Reporting Survivor Stories: Transforming Media Portrayals Intimate Partner Violence
Guests will share how trauma-informed reporting on gender-based violence can encourage social change, empower survivors, and instigate offender accountability. Hear how you can spot and counteract myths and outdated attitudes about gender-based violence in the media.
How do You Know It’s Abuse? What the Power and Control Wheel Reveals about Intimate Partner Violence
In this conversation about the Power & Control Wheel, advocates, survivors, and upstanders will gain critical insight into how domestic violence is reinforced by systems and social norms.
Disrupting the Pathway to Prison and Achieving Justice for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
This panel will discuss speakers' work advocating for the rights of criminalized survivors, their lived experiences with prisons and the criminal justice system, and how gendered abuses make women more vulnerable to incarceration.
Men engaged in dismantling patriarchy and challenging the gender binary will discuss at this event how they’ve interrogated the beliefs they learned as children, and how it has informed their current professional work seeking to end injustice.
Preventing Intimate Partner Violence through Stakeholder Collaboration
Learn about the importance of bringing survivor-advocacy organizations, law enforcement, judicial personnel, and other agencies together to work to address gender-based violence in their communities through a survivor-centered approach.
Policies and Practices for Reducing Intimate Partner Violence Firearm Homicide Panel Discussion
Panel discussion on developing local policies and practices to identify, address, and reduce intimate partner firearm homicides in disproportionately impacted communities.
The presentation reviews the intersection between firearms and domestic violence, and the critical yet unique roles of domestic violence protection orders in promoting safety for survivors of intimate partner violence and communities at-large.