Privacy, Confidentiality, and Remote Services for Violence Survivors
Tuesday, October 27th, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. ET/12:30 to 2:00 p.m. PT
In this 90-minute interactive online session, we’ll discuss the challenges related to providing remote services for violence survivors while still leading from the values of privacy, confidentiality, and survivor autonomy. Expect to read a scenario in advance of the session, then work together as a group to assess best practices and answer questions highlighted by the scenario. The discussion will be led by national expert, Alicia Aiken, Attorney and Director of the Confidentiality Institute.
As a result of this session, participants will:
Reaffirm their understanding of privacy, confidentiality and privilege;
Practice problem-solving a potentially difficult situation; and
Assess how remote services are and are not different from in-person services from a survivor privacy perspective.
Speaker: Alicia L. Aiken, J.D., director of the Confidentiality Institute, has dedicated 25 years to working within the public and non-profit sectors to further social justice for people living in poverty and surviving violence. Alicia brings a deep understanding of the legal and social services non-profit sector, having spent 15 years as a trial attorney and then a member of the executive committee at Legal Aid Chicago.
Alicia is a principal at the Danu Center for Strategic Advocacy, and the director of the Danu Center’s Confidentiality Institute, a national policy and technical assistance project that supports helping professionals to protect privacy for crime victims. In 2016, Alicia became the faculty fellow for Practising Law Institute’s Interactive Learning Center where she designs innovative programs that teach lawyers to work well with individual clients. Alicia regularly strategizes with direct service non-profits, local coalitions, government entities, law firms, and professional organizations on a wide range of issues, including service delivery models, organizational structure, internal procedures, legal compliance, litigation strategy, policy advocacy, professional development, and distance learning design.
Alicia attended the University of Michigan, where she received a law degree (’95) and a bachelor of arts in English/history (’92). In 2006-2007, Alicia was awarded the Chicago Foundation for Women Founder’s Award, enabling her to study organizational change at Northwestern University, and to undertake a national study of model domestic violence courts. Most recently, she received the American Bar Association’s 2018 Sharon L. Corbitt Award for Exemplary Legal Service to Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking.
To get in touch with Alicia Aiken and Danu Center’s Confidentiality Institute, contact us via www.confidentialityinstitute.org or www.danucenter.org
This training was generously supported by The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies.