NYSCADV Annual Meeting 2014

Getting To Transformation

Please join us for the 2014 Annual Meeting! The annual meeting is designed to provide:

• a forum for programs from across the state to network and get a state-wide perspective on domestic violence services
• professional and organizational development opportunities
• an overview of NYSCADV's 2013-2014 activities and plans for the upcoming 2014-2015 year 
• updates from NYSCADV Regional Representatives about regional service delivery successes and challenges

Welcoming Special Guest and Keynote

Mary Lauby

Mary Lauby has spent more than 35 years in various leadership roles working to end violence against women, domestic and sexual violence. She is currently an independent consultant, working on organizational development and sexual and domestic violence policy and practice with clients in several states. She has led strategic planning efforts, conducted research and strengthened organizational culture and practice. Lauby has worked with boards of directors to strengthen and align governance and leadership with mission, and to build successful development capacity.

As a state coalition director for nearly 20 years in Massachusetts and Wisconsin, Lauby solidified the public policy advocacy role of these coalitions resulting in significant local, state and federal policy and practice changes. Mary’s work has focused on identifying promising practices and establishing strong evidence-based practices in the organizations she had led, and was instrumental in transforming Massachusetts’ efforts to prevent domestic violence homicide, as the Executive Director of Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. As the Executive Director at the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Lauby grew the coalition from 3 staff to 35; established the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life; and was a member of the first cohort of DELTA, the state domestic violence coalition Primary Prevention collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Mary has served as an appointee to numerous federal, state and local boards, commissions and advisory groups, including the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women, the Massachusetts’ Governor’s Commission to End Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Advisory Committee of the UW Madison Medical School.

Lauby has also served on numerous local, state and national boards and committees including, The National Network to End Domestic Violence, National Center for Survivor Agency and Justice, the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and The Firearm Advisory Committee of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Lauby staffed the Governor’s Domestic Abuse Council while the head of the Domestic Violence Unit at the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services where she was responsible for overseeing the state domestic violence grant programs and program development for statewide domestic abuse services. Mary served as the Executive Director of Dane County Advocates for Battered Women in Madison, Wisconsin and worked with the Area Agency on Aging in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Lauby has collaborated with researchers, policy makers, advocates and communities. Mary has consulted with local and national groups throughout the U.S., and in Europe and Nicaragua. She has received numerous awards for her work on state and national domestic and sexual violence public policy as well as with underrepresented communities. Mary is a mother, a grandmother, a sometimes-artist, and a new golfer.

Tentative Agenda

9:00 AM - Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast

10:00 AM - Meeting Begins

12:00 PM - Lunch (provided by NYSCADV)

1:00 Meeting Resumes

4:00 Meeting Concludes

(Stay tuned for more details!)

Cost

Member (Discount Rate): $60

Non-Member (Standard Rate): $75

Lodging