OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This workshop will review adaptations you can make to materials to reach the broadest audience with regard to literacy considerations.
About This Event
Description:
Most professionals in the field are adapting materials in one way or another: to be more interesting, culturally relevant, or otherwise meet the interest of their service population. This workshop will review adaptations you can make to materials to reach the broadest audience with regard to literacy considerations. These include carefully selecting the words we use and the design formats we put them in.
By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:
Distinguish between poor reading and illiteracy
Name one of the 5 Steps for improving readability
Learn ways to compassionately screen for and address reading challenges
Practice modifying program content for a low-literacy population
2 CEU's will be offered
Cancellation Policy
The full fee is non-refundable if canceled less than one week prior to the event.
Accessibility
NMCADV is working on creating trainings that are accessible to everyone. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions please call 505-903-2570 or email training@nmcadv.org in advance of your participation. Zoom webinar will have Closed Captioning.
Funding
This training is funded in part by the Children Youth and Families Department, Domestic Violence Unit.
Meet your Facilitator!
Lisa is responsible for House of Ruth Maryland’s intervention services for abusive partners and the Training Institute, which coordinates professional development for staff, external community education, and professional technical assistance. She has been with House of Ruth Maryland since 1998 and has advanced through a variety of positions, including overseeing the agency’s Clinical Services for survivors and their children, the Teen Initiative, and the Developmental Childcare Center.
Lisa is an appointed member of the Maryland Governor’s Family Violence Council and is on the Board of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. She served as Vice President of the national organization, Women in Fatherhood, and as Co-Chair of Maryland’s Abuse Intervention Collaborative. She has been on training teams for notable organizations such as Futures Without Violence, Battered Women’s Justice Project, Women of Color Network, Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community, and the National District Attorneys Association. She has served as an advisor to the United States White House, the National Institutes of Health, the United States Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women, and the United States Department of Health & Human Services’ Administration for Children & Families.
Lisa is most proud of being recognized as a field leader in Ed Gondolf’s 2015 book, “Gender-Based Perspectives on Batterer Programs”, her 2013 award from the Center for Urban Families for her “years of dedication in serving Baltimore City’s most vulnerable citizens”, and the Special Day of Honor designated for her by Mayor Nagin in 2007, for “promoting positive outcomes and providing support to the fathers of New Orleans” following the devastation of hurricane Katrina.
Her current, but ever-changing, interests include developing programs for abusive partners within disinvested communities that address the dual experience of both holding privilege and being oppressed, increasing access to learning tools for service providers globally, and exploring community-based accountability models for abusive partners beyond the criminal legal system.
Lisa’s roots run deep in her hometown of Baltimore City, Maryland, where she proudly works and lives with her remarkably patient husband, incredible nieces, and gentle pit bull.