September 2022 - ATAP - Desert Southwest Chapter Meeting

1501 San Pedro Drive Southeast,Albuquerque NM 87108

30 September, 2022

Description

The Board of the Desert Southwest Chapter would like to invite you to the September 2022 chapter meeting. This meeting will be held at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The PI Conference Room is on the fourth floor of the hospital building. The keynote presentation is: A Different Animal: Assessing and Managing Domestic Violence Threatpresented by Lynn Fairweather, MSWPresage Consulting and Training, LLCThe art of threat assessment and management helps to prevent targeted violence against society's most protected VIPs, but how can that knowledge be applied to domestic abuse in our workplaces and communities? In this 60 (or 90) minute presentation, participants will learn how to evaluate and handle high-lethality cases using key threat assessment concepts and valuable insights gleaned from speaker Lynn Fairweather's 30 years of experience in violence prevention. ***Masks are required to be worn in the VA building ***No weapons allowed on campus Please use the "Register" button on this page to indicate that you'll attend this meeting in person. If you will attend the meeting virtually via Zoom, please register using this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuf-ivqDgsE9I0gl44Pwayr5BUg86LIhF6 Lynn Fairweather, MSW is an abuse survivor who has worked in the field of violence response and prevention for the past 30 years. As president of Presage Consulting and Training LLC, she provides public and private organizations worldwide with domestic violence threat assessment and management education, violence prevention program and policy consultations, and 24/7 threat response guidance for individual cases. Ms. Fairweather’s subject matter expertise was developed by working on thousands of domestic violence cases through positions in the social service, criminal justice, university, and shelter systems. She has served on several interpersonal violence task forces and facilitated victim support groups as well as batterer’s intervention programs. Ms. Fairweather holds multiple training certifications from sources such as Homeland Security's Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and Gavin de Becker's Advanced Threat Assessment Academy. She also writes professionally on the subject of domestic violence, authoring dozens of articles and releasing her first book in 2012 (Stop Signs: Recognizing, Avoiding, and Escaping Abusive Relationships” - Seal Press).