ECT at Work

Battering Intervention and Prevention Conference
Georgetown, Texas

Michael Paymar co-founder of the curriculum: Creating a Process of Change for Men Who Batter with Dr. Ellen Pence will be available to sign his book Violent No More: Helping Men End Domestic Abuse between sessions. Michael’s work has been foundational to the batterer intervention field. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet and connect with him.
Session 1: With Impunity: Film and Discussion on the Historical and Cultural Roots of Gender-Based Violence
Session 2: From Impunity to Accountability: Community and Institutional Interventions to End Gender-Based Violence 

Identifying & Accounting for Gender Bias in your Team
Palm Beach, Florida ​

Laura Goodman and Anton Tripolskii (BWJP) presented training to the Palm Beach County Sexual Assault Response Team and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office on gender bias in policing, including the following learning objectives:

Developing Integrated Responses to Domestic and Family Violence
Melbourne & Brisbane, Australia​

Laura Goodman and Graham Barnes recently worked in partnership with Global Rights for Women and the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project to present training to advocates and criminal justice professionals in Melbourne and Brisbane Australia on a coordinated community response to gender-based violence . They also showed the film With Impunity: men and gender based violence and led a discussion about the film.


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Wisconsin Batterers Treatment Provider Association (WBTPA) Conference
​Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

Michael Paymar’s keynote address focused on the early days of the Battered Women’s Movement and development of Batterer Intervention Programs. Michael examined  the often complex history of the various responses by law enforcement, the criminal and civil justice systems, advocacy, and counseling programs as intervention strategies. He also explored the ongoing controversies of counseling approaches for court-mandated offenders, research, successes and failures, victim safety, and accountability.
 

International Association of Women Police Heritage Award ​
Cairns, Australia

Laura​ accepted the Heritage Award in Cairns, Australia on September 18, 2017 during the Opening Ceremonies of he 2017 International Women & Law Enforcement Conference. 
 
WomenPolice magazine article here.

​Awards introduction by NYC Detective (RET) Kathy Burke  here.

​Laura's acceptance speech  here.
​​2017_heritage_award_acceptance_speech.pdf
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Battering Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan
​Annual Conference
Lansing, Michigan

Michael Paymar and ECT consultant/trainer Oliver Williams presented a plenary session on  "The work continues: Looking for New Opportunities to Address Gender Based Violence with Faith Communities"

A Groundbreaking International Conference to explore and examine the impact of religion, faith, spirituality, science, and research on the practices of (BIP) programs!

​Women in Policing: Injustices of Improper Policing and Women in Law Enforcement Working to Improve the System

 LAURA GOODMAN served on a panel discussion  at Queen's College  during Women's History Month.  Panelists discussed specific incidents of improper policing and women law enforcement officers talked about how they police communities differently and what they were doing to prevent improper policing.  

Laura discussed research that she has worked on with the National Center for Women in Policing that indicates that women police officers tend to use less force and when using force, tend to use less lethal force; their emphasis is on defusing potentially violent situations .  Women police officers also respond more effectively and compassionately to violence against women.   

Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 61 2017

Education for Critical Thinking was selected to present a program entitled Challenges and Solutions to End Gender-Based Violence at the CSW 2017 at the UN Headquarters in New York, New York.  Michael Paymar and Laura Goodman​ showed ECT's award winning film With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence and led a discussion on gender violence following the film. The  presentation was well attended and the discussion energetic.  

Gender Bias in Policing Round-table
Washington, DC

Laura Goodman was invited by the Battered Women's Justice Project to participate in a two day gender bias in policing round-table discussion in Washington DC. 

​The group of participants representing police, advocates, professors, prosecutors, and federal government representatives worked to develop plans to identify and prevent gender bias in law enforcement's response to violence against women.  

Conference on Violence Prevention
Casper, Wyoming

Michael Paymar was the keynote speaker at the first annual conference on violence prevention and response sponsored by the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. In addition to the conference workshops and the keynote adddress, participants screened With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence after which Michael and Tiffany Eskelson-Maestas, Director of WCADVSA, led a powerful discussion about the film.  ​

EVAWI International Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana

Laura Goodman presented training on Effective Strategies to Engage Crime Victims for Law Enforcement at the End Violence Against Women International Conference in New Orleans.  The conference highlighted promising practices and emerging issues in sexual assault, domestic violence and campus resources.

Inter-Parliamentary Union
131st Assembly
Geneva, Switzerland

Michael Paymar was invited to address the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly as it took up the issue of  violence against women internationally.

Hear his speech here.