Statewide Domestic Violence Annual Conference
Circle Square Cultural Center, 8395 SW 80th Street
Annual Conference April 9 2024 (Full Day)
7:45 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome
Marion County Commissioner Michelle Stone & Sheriff of Marion County, Billy Woods
9:20 – 9:30 Break
9:30 - 11:00 Breakout Sessions/ Workshops #1
Strengthening Families, Breaking Cycles Recording
Description: Workshop examines the role domestic violence plays in contributing to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in children and how DV continues through cycles of generational trauma.
Presenter: Leslee Simpson, Training Specialist for Prevent Child Abuse Florida.
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW, CLE
Witnessing Community Collaborations In Action Recording
Description: Independence, prosperity, and success are the goals of many but not ones that are achieved easily or quickly. However, through collaboration, partnership and sharing of knowledge we can assist those that are in most need across the State.
Presenter(s): Dawn Murray, Director of Partnerships and Prevention within the Office of Community Services, DCF. Michael ‘Kevin’ Tarrance, BIP Certification Specialist, DCF. Melanie Grant, Quality Review Specialist at the Office of Quality and Innovation, DCF. Cecelia Satterly, LCSW, Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program Coordinator, Bay Pines, Veterans Affairs Health Care System, VAHCS. Annie Trognitz, LCSW, Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program Coordinator, Tampa, Veterans Affairs Health Care System, VAHCS.
Understanding Intimate Partner Violence as a Social Justice Issue Recording
Description: Workshop focuses on batterer behaviors and discussion of how these behaviors affect our systemic responses, with a particular emphasis on supporting survivors in balancing power in their intimate relationships.
Presenter: Dana Bowen, Putnam County Batterer Accountability Program by Lee Conlee House, Inc.
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW, CLE
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:45 Breakout Sessions/ Workshops #2
Supporting Survivors of Color: A Cultural Competence Training Recording
Description: Workshop will be a guided conversation in supporting survivors of color and is aimed to address the unique challenges faced by survivors of color in the context of trauma and violence. This workshop is a space to gather and tackle the pressing issue of violence against people of color and engage with holistic systems change.
Presenter: Breanna Allen BCJ, MPA, Founder, All-En Consulting.
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW
Start by Believing: Understanding the Reality of Sexual Violence in Intimate Partner Violence Dynamics Recording
Description: Workshop addresses how sexual violence is often overlooked by domestic violence advocates addressing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Research shows that sexual violence and coercion are indicators of lethality.
Presenter(s): Jennifer L. Dritt, LCSW, Executive Director of the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence (FCASV). Robin Graber, Deputy Director of the (FCASV).
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW, CLE
A Journey Through a Batterer’s Intervention Program Recording
Description: Workshop will walk attendees through the Batterer’s Intervention Program, addressing the weighed balance of information and training from the victims’ side vs. the conversation and information regarding the Batterer’s Intervention Program as a result of limited or lack of oversight of BIP.
Presenter(s): Teresa Brazil and Charle Brazil, owners of Equality Foundation, LLC.
12:45 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 3:15 Keynote, Mark Wynn
This Is Where I Learned Not To Sleep Documentary Recording
2023 Purple Ribbon Award Winner for Outstanding Documentary: Part quest for justice.
Part journey towards healing. Decorated Nashville cop Mark Wynn wrestles with his own
violent childhood while working to reform decades of domestic violence mishandling, cover-ups, and abuse from deep within law enforcement.
Moderator: Jennifer Y. Rodriguez, MA, Statewide Program Initiative Manager, Office of Domestic Violence, DCF.
Presenter: Mark Wynn is a childhood survivor who has devoted his life to ending violence by working as a police officer, detective, educator, program supervisor, consultant and advisor.
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 5:00 Breakout Sessions/ Workshops #3
Gender-based Violence Recording
Description: Workshop covers media literacy as an essential skill in the 21st Century. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. The cultural norms that reinforce and encourage harmful behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes of are reinforced through various media messaging, adversely impacts to our relationships, community and society.
Presenters: Matt Tyler, Markos Fleury, and Rashard Perry, Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse’s (AVDA) prevention team.
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW, CLE
Bridging the Gap Recording
Description: Workshop demonstrates how to work with community partners to join the journey in recognizing gaps and barriers that keep all those impacted by Domestic Violence from accessing necessary resources for sustainable safety.
Presenter: Sigrid Stang, InVEST Advocate, Safe Place And Rape Crisis Center (SPARCC).
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW
The Human and Animal Bond Recording
Description: Workshop addresses why and how the human-animal bond holds immense health benefits, particularly for survivors of trauma. In many cases, survivors view their pets as their sole source of love and security, often delaying leaving an abusive situation to protect their animals.
Presenter: Janel Griffieth, human and animal well-being advocate within the nonprofit sector.
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW
Annual Conference April 10, 2024 (1/2 Day AM)
8:00 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome/Reflections
9:20 – 9:30 Break
9:30 - 11:00 Breakout Sessions/ Workshops #4
Here There Everywhere Recording
Description: Workshop will walk attendees through the bi-directional relationship between community violence and family violence. Attendees will learn of common trends in behavioral and social histories of perpetrators of mass violence, including exposure to family violence and other adverse childhood experiences.
Presenter: Andrew Campbell, Owner of Andrew Campbell Consulting.
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW, CLE
Suicidality and the Domestic Violence Hotline Recording
Description: Workshop will review suicidality and how attendees can appropriately recognize, assess, and support survivors who are experiencing suicidal behaviors on the domestic violence hotline.
Presenter: Andrene Baxter, FLDVCs Hotline Training and Technical Assistance Specialist, under Women In Distress, Inc.
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW
Cyberstalking: The Hunter & The Hunted Recording
Description: Workshop examines how abusers (the hunter) repeatedly use digital technology (cyberstalking) to contact and harass someone else (the hunted), causing them to fear for their safety. Hunters use technology, including photos, videos, social media, and apps, as a means to engage in harassing, unsolicited, or non-consensual relationships.
Presenter: Shelli Tayman, FLDVCs Training and Technical Assistance Specialist, Community Action Stops Abuse, Inc.
Continuing Education: LCSW, MFT, MHC, MSW
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:00 Closing Reflections
The Science of Hope
Description: Workshop guides attendees how to explore overcoming trauma, adversity, and struggle by unleashing the science of hope in their daily life. Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Science tells us that it is the most predictive indicator of well-being in a person’s life. Hope is measurable.
Presenter(s): Casey Gwinn, Esq., President of Alliance for HOPE International.
There may be some slight modifications from this document and the actual conference.
