Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Ben Atherton-Zeman - Feminist, Actor and Husband" <>]

Hi, folks!  I'm forwarding this email from Lydia Walker with her permission.  
Lydia is a brilliant, articulate and funny trainer - you can email her at 

 if you're interested in purchasing tapes.  Her website is 
www.lydiawalker.net.  

Thanks and have a great weekend!

hey ya'll.  i'm closing out the sale of my training tapes.  if you know any 
organization that might like copies, please refer them to me.  each tape is 
$200 or $500 for the set (mailing is included).  below is a description of 
each.  i'm still accepting bookings for the fall, but will not be privately 
training after 2007.  lydia

Lydia Walker

Video Tape

Recognizing Injury, Signs of Physical and Sexual Child Abuse

(2005, 150 minutes, Two Tape Set)

 

 

Description

 

This 150 minute high quality training tape can be easily viewed in segments.  
Made in front of a live audience, this tape teaches recognition of assault 
injuries and covers injury differences seen in children, adults, and elders.  
In addition to teaching about different assault injuries, the training gives 
detailed signs of both physical and sexual abuse in children.  Because so 
many indicators can be recognized through comments made by adults, this 
training is excellent for people who interact primarily/exclusively with 
adults as well as for people who work with children.

 

The information covered in this training tape will not only increase 
recognition of different types of assault injuries, but will also provide a 
framework for documenting, reporting and testifying about injury.   
Information covered will also increase discovery of physical and sexual child 
abuse, and is essential in building cases for prosecution and/or protection 
of children.

 

This is a core curriculum training for all justice personnel, domestic 
violence workers, sexual assault workers, child protective service workers, 
social services personnel, medical service providers and staff, educators and 
school personnel, and clergy and faith community members.  An excellent 
resource for those who are very experienced or very new to domestic violence 
and child abuse work, this tape provides an easy training and review vehicle 
for organizations, offices, and agencies.

 

Outline

 

I.                    Relationships Among Neglect, Physical and Sexual Child 
Abuse

II.                 Differences in Injuries in Adults, Elders, and Children

III.               Different Assault Injury Characteristics

IV.              Signs of Neglect

V.                 Signs of Physical Abuse in Children 

VI.              Signs of Sexual Abuse in Children

 

Lydia Walker

Video Tape

Custody and Battered Women

(2005, 83 minutes)

 

Description

 



This 83 minutes high quality training tape is an excellent resource and 
training tool for anyone who works with battered women and/or their children. 
  Workers can never be certain which battered women will face custody 
challenges and which battered women will not face custody challenges.  This 
training covers work that can be done with every battered woman who has 
children to be prepared in case of problems.  Covered in concrete, easy to 
understand language are topics such as:

 

·        How to Determine and Document Fitness for Custody 

·        Recognizing and Addressing Workable Custody Problems

·        Recognizing and Addressing Non-Workable Custody Problems

·        Easy, Day-to-Day Work Organization for Custody Issues

·        Strategies for Preparing for Custody Challenges

 

This training will improve the quality of advocacy work provided by any 
organization or agency which works with battered women.  This tape is a quick 
and easy way for every paid worker or volunteer to be conscious and 
pro-active in supporting and protecting battered women and children around 
custody challenges which are a danger to the family.

  

 

Outline

 

I.                        Battered Women and Custody Challenges

A.     Fears that are Unfounded

B.     Fears that are Founded

II.                      Fitness for Custody

III.                   Documenting Fitness for Custody

IV.                   Custody Challenges to Battered Women When Child Abuse 
is not Present

V.                     Custody Challenges to Battered Women When Child Abuse 
is Present

VI.                   Workable and Non-Workable Custody Problems 



Lydia Walker

Video Tape

Thinking About Our Work With Children

(2005, 110 minutes)

 

Description

 

This 110 minute high quality training tape is an excellent training tool for 
domestic violence workers or anyone involved with children in family violence 
situations such as child protective services workers and therapists.  This 
advanced presentation challenges common misconceptions related to children 
such as what children learn when exposed to domestic violence and 
"intergenerational cycles of violence".  Analysis is given on how 
misconceptions function to perpetuate oppression and maintain children's 
status as property, contributing to child protection interventions and 
systems that fail.

 

Filled with concrete suggestions for organizing and improving work with 
children, the presentation is a provocative vehicle for pushing child 
advocacy work beyond the basics.  In addition to the misconceptions analysis, 
topics include the controversial use of visitation centers, the development 
of child advocacy work in the battered women's movement, and the crisis with 
child protective services and battered women's custody of children.  While 
this is an advanced training, this serious yet humor filled presentation is 
appropriate for both experienced and beginning level workers.

 

 

Outline

 

I.                    Development of Child Advocacy in the Battered Women's 
Movement

II.                 Examination of Systems for Child Protection

III.               Cultural Status of Children

IV.              Common Misconceptions Regarding Domestic Violence, Child 
Abuse and Kids

V.                 The Function of Misconceptions in Protection of Children

VI.              The Crisis With Child Protective Services and Battered 
Women's Children

VII.            Strategies for Addressing Critical Areas for Systems Change

VIII.         National Trends and Issues 


Until the violence stops, Ben.  

Ben Atherton-Zeman, Acton MA USA
Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
Presenting a One-Man Play: "Voices of Men," www.voicesofmen.org (video clips 
take a second to load)
Booking information: 978-263-3254

Quote of the Month, August, 2007:
"I refuse to call it sex, or any other word I'm supposed to say, encouraged 
to say on the stand, because to me that's committing perjury.  What happened 
to me was rape, it was not sex." - Tory Bowen, rape survivor, after the 
Lancaster County, Nebraska judge barred the use of the word "rape" in the 
courtroom, http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/freespeechforsurvivors/