The Cry of the Family: Opening Communication to Heal the Hurt

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Conference
April 6, 2002

Keynote &
Workshops

 The Cry of the Family: Opening Communication to Heal the Hurt
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KEYNOTE


In the sanctuary, 9:15am
Dr. E. M. Nelson & Dr. Gay Byron
Violence Against Women Through the Ages

Dr. Nelson is pastor of Bibleway Healing Assembly and international conference speaker
Dr. Byron is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School.

In the sanctuary, 11:15am
Assembyman David Koon
Introduced by Rochester Mayor William A. Johnson, Jr.

Workshops by Topic

 Session
I
10:15-11:00
 II
1:45-2:30
 III
2:45-3:30
Conflict Resolution & Mediation
Facts about the Separation and/or Divorce Process (CR-1)
Rm 103
  
Rm 203
Empowerment through Mediation (CR-2)
Rm 102
  
Rm 102
Alternatives to Violence, Mini-Workshop (CR-3)  
Rm 306
Rm 306
Restorative Justice Project (CR-4)  
Rm 102
  
Children, Families and Reducing Violence
Understanding Feelings Across Generations (CF-1)
Rm 202
  
Rm 302
The Practical Art of Forgiveness (CF-2)  
Rm 202
Rm 202
Communication is a Two Way Street (CF-3)
Rm 203
    
Conflict Resolution and Anger Management for Teens (CF-4)
Rm 306
    
Violence and Substance Abuse - Do They Go Hand in Hand? (CF-5)  
Rm 203
  
Preachers' Kids - Fact or Fiction? (CF-6)  
Rm 301
Rm 301

Workshops by Topic, continued

 Session
I
10:15-11:00
 II
1:45-2:30
 III
2:45-3:30
Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence: A Cultural Epidemic (DV-1)  VCR, Overhead Projector  
Rm 304
Rm 304
Screening, Assessing, Treating, and Referring Violent Couples: the Partner Violence Intervention Project (PVIP) (DV-2)  VCR, Overhead Projector
Rm 304
  
Rm 305
Domestic Violence is Everyone's Business: What you can do to help VCR/TV, flip chart or chaulk board (DV-3)
Rm 302
Rm 302
  
Institutional / Society
GLBT in an Ethnic Diverse Community (IS-1)  
Rm 103
  
All in the family: When a Youth Comes Out in the Context of Family (IS-2)  Overhead Projector, flip chart, handicapped accessible room    
Rm 103
Cultural Messages of Violence in the Media and What about Censorship? (IS-3)  VCR/TV, Overhead Projector
Rm 305
Rm 305
  

Workshop Details

Conflict Resolution / Mediation
Sched-
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Title Presenter Description
Facts about the Separation and/or Divorce Process
(CR-1)
 Bryson, Carolyn
Accord Mediation Services		 An experiential workshop, helpful to any couple who has children, or share debts and property, and are seeking separation or divorce. Topics include: grounds for divorce in NY, child custody and visitation, parenting issues, property and debt division, and other financial issues.
Audience:
Contact info: (585) 461-2654, accordmediation1@aol.com
Empowerment through Mediation
(CF-2)
 Durbin, Donna
Director of Custody & Visitation Mediation (Center for Dispute Settlement)		 Conflict between parents very often can have devastating effects on children. Mediation can be an alternative to the Family Court process for those who are parenting separately. Presentation will include a brief overview of mediation services.
Audience: Separated parents, grandparents
Equipment needs: none
Contact info: 546-4391 (FAX), donna@cdsadr.org
Alternatives to Violence, Mini-Workshop
(CR-3)
 Halley, Judy and Jones, Robert Workshop using Alternatives to Violence format will introduce participants to principles of affirmation, communication, cooperation, and conflict resolution. This is an experiential workshop where participants actively participate in their own learning.
Audience: teens through adults
Equipment needs: none
Contact info: GVAVP 352-6254, jmhalley@aol.com
Restorative Justice Project
(CR-4)
 Bontrager, Will Restorative justice is a process whereby victims, offenders and communities come together to address present and future implications of offenses which affect them. Restorative justice considers crime as a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender, and the community in a search for solutions that promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance. The focus of this session is to explain, inform, and dialogue about restorative justice and its practices. The session will explore the meaning of justice within a restorative framework, look at its different models and examine their strengths and weaknesses, learn about local endeavors, and dialogue about potential local applications.
Audience: teens through adults
Equipment needs:
Children, Families and Reducing Violence
Sched-
ule
Understanding Feelings Across Generations
(CF-1)
 Ashby, Dean, CSW (Crestwood Children's Center) Presenters will facilitate group discussion aimed at identifying and sharing feelings experienced in reaction to violence. Participants will recognize feelings which are parallel across generational boundaries and develop an improved understanding of the pressures which each generation faces in regard to violence.
Audience: preteens through adults.
Contact info: BOCES 2 352-7635, deana6087@aol.com
The Practical Art of Forgiveness
(CF-2)
 Gross, Diane Forgiveness & reconciliation are often confused with each other. This session will clearly delineate what forgiveness is and is not, and the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. Benefits of forgiveness will be discussed, as well as the detriments of unforgiveness. Why we struggle with forgiveness and ways in which we can achieve forgiveness will be addressed.
Audience: teens through adults
Equipment needs: none
Contact info: Lifehouse Beacons 723-3534, beacons@rochester.rr.com
Communication is a Two Way Street
(CF-3)
 Jarose, Steven & Jones, Edith (National Coalition Building Institute) Young people often feel isolated and powerless to make a difference, whether at home, in school or in the community. Teens are targeted as naive, inexperienced or troublemakers, a form of oppression called “ageism”. Adults and those who are older, (or look older) are targeted as either no longer useful, in the way or out of touch. This is called “ageism”. The more opportunities people have to take pride in who they are and their different identities, the less need they have to put others down or make hurtful remarks, in order to like themselves. In fact, people who like themselves do not mistreat others. This workshop will 1. create an environment that is safe and welcoming for everyone 2. learn how different groups have experienced oppression and discrimination 3. identify the different groups participants belong to and take pride in them.
Audience: preteens through adults
Contact info: NCBI 585-383-1063, willomee@cs.com
Prefer to do a single presentation in the morning.
Conflict Resolution and Anger Management for Teens
(CF-4)
 Brownlee, Leia & Manon, Toya
The Center for Youth Services		 This session will be an interactive presentation on conflict resolution, with an emphasis on anger management. Participants will be encouraged to share their feelings and personal experience.
Audience: teens
Contact info: Center for Youth Services, 473-2464 (FAX 473-7161). E-mail: LAngel78@AOL.com
Violence and Substance Abuse - Do They Go Hand in Hand?
(CF-5)
 Johnson, Craig
Director of Inmate Drug and Alcohol Programs at Monroe Correctional Facility.
Clinical consultant for DePaul/Winship MICA Programs		 We will initially present factual information linking violence and drug/alcohol abuse. Drug markets and legal statistics will be included in the discussion with some reference to Chief Duffy's recent Summit on Illegal Drugs. We will then move to a discussion of the inability to diminish one without some cognizance of the other.
Audience: teens through adults
Contact info: Craig Johnson, 274-8584, (also 248-8176 or 703-1982) soduspt@aol.com
Prefers second workshop session. Just needs a chalk board.
Preachers' Kids - Fact or Fiction?
(CF-6)
 Nelson, Michele and House, Joyce This workshop will help us understand the hearts of children whose parents are in ministry. What are the pros/cons, joys/hurts, and sacrifices?
Audience: teens through adults
Contact info:
Domestic Violence
Sched-
ule
Domestic Violence: A Cultural Epidemic
(DV-1)
 Barnard, Laura, SW (Society for the Protection & Care of Children) This workshop will examine how culture affects gender roles and violence in our society and in families. Topics of discussion will include cultural gender norms, the media, the entertainment industry, politics and domestic violence. Participants will be encouraged to debate the connections between culture, domestic and youth violence and how to make change in our own families.
Audience: teens through adults
Equipment needs: Overhead projector, TV/VCR
Contact info: SPCC 325-6101 X215, laurabarnard@juno.com
Screening, Assessing, Treating, and Referring Violent Couples: the Partner Violence Intervention Project (PVIP)
(DV-2)
 Horwitz, Susan, MS, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine (University of Rochester Medical Center) & research team Workshop explores the process of a multilevel screening and assessment model when working with intimate partners experiencing mild to moderate violence. When indicated, couples therapy is offered as one option on a continuum of care. Participants will learn how patterns of unresolved conflict and pathways to resolution assist couples in resolving their conflicts peacefully.
Audience: adults
Equipment needs: overhead projector & screen
Contact info: UR Dept. Psych. 275-8307, susan_horwitz@urmc.rochester.edu
Domestic Violence is Everyone's Business: What you can do to help
(DV-3)
 Mazzotta, Kathy CSW (Alternatives for Battered Women) Domestic Violence affects adults, old, young, children and all those who know of or care about a victim of domestic violence. One in three women will be affected by domestic violence. It is one of the top health concerns of women, and domestic violence has direct connections to community violence. This workshop will be an overview of the dynamics of domestic violence, and how individuals, family, friends, and neighborhoods can help. The workshop will also cover the importance of often overlooked support networks that can be of assistance to victims and their children.
Audience:
Needs: board & chalk, or flip chart. VCR/TV.
Contact info: ABW 232-7353, mazzotta@frontiernet.net
Institutional / Society
Sched-
ule
GLBT in an Ethnic Diverse Community
(IS-1)
 Carlock, Tom (Diversity Consultant; Board member, Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley) This workshop covers the challenges of being Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) in the inner city and how the inner city community, churches and families can be more supportive. We will provide a look at some of the issues with which a GLBT person deals in their family, ethnic community, community as a whole, and the church. We will also discuss how the family, community and faith community can help, through education and understanding.
Audience: adults
Needs:
Contact info: 338-5338 (W) Tom_Carlock@bausch.com
All in the family: When a Youth Comes Out in the Context of Family
(IS-2)
 Hayes, Patty Workshop will examine some of the issues that arise for a youth and his/her family when he or she comes out. We will look at how the stages of grief are paralleled and how parents and other family members also follow a similar process of coming out and identity formation.
Audience: teens through adults
Equipment needs: overhead projector & screen, newsprint & markers, handicapped accessible room
Contact info: GAGV 244-8640 X13, pattyh@gayalliance.org
Cultural Messages of Violence in the Media and What about Censorship?
(IS-3)
 Santana Laidlaw, Elizabeth Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy, MCC Become aware of the economic incentives to broadcast violent images. How does the media profit from broadcasting violence? What about organized voluntary censorship of media that promotes violence? We will explore some of the cultural biases and assumptions that media promote about who perpetrates violence.
Equipment needs: overhead projector, screen, VCR/TV.
Audience: adult
Contact info: MCC 292-3368, elaidlaw@monroecc.edu

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