“Give Me Some Credit: Hands-on Advocacy Strategies for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence”

March 31, 2023

10:00 am – 11:30 am

The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the virtual training “Give Me Some Credit: Hands-on Advocacy Strategies for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence.”

 Session Description:

Intimate partner violence (IPV) has devastating and ongoing financial consequences for many survivors. Credit damage is one area that creates ongoing safety challenges as it creates barriers for housing, employment, banking, and insurance needs. BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and survivors with other oppressed identities are at even greater risk of economic challenges in our current system. This workshop will explore the connection between IPV, power, the cost of survivorship, economic harm, and credit, and will provide trauma-informed, survivor centered, hands-on, credit education for credit advocacy, including ordering and reading credit reports, as well as safely repairing and building credit.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to create and ask trauma-informed credit assessment questions to better understand the survivor's credit needs, values and strengths.
• Participants will be able to describe the credit dispute process and the safety implications of disputing credit. 
• Participants will be able to co-create a credit action plan for a survivor's credit safety. 

Presenter:

Katie Ciorba VonDeLinde, MSW, LCSW is an energetic and passionate social worker who teaches, advocates, writes and thinks on issues of economic justice, intimate partner violence (IPV), and holistic, empowering social work.  Ms. VonDeLinde has advocated for the rights of IPV survivors for over twenty years including as Assistant Director of a DV program in rural Iowa and as program director for an urban economic advocacy intimate partner violence program where she trained thousands of social workers and advocates on the intersection of economics and IPV. Ms. VonDeLinde is an award-winning adjunct faculty member at the Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, co-directs KMCV Consulting, LLC, and serves as an expert advisor to the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice.

Participant Registration and Cost: This training is free. Participants need to register in advance for the training. Click here to register.