Coalition Events

Please join for this upcoming online event, sponsored by the Maryland Patient Safety Center and Trinity Health, in collaboration with ElderSAFE and the Coalition. This webinar will discuss the complex dynamics of elder abuse, increase awareness of elder abuse warning signs and screening tools, explore roles as mandatory reporters, and more. CME’s, CE’s for nurses, and Social Work CEU’s are available. Click the link to learn more about the event and register!

Please join as the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence presents the Coalition’s next seminar, focused on the intersection of intimate partner violence  and sexual violence, best practices when screening for intimate partner sexual violence and providing crisis intervention, and more. Free CME’s and Social Work CEU’s are available.

Please join the Maryland Health Care Coalition Against Domestic Violence as we present “Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivor Advocacy in the Medical Setting: Guidance on Providing Survivor-centered Care” a seminar built for​ domestic violence and sexual assault victim advocates in hospital-based response programs and advocates from community-based service providers who conduct interventions in hospitals and clinics. Register to examine common challenges faced in the medical setting and strategies to overcome each. Each participant will walk away with concrete tools which offer person-centered key points and strategies that can be used on-the-go with survivors and staff in the medical setting, as ​well as strategies for engaging hospital leadership in improving survivor-centered care.

On October 14th, 20201 the Maryland Health Care Coalition Against Domestic Violence recognized Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a screening of the documentary “And So I Stayed,” followed by a thought-provoking panel discussion, moderated by Tovah Kasdin, Health Care Coalition Steering Committee Member and Director of the ElderSAFE Center.

Panelists included: Deborah Knapp, Survivor and Advocate; Leigh Goodmark, JD, Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and Director of the Gender Violence Clinic; Lakeisha Keyes, Corrections Educator and Crisis Counselor of UM Capital Region Health; and Melissa Hoppmeyer, Chief of the Special Victims and Family Violence Unit of Prince George’s County.

“And So I Stayed” is an award-winning documentary about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. These women paid a steep price with long prison sentences, lost time with loved ones, and painful memories. Formerly incarcerated survivor-advocate Kim Dadou Brown, who met her wife while incarcerated, is a driving force in the passage of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA), a new law meant to prevent survivors from receiving harsh prison sentences for their acts of survival. Nikki Addimando, a mother of two young children, suffered the consequences when a judge didn’t follow the law’s guidelines. Tanisha Davis, a single mother who was ripped away from her son in 2013, is hopeful the new law is her way out of a harsh prison sentence.