12 Oct Listening Session on Abusive Partner Intervention Programming with the White House on the Development of a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence
Help shape the future of the work to end gender-based violence.
From 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM ET
At Virtual Event
Presented by the Center for Court Innovation, Futures Without Violence, and University of North Carolina's Project RESTART / dvaccountability@courtinnovation.org
Abusive partner intervention programs (APIPs), also known as battering intervention programs, can play a significant role in holding people who cause harm through intimate partner violence accountable, encouraging healthy and non-harmful relationships, and increasing safety and wellbeing for survivors and children. Indeed, communities across the country are looking for new ways to include APIPs in their coordinated community response to intimate partner violence and are in need of flexible, holistic approaches that reflect the strengths and the needs of particular communities.
As part of the Biden Administration's initiatives on gender justice, the White House Gender Policy Council is seeking input from survivors, people who have caused harm through intimate partner violence, and practitioners working on abusive partner intervention and engagement on the development of a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence. In this one-hour listening session, participants will be invited to share their perspective and recommendations on how the National Action Plan can recognize the critical need for abusive partner intervention work and further enhance possibilities for accountability, safety, hope, and wellbeing for families and communities.
The Center for Court Innovation, in collaboration with Futures Without Violence and the University of North Carolina's Project RESTART, will facilitate this listening session with Rosie Hidalgo, Senior Advisor on Gender-Based Violence and Special Assistant to the President, White House Gender Policy Council and Carrie Bettinger-López, Special Advisor to the White House Gender Policy Council.
If you would like to share your perspective (limited to 2-3 minutes) during the listening session, please indicate that on the registration form and include a brief description of what you hope to discuss (due October 14, 2021). The planning team will let you know if you are selected to speak via email.
Everyone is welcome to submit feedback in the chat during the session, as well as send thoughts or questions to us via email.
This session will be recorded. Closed captioning will be available. If you have any other access needs, please contact the Center for Court Innovation: dvaccountability@courtinnovation.org.