The cost for this three day training is $250. Registration is at
www.vsdvalliance.org/secProjects/trainingcalendar.html For more
information, please contact the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence
Action Alliance: Rose Leone, rleone@..., or Cathy Maxfield
Coleman, cmaxfield@....

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Policy, Practice, Partnership: Building Safer Communities Through a
Coordinated Response to Domestic Violence

September 30-October 2, 2009
Holiday Inn Koger Center South
Richmond, Virginia

The Office of the Attorney General, the Department of Criminal Justice
Services, the Virginia State Police, the Office of the Executive
Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Office of the Chief
Medical Examiner, and the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action
Alliance, through the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and
Enforcement of Protection Orders, are sponsoring a statewide domestic
violence conference, "Policy, Practice, Partnership: Building Safer
Communities Through a Coordinated Response to Domestic Violence."

This statewide, multi-disciplinary conference will focus on a wide range
of domestic violence issues that confront professionals across the
Commonwealth, as well as the importance of collaboration in improving
the community response to domestic violence. This conference is geared
toward law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, magistrates,
clerks, victim advocates, victim-witness personnel, fatality review team
members, and allied professionals who work in their communities to
ensure the safety of victims of domestic violence and hold offenders
accountable. Local teams are strongly encouraged to attend.

The conference will feature national speakers including:

Dr. Ellen Pence, noted author and nationally known expert on coordinated
community response teams (CCRs)

Dr. Neil Websdale, author and co-founder of the National Domestic
Violence Fatality Review Initiative

Workshops on current law, best practices, and promising approaches will
provide participants with tools to improve the local response to
domestic violence. Some of the topics include:
* Overcoming obstacles to effective community collaboration
* Promising practices for the court's response to domestic
violence
* Evidence-based prosecution
* Cross-warrants, bond motions, and sentencing options in
domestic violence cases
* Identifying the predominant aggressor
* Building a fatality review team
* Effective use and monitoring of Batterer Intervention Programs
* Service and enforcement issues for protective orders
* Effective advocacy for victims, including victims from
underserved populations

Please visit the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance's
training calendar for registration information:
www.vsdvalliance.org/secProjects/trainingcalendar.html.

For more information, please contact the Virginia Sexual and Domestic
Violence Action Alliance: Rose Leone, rleone@..., or Cathy
Maxfield Coleman, cmaxfield@....