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May
14
2021

The Impact of COVID-19 on Interpersonal Violence

When: Friday, May 14, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Online
Webcast Link

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: N/A

Contact: Araceli Estrada   (312) 503-0691

Group: Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET)

Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Social, Training, Multicultural & Diversity, Global & Civic Engagement, Women 150

Description:

COVID-19 and the related stay-at-home orders has created and exacerbated existing stressors in many people’s lives. One of these stressors are tensions associated with interpersonal violence. Approximately 1 in 4 womxn experience interpersonal violence, and those numbers may have increased during COVID. Parents who feel stuck living with abusive partners during COVID may hesitate to ask for help because they worry no one will believe them or they financially depend on their abuser. Additionally, youth do not interface with mandated reporters in schools, and parents may also harbor fears of losing their children when police or the Department of Children and Family Services become aware of occurring abuse. These extraordinary circumstances are correlated with increasingly hostile home environments and are associated with an underreporting of incidences of interpersonal violence. In this conversation, we will explore these complicated dynamics and discuss potential policy solutions for identifying and addressing interpersonal violence during the COVID-19 era.

Panelists:
Anacany Barrera
Manager, Advocacy & Crisis Intervention
Sexual Violence Support Services
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

Neusa Gaytan
Senior VP of Programs
Mujeres Latinas en Accion

Marielena Leon, BSW
Counselor/Advocate
Hospital Crisis Intervention Project at Northwestern Hospital
Connections for Abused Women and their Children (CAWC)

Radhika Sharma Gordon
Education and Outreach Manager
Apna Ghar, Inc

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