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Slideshow

2007 - Violence

2007 Women and Girls in Georgia Conference on Violence

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Friday

4-5pm

Registration&Welcome

5-5:45pm Masters Hall

From Love to Lethality: Findings from the Georgia Fatality Review Project

Beck Dunn

Policy Director

Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence

5:45-6pm

Break in Pecan Tree Galleria

6-7:30pm

Fighting Human Trafficking in Georgia Masters Hall

The Business of Human Trafficking--In Our Own Backyard

Rachel Hagues, Allison McWilliams and Melinda L. Williams

University of Georgia

Ending Sex Trafficking of Children in Atlanta

Deborah Richardson, The Atlanta Women's Foundation

7:30pm

Dinner Buffet at the Women's Studies Building

Remarks by Joan Prittie

Project Safe, Athens, GA

Saturday

8-9am

Registration

8:30-9:30am

Dangerous Intersections: HIV and Violence Against Women room K/L

Dázon Dixon Diallo

Director

SisterLove:

An Organization for Women's Sexual & Reproductive Health

9:30-10am

Break in Kellogg Concourse

10-11am

Women & Violence in Prison

Teaching Female Prisoners About Relationship, Conflict, and Violence Management Skills: Notes from the Field

Jennifer A. Samp & Jennifer L. Monahan, University of Georgia

Mediation and Domestic Violence

The Use of Mediation in Civil Cases Involving Domestic Violence

Louise Bill & Anne Hicks-Coolick, Kennesaw State University

10am-12pm

Media, Representation and Resistance room

SNAPSHOTS

Kim Frndak, Rhiannon Rose, Patricia Henritze, Betty Hart

The Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence

Reframing the Picture: A Gendered Examination of Violence in Advertising

Courtney Brooks, Berea College

Representations of Black Femininity

Adia Harvey & Melinda Mills, Georgia State University

Crime in the News: Representations of Domestic Violence in the Georgia Press

Suzanne Enck-Wanzer, Eastern Illinois University

Workshops on Violence Prevention for Girls Women's Studies Building

Girls Speak Up - GOAL Listens

Developing Activities to Address Violence in Girls' Lives

Errin Vuley & Zola Shannon-Mullen

The Black Church & Domestic Violence Institute

Girl We Need to Talk: Young Women Examining Dynamics of Intimate Relationship Violence

Dia S. Hodnett

11-12pm

The Violence of Silence

Lies, Leverage, and Isolation: When Fiction Becomes Fact

Valerie L. Ruffin, Emory University

The Violence of Silence: Coming Out as Black Lesbian Resistance

Shannon J. Miller, University of Georgia

12-1:30pm

Lunch in Magnolia Ballroom

Everything I Know About Violence I Learned Inside Alabama's Prison for Women

Lisa Kung

Director

Southern Center for Human Rights

1:30-3pm

Focus on Adolescent Girls

Georgia Adolescent Girls: Depression & Interpersonal Violence

Katherine Raczynski, Matt Orbell, Heidi Ehrenreich, Robin Pratt, Pamela Orpinas

University of Georgia

Personal Empowerment in Adolescent Dating Relationships

M.L. Parker, J. Maria Bermudez, Kelly Campbell, University of Georgia

Against Violence on Campus

Motivations & Justifications for Partner Aggression in African-American College Women

J. Celeste Walley-Jean, Clayton State University

Movements & Organizing Against Violence

Michelle Emerson & Corinne McNamara, Kennesaw State University

Workshop on Policy women's studies building

Georgia Commission on Family Violence

Learning from the Experts: Affecting Policy Based on Survivor's Experiences

Kirsten Rambo & Lindsey Siegel

3-3:15pm

Break in Kellogg Concourse

3:15-4:45pm

Communities Working to End Violence

Madres, Hijas y Violencia: An Exploration of Family Dynamics and Domestic Violence through the Voices of Latina Mothers and Daughters

Josie Serrata, Margaret Jones, & Julia Perilla, Georgia State University

Jessica Nunan, Caminar Latino, Inc.

Naming the Injustice: Building Accountability within the South Asian Community to End Violence Against Women and Girls

Anneliese A. Singh, University of Georgia

Priyanka Sinha, Raksha

Sonali Sadequee, Rawvolution Wellness Coach

Tutoring Our Youth: What High School Students Can Do to Effectively Create Change in their Community

Megan Adams, Keondra Jackson, Lataya Cochran

Greene County High School

Complicating Factors: Refugee Status & Homelessness

Violence Against Refugee Women & Girls in Georgia

Njeri Marekia-Cleaveland, University of Georgia

Susan Pavlin, Refugee Family Services

Examining Various Situational Factors of Violence Against Women Living in the Homeless/Domestic Violence Shelters

Thomandra Sam & Stacey Jackson, Auburn University

Men in the Movement room

Do We Really have to Work with Men to End Violence Against Women?

Shelley Serdahely, Men Stopping Violence

Understanding Men's Violence Against Women

Larry Gourdine, University of Georgia

5-6pm

Economic Impact of Violence Against Women

Phaedra Corso

Associate Professor of Health Policy, University of Georgia

Sunday

8:30-9:30am

Violence Against Women & Social Justice: What is the Role of our Professions?

Julia Perilla

Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University

Interim Director, TAPESTRI: The Refugee & Immigrant Coalition Against Domestic Violence

9:30-10am

Break in Kellogg Concourse

10-11:30am

LGBT Communities & Intimate Partner Violence

An Ecological Evaluation of Lesbian Domestic Violence

Mikel Walters, Georgia State University

Violence outside to Violence within: The Relationship Between Sexual Orientation Violence in Schools and Sexual Minority Intimate Partner Violence

Caroline Lippy & Julia Perilla, Georgia State University

Sexual Violence & Campus Cultures room

Perception of Incapacitated Heterosexual Assault: Influences of Relationship Status, Assailant Intoxication, and Post-Assault Sleeping Arrangements

Trent W. Mauer & Marlo Rouse-Arnett, Georgia Southern University

Creating a Coordinated Campus Approach to Ending Sexual Violence:

Paper & PowerPoint Presentation

Yvette Upton & Colleen Petterson, Georgia Institute of Technology

11:30-12:30pm

Action

Sarah Cook & Shawn Paul

Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University

& Interim Director, Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault

12:30-1pm

Wrap-up Discussion

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