Date: Thursday, November 14th 2024 from 3 – 4:30 PM EST
Registration Link: bit.ly/EndingSystemicHarmANF
Description:
American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian survivors of domestic violence face significant obstacles to safety and are disproportionately harmed in child welfare systems across the U.S. These barriers and outcomes are the result of colonization, historical oppression, genocide, intergenerational trauma, attempts to undermine sovereignty, systemic exclusion from legal protections, and the lack of culturally relevant programming (and funding for programming) that is designed to address the connection between these harms and family violence. We invite you to join Rethinking Protection: Ending Systemic Harm Against Native Families and challenge biases, build understanding, and learn what your role is in ensuring that Indigenous peoples can maintain their resilience, their effective political advocacy, and the healing practices rooted in their cultures and traditions.
Learning Objectives:
- Challenge biases
- Build understanding
- Learn what your role can be in ensuring Indigenous peoples can maintain their resilience, advocacy, and healing practices and traditions
Facilitator:
- Shellie Taggart – Project Director, Children & Youth Program, Futures Without Violence
Panelists:
- Caroline LaPorte – Associate Judge at the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. Caroline’s work focuses primarily on housing, human rights, children, firearms, and criminal justice focused within the gender-based violence framework.
- Dolly Tatofi – Founder and Interim Executive Director for Pouhana O Nā Wāhine. She is a spiritually guided wāhine born and raised on the island of Oahu who has worked for underserved women, children, and families of Native Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Islander descent.
- Elise McGowan-Cuellar – Appellate Justice for the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians and Executive In-House Counsel for the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. She is also President of the Board of Directors for the Uniting Three Fires Against Violence.
- Shayne Machen – Owner & founder of Machen Law where she focuses on child welfare and guardian ad litem matters and Tribal law. Prior to founding her firm, Shayne served as the Director of Maltreatment in Care for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS).
Accessibility Information: This webinar is presented in English with closed captioning in English, English-Spanish interpretation, and English-ASL interpretation. If you require other accommodations to access this resource, please email us so that we can do our best to meet your need.
Disclaimer: Bridges to Better is a project of Futures Without Violence. The development of this webinar is supported by Grant Number 90EV0532 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Points of view shared are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the official positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Part 1: Rethinking Protection: Collaborating to Create Survivor-Centered Systems
Part 2: Rethinking Protection: A New Angle on Accountability
Part 3: Rethinking Protection: Innovating to Advance Safety, Well-being, and Justice
Part 4: Rethinking Protection: Keeping Domestic Violence Survivors Out of Child Welfare
Part 5: Rethinking Protection: Raising the Bar on Legal & Economic Protections for Survivors & Children