Re-Broadcast Best Practices for Supporting IPV Survivors Who Have Been Criminalized: The Advocates Role in Supporting IPV Survivors Who Have Been Criminalized
Description
Join NYSCADV for a series of events aimed at elevating the needs of survivors who have been criminalized as they navigate New York’s criminal justice system. Each event will probe the unique role DV advocates have in providing supports to survivors throughout their journey.
Join a panel of victim service organizations currently providing comprehensive support services to criminalized survivors. Participants will learn the specific harm the criminal legal system causes to IPV survivors and the value of grounding supportive work in the tenets of healing-centered, anti-oppressive practice. Panelists will describe how their organizations initiated their criminalized survivor support programs, the benefits and challenges of the work, and new opportunities for supporting criminalized survivors with passage of the Domestic Violence Survivor Justice Act.
Panelists include:
Patrice D. James, LMSW and Julia Shaw, LMSW, Co-Directors of the Criminalized Survivors Program at STEPS to End Family Violence (STEPS) - Rising Ground’s designated anti-violence program, which offers a variety of healing-centered, anti-oppressive programming focused on the prevention of IPV; advocacy and healing for survivors and children impacted by abusive partner behavior; training and education intended to increase awareness of the epidemic of gender-based violence; and accountability supports for people who have caused harm to their intimate partner. STEPS is committed to elevating the voices of all survivors of IPV with special commitment to privileging the narratives of criminalized survivors, immigrant survivors, and adolescent survivors. Continuing the tradition that first led to its founding, STEPS remains highly committed to raising awareness of the direct link between IPV and criminalization by providing direct support to survivors who have been arrested for their efforts to survive and/or resist their abusive partner’s behavior.
Sarah McGaughnea is the Outreach Program Director of DV Services at Unity House of Troy. Unity House provides a wide range of services to meet the otherwise unmet needs of people in Rensselaer County who are hurting and struggling. They assist those who are living in poverty, adults living with mental illness or HIV/AIDS, victims of domestic violence, and children with developmental delays. They work to achieve social justice in the community and to create a better understanding of those they serve.
Ria Sarkar is the Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Advocate at In Our Own Voices., an organization that works for and ensures the physical, mental, spiritual, political, cultural and economic survival and growth of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of color communities. Her role at In Our Own Voices includes providing direct services to survivors of crime as well as advocacy, case management and emotional support. Ria sits on task forces locally as well as on a national level. Ria is currently pursuing her MSW at Silberman School of Social Work in hopes to better serve her community.
Please Note: This is a re-broadcast of an event originally held in December 2021. A Live Q&A will not be held for this training.
