When Safer-at-Home is Not Actually Safe: Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors during Quarantine

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. CDT

Presented by: Sameena Mulla, Associate Professor, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, Marquette University; Yaidelise Neris, Student and Research Assistant, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, Marquette University; Carmen Pitre, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sojourner Family Peace Center; Andrea Schneider, Professor, Law School, Marquette University and Director, Institute for Women’s Leadership, Marquette University; Andrea Ortiz, Student and Research Assistant, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences 

Hear how this Marquette team, in partnership with Milwaukee County Circuit Court and the Sojourner Family Peace Center, is working toward improving services for survivors during the pandemic, to enhance court processes, and to guide best practices in advising workplaces on how to respond to Intimate Partner Violence.

This project was a winner of the 2020 President's Challenge, which provided funding for innovative, interdisciplinary, collaborative work addressing needs in Milwaukee’s community that have been created or magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic and representing critical areas in the community’s recovery efforts.

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