Engaging education sessions for all disciplines, available in a variety of formats. Topics include: Pet Abuse, Child Abuse & Neglect, Intimate Partner Violence, Emotional Maltreatment, How Churches Can Help Victims of Violence, Pregnant Partner Violence, Toxic Stress, Unavailable Parenting, and Developing a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective of Violence in the Home.
Interactive Education Sessions for all disciplines
How Disaster Outside the Home Creates Disaster Within the Home
Session Length: 60 Minutes Description: This presentation will discuss how disasters outside the home often lead to disaster within the home. We'll review specific major past natural disasters around the globe, explore similarities and differences with the current COVID19 pandemic, and discuss how this info should guide family violence intervention now and in the future. |
How Exposure to Violence in the Community Affects Children
Session Length: 60 Minutes Description: This presentation will describe the many risks of harm (short-term and long-term) for children exposed to violence in their community. As rates of violent crime continue to increase in many communities across the United States, child-serving professionals across all disciplines must gain greater insight into the damaging effects of exposure to these incidents, on the children who reside there. With a focus on the emotionally-damaging nature of this exposure, outcome differences by: race, gender, age, and the nature and frequency of community violence exposure will be discussed. In addition, this webinar will cover the overlap between exposure to violence in the community as a child, and risks for subsequent victimization or perpetration of violence in the home and/or community as an adolescent or adult. Finally, critical components of effective and efficient community-inclusive, multi-disciplinary intervention efforts will be described. |
Animal Abuse as an Indicator of Risk for Responders, Families, and Communities
Session Length: 90 Minutes Description: Though responding officers most commonly report domestic violence abusers who also have a history of abusing animals as apologetic, calm, or crying on scene, recently published research reveals these perpetrators often present a significant risk to families, communities, and responding officers. A unique spatial analysis of law enforcement data from several Indiana communities reveals eye-opening overlapping patterns in violence and new information regarding the links between violence against humans and violence against animals. |
Overlapping Risks of Harm for Children and Pets in Violent Homes
Session Length: 90 Minutes Description: This workshop utilizes the presenter’s recent publication in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence to describe specific risks of physical and emotional harm for children and pets in domestically violent homes. Children residing in violent/abusive homes are often extremely dependent on pets for stability, support, encouragement, and unconditional love. Research indicates that children who witness abuse of companion animals are at increased risk of committing acts of violence or abuse themselves in the future, against animals and humans. Protecting children, their pets, and the bond the two share in violent homes is critical to ensuring a more positive outcome for both. Participants will learn of a unique community partnership between Child Welfare organizations, Campbell Research & Consulting, and several Law Enforcement/Animal Control agencies. Findings will be shared from this first-of-its kind project to gain a greater understanding of prevalence, and characteristics of Pet Abuse, DV, & Child Abuse. |
Domestic Violence: The Forgotten Frontier
Session Length: 90 Minutes Description: In this presentation, we'll discuss bridging critical gaps in existing Domestic Violence literature, improving batterer intervention programs, greater access to services for children, support for caregivers victimized by violence, advancing research into “invisible” or psychological injury, perpetrator abuse of the court system, and the need to extend Family Violence Services to include pets. |