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Beyond Silos: Domestic Violence and Health Care Partnerships, 2024 Symposium Archives

Welcome + Opening Remarks

  • The Los Angeles Domestic Violence and Health Care Leadership Council

  • Richard Thomason (he/him) | Policy Director, Blue Shield of California Foundation

  • Special message from the California Surgeon General, Diana Ramos, MD

Breaking Barriers to Access to Quality Care, Part 1

  • Moderator: Debra Ward (she/her) | CEO, YWCA San Gabriel Valley

  • Liza Eshilian-Oates, MD (she/her) | Regional Physician Leader, Kaiser Permanente Family Violence Prevention Program

  • Blanca Martinez, MSW, CCM (she/her) | Director for Case Management, Molina Healthcare of California

 

Breaking Barriers to Access to Quality Care, Part 2

  • Moderator: Virginia Duplessis, MSW (she/her) | Director, National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Futures Without Violence

  • Jobi Wood (she/her) | Director of TAY Services High Desert, Family Assistance Program

  • Courtney Hoffman (she/her) | Mobile Care Clinics Operations Manager, Central Neighborhood Health Foundation

  • Cynthia Urena MSN, FNP-BC (she/her) | Forensic Nurse Examiner, Outreach Coordinator, Center for Assault Treatment Services (CATS), Dignity Health

Morning Plenary | Invisible Injuries: Traumatic Brain Injury, Domestic Violence, and Strangulation

  • Paula Walters, (she/her) | Founder, Standing Courageous, INC and PDWalters LLC

 

Concurrent Session A: Invisible Injuries: Beyond the surface

  • Paula Walters, (she/her) | Founder, Standing Courageous, INC and PDWalters LLC

 

Concurrent Session B: IPV, Mental Health, and Pregnancy: Opening the Window of Opportunity

  • Emily C Dossett, MD, MTS, DFAPA (she/her) | Director, Reproductive Mental Health Consultants

 

Concurrent Session C: Supporting Birthing Survivors: Trauma-informed doula care as a model for advocates, community members, and healthcare professionals

  • Virginia Duplessis, MSW (she/her) | Director, National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Futures Without Violence

 

 

 

Concurrent Session D: Enhancing the Survivor Safety Net: Optimizing opportunities within Medi-Cal

  • Yasmin Tarver, MPA (she/her) | Director of Workforce Development, Jenesse Center, Inc., DV + Health Care Leadership Council Member

  • Brittney Daniel, (she/her) | Program Officer, Health, California Community Foundation

  • Sabrina Gutierrez (she/her) | Staff Analyst, Housing for Health, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services

 

Survivor Panel | Lifting Lived Experience: Navigating access to care as a survivor with intersecting identities

  • Moderator: Jonathan M. Wicks, LCSW (he/him)| Equity and Social Change Manager, YWCA San Gabriel Valley

​​Looking Forward: Protecting Critical VOCA Funding

  • Krista Colón (she/her) | Senior Director of Public Policy and Communications Strategies, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

  • Amanda Gould (she/they) | Senior Program Manager, National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence

  • Janine Williams (she/her) | Chief, Interpersonal Violence & Underserved Victims Division, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services

 

Closing Remarks

  • Priya Batra, MD, MS, FACOG (she/her) | Deputy Director, Health Promotion Bureau, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Recording
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