Calendar

OVC Web Forum Guest Host sessions offer an impressive roster of experts discussing best practices for a wide variety of victim issues. You can read about the experts in Guest Host Biographies. Check the calendar for the topics that interest you and mark the dates. For more information, questions, or comments about the calendar send an e-mail to OVCproviderforum@ncjrs.gov.

• Upcoming Sessions
• Past Sessions
• Past Sessions in Previous Years

Upcoming Sessions

February 2012–Scheduled for 02/15/12
Assisting Older Victims of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence
Join Jenifer Markowitz, N.D., Medical Advisor for AEquitas: The Prosecutors’ Resource on Violence Against Women and Jennifer Gentile Long, Director of AEquitas: The Prosecutors’ Resource on Violence Against Women for the live discussion.

Past Sessions

January 2012–Held on 01/27/12
Building Resiliency within Victim Service Organizations
Join Karen Kalergis, Associate Director of Education and Communications at the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault at the University of Texas–Austin, and Janice Harris Lord, consultant on crime victims’ issues for a number of victim service, for the live discussion.

January 2012–Held on 01/19/12
Intersections Between Human Trafficking and Other Vulnerable Populations
Join Cynthia Kennedy, Outreach Coordinator at Project REACH, and Constance Rossiter, Social Responsibility Director for the Trafficked Persons Assistance Program (TPAP) at YMCA International Services, for the live discussion.

December 2011–Held on 12/28/11
Responding to Victims of Property Crimes
Join Deborah Lamm Weisel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at North Carolina Central University for the live discussion.

October 2011–Held on 10/26/11
Understanding Firearms Laws to Assist Domestic Violence Victims
Join Rob Valente, General Counsel, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and James P. Vann, Division Counsel, Washington Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, for the live discussion.

October 2011–Held on 10/13/11
Providing Pro Bono Services to Financial Abuse Victims
Join Russell Butler, Executive Director, Maryland Crime Victims’ Resource Center, and Paula Pierce, J.D., Managing Attorney, Victims Initiative for Counseling, Advocacy, and Restoration of the Southwest (VICARS), for the live discussion.

September 2011–Held on 9/21/2011
Victim Assistance for Undocumented/Temporary  Immigrants
Join Rupaleem Bhuyan, Ph.D., currently conducting research on immigrants’ access to public benefits and their response to domestic violence, and L. Patricia Ice, director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance Legal Project, for the live discussion.

September 2011–Held on 9/13/2011
Using Online Communications to Assist Crime Victims in the Military
Join Bette Stebbins, MSCP, CA, Senior Victim Care Advisor, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, Department of Defense, and Jennifer Wilson Marsh, Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network program manager, Department of Defense Safe Helpline, for the live discussion.

August 2011–Held on 8/31/2011
Assisting Male Survivors of Sexual Violence
Join Howard Fradkin, Ph.D., LICDC and Ken Followell, board members of Male Survivor, for the live discussion.

August 2011–Held on 8/10/2011
Responding to Victims of Environmental Crime
Join David Uhlmann, Director, Environmental Law and Policy Program University of Michigan Law School, for the live discussion.

July 2011–Held on 7/20/2011
Integrating Evidence-Based Practices into Victim Services
Join Phelan Wyrick, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs and Dr. Ben Saunders, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, for the live discussion.