Creating Transparent Confidentiality Policies in New Mexico Battering Intervention Programs
About This Event
THIS TRAINING IS ONLY FOR NEW MEXICO BIP PROGRAMS
Description
When a participant shares information with a battering intervention program, is it confidential? Is it shared? Does sharing happen because that is best practice for safety, regardless of whether the participant objects? Or does sharing happen because the participant gives informed instructions to disclose by signing a release? How does a participant know what to expect?
This session will work specifically with New Mexico battering intervention programs to develop a better understanding of their existing practices around managing participant information, and to identify places where they want to improve their policies or increase their transparency about their policies.
Learning Targets: As a result of this training, participants will:
1. Understand the difference between information that participants control vs. information that programs have discretion to share;
2. Identify the reasons behind existing practices for managing participant information; and
3. Discuss best practices for communicating with participants about how they can expect their information to be shared or protected.
In this session, Alicia Aiken, JD, and Hon. Julie Kunce Field from the Confidentiality Institute will lead participants through a facilitated discussion of the practical issues around balancing survivor safety, participant accountability, and program transparency with participants. By the end of the session, participants will have the framework to make improvements to their own information management policies in New Mexico.
About Your Facilitators
Alicia Aiken 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, a 150-person legal services program.
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. Alicia is also 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, and hosts the podcast Pursuing Justice: The Pro Bono Files which tell stories about the work of non-profit and pro bono attorneys nationwide. 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, client confidentiality, 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
Hon. Julie Kunce Field (ret.) In 2021, Judge Field retired from the trial court bench in Colorado after almost 11 years in order to become a co-founder of the Consilium® Institute (www.consiliuminstitute.com) and the founder of J.Field Mediation (www.jfieldmediation.com). Consilium® Institute provides training and workshops for therapists, lawyers and collateral professionals and teaches those professionals the philosophy of and how to deploy The Consilium® Process. The Consilium® Process is a unique, proprietary seven-step process which holistically addresses the key legal, emotional, and logistical issues people confront when facing a possible divorce, with the goal of charting the optimal path to achieving each client’s distinctive long-term life goals for themselves and their family. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Field was a law professor at the University of Michigan, Washburn Law School, and the University of Denver. At the University of Michigan, she co-founded the Women and the Law Clinic, which handled nationally significant cases regarding employment discrimination, family law, and reproductive rights.
She founded the Confidentiality Institute, a national institute which provides training and practical education for attorneys, judges, and non-attorneys on confidentiality and privilege issues. Judge Field founded the unique and award-winning Wellness Court, a mental health problem solving court. Judge Field is recognized throughout Colorado and nationally for her leadership and trainings on issues related to domestic relations, domestic violence, mental health, mediation, and judicial and community education. Judge Field received her B.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1982 and her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985. Judge Field’s three passions are (1) helping people figure out things they can’t decide for themselves; (2) teaching; and (3) changing the world for the better. All three of those passions are achievable for Judge Field and for all family law professionals through the innovative Consilium® Institute and her work with J.Field Mediation.
THIS TRAINING IS ONLY FOR NEW MEXICO BIP PROGRAMS