2009 Conference Program
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
7:30 am ---- Check-in & Continental Breakfast
8:30 am ---- Welcome & Introduction
9:00 am ---- Keynote Session
10:00 am ---- Break
10:20 am ---- Breakout Sessions
- Victims' Rights 101 (Carol Schrader, JD, Program Manager, NCVLI)
- Human Trafficking and its Intersections with Violence Against Women Issues (Kavitha Sreeharsha, JD, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigrant Women Program, Legal Momentum)
- Native American Crime Victims' Rights (Hallie Bongar White, JD, Executive Director, Southwest Center for Law & Policy and Kelly Gaines Stoner, JD, Director, Native American Legal Resource Center and Director of Clinical Programs, Oklahoma City University School of Law)
11:50 pm ---- Break
12:00 pm ---- Luncheon Plenary 1:00 pm ---- Award Presentation
1:10 pm ---- Break
1:30 pm ---- Breakout Sessions - Courthouse Dogs, Our New Partners That Provide Emotional Support to Crime Victims and their Families (Ellen O'Neill-Stephens, JD, Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Office of the King County Prosecutor's Office)
- Accessing Justice for Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence with Disabilities (Robin Runge, JD, Director, American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence and Catherine A. Carroll, JD, Executive Director, Sexual Violence Law Center)
- Intersections between the Civil and Criminal Justice Systems for Victims (Jeff Dion, JD, Director, National Crime Victim Bar Association)
3:00 pm ---- Break
3:25 pm ---- Breakout Sessions - Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence: What are the Differences and Why do they Matter (Jessica Mindlin, JD, National Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Victim Rights Law Center and Laura Mahr, JD, Staff Attorney, Victim Rights Law Center)
- A Victim's Right to Speak at Parole and Probation Hearings (Ellen Hanegan-Cruse, MSW, Victim Liaison, State of Washington Indeterminate Sentence Review Board, Steven R. Powers, JD, Chair, Oregon Board of Parole, and Kim Larson, JD, Director, Marion County District Attorney’s Victim Assistance Division)
- Limitations on a Defendant’s Ability to Obtain Victim Information Pretrial (Matthew D. Segal, JD, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office for Eastern District of California)
4:55 pm ---- End of Day One Wednesday, July 1, 2009
7:30 am ---- Breakfast
8:30 am ---- Breakout Sessions - Roundtable: Five Years After Passage, How is the Crime Victims' Rights Act Working? (Facilitated by Terry Campos, JD, NCVLI)
- Victim Confidentiality within a Collaborative Response to Domestic Violence: Lessons Learned (Joslyn Baker, Project Coordinator, Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team, Margaret Bahnson, Police Sergeant, Portland Police Bureau, Patrick Henry, J.D., Senior Assistant County Attorney, Multnomah County Attorney’s Office, Robin Selig, J.D., Attorney, Oregon Law Center, and Lauren Robertson, Volunteer and Response Advocacy Program Coordinator, Raphael House of Portland)
- Different Types of Protective Orders and When to Use Each (Brandon Simmons, JD, Staff Attorney, Utah Crime Victims Legal Clinic and Carole Wells, JD, Project Director, Victims’ Rights Clinic at the University of Idaho)
10:00 am ---- Break
10:20 am ---- Breakout Sessions - Practical Legal Advocacy of Victims' Rights in Criminal Cases (Erin K. Olson, JD, Law Office of Erin Olson, P.C.)
- Psychological Considerations When Working with Victims (Chris Wilson, PsyD, Private Practitioner, Contractor for the Oregon Department of Justice)
- Strategic Litigation of Victims' Rights (Paul G. Cassell, JD, Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah)
11:50 am ---- Break
12:00 pm ---- Luncheon Plenary
1:00 pm ---- Break
1:10 pm ---- Breakout Sessions - Roundtable: Protecting Victims' Rights in Child Pornography Cases (Roundtable facilitatated by Meg Garvin, JD, Executive Director, NCVLI)
- Identity Theft and Fraud: Victim and Attorney Practice Tips (Pauline Mandel, JD, Director of Legal Services, Maryland Crime Victim's Resource Center and Paula Pierce, JD, Managing Attorney, Victims Initiative for Counseling, Advocacy and Restoration of the Southwest)
- Power in the People: Victims' Rights and the Strengths Perspective (Meghan Saleebey, J.D., Deputy District Attorney, Denver District Attorney's Office)
2:40 pm ---- Break
3:00 pm ---- Breakout Sessions - Housing Rights of Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking (Sandra Park, JD, Staff Attorney, ACLU Women's Rights Project)
- Maintaining Safety and Security in a Digital Age: Lessons Learned (Valenda Applegarth, JD, Senior Attorney, Greater Boston Legal Services)
- Best Practices for Obtaining Full and Timely Restitution (Keli Luther, JD, Senior Attorney, Arizona Voice for Crime Victims and Heidi Nestel, JD, Executive Director, Utah Crime Victims Legal Clinic)
4:20 pm ---- Break
4:30 pm ---- Closing Sessions and/or presenters are subject to change.
Former Conferences
This conference is supported by Grant No. 2008-DD-BX-K001 awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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