Art Group for Women - Enhancing Cultural Resiliency Through Art
Date: April 5th - June 21st (12 weeks)
Time: Tuesdays, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Nana Fro Art Studio, 235 - 975 Vernon Drive, Vancouver BC, V6A 3P2
To register, please call Karla Maranhao at VCMHS - Cross Cultural Mental Health Program; 604.709.6501 ext. 2
*bus fares, art materials and snacks will be provided.
Family Poly-victimization: A New Paradigm of Investigation and its Implications to Intervention Seminar Co-organized by S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and UBC School of Social Work
Presenter: Dr. Edward K.L. CHAN, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong
About the workshop: Poly-victimization, which is defined as family members experiencing two or more different kinds of victimization in a single year, or repeated victimization of family members, is understudied. Existing studies of family violence has been pragmatic. Screening and risk assessment of family violence tends to be focusing exclusively on a single form of violence resulting in failing to early identify families-at-risk. Studies on a single form of victimization have failed to obtain complete victimization profiles of children and have thus underestimated the impact of victimization that children experience. Dr. Chan's on-going studies have examined the correlation of suicide and partner violence, the co-occurrence of partner violence and child abuse, in-law conflict and partner violence, as well as child maltreatment poly-victimization. He further extends the scopes of the study to include partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse and in-law conflict in his current study of family poly-victimization in China. Implications of studying family poly-victimization will be addressed in the presentation, including comprehensive risk assessment of multiple forms of family violence, and integrative familial approach of violence prevention
When: August 3rd, 2011 (Wednesday) 1:15 – 4:30 pm Where: Choi Hall, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Social Service Building (28 West Pender Street, Vancouver) Cost: FREE, Donation welcome