May
1
Legal Barriers to Justice for Native Women
May 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center is hosting a webinar on May 9th from 1-2:30 MDT, Legal Barriers to Justice for Native Women. From the site: Federal law prohibits tribal governments from prosecuting non-Native offenders, and only allows tribal governments to punish Native people for minor offenses. This lack of serious enforcement authority goes to [...]
Apr
26
Strengthening VAWA
April 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment
UPDATE: VAWA PASSED THE SENATE! If you’re in the US (and I suppose even if you’re not), you’ve probably been watching the debate around the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act with some interest. The White House Blog has a new post written by Lynn Rosenthal and Kimberly Teehee that specifically addresses the tribal [...]
Feb
23
Evidence Based Practices and Working with Children Exposed to Violence
February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
Don’t forget we have a new giveaway going on! Leave your answer to our question(s) by noon ET on February 29th to be eligible to win a copy of the new Entry-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment workbook. The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center is hosting a webinar, Evidence-Based Practices and Working With Children Exposed to [...]
Dec
7
Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence in Native Country
December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The Family Justice Center Alliance is hosting a webinar on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence in Native Country. The webinar will be December 13th from 1-2:30 pm ET. You can register for the session here.
Oct
26
Sex Trafficking of American Indian Women and Children
October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Check out the newest applied research paper over at VAWnet: New Language, Old Problem: Sex Trafficking of American Indian Women and Children by Alexandra (Sandi) Pierce and Suzanne Koepplinger.
Sep
7
Odds and Ends Tuesday
September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I have several things piling up in my odds and ends file, so I thought I’d take the time to put a few of them out there. Today’s a bit of a disjointed day as I try to play catch up from the month of August, so while I was hoping to get a September [...]
Aug
20
Weekly Wrap-Up
August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
It’s been an amazing week here in DC, as we have just finished up the inaugural offering of our National Institute for the Prosecution of Domestic Violence II, which took our first DV course to an entirely new level. But that has left all of us exhausted and slightly bewildered: we’ll be starting over again [...]
Aug
16
Building DV Health Care Responses in Indian Country
August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The Family Violence Prevention Fund is hosting a webinar on building domestic violence health care responses in Indian country (scroll down to the 3rd entry). The webinar will be held September 21st from 11-12:30 PT and is free of charge. You can read about the report generated from the project on which this session is [...]
Jul
26
This month, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, in collaboration with Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project and Sacred Circle, released a new report, Building Domestic Violence Health Care Responses in Indian Country: A Promising Practices Report. The report “documents dramatic improvements in the health system’s response to domestic violence at Indian, Tribal and Urban [...]
Jun
14
Rape on the Reservation
June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
Hat tip to the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force (who I am very excited to be doing some training for next month), for the link to this recent episode of Vanguard, Rape on the Reservation. “One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. Correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to [...]
