Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody:
A National Crisis
Fifth Annual Conference “Help, Hope, and Empowerment” January 11th - 13th 2008
Friday Evening - Sunday Evening
The Albany Clarion Hotel and Conference Center
Albany, New York Visit www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org
for additional information, hotel reservations, and conference registration. Limited scholarships will be available to assist battered mothers to attend the conference.
Come join with mothers, advocates, and professionals from across the nation to hear and dialogue with. . . Wendy Murphy, Angela Shelton, Lundy Bancroft, Toby Kleinman, Joan Zorza, Diane and Kristen Hofheimer, Nancy Erickson, Barry Goldstein, Robin Yeamans, Garland Waller, Seth Goldstein, Geri Stahly, Joy Silberg, Rita Henley-Jensen, Renee Beeker, Dianne Post, Marcia Pappas, Ben Atherton-Zeman, Wendy Titelman, and many others who are working to combat the legal injustices facing protective mothers in the nation's family/divorce courts. We are currently soliciting a few more workshops on topics related to Supporting and Empowering Protective Mothers Possible topics include:
- Personal survival skills for litigants
- Strategies for choosing the right attorney
- Organizing local support groups or activist networks of protective mothers
- Legal strategies for mothers representing themselves pro se
- Strategies for recovery and healing from intimate partner violence and abuse and other self-help practices
- "Parenting Under Siege": Protecting your children when the court system won't
- Adult children who were ordered to live with an abusive parent or were otherwise separated from their protective
- Publicizing and exposing improper and unethical court practices If interested in presenting a workshop, please submit a one-paragraph proposal to mhannah413@aol.com |