NYSCADV's 2015 DIRECTORS' SUMMIT

Reinvigorating the Movement and
Leveraging Leadership of Local Programs

Please join us for NYSCADV's 2015 Directors’ Retreat on November 10, 2015 at the Hilton Garden Inn Albany Medical Center (see address to the left of this page).

The 2015 NYSCADV Directors’ Summit will be an opportunity for directors from member programs to move from conversation into action. Mary Lauby will be joining us once again to facilitate the process. The newly formed Transformational Leadership Steering Committee will present a proposed structure for discussion, development and implementation of a statewide action plan. The plan will work to reinvigorate the New York State domestic violence movement, and operationalize solutions to problems identified at the 2014 Directors’ Retreat. 

Vickie Smith, Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence, will  also be joining us at the 2015 Program Directors’ Summit. Vickie will provide us with a perspective on domestic violence services, funding structures, and coalition building in Illinois; a ‘big state’ which shares many similarities with New York. She will also present an overview of national movement building and leadership development initiatives for domestic violence advocates, as a result of hosting the National Network to End Domestic Violence Roundtable Meeting of State Domestic Violence Coalitions in Chicago this October.

Discussion will include the following: 

Participants will consider whether the Steering Committee’s proposed structure, subcommittees, timelines and processes can produce the proposed results, and will provide recommendations about any modifications that might be needed to enhance the work and improve chances for success. Participants will sign on to sub-committees, assign roles, and schedule meetings. 

Participants will discuss whether the proposed strategy will be able to:

• Produce a plan for resolving New York State and county funding related requirements that are non-compliant with federal law and regulation

• Produce a comprehensive economic analysis of all domestic violence funding in New York State including sources, allowable purposes of funding, administrative practices, regulations, etc.

• Develop an inclusive plan to revitalize a survivor-centered movement that can propose and adopt a coalition-determined comprehensive funding structure that supports all local programs and survivors in New York State

• Produce recommendations for how to foster a survivor-centered approach for local domestic violence services, practices and policies for state and county funding and regulatory practices and policies

Who should attend?

Registration is open to program directors (and their designees) of 2015 NYSCADV Member Programs in good standing. If you are unsure about your organization's membership status, please contact Jennifer by phone (518-482-5465 x204) or by email.

Agenda

• 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM - Registration & Networking (coffee/tea will be provided)

• 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM – Welcome, review of agenda, and discussion of critical issues

• 12:00PM - 1:00PM - Lunch will be provided

• 1:00PM - 4:00PM – Continue discussion and develop action plans

Cost: $20/person

Accommodations: Hilton Garden Inn Albany Medical Center

We reserved a block of rooms at the government per diem rate of $115.00 for November 9, 2015 (the night before the Directors' Retreat). If you wish to reserve a room, please do so through our personalized group webpage by clicking this link or call the hotel to book (518-396-3500) and use the code CADV. Booking and paying for these rooms is the responsibility of the registrant. This price point will expire on October 26, 2015 so book now!

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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. Mary 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, Mary 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, Mary 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.

Mary 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. Mary 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.

Mary 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.

Vickie Smith began her work in the battered women’s movement over 30 years ago by providing direct services to survivors of domestic violence.  She helped open a non-residential crisis intervention program, first serving on the Board of Directors and then serving as the first non-paid director.  Vickie joined the staff of the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence in March, 1988 as a Grant Monitor, and then became Executive Director in 1993. 

During her tenure at the Coalition, Vickie gained extensive experience working with local domestic violence programs throughout Illinois, providing technical assistance on a variety of issues agencies were facing.  She participated in a number of collaborative efforts that developed protocols and curricula to benefit battered women and their children in Illinois.  She was actively involved in efforts that included justice professionals, health care workers, educators and social workers to develop community responses to family violence.  Vickie worked with the state legislature as well as several state agencies in developing laws and procedures to further the state’s response to domestic violence.

Vickie has done work in the battered women’s movement on the national level.  She is a founding Board member of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, a national advocacy agency located in Washington D.C.  During the development of the National Network, Vickie worked with other state and national advocates on drafting the historic 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which has had a significant impact on services for battered women. 

In May, 1999 she relocated to Texas where she joined the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence and participated in technical assistance and training all over the United States.  Vickie resumed the position of Executive Director of ICADV in August, 2008.