PARENTING AFTER VIOLENCE SYMPOSIUM II
Posted by on November 4, 2005
The Institute for Safe Families and the Department of Human Services present
PARENTING AFTER VIOLENCE SYMPOSIUM II
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Temple Health Sciences Building, 4th Floor
Broad and Ontario Streets
Philadelphia
Workshop Description
This daylong symposium will offer participants a locally focused and nationally informed perspective on how to work with mothers, fathers and their children after violence has occurred in the family. This conference is designed to offer a theoretical framework and skills to help practitioners enhance families’ abilities to heal from and transform their violent histories into contexts where effective parenting can take place. Participants who attend this conference will hear from both national experts as well as local practitioners as they offer skills and information that practitioners can use in their professional settings including:
Highlights Include
Parenting After Violence: What Mothers, Fathers And Children Have To Say, with Darla Spence Coffey, West Chester University
Imagining A Better Future: Healing and Transforming Life After Violence, with Sandra L. Bloom, President/CEO CommunityWorks
The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics, with Lundy Bancroft, Family Issues Specialist, Northampton, MA
To register please call Barbara Szymanski at DHS: 215-683-6048
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