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2/24/2023
12:15:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000
This presentation will analyze and evaluate the movements to criminalize coercive control and to address it in the family court system. The presenters, who direct family justice and domestic violence law clinics, will explore the challenges that arise in both legislating and litigating claims of coercive control. The presentation will include a nuanced discussion of what constitutes coercive control, different attempts to legislate this form of abuse and how such laws could be used both to protect survivors of intimate partner violence and to harm them. The presenters will pay particular attention to the power disparities inherent in coercive control and how these dynamics may be operationalized in a court setting.
About the Speakers
Courtney Cross is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction and the Director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic at the University of Alabama School of Law. Previously, Professor Cross taught in the Civil Litigation Clinic at the University of Denver and was a clinical teaching fellow in the Domestic Violence Clinic at Georgetown University, where she earned her LL.M degree. Before she began teaching, Professor Cross was an Equal Justice Works/AmeriCorps Fellow and staff attorney at a women’s reentry nonprofit in Washington, D.C. where she represented formerly incarcerated women in domestic violence and family court proceedings and represented incarcerated women in parole revocation hearings.
Gillian Chadwick is an Associate Professor of Law at Washburn Law, Director of the Washburn Law Clinic and Associate Director of the Children of Family Law Center. Previously she was a Clinical Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center in the Domestic Violence Clinic. Prior to that, she was the Director of Survivor Services at Ayuda in the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program, where she supervised legal and social services staff and represented immigrant victims of gender-based violence in domestic violence, domestic relations and immigration matters in Washington, D.C. She also worked as an Arnold & Porter Equal Justice Works Fellow at Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE), where she focused on economic and employment issues facing survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
This is a hybrid event with live stream available for remote participation.
In-person and Zoom information will be included in the RSVP confirmation e-mail.
Lunch will be served to attendees at 11:45 a.m.
This event is approved for 1.0 hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
For more event details or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email centers@law.uci.edu.
About the IEFV
The mission of the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV) is to be the premier site for research, education, clinical care, and community collaboration on family violence prevention and intervention.
2/10/2023
12:15:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end.
Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them.
About the Speaker
Leigh Goodmark (she/her) co-directs the Clinical Law Program and directs the Gender Violence Clinic, which she founded at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Professor Goodmark also teaches Family Law, Social Justice and the Law and gender-related courses.
Professor Goodmark is an internationally recognized authority on gender-based violence. Her legal work, scholarship and commentary focus on aspects of gender-based violence including race, intersectionality, criminalization and incarceration. She is the author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (2023), Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (2018) and A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System. She is the co-editor of The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives (2023) and Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide (2015). Her work has appeared in popular outlets like The New York Times, Inquest and the Baltimore Sun, as well as journals and law reviews including Violence Against Women, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Florida State University Law Review and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Professor Goodmark has an adjunct appointment at the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre in Melbourne Australia.
This is a hybrid event with live stream available for remote participation.
In-person and Zoom information will be included in the RSVP confirmation e-mail.
Lunch will be served to attendees at 11:45 a.m., the newly released book will be available for purchase, and Professor Goodmark will sign books following the program.
This event is approved for 1.0 hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
For more event details or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email centers@law.uci.edu.
About the IEFV
The mission of the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV) is to be the premier site for research, education, clinical care, and community collaboration on family violence prevention and intervention.
11/18/2022
8:45:00 AM to 5:00:00 PM
Co-sponsored by the California Protective Parents Association (CPPA) and UCI Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV).
This full-day virtual conference will offer multidisciplinary perspectives on protecting children from family violence in the context of child custody or divorce cases. National experts, leading legislators, inspirational survivors, and courageous kids will address policy reforms, trauma concerns and intervention strategies.
Together, attendees can move forward prioritizing child safety and health in family court cases.
Speakers Include:
Catherine Campbell, California Protective Parents Association
Representative Meg Froelich, Colorado House of Representatives
Thomas Lyons, USC Gould School of Law
Joan Meier, National Family Violence Law Center at GW Law
Danielle Pollack, National Family Violence Law Center at GW Law
Jodi Quas, UCI School of Social Ecology
Jane Stoever, UCI Law and UCI Initiative to End Family Violence
Tina Swithin, One Mom’s Battle and Family Court Advocate
This event is approved for 6.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
NOTE: This event is being recorded for archival, educational and related promotional purposes. All audience members agree to the possibility of appearing on these recordings by virtue of attending the event or participating in the event. Since this is a webinar, your image will not appear during the session.
For more event details or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email centers@law.uci.edu
About the IEFV
The mission of the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV) is to be the premier site for research, education, clinical care, and community collaboration on family violence prevention and intervention.
IEFV | How Minneapolis Women Confront Interpersonal Violence, Neighborhood Crime, & State Criminalization in the Age of Policing Reform
10/24/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
By Amber Joy Powell
Prior research illustrates how race-class subjugated communities are over-policed and under-protected, producing high rates of victimization by other community members and the police. Yet few studies explore how gender and race structure dual frustration, despite a long line of Black feminist scholarship on the interpersonal, gender-based, and state violence Black and other women of color face. Drawing on interviews with 53 women in Minneapolis from 2017 to 2019, Powell’s article examines how gendered racial vulnerability to both crime and criminalization shape dual frustration toward the law. Powell’s findings illustrate that police fail to protect women of color from neighborhood and gender-based violence, while simultaneously targeting them and their families. Despite their spatial proximity to women of color, white women remained largely shielded from the dual frustration of crime and criminalization. Attention to the gendered racial dimensions of dual frustration offers an intersectional framework for understanding women's vulnerability to violence and cultural orientations toward the law.
About the Speaker
Amber Joy Powell is a first-year Assistant Professor of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Iowa. Her primary research and teaching interests include gender-based violence against racialized communities, crime, punishment, and law. More specifically, her scholarship examines how legal institutions, such as courts, police, and detention centers, perpetuate gendered and racialized violence against criminalized communities of color. She has worked extensively with Michelle Phelps interviewing residents of North Minneapolis about their experiences of victimization, policing, and policing reform. Her most recent work examines how youth detention centers respond to youth claims of sexual victimization. Thus far, her research has been published in Gender & Society and Law & Society Review, and the American Journal of Sociology.
This event is approved for 1.0 hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
NOTE: This event is being recorded for archival, educational and related promotional purposes. All audience members agree to the possibility of appearing on these recordings by virtue of attending the event or participating in the event. Since this is a webinar, your image will not appear during the session.
For more event details or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email centers@law.uci.edu
About the IEFV
The mission of the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV) is to be the premier site for research, education, clinical care, and community collaboration on family violence prevention and intervention.
10/14/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
by Tamara Kuennen
Abstract
The “Power and Control Wheel” is an iconic image in the anti- domestic violence movement (see attached). On a single vivid page, it captures multiple layers of intimate partner abuse. In the wheel’s hub are the words “power and control,” the fundamental motivation of an abusive partner. Eight spokes emanate from the center, each representing a tactic of abuse designed to accomplish that goal, such as “coercion and threats” and “intimidation.” The rim of the wheel identifies “physical” and “sexual” violence as the actions holding together and fortifying the tactics of an abusive partner’s control.
The Wheel sprung from activists’ interviews with battered women in the early 1980s. First printed in a modest spiral bound manual with cover art drawn by a volunteer, the Wheel for thirty years has been the predominant model of domestic violence in the U.S. It has since spread around the globe, now translated into more than forty languages, and adapted to scores of distinct cultural contexts.
What the world does not know is that the Wheel was originally accompanied by a Chart. The “Institutional and Cultural Supports for Battering Chart,” designed as a close companion of the Wheel, focused on structures outside the relationship that increase one partner’s capacity to abuse the other. Women in discussion groups would connect an intimate partner’s tactics (pictured in the Wheel) to institutions, cultural values, and beliefs (listed on the Chart). Examples provided on the Chart included police and courts, to name only two. According to the creators of the Wheel and Chart, this process of connection was one of women “bringing together the personal and the political.”
Kuennen’s Essay is the first to map the creation of the Institutional and Cultural Supports for Battering Chart. It relies primarily on the words—captured in interviews and writings—of the Wheel-Chart’s creators. After demonstrating the ubiquity of the Wheel and identifying factors contributing to the Chart’s disappearance, the Essay argues that this disappearance illuminates two essential movement challenges that feminist activists and scholars have long identified. One is the lack of focus on structural causes of domestic violence. When people who experience abuse, or the advocates who assist them, use the Wheel without the Chart, the Wheel not only ignores—but masks—structural violence, by drawing attention exclusively to the individual, private violence encapsulated in the Wheel. The other is the set of problems that flows from the professionalization of the movement, whereby people experiencing abuse are viewed as clients to whom services are delivered, rather than partners with whom activists forge new paths toward social change. The Essay concludes with directions for future research.
About the Speaker
Tamara Kuennen is a Professor of Law in the Civil Litigation Clinic at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she supervises students who represent survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault in obtaining civil protection orders, low-income tenants in defending against evictions, and immigrant day laborers who are unpaid for their work. She frequently trains judges as a consulting faculty member for the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence, a partnership of the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and Futures Without Violence. Professor Kuennen’s scholarship focuses on how the law could more adequately meet the needs of survivors of intimate partner violence. Before joining the faculty at Denver, she taught in the Domestic Violence Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, where she earned her LL.M. degree in trial advocacy. Prior to teaching, she practiced at Legal Aid Services of Oregon for five years, representing survivors of domestic violence in a variety of civil cases, including protection orders, domestic relations, public benefits and civil rights litigation. She graduated from Northeastern University School of Law.
This event is approved for 1.0 hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
NOTE: This event is being recorded for archival, educational and related promotional purposes. All audience members agree to the possibility of appearing on these recordings by virtue of attending the event or participating in the event. Since this is a webinar, your image will not appear during the session.
For more event details or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email centers@law.uci.edu
About the IEFV
The mission of the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV) is to be the premier site for research, education, clinical care, and community collaboration on family violence prevention and intervention.
6/1/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
On September 27th, 2018, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Justice Brett Kavanaugh testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in a highly anticipated and extensively covered congressional hearing, which featured detailed descriptions of sexual assault and interpersonal violence. Although consuming media coverage of natural disasters and terrorist attacks has previously been linked to experiencing acute distress, this research group examined whether a live televised political event, such as congressional testimony regarding an alleged sexual assault, could also rise to the level of a triggering event.
Surveying a U.S. nationally representative sample (N = 4,894), the research group found that victims of sexual/interpersonal violence (SIV) reported greater acute stress in reaction to the testimonies than non-SIV victims and this association depended on exposure to media coverage of the hearings and experiencing triggered memories of their own assault. This study contributes to an ongoing conversation around how media exposure may affect mental health, and how the rapid production and consumption of video and audio content on (social) media platforms can imperil mental health and wellbeing. Moreover, these findings suggest that politically polarized events in the U.S. may have detrimental consequences for public mental health.
Featured Speakers
E. Alison Holman, PhD, APRN, FNP, FAAN is an associate professor in the Program of Nursing Science at the UCI and is a nationally certified family nurse practitioner. She earned her BSN at San Francisco State University, BA in psychology at University of California, Santa Cruz, PhD in Health Psychology at University of California, Irvine, and completed a post- doctoral fellowship in social psychology at Stanford University. She received the Chaim Danieli Young Investigator’s Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in 2001 for her research on early cognitive predictors of long-term adjustment following trauma. Dr. Holman studies how people cope with highly stressful experiences (e.g., terrorism, incest, war) with special interest in understanding how acute responses (cognitive, emotional, and social) to trauma affect long-term mental and physical health. Her current research examines genetic susceptibility to co-morbid mental (e.g., acute and post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms) and physical (e.g., cardiovascular) health problems. Dr. Holman is systematically exploring genetic predispositions for acute stress responses that may contribute to the development of PTS and cardiovascular ailments over time. Through this research she hopes to identify pathways linking psychological trauma with physical disease that may open new avenues for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease using individually-tailored early interventions.
Dan Relihan is currently in his final quarter as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine with a focus on social psychology. Understanding when, how, and why people perceive and respond to threat is vital for devising effective solutions to major societal issues like climate change, pandemics, and terrorism. On a broad level, Dan's research aims to understand the role of morality, ideology, and identity in threat perception and response. In one experimental line of work, Dan uses a multi-method approach with diverse sample populations and multilevel modeling to investigate the motivating effects of moral intuitions and political ideology on threat perceptions. His research demonstrates that 1) people conflate what they find morally wrong with what they think is risky, and that 2) political differences in affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to pathogen threats depend on political leader cues, moral feelings of purity, and sensitivity to disgust.
In a second line of research that takes a more applied approach, Dan uses large probabilistic nationally representative data and structural equation modeling to investigate the role of social identity and media engagement in reactions to group-based traumatic events (e.g., mass shootings, terrorism). For example, he found that Americans who shared Hispanic and LGBTQ+ identities with the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida reported greater exposure to media coverage of the event and greater acute stress than those who did not share these identities with the victims; and that people who shared both identities reported the greatest amount of distress.
To achieve this research, Dan values and engages in interdisciplinary collaboration with scientists from social psychology, developmental psychology, political science, philosophy of science, public health, and nursing. Findings from his work highlight the importance of identity, ideology, and media in threat perception, and have implications for politics, public health, communications, and national security.
IEFV | Formal Help-Seeking of Latina Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence During a Period of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
5/25/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
This presentation will discuss the results of a pilot study that investigates the help-seeking behavior of Latina immigrant intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors when seeking formal and legal resources for IPV. The investigation illuminates the process by which immigrant IPV survivors decide to involve law enforcement for IPV borrowing from Miller and Sarat’s (1980) dispute pyramid in explaining their decision-making process. Additionally, the study explores the role of sanctuary policy and immigration status of immigrant survivors of IPV in their decision to involve law enforcement.
The pilot study used interviews with 12 women who identified as immigrants to the United States and IPV survivors. The interviews with immigrant IPV survivors were supplemented with 14 interviews of individuals who provide assistance, resources, or services to IPV survivors. Results indicate that there is a gap in knowledge of sanctuary policy between service providers and immigrant IPV survivors. Additionally, survivors seemed unsure of the sanctuary policy’s ability to protect them from detention and deportation. Finally, some behaviors which survivors deemed to be harmful (e.g., infidelity) did not necessarily have legal means of redress available. Altogether the results indicate more work remains to be done to ensure the needs and hesitancies of survivors are addressed.
Featured Speaker:
Veronica Valencia Gonzalez (they/she) is a 5th year PhD student in the Social Ecology program at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Veronica attended UCI for undergraduate studies and graduated in 2017, receiving BAs in Criminology, Law & Society and Psychology & Social Behavior. Veronica decided to continue at UCI because they were drawn to the School of Social Ecology’s commitment of community engaged research and the school’s motto of science driving real world solutions to social and environmental issues. Veronica has taken Social Ecology’s approach to heart by seeking to include the voices and opinions of community members in their research which focuses on mental illness stigma, gender violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV) within Latine/x communities. Veronica is currently in Mexico undertaking dissertation research which aims to explore conceptions of IPV in rural mostly indigenous communities of Mexico.
This event is approved for 1.0 hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
5/18/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
EDU 1111
Homeless, pregnant women in Orange County face significant challenges, including intimate partner violence and other trauma exposures. This panel brings together experts from the community and at UCI to discuss existing community outreach and support, findings from a collaborative project, and reflections on successful community partnerships to combat the cycle of violence.
5/4/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
Featured Projects:
Persistence of Discrimination: Theory and Experimental Evidence
- Nishtha Sharma, Department of Economics
Locating Birth Mothers in South Korea
- Shannon Bae, Department of Anthropology
Pedagogies of Love: Family, Finance, and Social Intervention Programs in Appalachia
- Ellen Kladky, Department of Anthropology
More info to come.
Beyond Resilience: Self-Forgiveness as a Mitigator of Psychological Distress among Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
4/18/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
UCI Law
Women exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) experience a host of adverse psychological outcomes, including depression, anxiety, PTSD and anger dysregulation. Professor Raymond W. Novaco and Klaudia Kosiak’s prior research at the Orange County Family Justice Center (OCFJC) highlighted social support and resilience as buffers against women’s psychological distress following IPV. Extant research on violence victimization has identified self- forgiveness as protective against adverse psychological effects of IPV, thus they pursued testing it as a potential psychological distress mitigator for women seeking a temporary restraining order at OCFJC. Their main research question was whether IPV exposed women’s self-forgiveness explains additional variation in their depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, PTSD and anger beyond social support and resilience? Study findings will be presented and their implications for interventions will be discussed.
Featured Speakers
Klaudia Kosiak, M.S., is a doctoral candidate in UC Irvine’s Department of Psychological Science. She is mentored by Dr. Raymond Novaco. Klaudia’s research is broadly focused on violence reduction and the mitigation of the negative mental health consequences of violence exposure. Her work has specifically concerned the identification of risk and protective factors associated with violence and its mental health consequences.
Raymond W. Novaco, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychological Science at UC Irvine. His major academic work concerns anger and violence, from both an assessment and treatment standpoint, especially with forensic psychiatric populations. His research has also focused on stress and psychological trauma, including combat-related PTSD and domestic violence populations.
Hybrid event with live stream available for remote participation.
Zoom information will be included in the RSVP confirmation e-mail.
This event is approved for 1.0 hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
For more event details or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email centers@law.uci.edu.
3/9/2022
3:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM
This event is approved for 1.0 hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
NOTE: This event is being recorded for archival, educational and related promotional purposes. All audience members agree to the possibility of appearing on these recordings by virtue of attending the event or participating in the event. Since this is a webinar, your image will not appear during the session.
For more event details or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email centers@law.uci.edu
11/19/2021
12:15:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
A presentation by Dr. Corey Rood and Stacy Metcalf
Stacy Metcalf, MA, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychological Science at UC Irvine, under the mentorship of Jodi A. Quas. Broadly, Stacy’s research concerns the experiences and consequences of adversity exposure (e.g., maltreatment) on child and adolescent development. Specifically, her work focuses on two related topics: how maltreatment affects socioemotional functioning and how contextual factors (e.g., policy changes, societal events) impact youths’ experiences and trajectories. She recently received the Alison Clarke-Stewart Award for her work studying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the identification, incidence, and characteristics of child maltreatment. In addition to her research, Stacy has pursued teaching and mentoring opportunities, including specialized training through the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, teaching in the School of Social Ecology, and participating as a departmental mentor.
Corey J. Rood, MD, is the Medical Director of Child Abuse Pediatrics with the Department of Pediatrics at UC Irvine, the CAST medical clinic, and the Child Abuse & Prevention Team at Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics with the UC Irvine School of Medicine. As a Child Abuse Pediatrician, his work focuses on the diagnosis, care, and management of potentially abused and neglected children. Dr. Rood’s clinical and research interests and expertise include commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC) including human trafficking, both international and domestic. Dr. Rood’s research endeavors include recent studies on sexting and online sexual solicitation exposure amongst adolescents with suspected sexual abuse, and human trafficking screening of adolescent patients.
11/10/2021
3:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM
Featuring
The Feminist Playbook for Winning Back Title IX
Dr. Jessica Cabrera wrote her dissertation as a critique of the various current strategies that feminists use to try to end sexual harassment through Title IX laws. Her presentation will discuss some of these flaws, and how both activists and university administrators can get involved in better organizing strategies.
Intersectional Stereotyping and Sexual Harassment of Women Students of Color
Professor Nancy Chi Cantalupo will discuss several factors that contribute to the disproportionate vulnerability of women of color—students included—to sexual harassment and gender- based violence. She will emphasize the role of stereotyping and say a few words about what we can all do to reduce and prevent such sexual harassment.
Title IX, Esports, and #EToo
Most youth game, but approximately 70% of females who game hide their gender identity while gaming because of rampant sexual harassment. Universities are increasingly awarding video gaming scholarships, fielding competitive esports teams, constructing esports arenas, and promoting student interaction through gaming, but they aren't anticipating the sexual cyberviolence, harassment, and technology-enabled abuse that commonly occur through gaming. Professor Jane Stoever will discuss that, rather than waiting for an #EToo movement, universities—motivated by Title IX mandates and inclusion principles—can affirmatively create responsible gaming initiatives with goals of violence prevention, player protection, and harm minimization.
About the Speakers
Dr. Jessica Cabrera is a UCI alumni and the current Vice President of Cabrera-Williams Consulting, Inc., a diversity and inclusion consulting company that she runs with her spouse. Jessica does organizing work around TItle IX, teaching online organizing strategy workshops. Please email her at jessicacabrera.phd@gmail.com for information on how to get involved. Or, join her on meetup.com: https://www.meetup.com/win-back-title- ix/.
Professor Nancy Chi Cantalupo (Wayne State University Law School) is a nationally respected voice on Title IX, sexual harassment and gender-based violence. She has contributed significantly to U.S. public policy, including as a member of the 2013-14 Negotiated Rulemaking Committee for the Violence Against Women Act. Her scholarship focuses on using the law to combat discriminatory violence and draws from her more than two decades of work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims’ advocate, attorney and policymaker.
Professor Jane Stoever (UCI Law) directs the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence and the Domestic Violence Clinic and teaches Family Law. She also co-chairs the Orange County Domestic Violence Death Review Team. Her research concerns legal and societal responses to domestic violence, and her recent publications include the book, The Politicization of Safety.
11/5/2021
9:00:00 AM to 6:00:00 PM
Co-sponsored by the California Protective Parents Association.
This full-day virtual conference will offer multidisciplinary perspectives on protecting children from family violence in the context of child custody or divorce cases. National experts, leading legislators, survivors, and courageous kids will address policy reforms, health and trauma concerns, protective parenting, institutional betrayal, and intervention strategies.
Together, attendees can move forward prioritizing child safety and health in family court cases.
Students can attend for free. Use discount code student and use your .edu student email to register.
More details and featured speakers>>
This event is approved for 8.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email: centers@law.uci.edu.
We Are Better Together: Innovations in Medical-Legal Partnerships in the Los Angeles District Attorney's Complex Child Abuse Section
3/30/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
Featuring Sandra Murray, MD and Pak Kouch, JD DDA
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office (LADA) recognized the need for specialized expertise in complex child abuse issues to inform its charging decisions and case prosecutions. This led to the creation of a complex medical child abuse unit that enables timely and efficient collaborations between child abuse pediatricians, law enforcement, and LADA prosecutors. The team of child abuse pediatricians offers medical insights to law enforcement, social services, and the attorneys, and benefits from more complete case histories and understanding the legal process. Law enforcement and attorneys benefit from more thorough investigations and a better understanding of medical concerns and consequences.
This session will describe the process of establishing the unit and will work through a case from beginning to end to demonstrate the collaboration.
About the Speakers
Dr. Sandra Murray attended both medical school and pediatric residency at the University of California, Irvine. After her residency, she worked in general and in-patient and out-patient pediatrics for two years. She then completed a fellowship in Family Violence at the Chadwick Center for Children in San Diego. Dr. Murray is board certified in general pediatrics and in the sub-specialty child abuse pediatrics. She is the past medical director of the Riverside Child Assessment Team in Riverside County and the Child Abuse Service Team in Orange County. She is currently the medical director of the Child Abuse and Protection Team at Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital (MCWH) in Long Beach. She is now a retired professor of pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine where she is still working as a child abuse pediatrician at UCI Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, and Child Abuse Services Team (CAST).
Dr. Murray is an active member of several organizations that focus on prevention and education about child abuse and family violence: WE CAN Coalition, Chapter 4 AAP Section on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention, the UCI Institute to End Family Violence, The Raise Foundation, The Clinic in the Park, the OC Child Death Review Team, and Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect teams at MCWH, CHOC, UCIMC, and the Orange County Wide SCAN team.
Dr. Murray is involved in research projects focusing on safe sleep, bone strength, and fall injury. These projects are in collaboration with UCI campus researchers, the Orange County Coroner Office, and UCI SOM medical students.
Pak Kouch is the Deputy-in-Charge of the Complex Child Abuse Section in the Family Violence Division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. This unit handles cases involving Abusive Head Trauma and other medically complex injuries that result in a child’s death. The prosecutors work with child abuse pediatricians, law enforcement and social workers as a multidisciplinary team to maximize the potential for positive outcomes and hold abusers accountable.
Ms. Kouch has been a deputy district attorney since 2000 with various trial assignments in the Family Violence Division, Victim Impact Program and the Pomona Branch Office. She has conducted numerous complex jury trials including multiple murder special circumstances, child homicides, sexual assault, gang, robbery and domestic violence cases. She has trained prosecutors and law enforcement locally and nationally on child abuse, child homicides, no- body homicides, jury selection, motions, and domestic violence. Ms. Kouch graduated from Occidental College with a degree in public policy and received her law degree from Southwestern Law School.
This event is approved for 1.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
This event is being recorded for archival, educational, and related promotional purposes. All audience members agree to the possibility of appearing on these recordings by virtue of attending the event or participating in the event. Since this is a webinar, audience images will not appear during the session.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email: centers@law.uci.edu
3/16/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
By Professor Deborah Epstein and Professor Lisa Goodman
Domestic violence (DV) shelters have long provided essential refuge for survivors leaving abusive relationships. Understandably, these shelters have historically prioritized the physical safety of survivors above all else. More recently, however, anti- domestic violence advocates have begun to question two essential policies that have long defined the DV shelter approach to safety: strict secrecy regarding shelter location, and strict prohibitions on shelter access to all except staff and residents. Both of these policies serve to increase survivors’ social isolation and entail coercive rules that resonate painfully with broader oppressive dynamics. In response, a growing number of communities have begun experimenting with open shelters, where secrecy and closure is disavowed in favor of visibility, connection, and support. This presentation will focus on the results of a qualitative study of open shelters across the U.S., exploring ways in which these shelters promote survivor safety in ways consistent with the realities of contemporary society, and simultaneously provide survivors with an invaluable benefit: greater social connectedness. Survivors’ increased ability to remain in community and invest, on site, in preexisting and new relationships leads to benefits that are both tangible, such as access to childcare and social services, and intangible, such as increased autonomy and decreased loneliness and shame. These findings suggest a new path toward understanding and promoting survivor safety, healing, and well-being in the context of a web of meaningful relationships.
This event is approved for 1.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
This event is being recorded for archival, educational, and related promotional purposes. All audience members agree to the possibility of appearing on these recordings by virtue of attending the event or participating in the event. Since this is a webinar, audience images will not appear during the session.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email: centers@law.uci.edu
12/9/2020
1:00:00 PM to 2:00:00 PM
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore how women of color affiliated with a large public university in the United States evaluated involving authorities in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) and/or sexual assault (SA) and to discover if structural stressors such as racism or sexism influenced their thinking. Surveys on perceived ethnic discrimination, depression, trauma history, stress, social support, resilience, and sleep disturbance were completed by 87 self- identified women of color. All women also participated in one of several focus groups on IPV and SA. Roughly half of participants had experienced SA and about a third experienced IPV. Participants identifying as Latinx/Hispanic or Black/African American reported the greatest experiences of structural stressors and also felt there was not always a potential safety gain with reporting IPV and/or SA. The results of this study suggest universities must create more culturally competent environs of safety for women of color.
Citation: Burton, C. W., & Guidry, J. D. (2020). Reporting Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault: A Mixed Methods Study of Concerns and Considerations Among College Women of Color. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043659620941583
About Dr. Candace W. Burton
Dr. Candace W. Burton is an Assistant Professor in the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing at the University of California, Irvine and the Director of the Orange County Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Expansion Program. She is a former domestic violence advocate and her research focuses on the biobehavioral and biological health effects of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. Dr. Burton is a trained qualitative and mixed methodologist, and has published on intimate partner violence, young adult women’s health, cultural stressors, social media in nursing, and women’s reproductive health in the context of coercive and controlling relationships. Dr. Burton is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Advanced Forensic Nursing. Her research has been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation among others.
10/15/2020
3:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM
Does the grassroots demand to defund the police include systems of policing in prisons, schools, homes, and healthcare? How can defunding the police across punitive contexts create safer conditions for survivors of domestic and sexual violence? Join scholars and organizers Alisa Bierria and Aminah Elster to explore how a Black feminist theory of safety highlights connections between multiple forms of policing in survivors’ lives, and how a feminist political movement to divest from policing can enable survivors' freedom and self-determination.
About the Speakers
Alisa Bierria is a Black feminist philosopher whose work focuses on racialized gender violence and critical acts of survival. She co-founded Survived & Punished, a national organization that challenges the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence and advocates for the abolition of carceral systems. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University and was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. She is now an assistant professor of African American Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside.
Aminah Elster is the Founder of Unapologetically H.E.R.S., which is committed to centering and empowering the experiences of those incarcerated within California women's prisons through leadership development and self-sufficiency. As a formerly incarcerated woman of color, Aminah is intimately familiar with the impacts of imprisonment, and is a member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and an organizer with Survived & Punished CA. She previously worked with Berkeley Underground Scholars leading the organization’s Ambassador Program and serving as the Advocacy Chair for Underground Scholars Initiative. She completed her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley.
This event is approved for 1.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
NOTE: This event is being recorded for archival, educational, and related promotional purposes. All audience members agree to the possibility of appearing on these recordings by virtue of attending the event or participating in the event. Since this is a webinar, audience images will not appear during the session.
9/18/2020
11:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 PM
Friday, September 18, 2020, 11-12 Pacific/1-2 Central/2- 3 Eastern
Featuring Dr. Jamila Stockman and Professors Leigh Goodmark and Charisa Smith
This event is approved for 1.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar- approved MCLE provider.
How can gender-based violence remedies advance beyond the carceral system? Global movements against racism, calls to defund the police and reimagine public safety, and the collective focus on community aid during COVID-19 present opportunities to create and expand alternatives to carceral responses to gender-based violence. Experts in public health, juvenile justice, restorative justice, and economic justice present their visions during this session.
Featured Speakers:
Leigh Goodmark is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Clinical Law Program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she directs the Gender Violence Clinic. Professor Goodmark is the author of the books, A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System and Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence, which argues for economic, public health, community, and human rights responses to intimate partner violence.
Charisa Kiyô Smith is an Associate Professor at City University of New York School of Law, where she directs the interdisciplinary, intersectional Family Law Practice Clinic and teaches Torts and Juvenile Law. Her research focuses on topics including the criminalization of youth behavior and restorative justice interventions in teen dating violence. Professor Smith has wide-ranging experience in legal practice, international human rights work, and public service, and integrates legal theories including critical race feminism and vulnerability studies, while engaging new legal realism.
Jamila K. Stockman, PhD, MPH, is a Vice Chief and Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She is also Director of the Disparities Core at UC San Diego’s Center for AIDS Research. An epidemiologist by training, Dr. Stockman’s research focuses on the intersecting epidemics of intimate partner violence and sexual violence, HIV acquisition and transmission, and substance abuse among marginalized populations.
8/19/2020
11:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 PM
Wed., Aug. 19, 11a.m.-12p.m. Pacific/1-2p.m. Central/2-3p.m. Eastern
Featuring Professor Aya Gruber and Professor Caroline Bettinger- López
Introduction of Speaker Series by Professor Jane Stoever
Discussion moderated by Professor Leigh Goodmark
The first session of our fall 2020 speaker series presents varying perspectives on policing intimate partner violence. This important discussion occurs in the context of global movements against racism and calls to defund the police and to develop alternatives to carceral systems.
Professor Aya Gruber draws on critical race feminism, media analysis, and her own experience as a public defender to address how policing is inherently flawed in responding to intimate partner violence. She will share insights from her new book, The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration, as she discusses the role of feminist debates in the politics of mass incarceration and a critical vision regarding policing in our intersectional age.
Professor Caroline Bettinger-López will discuss international human rights perspectives on gender-based violence and policing and how they overlay with domestic approaches, both before and during COVID-19 and concerning the Black Lives Matter movement. She will draw on her contribution to the forthcoming book, Policing, Communication, and Safety.
Professor Jane Stoever, Director of the Initiative to End Family Violence, will introduce the fall speaker series. The discussion on policing intimate partner violence will be moderated by Professor Leigh Goodmark, author of A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System and Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence.
2/28/2020
12:00:00 PM to 5:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Co-sponsored by Brady Orange County, UCI Law, UCI Initiative to End Family Violence, and UCI Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy
You can always give back a gun, but you can’t give back a life: that’s the principle behind Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) laws. This little-known and recently enacted tool enables the people closest to someone in crisis to act before tragedy strikes. GVROs (often called “extreme risk protection orders”) provide family members, household members, and law enforcement with a civil court process for temporarily removing firearms and ammunition from someone who poses a significant risk of harm to themselves or others. GVROs, which also prohibit firearm purchases for the duration of the order, are intended to create safer circumstances for individuals at risk of harm to seek treatment and access resources while preventing firearm fatalities.
This conference recognizes the uniquely American epidemic of gun violence and how easy access to firearms is a significant risk factor for injury and death, particularly for individuals in crisis. Researchers and practitioners from across California will explore opportunities and challenges to utilizing GVROs, including in the context of family violence, and potential for the GVRO remedy to save countless lives.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Amy Barnhorst
Vice Chair for Community Mental Health
UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Featured Speakers
Nicole R. Crosby
Chief Deputy City Attorney
San Diego City Attorney’s Office
John C. Hemmerling
Assistant City Attorney
San Diego City Attorney’s Office
Jane Stoever
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Domestic Violence Clinic
Director, UCI Initiative to End Family Violence
UCI School of Law
Julia Weber
Gun Violence Restraining Order Implementation Fellow
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Camiella Williams
Trustee
Prairie State College
National Organizer
Fight4AFuture Network
Lunch and refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. UCI guest parking is $2/hour. To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact centers@law.uci.edu.
4.0 hours of MCLE credit approved by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
1/21/2020
4:30:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000
During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prison forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. All Our Trials explores the work of these activists who placed criminalized women, and the multiple violences they confronted, at the heart of their organizing. Drawing on extensive archival research, Emily Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of movements for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation. In the process, she illuminates a crucial chapter in a struggle that continues in today's movements against mass incarceration and for transformative justice.
Emily Thuma is an assistant professor in the Division of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
11/21/2019
12:00:00 PM to 2:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Please join us for a talk by journalist Bernice Yeung on her 2019 Pulitzer finalist book IN A DAY'S WORK: THE FIGHT TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST AMERICA'S MOST VULNERABLE WORKERS (https://thenewpress.com/books/days-work).
The talk will be followed by a conversation with Ada Briceno, co-president of UNITE-HERE Local 11. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP.
Co-sponsored by UCI Initiative to End Family Violence, The UC Irvine Literary Journalism Program, UCI English, UCI Asian American Studies, and Culture & Capital.
Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this harrowing yet often inspiring tale, investigative journalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violence levied against women farmworkers, domestic workers, and janitorial workers and charts their quest for justice in the workplace.
Yeung takes readers on a journey across the country, introducing us to women who came to America to escape grinding poverty only to encounter sexual violence in the United States. The author mitigates the difficult material by bringing humanity, empathy, and hope to each page. In a Day’s Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant women’s need to earn a basic living. When these women find the courage to speak up, Yeung reveals, they are too often met by apathetic bosses and underresourced government agencies.
But In a Day’s Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workers—and win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women.
Bernice Yeung is an investigative journalist at ProPublica, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, PBS Frontline, New York magazine, and others.
Reflections on "Journeys: Resilience and growth for survivors of intimate partner abuse" by Susan Miller
11/12/2019
5:30:00 PM to 7:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Research shows that post-traumatic growth, resilience, and empowerment can flourish following adversity. Miller’s research with long-term survivors of intimate partner violence/abuse reveals that though trauma and recovery have shaped their lives, victimization is not the centerpiece of their identities. Using interviews with survivors, all of whom are five years or more out of abusive intimate relationships, and participant observations of survivor group meetings, Miller traces these women’s multiple, nuanced and complex journeys towards survivorship and violence-free lives. Although there is a wealth of research on crisis and short-term needs, we know very little about the ways in which long-term survivors transform or incorporate their “victim” identities and experiences while encountering social structural constraints (such as poverty or lack of resources that may affect help-seeking behavior, as well as housing and employment options) and legal and criminal justice obstacles. The challenges abound even for those victims/survivors most likely to have a strong sense of personal efficacy as well as access to a range of emotional and instrumental support from service providers, family and friends. Moving from being controlled by an abusive partner or ex-partner toward a life where one is in control is an accomplishment that other abused women can be inspired by and learn from. Miller hopes her talk will offer direction, refinement and ways to support programs that can foster resilience, and is useful for practitioners, academics, policymakers and students.
About Susan Miller
Susan L. Miller is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include gender- based violence, justice-involved women, victims' rights, gender and criminal justice policy. She has published numerous articles about the intersection of victimization and offending among IPV survivors including a book, Victims as offenders: The paradox of women's use of violence in relationships. Her book, After the crime: The power of restorative justice dialogues between victims and violent offenders, won the national 2012 Outstanding Book Award presented by ACJS. Miller's latest book, Journeys: Resilience and growth for survivors of intimate partner abuse, addresses resilience, growth, and self-efficacy of long-term survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse.
11/8/2019
9:00:00 AM to 3:00:00 PM
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering
100 Academy Way Irvine, CA 92617
Join us at the 7th Orange County Women’s Health Summit: Advancing Health Equity for Women in Orange County on Friday, November 8, 2019 from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm at the Beckman Center in Irvine.
Presentations will examine how inequities related to race, geography, immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and socioeconomics impact women’s health in Orange County. An interactive training will explore how implicit bias as a service provider can impact health equity and outcomes.
AGENDA
Policy Update – Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, AD 74 & Allyson Sonenshine, JD, and Mona Shah, JD, MPH & Orange County Women's Health Project
Keynote Address – Sandra R. Hernández, MD, President & CEO, California Health Care Foundation
OC Equity Update – Taryn Palumbo, JD, Executive Director, Orange County Grantmakers
Panel – Drivers of Women's Health Inequities in Orange County
- Geography – Nichole Quick, MD, MPH, Orange County Health Care Agency
- Racism – Ambrocia Lopez, MAT, Director of Mission Programs, Susan G. Komen Orange County
- Immigrant Status – Monica Eav Glicken, Esq., Directing Attorney, Immigration Unit, Public Law Center
- Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity – Laura Kanter, MSW, LGBTQ and Social Justice Advocate, Consultant and Trainer, The Dorsey Group LLC
Lunch & Poster Session
Implicit Bias Training – Candace Burton, PhD, RN, AFN-BC, AGN-BC, FNAP, Assistant Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California, Irvine
CEUs for CHES, LCSW, LMFT and Nursing will be provided.
10/18/2019
2:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Abuse has gone digital. With each new advancement in technology, those working with victims of gender-based violence, elder abuse, and other crimes must rapidly prepare for how it will be misused to harm the populations they assist. Artificial intelligence is no exception, driving harmful new advances in the field of digital impersonation—such as 'Deepfake' videos. These videos are used, for example, to falsely edit women into pornographic videos they were not actually in. This technology makes anyone a potential victim of nonconsensual intimate imagery and empowers laypeople with the ability to manipulate video, audio, and photographic evidence in legal proceedings. Quite simply, we have entered a time where seeing and hearing is no longer believing. This talk will address the latest forms of digital impersonation and manipulation, how victims are being targeted, and strategies to prepare for and address deepfake harm.
This event is free and open to the public.
This event is approved for 2.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar- approved MCLE provider.
Please RSVP, as space is limited.
About the Speaker
Adam Dodge
Founder, EndTAB
Adam Dodge founded EndTAB, an organization that provides trainings to empower anyone who finds themselves engaging with someone being abused through technology. Dodge was previously the Legal and Founding Technology Director of Laura’s House in Orange County. He is a former divorce attorney who now devotes his career to ending domestic violence, with an emphasis on empowering domestic violence survivors to represent themselves in family law proceedings. He recently co-authored The Empowered Woman’s Guide to Divorce with Dr. Jill Murray (iUniverse 2017). Dodge is frequently featured in or contributes to media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, SELF Magazine, The Orange County Register, and The Huffington Post. Dodge’s television and radio appearances include Dr. Phil, and he is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer at law schools, universities, and national conferences.
9/23/2019
4:30:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Featured speakers:
Dr. Lisa Gibbs, MD
UCI School of Medicine
Cherie Fowler, ACSW
UCI Family Medicine
Victoria Lowerson Bredow, MPH, Ph.D
UCI Criminology, Law & Society
This seminar will cover the impact of elder and dependent adult abuse in Orange County, including the risks that make older adults vulnerable. A unique approach to working with elder abuse survivors, Trauma Informed Care (TIC), will be reviewed as well as research methods to measure the impact of TIC and case management on recidivism and client empowerment.
9/14/2019
12:00:00 PM to 3:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Human trafficking and child marriage deny autonomy to and harm the physical, sexual, and emotional health of those who are targeted. Scholars, experts, legislators, and public officials will share research findings, examples from their work, and policy proposals for the way forward. The format will provide the opportunity to exchange ideas for solutions and increase momentum for legislative change.
Speakers include: CA State Senator Connie Leyva, Supervisor Doug Chaffee, Michelle Heater (Waymakers), Debbie Martis (Riverside County Anti-Human Trafficking Taskforce), Dr. Sandra Morgan (Global Center for Women & Justice), Rima Nashashibi (Global Hope 365), Dr. Jodi Quas (UCI School of Social Ecology), Sgt. Juan Reveles (Anaheim), Dr. Corey Rood (UCI School of Medicine), Dr. Mellissa Withers (USC Keck School of Medicine), and Prof. Jane Stoever
Light Lunch: 11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Event: 12:00–3:00 p.m.
Registration is $10 and includes lunch. Free for UCI students.
Parking in the Social Science Parking Structure is $10.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact centers@law.uci.edu.
This event is approved for 3.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
5/24/2019
9:00:00 AM to 3:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
This colloquium will feature presentations of Interdisciplinary Research Grant Projects and 2018-19 Graduate Student Fellows. The event is open to the public.
4/22/2019
6:00:00 PM to 7:30:00 PM
4242 Campus Drive, Irvine, CA 92612
Activist exemplar Tarana Burke shares the important story behind the genesis of the "me too." movement and its next steps forward. Ms. Burke’s powerful, poignant story as creator of what is now an international movement supports survivors and will move, uplift and inspire you. This facilitated conversation includes audience questions.
Tarana Burke was born on September 12, 1973 in The Bronx, NY. She is an African-American civil rights activist. She’s most well-known as the founder of the “me too.” movement in 2016, which has blossomed into a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about sexual harassment, abuse and assault in society. In 2017, Burke and other influential female activists were named “the silence breakers” by Time magazine. She currently serves as a senior director at the Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn.
Tickets are $5 for UCI students, staff, and faculty
$10 for the public and non-UCI affiliates
Tickets go on sale on April 4th.
Return Policy: All sales are final, no refunds no exchanges.
This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Inclusive Excellence, the Initiative to End Family Violence, UCI Campus Assault Resources & Education (CARE), and the UCI Womxn's Hub.
Discounting Women: Doubting Domestic Violence Survivors’ Credibility and Dismissing Their Experiences
4/16/2019
4:00:00 PM to 5:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
A lecture by Deborah Epstein.
Abstract:
The #MeToo movement, #WhyIStayed and #WhyIDidntReport campaigns, and Larry Nassar’s sentencing hearings raised public awareness not only about workplace harassment, domestic violence, and sexual abuse, but also about how routinely women survivors face a Gaslight-style gauntlet of doubt, disbelief, and outright dismissal of their stories. This pattern is particularly disturbing in the justice system, where women face a legal twilight zone: laws meant to protect them and deter further abuse often fail to achieve their purpose, as the arbiters of justice and social welfare adopt and enforce legal and social policies and practices with little regard for how they perpetuate patterns of abuse.
Credibility discounts both deepen the harm abused individuals experience and create yet another impediment to healing and justice. Concrete, systematic reforms are needed to eradicate these unjust, gender-based credibility discounts and experiential dismissals.
About Deborah Epstein:
Deborah Epstein is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Co-Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic. During her more than 30 years advocating for the rights of survivors of domestic violence, she has chaired the DC Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board and co-chaired DC Superior Court’s creation of a Domestic Violence Unit. She also served on the NFL Players’ Association Commission on Violence, from which she publicly resigned in June 2018. She has published extensively and consulted nationally and internationally on domestic violence law and policy.
4/12/2019
12:10:00 PM to 2:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
A lecture by Alesha Durfee
In this talk, Prof. Durfee employs structural intersectionality to analyze legal interventions for domestic violence in the United States, including mandatory arrest laws and civil protection orders. In doing so, she centers women and girls of color who interact with the criminal and civil legal systems. Using data from the National Incident Based Reporting System, as well as new primary data on protection orders collected through a National Institute of Justice grant, she shows how mandatory arrest laws and civil protection orders often reproduce broader social inequalities even though they appear to be objective, neutral, and "victim friendly." She discusses the results of her research in the context of the increasing use of these systems to combat domestic violence in the United States.
4/11/2019
6:00:00 PM to 8:00:00 PM
Orange County Family Justice Center
150 W. Vermont Ave., Anaheim, CA 92805
A community wellness event hosted by the OC Family Justice Center, UCI Law's Domestic Violence Clinic, and UCI Initiative to End Family Violence
Topics include:
- Popular culture
- Health and wellness
- Empowering tools
- #MeToo
- Raffle
This event is free and open to the public.
For questions, call (714) 765-1965
4/5/2019
9:00:00 AM to 3:00:00 PM
UCI Newkirk Alumni Center
450 Alumni Ct., Irvine, CA 92697
Co-Sponsored by: OC Family Violence Council and Wings for Justice
Keynote Speaker:
Lundy Bancroft
Family Issues Specialist
Family Court Handling of Domestic Violence, Abuse Survivors, and Children
Lundy Bancroft has specialized in domestic violence interventions for over 30 years. He has authored five books in the field, including a bestselling book on domestic violence, Why Does He Do That?, and national prizewinner, The Batterer as Parent. Lundy is the former Training Director of Emerge, the nation’s first counseling program for men who batter, and he was involved in over 2000 cases as counselor and clinical supervisor. Lundy appears across the continent as a presenter for court personnel, child protective workers, mental health providers, law enforcement, and more, speaking from his experience as a custody evaluator, child abuse investigator, and expert witness. Lundy will speak via live video.
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Sandra Murray
Clinical Professor, UCI School of Medicine
Medical Impact of Domestic Violence on Children
Wendi Miller
CEO, Wings for Justice
The Need for Advocacy to Protect Children in Family Court
The conference will conclude with a dramatic reading of the play Forbidden to Protect, co-authored by Lundy Bancroft and Patrice Lenowitz, about battered women’s experiences with the child custody system.
This event is approved for 4 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
$15 Registration. Lunch will be provided.
UCI guest parking is $10.
3/27/2019
5:00:00 PM to 7:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Featured Authors/Speakers:
Jane Stoever
Director, UCI Initiative to End Family Violence and Clinical Professor of Law, UCI Law
Alisa Bierria
Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, UCR
Mimi Kim
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, CSU Long Beach
Colby Lenz
Davis-Putter Scholar and Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
3/22/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Decades of research show that stress is associated with the development of disease through complex pathways involving biological and psychosocial parameters. While intimate partner violence is unquestionably extremely stressful for victims and survivors, fairly little is known about how this particular stressor affects the known biological and psychosocial pathways leading to negative health outcomes. This presentation will provide an overview of the link between stress and health, explore some of the challenges associated with measuring stress in the context of intimate partner violence, and reveal findings from our own studies on these questions.
Featured Speakers:
Ilona Yim
UCI Dept. of Psychological Science
Esmeralda Garcia
UCI Dept. of Psychological Science
Inaugural UCI IEFV Graduate Fellow
Please RSVP, as space is limited.
2/20/2019
5:00:00 PM to 8:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
NETIZENS exposes the proliferation of cyber harassment and abuse as it spreads from the web to the most intimate corners of individuals’ lives. Challenging the notion that cyber harassment is only online, Netizens reveals the repercussions that targets often face: lost jobs, thwarted educations, damaged reputations, and countless hours devoted to containing attacks against a backdrop of mounting legal fees and psychological distress.
Netizens details these realities in the lives of three women who have been subject to cyber abuse as they strive for equality and justice online: Carrie Goldberg, a New York City attorney; Tina Reine, a successful businesswoman in West Palm Beach; and Anita Sarkeesian, the creator of a popular web series critiquing representations of women in video games.
Join us for this powerful film and panel discussion.
Panelists Include:
Cynthia Lowen
NETIZENS Director and Producer
Mark Deppe
Director, UCI Esports
Adam Dodge
Legal and Technology Director, Laura’s House
Christina Gagnier
Partner, Gagnier Margossian LLP
Narratives of Resistance: Combating Intergenerational Violence, the Stigma of Criminalization, and the Prison Industrial Complex
11/15/2018
2:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM
UCI Humanities Gateway 1010
Co-sponsored by the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence and the UC Humanities Research Institute
Narratives of Resistance is a multidisciplinary colloquium bringing together academic, public, and activist scholars to discuss the prison industrial complex. Fueled by racial and class-based profiling, the effects of mass incarceration devastate families well beyond the physical walls of prisons and detention centers. The colloquium bridges resistance- based scholarship and community programs by combating the stigma of criminalization linked to having a loved one in prison or detention. Featuring panelists, Dylan Rodríguez (UCR), Ashley Lucas (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Kristina Shull (Harvard), and Mary Weaver of Friends Outside—a Los Angeles based organization that helps those recently released from prison or jail transition back into society.
Beyond Criminalization: Public Health, Human Rights, Economic, and Community Responses to Domestic Violence
11/9/2018
9:00:00 AM to 2:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
This event is approved for 3.75 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar- approved MCLE provider.
Friday, November 9, 2018, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public. On-campus parking is $10.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact centers@law.uci.edu.
The Beyond Criminalization Colloquium recognizes that law has not solved the problem of domestic violence and encourages the anti-violence movement to consider economic, public health, community, and human rights perspectives on and possible responses to intimate violence. The colloquium begins with Leigh Goodmark presenting her new book, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence. Leading scholars and practitioners from around the nation who focus on public health, human rights, economics, and community issues will offer reflections and responses and engage with the audience. The afternoon features a participatory strategizing session about how the ideas discussed might be implemented in our communities.
Participants
Jane Stoever, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence, Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic, UCI School of Law
Candace Burton, Assistant Professor, UCI Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Adam Dodge, Legal Director, Laura's House
Leigh Goodmark, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Julie Goldscheid, Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Mimi Kim, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, CSU Long Beach
Deborah Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law, UNC School of Law
Unfortunately, Jamila Stockman, originally scheduled, will not be able to attend.
10/29/2018
4:00:00 PM to 5:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
A lecture by Connie Burk
This event is approved for 1.5 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar- approved MCLE provider.
Monday, October 29, 2018, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
This event is free and open to the public. On-campus guest parking is $2/hour.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact centers@law.uci.edu.
Many mandatory reporting laws require doctors, teachers, social workers, advocates, and community members to report adult intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and children exposed to domestic violence, in addition to suspected child abuse. Breaking isolation and reaching out for help from a trusted teacher, clergy member, medical provider, or neighbor now leads many survivors into a morass of state criminal and child welfare systems.
Drawing from results of a recent survey of over 3,600 domestic violence survivors, Connie Burk, Director of the National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence and co-author of Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, will trace the harmful consequences of indiscriminate reporting. Burk will discuss how trusted community supports are forced to collaborate with the carceral project or risk breaking the law themselves, and will propose options for the way forward.</spa n>
10/19/2018
12:00:00 PM to 2:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
A Discussion with Ny Nourn and Colby Lenz
This event is approved for 2 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar- approved MCLE provider.
Friday, October 19, 2018, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public. On-campus guest parking is $2/hour.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact centers@law.uci.edu.
Life Without Parole Sentencing (LWOP) has been called a “living death penalty,” and 90% of people serving LWOP in California’s women’s prisons are survivors of abuse. Ny Nourn and Colby Lenz will discuss how particular sentencing laws contribute to the pipeline between surviving gender violence and being sentenced to life and life without parole, as well as how recent LWOP commutations by Governor Jerry Brown have emboldened political action against some of these laws. Presenters will also explore critical grassroots effort across the walls of prisons and ICE detention to commute DV survivors serving life and death sentences, release those convicted under the Felony Murder Rule, drop LWOP sentencing from California’s penal code, gain pardons for undocumented immigrant survivors, and end the criminalization of survival.
About Ny Nourn and Colby Lenz
Ny Nourn was criminalized for surviving an abusive relationship as a teenager and sentenced to life without parole for her abusive boyfriend's deadly violence. After 16 years in prison, Ny finally won parole, but immigration officers arrested her as she left prison. Ny was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after her mother fled genocide in Cambodia. Although a US permanent resident, Ny’s conviction made her an “aggravated felon” subject to mandatory deportation. In November 2017, after an outpouring of community support, Ny walked out of jail as a free person for the first time in over 16 years. Since her release from ICE detention, Ny continues her advocacy work as an organizer with Survived & Punished and a member of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee. Currently, Ny is the 2018 Yuri Kochiyama Fellow at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus (ALC).
Colby Lenz is an organizer and legal advocate with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and the Transgender Advocacy Group. Colby is also a co-founder and organizer with Survived & Punished, a national organizing project to end the criminalization of survivors of sexual and domestic violence. Colby has been visiting people in California’s women’s prisons for the past 14 years, advocating across the walls to build people’s capacity for survival and to achieve release. Colby is also a Davis-Putter scholar and Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Colby researches criminalization, gender violence, and social movements in California, with an emphasis on life without parole sentencing and the social movements that emerge from these conditions.
10/3/2018
4:00:00 PM to 5:30:00 PM
A311 Student Center, Irvine, CA 92697-2050
Life or Death, Freedom or Prison: The Criminalization of Domestic Violence Survivors
with introductory remarks by UCI Law Dean L. Song Richardson
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Followed by a light reception
UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom C
This event is free and open to the public. Parking is $10 at the Student Center Parking Structure.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact centers@law.uci.edu.
Marissa Alexander is a domestic violence survivor from Florida who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot to prevent a repeat attack by her husband who had threatened to kill her. Civil rights leaders, anti-domestic violence advocates, and others around the nation called for Alexander's release from prison and contrasted her conviction with George Zimmerman’s acquittal of shooting and killing Trayvon Martin. After Alexander served three years behind bars and two years of in-home detention, she was released in January 2017. Free, she now travels the country to provide insights about the dilemma domestic violence victims face: endure abuse and risk their lives or defend themselves and risk their freedom. At UCI, she will share reflections on the criminalization of domestic violence survivors, drawing on her experience with the criminal justice system’s rejection of her “Stand Your Ground” defense, her incarceration, the post-conviction impact on her family, and her reentry into society and newfound advocacy work.
7/19/2018
8:30:00 AM to 5:00:00 PM
Newkirk Alumni Center
450 Alumni Court, Irvine, CA 92697-1225
Explore the opportunities and challenges in advancing gender equality and build connections with gender equality researchers and activists through various panels. This event is free, open to the public, and lunch will be provided!
5/22/2018
1:00:00 PM to 4:15:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
This colloquium will feature presentations of Interdisciplinary Research Grant Projects and 2017-18 Graduate Student Fellows. The event is open to the public.
5/3/2018
5:00:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Please join us for a conversation with Yvonne Swan (formerly Wanrow), moderated by Emily Thuma, faculty member in Gender & Sexuality Studies at UCI. Yvonne Swan (Sinixt Arrow Lakes/Colville) was charged with murder by the State of Washington in 1972 for shooting a white man who broke into her friend’s home. The man had previously attacked her son and sexually assaulted her friend’s seven-year-old daughter. Her case became a rallying point for indigenous and feminist activists in the 1970s to highlight intersections of colonialism and gender violence as well as racism and sexism in the U.S. criminal justice system. Although Swan’s assailant was not an intimate partner, her case resulted in a landmark decision related to arguments of self-defense for survivors of domestic violence. For more than four decades, Swan has continuously worked for the self-determination of indigenous peoples, and for the freedom of political prisoners. She is currently vice president of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee board.
4/12/2018
3:30:00 PM to 5:00:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Dr. David Welch and a group participant in his Batterer Intervention Program will discuss the content of this form of domestic violence intervention, including the penal code mandates that guide the provision of services. They will describe how sessions are conducted and promising practices to achieve lasting changes in domestic violence behaviors. Dr. Welch, who has engaged in domestic violence therapeutic interventions for 20 years, will discuss how his thinking and approaches have evolved over time, and responses to co-occurring issues, such as substance use. The discussion will be largely interactive and responsive to questions from the audience.
#MeToo: Violations of Trust and Issues of Accountability, Restorative Justice, Healing, Forgiveness and Redemption
4/5/2018
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Some of the most egregious abuses have raised issues related to vulnerability, relationships of deep trust, and the banality of sexual misconduct. The #MeToo movement has taken a punitive turn without much attention to what punishment means for perpetrators, victims, and communities. Difficult cases, in particular, prompt questions about what just reckonings, forgiveness, and redemption might involve—and whether they are possible.
3/23/2018
9:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 PM
Delhi Center, Room 103
505 E. Central Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92707
Advocates’ Discussion with Attorney Jill Davies
Jill Davies, author of Advocacy Beyond Leaving and Safety Planning for Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices, will lead a discussion about victim-defined advocacy, an approach that embraces the complexity of victims’ lives, acknowledges the challenges that advocates face, and provides a framework for making victims safer.
The session will explore:
- The impact on survivors of violence when leaving is seen as the only answer to domestic violence
- The definition of safety and success
- Children’s safety
- Advocacy beyond leaving and the reduction of violent behavior
Come explore practical ways to work in partnership with survivors of violence. Take some time to think together, talk, and generate community-focused ideas.
3/22/2018
4:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Family violence victims hold complex and practical views of safety. Their perspectives and priorities drive the decisions they make about their relationship, children’s needs, and plans. What happens when the law or a system’s focus drives the response? When safety is defined narrowly? When leaving is seen as the “answer” to family violence? The family violence field is at a crucial stage in its evolution and there is much to learn from survivors of violence about safety, success, and helping all victims be safer.
3/22/2018
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
Multipurpose Academic & Administrative Bldg. (MPAA)
Multipurpose Academic and Administrative Building Irvine, CA 92697
Recent events have brought sexual misconduct in Hollywood to the fore. At the same time, sexual assault, harassment, coercion, and gender-based hostility are rampant throughout workplaces and professions far less glamorous. This session explores the dynamics of power differentials and vulnerability, as well as efforts that organizers and workers are taking to give voice to the most vulnerable workers.
3/12/2018
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Incidents of sexual misconduct in institutions of higher education have been drawn out of the shadows and into the sunlight in recent years. Many universities have strengthened their Title IX policies and developed stronger counseling and resource programs. This session will look, first, at ongoing efforts in making educational institutions safe for all and, second, at what is still needed to cultivate nurturing learning environments.
2/6/2018
3:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
In 1999, Colorado mother Jessica Gonzales experiences every parent’s worst nightmare when her three young daughters are killed after being abducted by their father in violation of a domestic violence restraining order. Devastated, Jessica files a lawsuit against the police, claiming they did not adequately enforce her restraining order despite her repeated calls for help that night. Determined to make sure her daughters did not die in vain, Jessica pursues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and an international human rights tribunal, seeking to strengthen legal rights for domestic violence victims. Meanwhile, her relationship with her one-surviving child, her son Jessie, suffers, as he struggles with the tragedy in his own way. Filmed over the course of nine years, HOME TRUTH chronicles one family’s pursuit of justice, shedding light on how our society responds to domestic violence and how the trauma from domestic violence tragedies can linger throughout generations.
Home Truth is a co-production of Adequate Images, Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), with funding provided by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Additional funding was provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, and The Fledgling Fund. It has been produced with the support of the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant, the Independent Film Project, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, and Women Make Movies.
Initiative to End Family Violence Economic Justice Conference
11/14/2017
9:00:00 AM to 5:00:00 PM
UCI Student Center
A311 Student Center, Irvine, CA 92697-2050
Economic abuse and the associated financial challenges present the greatest barriers to escaping an abusive relationship. Domestic violence is the largest cause of homelessness in the United States, and half of those survivors who leave abusive partners fall below the poverty line. Financial abuse is ubiquitous, occurring in 99% of domestic violence cases. Without ways to attain financial self- sufficiency, survivors who seek to leave abusive partners risk homelessness, losing custody of their children, or having to return to the abuser. Legal and programmatic remedies, fortunately, can help survivors build safe lives for themselves and their children, but these remedies are not often known or utilized.
Attendees of the IEFV Economic Justice Conference will be exposed to new innovative resources and practical skillsets featuring tax, credit, tort, entrepreneurship, lending, and other economic solutions for abuse survivors. Speakers include experts from The National Network to End Domestic Violence, FreeFrom, Laura’s House, and Legal Aid offices and domestic violence coalitions around the nation.
Identifying, Understanding and Breaking: The Cycle of Generational Violence
11/3/2017
8:30:00 AM to 4:30:00 PM
Delhi Center
505 East Central Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92707
This event is approved by the State Bar of California. UC Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
Each course also meets the qualifications of Continuing Education credit for MFT’s and LCSW’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Human Options, Inc., Provider Number PCE 2205, P.O. Box 53745 Irvine, CA 92619.
Swift Current Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion
11/2/2017
12:00:00 PM to 5:00:00 PM
Calit2, UC Irvine
Join us for the screening of Swift Current, a documentary about former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy who was abused by his coach. This event will also include a discussion of the film by Sheldon Kennedy and a collaborative presentation by Prof. Warren Binford, Dr. Paul D. Arnold, and Dr. Frank MacMaster on their research to help victims of child sexual abuse and pornography. This event is open to the public and lunch will be provided.
5th Orange County Women’s Health Summit
10/20/2017
9:00:00 AM to 2:30:00 PM
Delhi Center
505 East Central Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92707
The 5th Orange County Women’s Health Summit is the premier conference for healthcare, social service, nonprofit, government, academic, advocacy, and other professionals concerned with women’s health in Orange County.
This year’s Summit will feature presentations about health care reform, efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and the implications for women’s health at the national, state, and local levels. Join us to stay abreast of the latest developments and identify strategies for protecting women’s health in this rapidly changing landscape.
Running for Her Life
10/19/2017
3:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
UCI Student Center
A311 Student Center, Irvine, CA 92697-2050
How Kathrine Switzer and Elizabeth Gray Broke Barriers, Created Social Progress, and Found Empowerment Through Running
Hosted by the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence, UCI Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and UCI Exercise Medicine & Sports Sciences Initiative. Join us as Kathrine Switzer and Elizabeth Gray share their remarkable stories. A reception and book signing to follow presentations. Attendees are encouraged to wear running shoes! Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women’s Sports will be available for purchase at the event.
Intimate Partner Violence, Reproductive Coercion, and Family Planning
6/2/2017
7:30:00 AM to 2:00:00 PM
UCI Medical Center
101 The City Drive South, Podlich Conference Center, Orange, CA 92868
Women who experience intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion often experience barriers to family planning services and are at risk of experiencing unintended pregnancies. This symposium will provide insights on the associations between intimate partner violence (IPV), reproductive coercion (RC), and unintended pregnancies, as well as facilitate collaboration between healthcare providers and family violence advocates in addressing these issues. Speakers will address latest epidemiologic data; the role of the family planning provider in identifying family violence, birth control sabotage, and RC; dating violence and teen pregnancy; and best practice models. This symposium is intended for health care providers, family planning clinicians, domestic violence advocates, social workers, therapists, and students.
Sponsored by: UCI Initiative to End Family Violence (Collaborative-Building Grant), UCI School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Orange County Women’s Health Project
Initiative to End Family Violence Research Colloquium
5/23/2017
9:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 PM
Multipurpose Academic & Administrative Bldg. (MPAA)
Multipurpose Academic and Administrative Building Irvine, CA 92697
This colloquium will feature presentations of the 2016 Interdisciplinary Research Grant Projects and 2016-17 Graduate Student Fellows. The event is open to the public.
UCI CARE’s 20th Annual Take Back the Night
4/20/2017
7:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 AM
Aldrich Park
Irvine, CA 92697
In collaboration with Right to Know (RTK), Challenging All Men to Prevent Sexism (CHAMPS), and Greek Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP)
Co-Sponsored by the Initiative to End Family Violence
Take Back the Night is a candlelight vigil and march to raise awareness about sexual violence and to honor survivors of such violence.
Following the march, the group journeys through stations with visual displays and/or artistic performances addressing various aspects of sexual violence including societal factors that allow sexual assault to exist, its widespread occurrence and its devastating impact. The evening concludes with a speak-out where survivors can share their experiences of assault and recovery.
UCI CARE’s 20th Annual Take Back the Night
4/19/2017
7:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 AM
Aldrich Park
Irvine, CA 92697
In collaboration with Right to Know (RTK), Challenging All Men to Prevent Sexism (CHAMPS), and Greek Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP)
Co-Sponsored by the Initiative to End Family Violence
Take Back the Night is a candlelight vigil and march to raise awareness about sexual violence and to honor survivors of such violence.
Following the march, the group journeys through stations with visual displays and/or artistic performances addressing various aspects of sexual violence including societal factors that allow sexual assault to exist, its widespread occurrence and its devastating impact. The evening concludes with a speak-out where survivors can share their experiences of assault and recovery.
Beverly Gooden Public Lecture #WhyIStayed
4/6/2017
6:00:00 PM to 8:00:00 PM
Beckman Center
100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617
Ms. Gooden is a victims’ rights advocate who created the viral hashtag #WhyIStayed following public response to Janay Palmer and Ray Rice. She holds degrees in Communications and Social Justice and now speaks to audiences across the country about domestic violence sensitivity, social justice, and the power of storytelling. Ms. Gooden’s story has been profiled on Good Morning America, CNN, TIME, The Washington Post, Mic, HLN, Inside Edition, and more.
The Politicization of Safety – Initiative to End Family Violence Annual Conference
4/6/2017
6:00:00 PM to
Beckman Center
100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617
The Politicization of Safety conference will critically explore political dimensions of interventions in (or failures to intervene in) family violence. Topics include challenges related to: reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, criminalization, failure to protect laws, police-perpetrated family violence, gun control, and campus responses to sexual assault and domestic violence.
Interviewing Children to Obtain Reliable Evidence: Considerations and Challenges
3/8/2017
4:30:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Featuring Jodi A. Quas, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Nursing Science
University of California, Irvine
This event is approved for 1.5 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UC Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
Abstract
Unfortunately, children, like adults, can be victims of or witnesses to crime, and as a result, be questioned about their memory and perceptions of what occurred. The accuracy of the information children provide has profound implications for the progression and eventual outcome of any ensuing legal intervention. Even outside of the criminal justice system, children are routinely asked about their experiences, knowledge, and needs, and their responses affect a range of outcomes, such as, for instance, with whom children might live following a divorce, whether social services needs to provide additional counselling, and the like. An impressive body of scientific research has revealed that how children are questioned directly affects the accuracy and completeness of the information they provide. In this presentation, Dr. Jodi Quas will review findings from this work regarding best-practice interviewing strategies that (a) increase children’s initial willingness to disclose negative experiences, (b) increase the amount of detail children provide about those experiences, and (c) reduce children’s tendency to err. She will also describe ongoing controversies regarding interviewing practices and children’s reporting tendencies. The research presented is relevant to a range of legal, scientific, and other professionals who work with children and who are charged with the sometimes task of obtaining reliable and useful information from children about their knowledge, needs, or experiences.
About Jodi A. Quas
Jodi A. Quas, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Nursing Science at UC, Irvine. Her research interests include memory development in early childhood, effects of stress and trauma on children’s development, and children’s involvement in the legal system. Her specific interests include strategies to improve children’s narrative productivity and accuracy; the effects of stress on children’s memory; emotional regulation and physiological reactivity as predictors of children’s coping with and memory for stressful events; jurors’ perceptions of child witnesses; and consequences of legal involvement on child witnesses and victims. Dr. Quas is also the 2016 Chair of APA’s Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.
Creating Safe Spaces: Why Trauma-Informed Care is Crucial to Adolescent Health
2/23/2017
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Presented by Candace W. Burton, PhD, RN, AFN-BC, AGN-BC, FNAP
Assistant Professor, Nursing Science
University of California, Irvine
Abstract
The unique intersection of growth, development, and socialization occurring in adolescence imbues teen dating violence experiences with unique and pernicious risks, both long and short-term. In order to address and reduce these risks, Dr. Burton will explore possible pathways by which traumatic experiences lead to long-term health problems, as well as the principles and importance of providing trauma-informed care in the clinical setting. She will also provide an introduction to screening teens for abuse and violence.
About Candace Burton
Dr. Candace W. Burton is an Assistant Professor of Nursing Science at the University of California, Irvine and a former domestic violence advocate. She became a nurse in hope of increasing understanding of the impact of relationship-based abuse and trauma on women’s health. Her most recent research focuses on the biobehavioral and biological health effects of intimate partner violence, including genomic and epigenomic changes.
Survivor Series: Coach Eric Dixon
2/9/2017
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Restoration of Inner-Strength and Spiritual Edification
Presented by Coach Eric K. Dixon
Tachyon Training Center
Buena Park, California About Coach Eric K. Dixon
The abusive childhood and teenage years Coach Eric Dixon endured gave him a firsthand insight into the psychology of abuse victims. Despite the abuse, Coach Dixon was able to create a psychological path to positive living. Coach Dixon is a sought-after track coach for all ages training and mentoring kids despite his abusive upbringing. He currently coaches elite high school students, college athletes, US Air Forces Wounded Warrior members, and a national’s master’s women’s team. In addition, Coach Dixon competes for USA Track and Field in the Master’s Men’s Division in National and International competition. As a child Coach Dixon was unable to compete in track because in uniform people would see the see the scars on his body.
Workshop and Lecture: Michele Weldon
11/17/2016
12:30:00 PM to 8:30:00 PM
Social Ecology Building
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Writing Workshop
Owning The Power of Your Story:
Discovering Tools for Writing the Truth
In this interactive workshop on the sanctity of authentic narrative, you will learn tools and strategies for telling your personal story, whether for publication as an essay or memoir, or for your personal clarity. Award-winning author, journalist and emerita faculty in journalism at Northwestern University Michele Weldon will offer useful strategies for uncovering your own story. Participants will need pen and paper.
Identifying, Understanding and Breaking The Cycle of Generational Violence
11/4/2016
9:00:00 AM to 4:30:00 PM
Costa Mesa Neighborhood Community Center
1845 Park Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92627
The conference will highlight the effects of family violence and selecting smart strategies to combat harm, as it occurs through all stages of life, from fetus to elder adult. The conference’s keynote speaker, Dr. Linda Chamberlain, PhD., is a renowned expert on the impact of early trauma throughout the lifespan. Other topics will include: (1) Sorting Out the Legal Tools & Resources, Civil, Family, Juvenile and Criminal; (2) Elder and Dependent Adult Issues; (3) Veterans and Their Families; and (4) Effective Treatment of Batterers: Are We Being Successful? The day will close with an inspirational keynote message delivered by a family violence survivor. The conference curriculum highlights best practices and reinvigorates those who dedicate their professional and volunteer time to this important field.
This event is approved for 6.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UC Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
4th Annual Orange County Women’s Health Summit
10/21/2016
8:30:00 AM to 3:00:00 PM
California State University, Fullerton – Titan Student Union (TSU), University Conference Center
Sponsored by The Orange County Women’s Health Project, in collaboration with the Crean College of Health & Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University; the Health Promotion Research Institute, California State University, Fullerton; and the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence.
This event is intended to facilitate information exchange between women’s health stakeholders, identify potential areas for collaboration, and generate action items to advance women’s health in Orange County.
The Neurobiology of Trauma
10/13/2016
12:00:00 PM to 1:30:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
The Neurobiology of Trauma featuring Mandy K. Mount, Ph.D.
Director, UCI Campus Assault Resources & Education (CARE)
Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Feminist Anti-Domestic Violence Movement and the Paradoxical Pursuit of Criminalization
10/4/2016
5:30:00 PM to 7:00:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Featuring Mimi Kim, Ph.D.
Founder of Creative Interventions, Founding Member of INCITE!, and Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach
Crime Logic, Campus Sexual Assault, and Restorative Justice
9/30/2016
3:00:00 PM to 4:30:00 PM
Education Building (EDU)
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Featuring Donna Coker, J.D., M.S.W.
Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law
Child Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
7/14/2016
10:00:00 AM to 11:30:00 AM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Child Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Multidisciplinary Response
Presented by Jordan Greenbaum, M.D., Director of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children’s Global Child Health and Well Being Initiative
About
The plethora of needs of trafficked and sexually exploited persons extend beyond the capacity of any single agency or service provider. A multidisciplinary team model of investigation and treatment for child abuse and neglect has proven to be successful and can be very useful in the field of human trafficking.
In this presentation Dr. Jordan Greenbaum, Director of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children’s Global Child Health and Well Being Initiative, will discuss child and adult sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children.
She will focus on risk factors, common indicators, and challenges to the identification of trafficked persons. She will discuss the impact of complex trauma and traumatic stress on trafficked persons and then evaluate the advantages of a trauma-informed approach to working with survivors. Finally, she will describe common survivor needs and ways a multidisciplinary team can work together to meet them.
Panelists will also include key members of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force:
- Dwayne Angebrandt, Supervisory Special Agent, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Sergeant Juan Reveles, Anaheim Police Department
- Daniel Varon, Deputy District Attorney, Human Exploitation and Trafficking (HEAT) Unit, Orange County District Attorney’s Office
This event is approved for 1.5 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UC Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
>>View Dr. Greenbaum’s PowerPoint presentation.
>>View photos from the event.
About Jordan Greenbaum, M.D.
Director, Global Child Health and Well Being Initiative
International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine
Staff Physician, Stephanie V. Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Jordan Greenbaum is a child abuse physician from the United States who received her degree from Yale School of Medicine. She works with victims of suspected physical/sexual abuse, neglect and sex trafficking at the Stephanie Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where children receive forensic interviews regarding the suspected abuse, medical evaluations, mental health assessments and treatment. She is a consultant for the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children on their Global Health Initiative. Jordan provides trainings on all aspects of child maltreatment for medical and nonmedical professionals working with children. She gives trainings locally, nationally and internationally, working with child-serving professionals to prevent, identify and intervene in cases of suspected abuse and sex trafficking.
From the Ivy League to A Gun at My Head: Inside the World of an Abuse Survivor
4/14/2016
5:30:00 PM to 8:00:00 PM
A311 Student Center, Irvine, CA 92697-2050
An Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV) Survivor Series:
From the Ivy League to A Gun at My Head: Inside the World of an Abuse Survivor
Presented by Leslie Morgan Steiner
New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Love
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2016
Time: Book Signing: 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Lecture: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. followed by a catered reception and book signing to continue from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Pacific Ballroom AB, UC Irvine (directions and parking information)
This event is free and open to the public. Parking is $10 per vehicle in the Student Center Parking Structure.
>>View event flyer.
>>View photos from the event.
>>Watch the event video.
Leslie Morgan Steiner will be signing her book Crazy Love before and after her talk.
Her books will be available for purchase during the event.
About Leslie Morgan Steiner
At 22, Leslie Morgan Steiner seemed to have it all: a Harvard diploma, a glamorous job at Seventeen magazine, a funky New York City apartment. Plus a handsome, funny, street-smart boyfriend who adored her. But behind a façade of success, this golden girl hid a dark secret. She’d made a mistake shared by millions: she fell in love with the wrong person.
At first Leslie and Conor seemed as perfect together as their fairytale wedding. Then came the fights she tried to ignore: he pushed her down the stairs of the house they bought together, poured coffee grinds over her hair as she dressed for a critical job interview, choked her during an argument, and threatened her with a gun. Several times, he came close to making good on his promise to kill her. With each attack, Leslie lost another piece of herself.
Gripping and utterly compelling, New York Times bestseller Crazy Love takes you inside the violent, devastating world of abusive love. Why did Leslie stay? She thought she loved him. Find out for yourself if she had fallen truly in love – or into a psychological trap.
Today, Leslie Morgan Steiner is an expert on violence against women and other women’s issues. Her TED Talk about surviving domestic violence, titled “From the Ivy League to a Gun at My Head,” has been viewed by over three million people. She serves as a celebrity board member for the One Love Foundation, in honor of slain University of Virginia senior Yeardley Love; the National Domestic Violence Hotline; Liz Claiborne’s MADE council; and a former spokeswoman for The Harriet Tubman Center in Minneapolis, the country’s oldest shelter for abused women and children.
She is a regular national television and radio guest, appearing on National Public Radio, NBC’s Today Show, The Diane Rehm Show, MSNBC, Fox News, and other programs. She holds a BA in English from Harvard College. Her first job was as an editor at Seventeen Magazine; she financed her MBA in Marketing from Wharton by writing for Seventeen, Mademoiselle, New England Monthly and Money Magazine. She is a member of The UC Hastings School of Law “Wise Women” council.
She is also the editor of the anthology Mommy Wars and a former columnist for washingtonpost. com. She currently writes the Two Cents on Modern Motherhood column for ModernMom.com. The ethics of global surrogacy is the subject of her November 2013 book, The Baby Chase, as well as a September 2014 TEDTalk.
She lives with her three children in Washington, DC.
Alive Inside: A Screening and Discussion of the Award-Winning Documentary
4/6/2016
6:00:00 PM to 8:00:00 PM
A311 Student Center, Irvine, CA 92697-2050
Alive Inside: A Screening and Discussion of the Award-Winning Documentary
Ageless Alliance: United Against Elder Abuse is a nationwide non-profit organization that actively elevates age-related issues, such as aging with dignity and elder abuse, to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness. Founded on the essential tenets of awareness, advocacy, and action, Ageless Alliance strives for collective action for the support of aging in American society.
Thanks to UCI Illuminations, the event is free and there will be refreshments afterwards. Register early as seating is limited and forward this opportunity to your friends as the film is great for ages 3 and up!
Event Details
- When: Wednesay, April 6, 2016, 6pm – 8pm
- Where: Crystal Cove Auditorium
- Organizer: Julia Lupton (email)
Black Women, Domestic Violence, and Paradoxical Space
3/11/2016
12:00:00 PM to 1:30:00 PM
UCI
4100 Calit2 Building, Irvine, CA. 92697-2800
An Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV) Distinguished Lecture:
Black Women, Domestic Violence, and Paradoxical Space
Presented by Alisa Bierria
Associate Director, Center for Race and Gender
University of California, Berkeley
Date: Friday, March 11, 2016
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Location: Calit2, UC Irvine (directions)
Logistics: A light lunch will be available 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
For information on parking fees, please visit: https://www.parking.uci.edu/permits/
Abstract
Feminist critiques of domestic violence have created lucid explanations of how gendered power relations drive patterns of violence in abusive heterosexual relationships.
Recent public debates about the racialized and gendered discrepancies of the application of “Stand Your Ground” laws have created an opportunity for stronger spatialized analyses of domestic violence, particularly in the context of the criminalization of battered women who are disproportionately black women and other women of color. Can a geopolitical analysis of domestic violence create a richer understanding of the criminalization of domestic violence survivors who act in self-defense?
In this talk, Bierra will consider the prosecution of Marissa Alexander as a case study to begin a discussion about the spatialized and racialized dimensions of domestic and state violence.
About Alisa Bierria
Got You Under My Skin: Trauma and Women’s Health
2/29/2016
12:00:00 PM to 2:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Dr. Burton’s research centers on intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, and the relationships of these to health disparities, especially with regard to reproductive and sexual health. She has specific interest in bio-behavioral research approaches, particularly at the intersection of psycho-social and physiologic responses. Come join the discussion!
Got You Under My Skin:
Trauma and Women’s Health
With
Candace Burton, PhD, RN, AFN-BC, AGN-BC,FNAP
Assistant Professor, Virgina Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Dr. Burton’s research centers on intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, and the relationships of these to health disparities, especially with regard to reproductive and sexual health. She has specific interest in biobehavioral research approaches, particulary at the intersection of psychosocial and physiologic responses.
Please join us…no RSVP required.
Monday, February 29, 2016 at 12:00 p.m.
Location: Berk Hall Computer Lab, Program in Nursing Science
Parking available in Lot 6 with reserved permit or Lot 82 general permit
What I Learned from Tackling 1,000 Cases of Elder Abuse Presented by Dr. Kerry Burnight
2/11/2016
12:00:00 PM to 1:30:00 PM
A311 Student Center, Irvine, CA 92697-2050
Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV) Distinguished Lecture:
What I Learned from Tackling 1,000 Cases of Elder Abuse
Presented by Dr. Kerry Burnight
Clinical Professor, Family Medicine, UCI School of Medicine
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Light lunch served at 11:30 a.m.
Location: UCI Student Center, Doheny A (directions and parking information)
About Dr. Kerry Burnight
Dr. Kerry Burnight is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Southern California in Gerontology in 1996. Burnight is the Director of the nation’s first Elder Abuse Forensic Center, where she takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding elder abuse.
Burnight has received several prestigious awards, including the 2006 Rising Start of Medicine Award from Woman Sage and the 2011 Crime Victims Service Innovation Award from the U.S. Department of Justice. She has also been a featured speaker on the Dr. Phil Show where she discussed her research on elder abuse.
The Long Shadow of Trauma Presented by Pathik D. Wadhwa
1/28/2016
4:00:00 PM to 5:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
An Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV) Workshop:
The long shadow of trauma: Intergenerational transmission during gestation of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood trauma
Presented by Pathik D. Wadhwa, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Pediatrics
Director, UC Irvine Development, Health and Disease Research Program
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: EDU 1131 (Bldg. 3) University of California School of Law (directions)
Logistics: This event is free and open to the public. For information on parking fees, please visit: https://www.parking.uci.edu/permits/
Abstract
Exposure to childhood trauma (CT) such as physical, sexual or emotional abuse represents among the most pervasive and pernicious stressors in society. Its sequelae include adverse biological, psychological and behavioral conditions and states that may endure over the life span. Emerging evidence now suggests that the long shadow cast by childhood trauma may extend even beyond the exposed individual’s life span and be transmitted to another yet even more vulnerable population – their children. In this context, child brain development and processes related to obesity and metabolic dysfunction represent targets of particular interest. The prevailing paradigm posits that the mother-to-child transmission of the effects of maternal CT likely occurs after her child’s birth, mediated via the effects of CT-related states and behaviors such as maternal depression, reduced maternal sensitivity, or suboptimal mother-child attachment and parenting. We seek to extend this existing paradigm and advance here a trans-disciplinary, developmental framework that integrates the concepts of biological embedding of life experiences and fetal/developmental origins of health and disease. We posit this process of intergenerational transmission may start during gestation itself; that the period of embryonic/fetal life represents a particularly sensitive time window; that the developing fetal brain and peripheral metabolism represent targets of particular interest; and that maternal-placental-fetal endocrine, inflammatory, metabolic and oxytocinergic biology represent leading candidate pathways of transmission. The plausibility of our hypothesis is supported by theoretical considerations from evolutionary-developmental biology and empirical findings, including our own published and preliminary data. The presentation will elaborate on our conceptual framework, present recent findings from our on-going, prospective, cohort studies in humans about the impact of gestational conditions on the newborn and infant brain (structural and functional connectivity), body composition and metabolic function, and describe some newly-established and future directions of this work.
About the UC Irvine Development, Health and Disease Research Program
The UC Irvine Development, Health and Disease Research Program is a trans-disciplinary effort to elucidate the nature and consequences of the interplay between biological, behavioral, social and environmental conditions during early human development (intrauterine and early postnatal life) on subsequent health outcomes and the propensity, or susceptibility, for developing one or more of the complex common disorders that represent a major societal burden of disease. This program includes an interdisciplinary team of faculty investigators from UCI and several other institutions, and has, since its inception in 2000, been continuously funded by several major research grants from the NIH and other U.S.- and European-based agencies.
Community Training & Keynote Lecture by Dr. TK Logan
11/3/2015
9:00:00 AM to 6:30:00 PM
Training
Responding to Stalking
3-hour training for service providers in the community
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 from 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Delhi Center, Santa Ana
Instructor: Dr. TK Logan, University of Kentucky Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, and the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research
This session will focus on tools for working with stalking victims. Anyone who works with stalking victims understands that basic safety planning is typically not designed for or very helpful to stalking victims. There has been limited focus on meaningful interventions or tools to help victims increase their safety and mental well-being in the face of stalking victimization and to help victims gain access to needed resources and to the civil and criminal justice system. This session will explore techniques for safety planning with stalking victims as well as lessons from a variety of different areas of research including threat assessment and management, brain science, psychology, and research on stalking. Dr. Logan will provide an in-depth explanation of the Stalking and Harassment Assessment and Risk Profile (SHARP), a research-informed safety tool that she designed to aid stalking and harassment victims. Participants will leave with tangible ideas for providing stalking victims with tools to help combat stalking and increase victim well-being.
This event is approved for 3 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UC Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
Stalking as Coercive Control
Keynote Speaker: Dr. TK Logan
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 from 4:00–6:30 p.m.
Beckman Center, UC Irvine
Stalking is a risk factor for both lethal and non-lethal violence as well as increased risks of sexual assault, threats, economic harm, and victim terror. Stalking is also a public safety risk. Stalking can happen to anyone, yet coping with stalking is difficult and is often minimized, denied, and dismissed. Dr. Logan will examine how current perceptions of stalking often are misleading and harmful; introduce a new framework for understanding and assessing stalking; discuss the Stalking and Harassment Assessment and Risk Profile (SHARP), a safety tool she created; and provide recommendations for building better cases for charging and prosecuting stalking. Further, Dr. Logan will describe five key findings every stalking victim should know.
TK Logan, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, and the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky, with joint appointments in Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, and Social Work. Her research focuses on partner stalking, human trafficking, sexual assault, protective order effectiveness, and health disparities of rural women experiencing intimate partner violence. Dr. Logan has written over 130 articles and co-authored four books. She has conducted approximately 15 different studies on partner stalking and has some of the most extensive information about stalking in the nation. Dr. Logan created the Stalking and Harassment Assessment and Risk Profile (SHARP), a research- informed safety tool designed to aid stalking and harassment victims. She also recently completed a comprehensive national study regarding the effectiveness of civil protective orders and the costs and cost-benefit of protective orders. Dr. Logan’s books include: Women and Victimization: Contributing Factors, Interventions, and Implications (American Psychological Association Press) and Partner Stalking: How Women Respond, Cope, and Survive (Springer Publisher).
This event is approved for 1.5 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UC Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
Inaugural Speaker Norma Cumpian, with Prof. Heidi Rummel
10/19/2015
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Monday, October 19, 2015 from 12:00–1:00 p.m.
UC Irvine School of Law, EDU 1111
Norma Cumpian: In 1992 at the age of 22, fearing for her own life and the life of her unborn child, Norma Cumpian shot and killed her abusive boyfriend. Although domestic violence experts testified at her trial, the jury convicted Ms. Cumpian of second-degree murder and she was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Ms. Cumpian will share her story; the challenges women face while incarcerated, including separation from children, hopelessness, dehumanization, and the power structure in prison; and her inspiring journey. She will describe her vision of how a restorative justice model has the potential to positively change societal views of incarcerated people, and she will share the work she has done since 2010 with the Center for Restorative Justice Works to reunite children and their incarcerated mothers and fathers.
Heidi Rummel: Heidi Rummel, Ms. Cumpian’s attorney, is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law where she directs the Post-Conviction Justice Project. Under her supervision, law students represent California life-term inmates, primarily women and juvenile offenders. The Project has won the release of nearly 100 women through the parole process, on habeas corpus challenging the denial of parole, and on habeas corpus challenging murder convictions where expert testimony of Intimate Partner Battering was not received by the court. Prof. Rummel has been involved in the passage of multiple recent legislative reforms to aid incarcerated survivors and youth. Prof. Rummel worked at the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles from 1996-2005, prosecuting federal criminal civil rights offenses, including human trafficking, police misconduct, child pornography, and hate crimes. Previously, Prof. Rummel was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Prof. Jane Stoever presents “Using Models from Psychology to Improve Legal Responses to Domestic Violence”
10/14/2015
4:00:00 PM to 5:00:00 PM
Multipurpose Academic and Administrative Building Irvine, CA 92697
Workshop Series
Prof. Jane Stoever presents “Using Models from Psychology to Improve Legal Responses to Domestic Violence”
Wednesday, October 14, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
UC Irvine School of Law, MPAA 420
The dominant theories used to explain domestic violence, namely, the Power and Control Wheel and the Cycle of Violence, provide only limited insight into intimate partner abuse. Both theories focus exclusively on the abusive partner’s wrongful actions, consistent with recent decades’ concentration on criminalization, but fail to educate about the survivor’s needs and process of ending violence. The Stages of Change Model from the field of psychology, conversely, reveals the process through which domestic abuse survivors seek an end to relationship violence and identifies the survivor’s needs and actions at various stages. This critical information should inform domestic violence law and the representation of abuse survivors; however, this model remains unknown in the legal profession. Professor Stoever will discuss how insights from the Stages of Change Model can transform legal responses to domestic violence.
Family Violence Survivors in Family Court: An Uphill Battle
3/13/2015
3:00:00 PM to 4:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Professor of Clinical Law, The George Washington University School of Law
Please join us as Prof. Meier discusses Child Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Courts.
Professor Meier is a nationally recognized expert on child abuse, domestic violence and the law and appellate litigation. In her more than 20 years at GW, she has founded three interdisciplinary domestic violence clinical programs, two of which provided legal representation, advocacy, and counseling to victims of family violence and have been recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice as leading national models. In addition to her years of litigation and teaching, Professor Meier has co-written several significant pieces of federal and state legislation. She has published widely, and her scholarship focuses on custody and abuse litigation, in particular the misuse of psychological science in custody litigation. Professor Meier has received numerous awards for her work, including the Inaugural Sharon Corbitt Award from the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic Violence.
In 2003 Professor Meier founded the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP), which provides pro bono appellate representation in compelling family violence cases, including Supreme Court cases, and trains attorneys, courts, and other professionals around the country. DV LEAP spearheaded the domestic violence amicus briefs in several Supreme Court cases, including Giles v. California (2008), and Hammon v. Indiana (2006), both concerning constitutional constraints on criminal prosecutions of domestic violence. In 2010, DV LEAP filed amicus briefs in Abbott v. Abbott, concerning the Hague Convention on International Civil Abduction, and Roberton v. U.S., concerning the enforcement of civil protection orders by criminal contempt. DV LEAP has received Justice for Children’s Leadership Award, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation Leadership Award, and the Mary Byron Foundation Celebrating Solutions Award. In 2011, DV LEAP received a two-year $450,000 grant award from the Dept. of Justice Office on Violence Against Women to provide trainings on the misuses of science in custody and abuse litigation, in partnership with the Leadership Council on Interpersonal Violence and Child Abuse.
Professor Meier is regularly interviewed in the media on domestic violence issues and was one of the featured commentators in the groundbreaking PBS documentary, “Breaking the Silence: Children’s Voices.” She previously practiced in two national law firms and in two public interest organizations providing legal services and freedom of information litigation. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1980, cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School in 1983, and clerked on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Address Domestic Violence and Prevent Homicide
11/24/2014
5:00:00 PM to 7:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Anna D. Wolf Chair, The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
National Program Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars
Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell is a national leader in research and advocacy in the field of domestic and intimate partner violence (IPV). Her more than 12 major federally funded research investigations paved the way for a growing body of interdisciplinary knowledge in the disciplines of nursing, medicine, and public health. Her expertise is frequently sought by national and international policy makers in addressing IPV and its health effects (including HIV/AIDS). As a nurse educator and mentor, Dr. Campbell leads by example in inspiring new generations of nurse researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2000, Dr. Campbell also was the Institute of Medicine/American Academy of Nursing/American Nurses’ Foundation Senior Scholar in Residence and currently serves as Co-Chair of the IOM Forum on the Prevention of Global Violence. Other honors include the Pathfinder Distinguished Researcher by the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH), the 2011 Sigma Theta Tau International Research Award, the American Society of Criminology Vollmer award and one of 17 Gilman Scholars at Johns Hopkins University. She is the currently a member of the Board of Directors of Futures Without Violence and served as past Chair and on the board of the House of Ruth Battered Women’s Shelter and four other shelters. Dr. Campbell was also a member of the congressionally-appointed U.S. Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence. Dr. Campbell is widely published with more than 220 articles and ten books and holds a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Community Launch
10/17/2014
1:30:00 PM to 4:30:00 PM
Delhi Center
505 East Central Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92707
THE UC IRVINE INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER ON FAMILY VIOLENCE
Friday, October 17, 2014, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Delhi Center, 505 East Central Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92707
- Introduction of New Interdisciplinary Center
- Examples of Family Violence Research at UC Irvine
- Dr. Sandra Murray, Pediatrics
- Prof. Jodi Quas, Psychology, Social Behavior, and Nursing Science
- Prof. Ray Novaco, Psychology and Social Behavior
- Prof. Jane Stoever, Law, Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic
- Dr. Lisa Gibbs, Gerentology
- Prof. Frithjof Kruggel, Biomedical Engineering
- Vivian Clecak, CEO of Human Options
- Community Feedback re: Local Research and Data Needs
- Hosted Reception
UCI’s Interdisciplinary Center on Family Violence unites community partners with faculty from 20 departments at UCI to address the complex, intractable problem of family violence. As we launch the Center, we wish to be a resource to the community, discover ways we can collaborate, and receive the community’s input on research and service needs. Please come prepared to share your ideas!