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Understanding and
Addressing
This training will help participants to recognize the
unique obstacles that LGBT survivors confront when they
turn to the legal system for assistance. National
experts on LGBT domestic violence will provide
participants with practical information to better
understand the experience of LGBT domestic violence
survivors, to assess when a person is exercising
systematic power and control in a relationship, and to
use domestic violence restraining orders and other forms
of legal relief to help survivors achieve safety,
autonomy, and justice. Please RSVP to attend or call (310) 267-4382. Click here for directions and parking information.
Co-sponsored by:
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Speakers Bios
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LGBT Domestic Violence
Terra
Slavin is the Lead Staff Attorney and Project
Manager of the Domestic Violence Legal Advocacy Project
at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center. She is responsible for
overseeing the delivery of comprehensive legal services
for LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault
and stalking. This includes client consultations, case
research and court representation in civil domestic
violence matters. She is also responsible for training
domestic violence and legal service providers on LGBTQ
sensitivity and same-gender domestic violence legal
issues, and has provided trainings to hundreds of
attorneys and advocates across the country.
Attorney Slavin served on the advisory board of the
American Bar Association's Legal Assistance and
Education for LGBT Victims of Domestic Violence Project,
and she participated in a Standards of Practice Working
Group sponsored by the ABA and Office of Violence
Against Women to develop national standards of practice
in civil protection order cases. Slavin chairs the LGBT
DV Issues Committees of the L.A. City Domestic Violence
Taskforce and Los Angeles County Domestic Violence
Council, and she serves on the Governance Committee of
the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. 
Sharon
Stapel is the Executive Director of the New York
City Anti-Violence Project (AVP). AVP’s mission is to
eliminate hate violence, sexual assault and domestic
violence affecting lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual,
queer (LGBTQ) communities through direct services,
advocacy, organizing and public education. Sharon
presents trainings on violence against and within the
LGBTQ communities throughout the country. Prior to
joining AVP, Sharon was the Director of the
Family/Domestic Violence Unit at South Brooklyn Legal
Services. Before that Sharon supervised the Legal Aid
Society’s Family Law Units in the Bronx and Harlem and
the city-wide Domestic Violence Unit. Sharon is a member
of the New York State LGBT Domestic Violence Network,
the Lawyers Committee Against Domestic Violence, the
former co-chair of the New York City LGBTQ Domestic
Violence Task Force and the chair of the New York City
Bar Association’s Domestic Violence Committee. Sharon
has taught at the City University of New York School of
Law and at Hunter College. 
Kristin
Tucker has been an educator, activist and advocate
in the anti-violence and LGBTQ movements since 1998. She
worked as a treatment counselor at the Rural Women’s
Recovery Program in Athens, Ohio and as the Program
Coordinator at the Center for Women’s Studies at Colgate
University before relocating to Seattle in 2002.
Currently, Kristin works as the Program Manager at the
Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian and Gay
Survivors of Abuse in Seattle, Washington. Her work has
a primary focus in providing direct advocacy with adult
LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence, as well as
training and supervising a staff of community advocates
and interns. Kristin holds a significant role in the
Northwest Network’s technical assistance and training
programs, having provided countless local, regional and
national trainings on increasing program’s capacities to
provide services to LGBTQ people for almost 7 years.
Darren
Mitchell is Co-Executive Director of the Legal
Resource Center on Violence Against Women (LRC) and a
consultant on domestic violence issues. The LRC, based
in Takoma Park, Maryland, is a national nonprofit that
provides training and technical assistance to attorneys
and others who assist survivors of domestic violence in
complex interstate custody cases. From 2001 to 2004,
Darren managed the National Center on Full Faith and
Credit (NCFFC), a Washington, D.C.-based national
training and technical assistance project of the
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Prior
to that, Darren was a staff attorney with the NCFFC, a
consumer advocate, a litigator in private practice, and
a clerk to a federal district court judge. Darren’s
areas of expertise include protection order issuance and
enforcement, full faith and credit, firearms and
domestic violence, and interstate custody. Over the past
nine years, he has trained judges, attorneys, advocates,
and other professionals and has published various papers
on these topics.