Legal Advocacy Get-together Nov 12, 2015 - News You Can Use from Fatality Reviews
Legal advocates! Join us to learn and share strategies for using tools from the Domestic Violence Fatality Review in your advocacy on behalf of survivors.
We’ll explore:
- Fatality Review findings and recommendations to help you advocate for systems that work better for survivors
- Finding the data you need to promote best practices in the legal system
- Illustrating survivors’ experience through stories from case reviews
- Strategies to deepen understanding of how and why systems fail, and commitment to taking action on creative and practical solutions
- Using Fatality Review to focus attention on barriers facing survivors in marginalized communities
- Engaging your county task force or CCR
- Responding to domestic violence homicides in your community
We want to hear from you!
- What do you want to see in the next Fatality Review report?
- What tools do you use most in your work?
- How can WSCADV support your efforts to engage courts, prosecutors and law enforcement in your community?
Facilitators
- Jake Fawcett, Fatality Review program coordinator
- & Deadria Boyland, DVLA program coordinator
Time & Location
November 12, 2015, 10:00AM-3:00PM
Check-in 9:30 AM
International Place
1701 E 44th Street
Tacoma, WA 98404
253-475-6861
Cost
Free for advocates at DVLA-funded programs
$75 for members/associates members who do not receive DVLA funds
$125 registration for non-Members
Available Training Hours: 5
Online Registration Deadline: November 9, 2015
Deadline to Request Interpreters: October 16, 2015
PLEASE NOTE:
Registration is based on email addresses, so each registrant must have their own email address (you cannot use the same email address for more than one person).
We will be sending you email updates about this event. Please make sure to check your email regularly (and if needed, add us to your contact list so we don't end up in the spam filter).