program began to address rural obstacles, capitalize on rural assets, and strengthen their CCR efforts to ultimately improve cooperative advocacy, and law enforcement and court response, to domestic violence in their four rural Tennessee counties.

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Title: Responding to Me Too: How Employers Can Build a Framework to Address Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Workplace
Host: Futures Without Violence 

Date: August 30, 2018

Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm PST