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Please read below for information on important news regarding domestic violence!
Have you registered for the Spring 2008 Conference yet?
 

biscmi logoThis year for the Spring Conference, BISC-MI has decided to cosponsor an event that is being put on by the State Court Administrative Office, Family Services Division - Child Welfare Services Governor's Tack Force on Children's Justice.

This conference will be bringing the talents of:

  • Victor Rivas Rivers
  • Lundy Bancroft
  • Oliver J. Williams
  • Jeff Edleson
  • Mark Wynn
  • And Many More!!!
2008 BISC-MI Spring Conference
Information Below
April 9-10, 2008
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
East Lansing, Michigan
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Registration Click Here!

REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE COSTS

THERE IS NO REGISTRATION COST TO ATTEND THIS CONFERENCE. The cost of the conference is generously funded through the Governor's Task Force on Children's Justice (GTF).

This conference WILL fill up quickly, so please send in your registration early. Please do not register, however, unless you are certain you can attend.

For each person who registers and does not attend, another person is denied the opportunity to attend and we must still pay for meals and materials that are unused. 

 
 
To learn more click:
Sexual Assault Training
 

logoAn MCADSV Premier Training

 

Advanced Sexual Assault Institute

May 8-9, 2008

Crowne Plaza - Romulus, MI

 FEATURING

Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, is co-editor of the best-selling media textbook, Gender, Race and Class in Media (2nd edition, Sage, 2002). Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, Time, Working Woman, New York Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, and Daily Mail (England). Dr. Dines has also appeared on Donohue, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Entertainment Tonight.

Gail Elizabeth Wyatt, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, is the author of more than 100 publications, including Stolen Women: Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives. She has had her work profiled in Essence, Ebony, Self, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and Vogue.

Joyce Siegel, M.S.W., Program Director for Sexual Assault Services of Calhoun County, currently serves as the Board President for MCADSV, and is adjunct faculty in the Gender and Women's Studies Department and School of Social Work at Western Michigan University.

Joseph Vess, Consulting and Training Coordinator at Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR),  has trained on engaging men as allies, working with survivors of sexual assault, sexual assault and domestic violence, and working with male survivors.
 

The registration deadline for this event is April 18, 2008.

Again, please be sure to use conference code "MCA" when making reservations to be sure that you receive these discounted rates.  

Limited scholarships are available. A copy of the scholarship application is also attached for your use.

Space is limited. Register today.

A late fee of $25.00 will be assessed for any payments received after 

April 18, 2008

Please see the enclosed form for complete information regarding the registration fees.

If you have any questions or need additional information,

please call Angelita Velasco Gunn at (517) 347-7000, ext. 22. 

Registration Link
Scholarship Link
 
BISC-MI Mission Statement

We will voice the batterer intervention perspective while keeping the needs of the victims foremost.

We will provide a working forum for interaction and information sharing among agencies and individuals concerned with the provision of batterer intervention services in Michigan.

We will create and maintain coordinated community actions that hold batterers accountable for their behavior and promote victim safety, autonomy and empowerment.

Sincerely,
 

David J. H. Garvin
BISC-MI Chair

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