Rachel Graber will serve as the Deputy Project Director for the Firearms Technical Assistance Project (FTAP). She comes to BWJP from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), where she served as the Director of Public Policy and then the Director of Public Affairs after NCADV’s merger with the National…
#BWJP Announcements #Firearms #NewsTaking Back Control Podcast | Season 3 | Episode 1 Did you know the risk of homicide increases by at least 500% when a firearm is present? This means that a woman is five times more likely to be killed by her partner when the partner has access to a…
#BWJP Announcements #Coercive Control #Firearms #Gender Based Violence #News #Podcast #WomenBy Patrice Tillery According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management, 65% of HR professionals reported that domestic violence had affected their workplace, with issues including decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, and increased healthcare costs. The same study found that only 13% of HR professionals felt very confident…
#BWJP Announcements #Children and Teens #News #WomenThis month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. This month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. Today, we are highlighting Rising Star, Patrice Tillery. Patrice Tillery graduated from the University of Maryland,…
#BWJP Announcements #News #WomenWashington, D.C., April 20, 2023 – Today, a coalition of gun violence prevention and domestic violence prevention groups filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) petition for certiorari in USA v. Rahimi. The brief urges the Court to take up the case in…
#BWJP Announcements #Firearms #NewsMeghan worked for the Pee Dee Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence as their Volunteer Coordinator for the domestic violence shelter after graduating college in 2021. She used her Bachelor's degree in communications to strengthen and form new connections with businesses to create services for shelter residents. Shelter life is…
#BWJP Announcements #NewsThis month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. Today, we are highlighting Mother of the Movement, Lupe Serrano as shared by our Chief Executive Officer, Amy J. Sánchez.______________________________________________________________ I met Lupe in 1997 when we were members of a Board of…
#BWJP Announcements #News #WomenThis month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. Today, we are highlighting Rising Star, Maritza Valdez Fagin, M.P.A. by ______________________________________________________________ Maritza Valdez Fagin, M.P.A., is currently the Director of Operations at BWJP. She specializes in organizational development, capacity building, nonprofit management, sustainability, and…
#BWJP Announcements #News #WomenThis month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. Today, we are highlighting Mother of the Movement, Dr. Shamita Das Dasgupta. by Sujata Warrier ______________________________________________________________ I will always remember my first meeting with Shamita in 1988 when I moved to New Jersey and…
#BWJP Announcements #News #WomenBWJP is excited to congratulate the Biden Administration for the creation the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (OFVPS), under the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Formerly known as Family Violence Prevention & Service’s Act Program (FVPSA), the elevation…
#BWJP Announcements #NewsThis month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. Today, we are highlighting Mother of the Movement, Ellen Pence, as shared by our Director of Policy and Practice, National Center on Legal Approaches to Prevent Family Violence, Kristine Lizdas Esq. ______________________________________________________________ Most of…
#BWJP Announcements #News #WomenThis month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. By Patrice Tillery This month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. Today, we are highlighting Rising Star, Tracy Shoberg. Tracy Shoberg is the Deputy…
#BWJP Announcements #News #WomenThis month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. By Christina M. Jones, Esq. Black people make up 5% of lawyers in America. Black women attorneys occupy an even smaller slice of that 5%. As a young Black woman entering law school,…
#BWJP Announcements #News #WomenBy the National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit The process of obtaining a protection order and getting it enforced across jurisdictional lines can be daunting and complicated for a survivor. It is imperative that advocates and attorneys understand the laws that apply to these processes so…
#BWJP Announcements #Firearms #full faith and credit #News #Protection OrdersThis month, in honor of Women's History Month, we are honoring Rising Stars and Mothers of the Movement. Today, we are highlighting our first Rising Star, Kesimy Medina. By Patrice Tillery Kesimy Medina graduated magna cum laude from Methodist University, also receiving the Rebecca Woodward Wendelken History Writing Award and David…
#BWJP Announcements #News #WomenBWJP Welcomes Jennifer Waindle as the Project Director of the National Center on Improving Community Supervision Responses Jennifer Waindle joins BWJP with extensive experience in domestic violence prevention and law enforcement. She has spent more than 17 years in various leadership roles in DeKalb County in metro Atlanta, helping protect victims and…
#BWJP Announcements #NewsST. PAUL, MN – A federal court has ruled disarming people who have domestic violence protection orders against them does not “fit within our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” The court further wrote that the ban under 18 USC § 922(g)(8) is an “outlier that our ancestors would never…
#BWJP Announcements #Firearms #NewsBy Bailey Skeeter and Patrice Tillery Some people would rather be in jail than alone. Relationships can be emotional, meaningful, and complicated, but should never be dangerous. One way a relationship can become dangerous is through the crime of stalking. The National Domestic Violence Hotline defines stalking as a pattern…
#BWJP Announcements #Children and Teens #Coercive Control #News #stalkingBy Maria Jose Fletcher, Esq. There are cruel people who take advantage of our most vulnerable for profit, pleasure, or both. We often think it is happening in areas that are foreign to us. But often, it happens right in our own communities. Trafficking in human beings is rooted in…
#BWJP Announcements #Children and Teens #NewsBWJP Welcomes Julia Weber Esq. MSW, as the Director of the National Center on Gun Violence in Relationships and the Project Director of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms. Julia obtained her combined degrees in law and social work from Washington University in St. Louis and has…
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