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Saturday, March 21, 2015: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM
Room 10/11 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)
Speakers:Leigh Hofheimer, MA, WSCADV
Stacy Stanaway, BA, WCSAP
Learning Objectives:
- Learn strategies for domestic violence and sexual assault advocates to initiate conversations with survivors about reproductive coercion.
- Learn harm reduction strategies that advocates can offer to address reproductive coercion with survivors.
- Learn what advocates need to offer pregnancy tests and emergency contraception on site.
Description:
Advocates work with pregnant women and women coerced into pregnancy by abusive partners all the time, but rarely offer options to lessen reproductive coercion’s impact. Many advocates felt uncomfortable initiating conversations about coerced sex, birth control sabotage, pregnancy coercion, or offering pregnancy tests and emergency contraception. Learn how we reframed the conversation about “screening” for reproductive coercion, to “telling” a survivor that there are various options available on-site at the advocacy program.
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