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The Silent Secret

Ambassador Conference Center

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 | 8:00
a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

SafeNet’s Domestic Violence Prevention Medical Committee promotes education and
professional development around issues of Intimate Partner Violence.

The goal of this initiative is to raise awareness of the impact that IPV has on our
community, while promoting action to improve responses to this important social issue.

 

 

Guest Speakers

Natalie Ivey (J.D.)

  • Risk Assessment & Safety Planning
  • Stalking 2.0: The Use of Technology to Stalk

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. William Smock

  • Explain medically identifying NFS in legal settings
  • Addressing court using medicine and science
  • Increase prosecution of felony strangulation
  • Identify post mortem signs of strangulation
  • Define non-lethal signs of strangulation
  • Documenting evidence for prosecution

 

 

 

 

 

Janna Leadbetter, Training & Awareness Specialist

  • Use of law to perpetuate abuse
  • Post-divorce isolation and limitation
  • Shared custody and counter-parenting
  • Trauma and expense of family court

 

 

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