Intersections of Technology & Domestic Violence:  Maintaining Safety & Security in a Digital Age-Albany, NY

Maintaining Safety & Security in a Digital Age Technology increasingly affects our lives and has a significant impact onsurvivors. Emerging technologies and the ways in which abusers misuse technology pose a challenge for victim safety, privacy, and confidentiality. This training will look at how perpetrators misuse technology as another tool to stalk, abuse, and further control victims. We will also identify strategies for basic safety planning around technology risks and privacy while focusing on how to empower survivors around tech. Finally, we’ll also discuss how our own technology use asservice providers can pose privacy and safety risks and how to avoid those.

Topics to include:

• Spying and Monitoring
• Impersonation
• Online Data and Privacy Risks
• IoT/ Internet of Things
• What can Survivors Do?
• Agency Use of Technology
• Q & A

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Domestic violence advocates, program staff, and volunteers, law enforcement professional, crime victims advocates.

LOGISTICS

Overnight Accomodations:

Overnight accomodations are available at the Red Lion Inn at the discounted rate of $115.00 for those attending this training and for those wishing to attend Telling Our Stories: From the Page to the Stage, An Evening with Zoë Flowers or the 4th Annual New York State Domestic Violence Prevention Summit.  

To reserve an overnight room, click on the reservation link below and enter group code "CADV2018."  Click here to be directed the Red Lion Inn reservation site. 

Click here for more information about Telling Our Stories: From the Page to the Stage, An Evening with Zoë Flowers. 

Click here for more information regarding the New York State Domestic Violence Prevention Summit occuring on Thursday, October 25th.

Parking:

There is ample free parking available at the training location.

Food: 

Food and drink will NOT be provided during this training.  Please make sure to tend to your breakfast needs before arriving and bring any drinks or snacks you might want.  Attendees will be provided a one hour lunch break.  There are a number of lunch options available near the training site.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

In the event, this training reaches it's maximum capacity, registration will be prioritized in the following order: 

• 2018 NYSCADV Member Program staff & volunteers

• Date and time of registration

If your organization has not yet applied for 2018 NYSCADV Membership, you can do so using this link to our Membership Description page.

If you are unsure of your organization's membership status with NYSCADV, please email Jennifer Clark at jclark@nyscadv.org.

 

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