NDCAWS/CASAND 3rd Annual Unity Month Conference

Roots of Change: Growing Strong for 30 Years

Doublewood Inn – Bismarck

October 1-3, 2008

Registration     Speaker Biographies     Hotel/Lodging Information

Conference Agenda

Wednesday, October 1

 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm      Registration

 

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm        Opening / Welcoming Remarks: Janelle Moos

 

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm        Keynote Address: Jan Langbein

 

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm        Break

 

3:15 pm – 5:00 pm        Breakout Sessions

A.   Prosecuting DV Cases Post-Crawford – Bridget Healy-Ryan

B.   Impact of DV on Children – Pat Olson

C.   DV / SA Education in Schools – Greg Diehl

D.   ND SAVIN (Statewide Automated Victim Information & Notification)

                                               – Amy Vorachek

 

Thursday, October 2

 

8:00 am – 9:30 am        Breakout Sessions

A.   Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases Post-Crawford – Bridget Healy-Ryan

B.   Media & Gender Violence – Jackson Katz

C.   ND Sex Offender Containment Teams – Tim App

D.   DV / SA Education in Schools – Greg Diehl

 

9:30 am – 9:45 am        Break

 

9:45 am – 11:30 am      Breakout Sessions

                                        A.   Media & Gender Violence – Jackson Katz

                                        B.   ND SAVIN – Amy Vorachek

C.   Investigation and Prosecution of Alcohol Facilitated Sexual Assault

       – Bridget Healy-Ryan

D.   Impact of DV on Children – Pat Olson

 

11:30 am – 1:30 pm     Lunch / Keynote Address: Genocide and Human Trafficking, and Its Intersection

                                        With Gender Violence – Dr. Ellen Kennedy

 

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm        Break

 

1:45 pm – 3:15 pm        Breakout Sessions

A.   Lethality Assessment – Scott Jenkins

B.   Non-Lethal Strangulation – Beth Ashmore

C.   She’s Got All Kinds of Troubles, Part 1– Patricia Bland

D.   Investigation and Prosecution of Alcohol Facilitated Sexual Assault

       – Bridget Healy-Ryan

 

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm        Break

 

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm        Breakout Sessions

A.   Upstanders, Not Bystanders: Stand Up, Speak Out, Repair the World

       – Dr. Ellen Kennedy

B.   Lethality Assessment – Scott Jenkins

C.   She’s Got All Kinds of Troubles, Part II – Patricia Bland (Continuation of Part I)

D. Economic Justice for Battered Women: In Her Shoes

    - Living With Domestic Violence, Part I – Linda Isakson

 

 

Friday, October 3

 

8:30 am – 10:00 am    Breakout Sessions

A. Economic Justice For Battered Women, Part II (Follow-up Discussion to Part I)

      – Linda Isakson

B. ND Sex Offender Containment Teams – Tim App

C. Non-Lethal Strangulation – Beth Ashmore

 

10:00 am – 10:15 am       Break

 

10:15 am – 12:00 pm       Keynote Address: More Than A Few Good Men– Jackson Katz