Courses Archives 2010

Dr. Hawley, a national expert in strangulation, will discuss how to recognize injuries on an individual that link the cause of the injury to a domestic violence incident.

All Partners and advocates are strongly encouraged to attend this informative seminar.

Please CLICK HERE to obtain more information about the event and for information about the Accreditation available for the event.

University Center for Community Health Auditorium
701 S. Zarzamora
San Antonio, TX 78207

Any Baby Can’s Prescription Assistance Program enables families without medical insurance or who have exhausted all other insurance resources to apply for free or low cost prescription drugs.  
If you meet one of more of these guidelines you may qualify for our program, inquire about other guidelines.

• Have lost CHIP or Medicaid and need to reapply or your status is pending
• Have no health insurance
• Have no prescription coverage on your medical insurance
• Have a child with a chronic condition that requires medication regularly

Meet the Federal Poverty Level Guidelines for Prescription Assistance

All services are provided FREE OF CHARGE!  Se Habla Espanol.  Adults Welcome to Apply

For more information on the Prescription Assistance Program please call (210) 227-0767.

Family Justice Center
527 North Leona, 2nd Floor, Building C
FJC Board Room

This Webinar is available to all staff and partners of the BCFJC, free of charge.  Bring your ‘brown bag lunch’ and join us!

The Presenters will examine:

• The history of the battered women's movement
• The importance of developing multi-disciplinary collaborations
• The tension between the shelter and the FJC movements
• The need to participate
• · The need to be vigilant
• · The importance of accountability to survivors

Family Justice Center
527 North Leona, 2nd Floor, Building C
FJC Board Room

Asha Parekh, Director, Salt Lake City Family Justice Center
Denise Frey, YWCA Sonoma County
Mary Claire Landry, Director, Crescent House/New Orleans Family Justice Center

Please join us!  The Texas AgriLife Extension Service will provide a training to learn how to make recipes that are quick, easy, nutritious, and cost-friendly for the whole family.  This is a hands-on cooking class that allows participants to eat what they make.  During the session you will also learn the nutritional benefit from the foods you make and reasons for making healthier choices for you and your family. 

Family Justice Center
527 North Leona, 2nd Floor, Building C
FJC Board Room

Deputy District Attorney Paul Greenwood will draw upon his 14 years’ experience of prosecuting felony elder abuse cases in this webinar training. Paul Greenwood will explore some of the more common misconceptions that seem to hinder the investigation and prosecution of many elder abuse incidents. Paul will illustrate his presentation with case studies and will offer practical suggestions for establishing a multi-disciplinary team in your community. He will identify types of elder abuse crimes and provide tips for presenting evidence in financial exploitation scenarios. 

Family Justice Center
527 North Leona, 2nd Floor, Building C
FJC Board Room

This month's call will be hosted via webinar. The topic of this call is, "Promising Practices for Civil Legal Services."

The Alliance will discuss the importance of promising practices for Civil Legal Services as well as feature FJCs that are implementing such practices, including fax-filing, video-teleconferencing, and e-filing methods. Discussion on how to start such practices at your Center will also be included.

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Family Justice Center
527 North Leona, 2nd Floor, Building C
FJC Board Room

The training will cover:

1. How to assess whether or not a client presents with suicidal and/or homicidal ideations.
2. How to intervene if the client presents with suicide and or homicidal ideations.
3. How to prevent the client from committing suicide .

The training will be interactive by using a role play modality, which will have the purpose to encourage the audience to participate in the actual process.

Family Justice Center
527 North Leona, 2nd Floor, Building C
FJC Board Room

Teen Challenge of Texas is a faith-based, tuition free 12 month residential work/study program for men and women 18 years and older who seek to overcome life-contolling addictions. They are a 501(c)(3) non-profit. The corporate headquarters, along with campuses for men and women, is located in San Antonio; they also operate centers in Houston, Corpus Chisti, and Fort Worth.

Family Justice Center
527 North Leona, 2nd Floor, Building C
FJC Board Room

The Office of the Attorney General provides training to advocates, liaisons, and victim coordinators to ensure that victims receive effective assistance in accessing the Crime Victims’ Compensation (CVC) program.  The CVC program serves victims of violent crime and their families by providing assistance for certain out of pocket expenses resulting from crime.  The Family Justice Center welcomes Manny Ruiz, the San Antonio Regional Coordinator for the Crime Victims Service Division in the Office of the Attorney General.  Mr. Ruiz is a graduate of Texas State University with a degree in Criminal Justice and a minor in Sociology.  His previous positions were as an investigator for the Texas Workforce Commission, a caseworker  for the Texas Department of Family & Protective Services, and the Texas Attorney General-Child Support Division, and the Open Records Division.  He has worked in the field of victim services since 1996.  Please come hear Mr. Ruiz present on how to obtain monetary compensation for victims.

Family Justice Center
527 North Leona, 2nd Floor, Building C
FJC Board Room

Save the Date! Please join the Family Justice Center Alliance at its 10th Annual International Family Justice Center Conference.

Special Registration Rates:

• San Antonio Local Offsite partners - $250
• Onsite partners of BCFJC - $175

Conference registration information is available here:  REGISTER

Conference agenda and overview of the outstanding presentations and presenters is available here:  AGENDA

The Family Justice Center Alliance welcomes law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, shelter staff,  community-based victim advocates, civil attorneys, judges, counselors, policy makers, elected officials, board members, survivors, parole and probation officers, rape crisis workers, medical personnel, educators, and all others interested in the future of family violence prevention. National and international speakers will share their expertise in the area of domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse, sexual assault and funding. This conference will focus on training matter within the contexts of leadership, accountability to survivors, guiding principles and promising practices in the rapidly evolving national and international movement toward Family Justice Centers and other approaches to co-located, multidisciplinary services for victims of family violence and their children.  The conference will also include practical, hands-on training for police officers, prosecutors, advocates, and medical professionals in the day to day handling of domestic violence cases.

Dr. Hawley, a national expert in strangulation, will discuss how to recognize injuries on an individual that link the cause of the injury to a domestic violence incident.  This presentation is helpful for all advocates who work with victims.  Advocacy is required at every level… from the 911 call, to crime scene investigation, to the medical exam, and finally to the prosecution of the perpetrator.

Please click here to view official flyer
Please click here to register

Our new co-partners, Catholic Charities Immigration-STAR will give a presentation about their program.

Josie Lozano, Staff Attorney and Lillian Kingrey, BIA Accredited Representative with Catholic Charities will explain how STAR, Serving Together Achieves Results helps undocumented victims of crime achieve legal status through VAWA, U Visas and T Visas.  

The VINE webinar training is designed to create awareness about automated victim notification.  It also introduces how VINE can serve as a resource not only for victims and survivors of crime, but also law enforcement, service providers, and communities. The session will teach what VINE is, how VINE works, and creative uses for VINE.

• How VINE  works
• Offender Search and Registration process
• Automated victim notification

Family JusticeCenter
527 North Leona, 2nd Floor, Building C
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Witness tampering is the most common crime perpetrated by batterers, yet, is the least charged, prosecuted, and sentenced offense.  Intimate partner violence (IPV) offenders commit astonishing levels of witness tampering for which they are rarely held responsible.  Successful witness tampering by offenders sabotages the court system by silencing victims through an array of unlawful conduct including coercion and violence. The doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing should afford a viable solution, but several obstacles constrain its efficacy. Much confusion exists regarding witness tampering and forfeiture law as a result of the recent trilogy of Crawford, Davis, and Giles cases.  Giles offers both "intent to silence" and "classic abusive relationship" frameworks that may provide additional options for prosecutors when a victim is not testifying in trial.  Additionally, we will discuss seven case factors that I think should be argued as inferring a defendant's intent to silence the witness: murder, pending criminal proceeding, present protective order, classic abusive relationship, victim recantation, mixed purpose, and context. 

Topics of discussion will include:

• School-based teen dating violence preventive interventions with at-risk youth.
• The results of health-clinic interventions in reducing teen dating violence, birth control sabotage and sexual coercion.
• Links between pregnancy and interpersonal violence; ways of improving the lives of pregnant and parenting teens.
• Exploring ways to prevent teen dating violence and improve the lives of those impacted by teen dating violence.

Panelists include:

• David A. Wolfe, PhD - RBC Chair in Children's Mental Health; Director, CAMH Centre for Prevention Science; Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Toronto
• Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, UC Davis School of Medicine
• Pat Paluzzi - President/CEO, Healthy Teen Network
• Carrie Mulford, PhD - Moderator, Social Science Analyst, National Institute of Justice

Katrina Daniels, Bexar County Criminal District Attorney’s Office