Webinar January 29th, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. ET / 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. PT
The Intersection of Domestic and Sexual Violence and Housing/Homelessness
Free for members / $25 for non-members
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Webinar Overview
This interactive webinar will highlight the connections between domestic violence and sexual assault to housing/homelessness and the intersection of racial and gender equity. Topics covered will be how domestic and sexual violence relates to families’ homelessness; the VAWA 2022 housing expansions and protections for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking who are seeking to access or maintain their federally assisted housing with these rights; practical implementation of these new VAWA 2022 housing protections while building on the previous ones; and the federal housing related resources that are accessible to survivors and how to build partnerships across homelessness and victim service providers.
Speakers
Christie Bevis (she/her/hers) serves as Senior Project Manager for Collaborative Solutions. Bevis possesses an extensive background in program development, strategic planning, and relationship management, with subject matter expertise in homelessness, housing, and vulnerable populations. Her experience is inclusive of work at the local, state, and national levels including director, Safe Housing Practices and Initiatives, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV), and senior program associate on the Promising Practices Initiative, a collaboration between the Vera Institute of Justice and the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. While at NRCDV, Bevis served as program lead for the National Domestic Violence and Housing Technical Assistance Consortium – an unprecedented partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Justice, and Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
D.Fox has worked in the domestic and sexual violence movement for 30 years with a focus on fundraising, organizational development, nonprofit administration, and domestic violence population-specific housing and economic justice programming. In her role as Deputy Director of Housing Policy and Practice at NNEDV, D.Fox works tirelessly to advocate for safety and expanded federal housing protections and options for survivors and additional federal resources with federal appropriations and was instrumental in the passage of the HUD DV Bonus Funds in 2018. D.Fox leads NNEDV’s Collaborative Approaches to Housing for Survivors, a multi-agency technical assistance consortium designed to improve survivors’ access to safe, affordable housing and is considered a national expert at the intersection of gender-based violence, homelessness, and housing.
Rebekah Moses is the Resource Sharing Project’s Sexual Violence and Housing Technical Assistance Coordinator. She is a lifelong advocate with and for survivors of gender violence – "their expertise leads and grounds my advocacy." Within intersecting issues of oppression, she approaches advocacy through the lenses of trauma, human rights, healing, and liberation. She says, "it has been an honor to work at the local, state and national levels in direct services, public policy, training, and technical assistance." Rebekah is grateful to all the survivors who’ve trusted her with their wisdom, wounds, struggles and strengths.
Marlena Moore (they/them/theirs) serves as the Senior Program Specialist for the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. In their role at NRCDV, Marlena works in support of gender-based violence, housing, and economic policy engagement by identifying, supporting, and disseminating product deliverables. Their experience includes managing a statewide sexual assault crisis line as well as an educator and library staffer working to connect individuals to necessary resources. They spent several years at a state domestic and sexual violence coalition educating advocates on the dynamics of intimate partner violence, responses to violence, and the impacts of gender-based violence on and within culturally specific communities via trainings and resource development.
Questions? Contact Sierra Schnitzer.