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Dear  John,

Today would have been day one of the 9th National Conference on Health
and Domestic Violence (NCHDV). Although we are not together today
in Chicago, IL to share and learn from one another, we would like to
honor the work and passion of everyone who submitted to speak at the
conference, planned to attend for the first time, or has been coming
for years. You all are sources of hope and healing for your
communities and we are so grateful and honored to be in this work with
you.
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Much of our NCHDV community are on the front lines of the COVID-19
response, having to adapt and innovate new strategies for health and
safety. We asked three of our NCHDV steering committee members, Makini
Chisolm Straker - Mount Sinai Brooklyn Department of Emergency
Medicine, Amanda Pyron - Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's
Network, and Connie Mitchell - California Department of Public Health,
to reflect on their experiences mobilizing to address the impact that
COVID-19 has had on communities:

Q: Your job and life has changed in many ways in the last two months
- is there a reflection, lesson, innovation or message that you
would like to share with the health and anti-violence fields?

Makini: In fact, my life has not changed much at all. This is
what emergency medicine and public health are about and for. This
time, I am counted among the privileged. From the safety of my
privilege, where not much has changed, I consider that not much has
changed. It is our same people that bear this burden. Our same people
are dying, are hungry, are grieving, are sacrificing, are afraid. They
are in danger, in their own homes... 

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Octavia Butler wrote, "We cannot become what we want by
remaining what we are." Who are we, as a nation?

Read the rest of Makini, Amanda, and Connie's powerful answers
on FUTURES' blog.
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Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) continues to keep our resource
pages updated as we consider the short and long term impact that
COVID-19 will have on all of our lives - some more than others. Please
visit the following links regarding resources and information compiled
by FUTURES:

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Resources for Survivors, Communities, and DV/SA Programs 

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Protecting your Health (for vulnerable communities)
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Resources for Kids and Families

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Resources for Survivors Experiencing Unemployment or Working
Remotely

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Conference Updates

We are very close to finalizing a new date for our postponed
conference as well as a process by which registered participants can
choose between carrying their registration over to the postponed
conference date, or cancelling their registration. We thank you all
for bearing with us in this endeavor. If you have registered for the
conference, expect to receive instructions on this process in the
coming weeks.

With our deepest respect and gratitude,

2020 Conference Organizers Signatures

Lisa James, Lisa Sohn, Graciela Olguin, and Kate Vander Tuig

Conference Organizers, [email protected]

www.nchdv.org
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The Conference is a project of the National Health Resource Center on
Domestic Violence (HRC), which has supported health care
practitioners, administrators and systems, domestic violence experts,
survivors, and policy makers at all levels as they improve health
care's response to domestic violence. The HRC is funded by a
grant from the Family Violence Prevention & Services Program,
Family & Youth Services Bureau, Administration for Children and
Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and is a
member of the Domestic Violence Resource Network.

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