BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.nyscadv.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:03e750a9-6e4e-4910-8deb-d23f15c26d00 X-WR-CALDESC:On Wednesday\, December 9th from 1-2:30 PM\, please join the N ew York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence for a webinar featuring guest speaker Joan Meier. \n \n \n\n \n \n\nJoan Meier\, is a Professor of Law and Director of the National Family Violence Law Center at George Was hington University Law School. At GW Law\, Joan has founded and taught thr ee pioneering and nationally recognized interdisciplinary domestic violenc e clinical programs. She has published widely and delivered judicial and o ther trainings on domestic violence\, custody\, and various Supreme Court decisions. \n \nLast year\, Joan published her team’s major empirical stud y of Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abu se Allegations\, which was funded by the National Institute of Justice. Jo an will present this research and the study’s findings during this webinar . \n \nIn 2003\, Joan founded the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP)\; she stepped down in August 2019. While at DV L EAP\, Joan filed 14 briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and represented abuse survivors in state court of appeals all over the country and in the Distr ict of Columbia. DV LEAP and Joan have received several awards\, including among others\, the American Bar Association's first ever 'Sharon Corbitt Award for exceptional service and leadership in improving the legal respon se to domestic violence\, dating violence\, sexual assault and/or stalking .' \n\nJoan regularly provides trainings for judges\, psychologists\, lawy ers\, domestic violence coalitions\, and others. She graduated magna cum l aude from Harvard University in 1980\, cum laude from the University of Ch icago Law School in 1983\, and clerked on the Seventh Circuit Court of App eals. \nA Special Introduction by Jacqueline Franchetti\n \n \n\n \n \n\nJ acqueline Franchetti is the founder of The Kyra Franchetti Foundation\, a 501(c)3 charity raising awareness about the risk of family violence\, espe cially to children\, inside and outside the divorce/Family Court system. T he organization seeks to change the way issues of violence and abuse are a ddressed in family courts so that child safety is placed above all other c onsiderations. Jacqueline also leads Kyra’s Champions\, a 501(c)4 child ad vocacy charity. \n \nBoth organizations were established in memory of Jacq ueline’s beautiful two-year-old daughter Kyra\, who was shot to death whil e sleeping by her father\, who then set his house on fire and killed himse lf during an unsupervised\, court-sanctioned visit. Kyra’s murder was 100% preventable and illustrates the desperate need for change in New York’s F amily Court system.\n\nJacqueline will provide a brief introduction into h er work with DV survivors\, DV advocates\, NYSCADV and members of the NYS Legislature to re-imagine New York’s Family Court system\, before introduc ing Ms. Meier.\n X-WR-RELCALID:501d9d3f0f3460ab8d1a26a6525b687d X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20211107T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20210314T020000 RDATE:20220313T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3c7983b0-eef3-410f-83c5-dee3d953dd2f DTSTAMP:20260409T120849Z DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, December 9th from 1-2:30 PM\, please join the Ne w York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence for a webinar featuring g uest speaker Joan Meier. \n \n \n\n \n \n\nJoan Meier\, is a Professor of Law and Director of the National Family Violence Law Center at George Wash ington University Law School. At GW Law\, Joan has founded and taught thre e pioneering and nationally recognized interdisciplinary domestic violence clinical programs. She has published widely and delivered judicial and ot her trainings on domestic violence\, custody\, and various Supreme Court d ecisions. \n \nLast year\, Joan published her team’s major empirical study of Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abus e Allegations\, which was funded by the National Institute of Justice. Joa n will present this research and the study’s findings during this webinar. \n \nIn 2003\, Joan founded the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and A ppeals Project (DV LEAP)\; she stepped down in August 2019. While at DV LE AP\, Joan filed 14 briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and represented abuse survivors in state court of appeals all over the country and in the Distri ct of Columbia. DV LEAP and Joan have received several awards\, including among others\, the American Bar Association's first ever 'Sharon Corbitt A ward for exceptional service and leadership in improving the legal respons e to domestic violence\, dating violence\, sexual assault and/or stalking. ' \n\nJoan regularly provides trainings for judges\, psychologists\, lawye rs\, domestic violence coalitions\, and others. She graduated magna cum la ude from Harvard University in 1980\, cum laude from the University of Chi cago Law School in 1983\, and clerked on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appe als. \nA Special Introduction by Jacqueline Franchetti\n \n \n\n \n \n\nJa cqueline Franchetti is the founder of The Kyra Franchetti Foundation\, a 5 01(c)3 charity raising awareness about the risk of family violence\, espec ially to children\, inside and outside the divorce/Family Court system. Th e organization seeks to change the way issues of violence and abuse are ad dressed in family courts so that child safety is placed above all other co nsiderations. Jacqueline also leads Kyra’s Champions\, a 501(c)4 child adv ocacy charity. \n \nBoth organizations were established in memory of Jacqu eline’s beautiful two-year-old daughter Kyra\, who was shot to death while sleeping by her father\, who then set his house on fire and killed himsel f during an unsupervised\, court-sanctioned visit. Kyra’s murder was 100% preventable and illustrates the desperate need for change in New York’s Fa mily Court system.\n\nJacqueline will provide a brief introduction into he r work with DV survivors\, DV advocates\, NYSCADV and members of the NYS L egislature to re-imagine New York’s Family Court system\, before introduci ng Ms. Meier.\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201209T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201209T140000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:NYSCADV Webinar Featuring Joan Meier of George Washington Universit y Law School END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR