2024 Abusive Partner Intervention Conference - Workshops
Practices for Self-Reflection
Faculty: Jojopahmaria Nsoroma (Higher Expectations)
This workshop provides a framework for facilitator self-reflection which allows those engaged in abusive partner intervention to shift from bestowers of knowledge to an active authentic engagement.
The Role of APIPs in the Coordinated Community Response
Faculty: Gretta Gardner (Ujima), David Garvin (New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence), Jeremy Nevilles-Sorrell (Wica Agli)
Faculty discuss participating in their local coordinated community responses while highlighting why abusive partner intervention programs need to be included in this collaboration and how programs have played an integral role in them.
Culturally Responsive Approaches to Abusive Partner Intervention / Engaging Refugees and New Americans
Faculty: Juan Carlos Arean (Futures Without Violence), Nyaz Kirkuki (Tapestri)
Faculty discuss the importance of centralizing culture in working with people who use violence with a focus on refugees and new Americans.
Using Self Disclosure in Facilitation
Faculty: Dorthy Halley, Family Peace Initiative
This workshop will contextualize facilitator self-disclosure in the abusive partner intervention process and share guidelines for assessing its effective use.
Multiple Pathways to Accountability: The NYC Model
Faculty: Devin Deane & Gene Johnson, Jr. (Center for Justice Innovation), Carol Grannum (NYC Facilitator), Saloni Sethi (NYC Mayor's Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence)
Program staff and a representative from the Mayor's Office highlight New York City’s approach to multiple pathways to accountability and the benefits in providing comprehensive engagement and intervention for people who cause harm.
Racial Justice in Your Work with People Who Cause Harm
Faculty: Amirthini Keefe, Domestic Abuse Project
This session encourages introspection as a tool for improved abusive partner intervention facilitation and program outcomes. Faculty unpack racial socialization and how racial bias takes root in the unconscious of individuals and cultures of organizations. The session outlines a process for transforming racial bias.
Restorative Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence
Faculty: Hillary Packer (Center for Justice Innovation), Karen Tronsgard-Scott (Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence),
Abby Tassel (WISE)
This workshop provides an overview of restorative justice and its application to intimate partner violence. It features two faculty from Vermont who discuss statewide policy efforts to allow restorative approaches to intimate partner violence and the implementation of the Circles of Peace model.