For Kids' Sake: PREA and Victim Services in Youth Facilities
Date: Friday, June 14, 2013
Event Time [listed by timezone]:
10:00am-11:30am Pacific Daylight Time
11:00am-12:30pm Mountain Daylight Time
12:00pm-1:30pm Central Daylight Time
1:00pm-2:30pm Eastern Daylight Time
Description: This new webinar, which is being presented jointly by JDI and the PREA Resource Center, will guide juvenile detention officials on how to develop -- and carry out -- plans for responding to sexual abuse in their facilities. The session will offer tips to help facility staff develop a coordinated, emergency response plan. There will also be a section devoted to explaining the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) and sexual abuse crisis counseling models, and their effectiveness as tools for preventing and responding to abuse in youth detention.
The webinar will offer examples of successful partnerships between juvenile facilities and community service providers. Expert speakers will address common concerns about providing support services to youth detainees, such as reporting requirements, maintaining confidentiality, and how to deliver trauma-informed care that is age appropriate. There will be a question-and-answer session at the end of the training.
What Kids Need to Know: PREA and Resident Education in Youth Facilities
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013
Event Time [listed by timezone]:
10:00am-11:30am Pacific Daylight Time
11:00am-12:30pm Mountain Daylight Time
12:00pm-1:30pm Central Daylight Time
1:00pm-2:30pm Eastern Daylight Time
Description: This webinar will cover how to create education programs for youth detainees. The session, which is being presented jointly by JDI and the PREA Resource Center, will focus on developing age-appropriate programs that are compliant with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards.
The session will feature talks by juvenile corrections officials and experts with experience in building successful education programs for youth. The speakers give first-hand accounts of working in youth facilities, focusing on the role of resident education in maintaining safe facilities and its positive impact on institutional culture. There will be a question-and-answer session at the end of the training.
No Refuge Here: Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Event Time [listed by timezone]:
11:00am-12:30pm Pacific Daylight Time
12:00pm-1:30pm Mountain Daylight Time
1:00pm-2:30pm Central Daylight Time
2:00pm-3:30pm Eastern Daylight Time
Description: This JDI webinar on sexual violence behind bars will focus on the immigration detention system. Expert presenters will look at the unique vulnerabilities of immigrant detainees -- and the obstacles to getting help that they face.
The session will also give an overview of the U.S.’s rapidly growing immigration detention system, covering its complex array of agencies and facilities and the pending Department of Homeland Security standards to eliminate the sexual abuse of detainees. The webinar will feature talks by a community advocate and a survivor of sexual abuse in immigration detention. These perspectives will help shed light on the specific needs of survivors of this abuse and the ways advocates can get them help.
Who Should Attend:
This webinar is aimed at advocates and service providers – rape crisis center staff, counselors, and administrators – though anyone who works in the victim services field is encouraged to attend. Corrections officials, law enforcement, and other professionals in related fields are also invited.
No Refuge Here is the first in a three-part series of webinars on providing services to survivors of sexual abuse in detention. The series is part of JDI’s National Sexual Violence in Detention Education and Resource Project, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. JDI is an international health and human rights organization that seeks to eliminate sexual violence in all forms of detention.