Co-occurring cycles of violence: Risk assessment and safety planning around violence against women in the context of community/ gang violence

Wright Calero, Samantha

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 9:50 AM-11:10 AM

Room 3 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speakers:
Samantha Wright Calero, N/A, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mardi Chadwick, JD, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Learn how the major cycles of violence against women interact with and are mediated by gang/ street violence in urban communities of color.
Learn trauma- informed skills for risk assessment and safety planning, adapted from evidence- based tools from the domestic violence field; that comprehensively address the context of community violence.
Learn about the complicated fluid relationships between violence victimization and perpetration within these social networks, including women’s proximity to and involvement with illegal guns.

Description:
This presentation provides a critical framework for addressing violence against women within the context of gang or street violence. We will share tools pioneered at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; innovating on evidence- based work that originated in the domestic violence field. Focusing on trauma- informed risk assessment and safety planning, we will explore the complicated relationships between victimization and perpetration at a community level. Our work uses a health equity lens and is rooted in racial and gender justice.