2024 Partnership Conference: Access to Justice for Gender-Based Violence Survivors with Developmental Disabilities (Video Replay)

This training will provide an overview of the specific kinds of gender-based violence that are experienced by people with disabilities. This experience will be contextualized within a broader overview of this history of repression of the sexual and reproductive rights of people with disabilities and the way that this has resulted in systems that bolster and perpetrate gender-based violence against persons with disabilities. Participants will learn about the high rates of victimization and incarceration of people with disabilities and the barriers to justice. Participants can anticipate learning practical skills about how to represent an individual with a disability who has been subject to gender-based violence. Participants will be taught skills and strategies for executing retainer agreements, preparing your client for court appearances and providing requesting accommodations. This training will also go beyond a rights-based framework to consider how a disability justice approach could increase access to justice for individuals who are multiply marginalized because of poverty, race, gender and disability.

Speakers:

Prianka Nair Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, Faculty Director Disability and Civil Rights Clinic

Kelly Weiss, Director of Gender-Based Violence Response, NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence (OPDV)

This program was originally presented as part of the 2024 Partnership Conference.