VAWA and VOCA victim services grantees are required to follow strict confidentiality rules for information about the people they serve.  But it can get tricky to implement those strict rules in local communities, especially if those communities are tight-knit places with relatively few service providers.  In this webinar, we’ll get grounded in the federal rules on confidentiality, discuss the ethical basis for those rules, and tackle practical challenges to following the rules in South Dakota communities. Deadline to register is…

Multi-disciplinary organizations, like Child Advocacy Centers and Family Justice Centers, can improve the community-level response to domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking if the organizations provide survivor-centered, trauma-informed services to violence survivors.  Access to confidential professionals, such as advocates and health providers, is a key component of trauma-informed services.  This webinar will teach participants the federal rules on confidentiality for VAWA and VOCA-funded multi-disciplinary agencies, and address the nuances of implementing confidentiality while facilitating collaboration by law enforcement,…

F E B . 1 10:00 AM CST - Indigenous Perspectives related to Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery 1:00 PM CST - Pain to Paranoia: How the Immigrant Experience with Trauma Affects Substance Use Treatment 2:30 PM CST - The Intersection Between Trafficking and Addictions F E B . 2 10:00 AM CST – Applying the Biopsychosocial Model: Individuals with Disabilities Seeking Treatment for Addiction 1:00 PM CST – Responding to the Unique Treatment Needs of Older Adults 2:30 PM CST…

Helping professionals in communities often come together in teams, like SART’s, DART’s & MDT’s, that are designed to ensure particular violence survivors have their needs met and no one slips through the cracks.  But when these professionals come to the team meeting, they come from different professional cultures with distinct ethical norms around sharing or not sharing information about individual survivors and their open cases.  This webinar will give team members a framework to think about how their information norms…