By making this fee mandatory, SB 82 significantly increases this funding source for centers and thus increases access to family violence services for victims, while at the same time holding abusers accountable for violent behavior. TCFV has developed a toolkit in order to assist programs with the collection of this fee. Click here for more information.

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The conference emphasizes the benefits of community collaboration, innovative techniques of facilitation and working together effectively and seamlessly to ensure offenders are held accountable.

The TCFV BIPP Conference is a two-day training for law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, probation officers, BIPP facilitators, coordinators, program directors and licensed professionals who will be/are providing direct services to family violence offenders or who directly supervise staff members who work directly with offenders. 

BIPP Annual Statewide Conference
April 9-10, 2010
Austin Marriott South
4415 South IH-35
Austin, Texas 78744

CONFERENCE DETAILS

Please Click Here to Register by Mail or Fax
Please Click Here to Register Online
Deadline is March 26, 2010
Conference Fees:
• Members: $75/person
• Non Members: $100/person
• Members save when bundling with BIPP Educational Series. All three are $500/person.
• Click here to register by fax or mail
• Onsite conference registration available, if not at capacity.

Hotels and Meals
Hotel Reservations:
Room Rates
Single: $85
Double: $115
Phone:  1-512-441-7900
Fax:  1-512-441-7899
Toll-Free: 1-888-236-2427
• Refreshments provided; lunch is on your own
• Attendees reserve a room directly with Marriott reservations at the number(s) below.
• The deadline for room reservations is Wednesday, March 19, 2010.
• When calling, please indicate you are with the “Texas Council on Family Violence BIPP Annual Conference”

For more information, please contact:
Rachel Moore, Family Violence Services Coordinator
1 (800) 525-1978
rmoore@tcfv.org

The new educational series will be comprised of two parts. Part one will focus on foundational information that includes beginner-intermediate level topics. Part two will focus on intermediate-advanced level topics. The educational series is comprised of a combination of classroom and self-paced online modules. Each part will guarantee 20 hours of CJAD-approved hours. By attending both parts, attendees will obtain the 40 hours total.

BIPP Educational Series, Part One
February 23 and 24, 2010
Austin Marriott South
4415 South IH-35
Austin, Texas 78744

The following topics are included in the classroom facilitated sessions in the first part of the BIPP Educational Series:

• The Dynamics of Family Violence
• The Dynamics of Battering
• Effects of Family Violence on Children
• Adult Learning
• Cultural Competency
• Group Facilitation: Collusion
• Group Facilitation: Accountability of Batterers
• Group Facilitation: Inappropriate Interventions

The following topics are included in the self-paced online modules in Part One of the BIPP Educational Series:

• History of the Battered Women’s Movement
• The Basics of Battering Intervention Programs
• Overview of BIPP Accreditation
• The History of Battering Intervention and Prevention Programs
• Safety Planning and Serving as a Referral Source
• Legal Issues
 
The BIPP Educational Series, Part One is a foundational training for professionals new to providing BIPP services. It incorporates fundamental information about family violence and its effects on families and society, operational topics on developing an effective program and best practices for group facilitation. 
 
The BIPP Education Series, Part One is facilitated by a team of TCFV staff members working to improve BIPP services statewide and a contract faculty of tenured professionals who work with domestic violence offenders. 

The Texas Council on Family Violence will provide up to 20 hours of training through a mixture of mediums including: self-directed online presentations and classroom training.

Training hours are approved by TDCJ-CJAD to meet the requirements towards BIPP Accreditation training requirements.

CONFERENCE DETAILS 

Registration
Click here  to visit the 2010 BIPP Package page
• Deadline is February 15, 2010
• Conference Fees:
• Members: $225/person
• Non Members: $250/person
• Members save when bundling BIPP Educational Series and Annual BIPP Conference
• All three are $500/person
• Click here to register by fax or mail
• Onsite conference registration available, if not at capacity.

Hotels and Meals

Hotel Reservations:
Room Rates
Single: $85
Phone:  1-512-441-7900
Fax:  1-512-441-7899
Toll-Free: 1-888-236-2427

• Refreshments provided; lunch is on your own
• Attendees reserve a room directly with Marriott reservations at the number(s) below.
• The deadline for room reservations is Monday, February 1, 2010.
• When calling, please indicate you are with the “Texas Council on Family Violence BIPP Ed Series”
 
For more information, please contact: 
Diana Meriggi, Family Violence Services Coordinator
1 (800) 525-1978
dmeriggi@tcfv.org

BIPP Educational Series, Part Two
July 27 and 28, 2010
Austin Marriott South
4415 South IH-35
Austin, Texas 78744

The following topics are included in the classroom facilitated sessions in the BIPP Educational Series Part Two:

• Adult Learning Techniques
• Intersections: BIPP and Substance Abuse
• Philosophy of Motivating Positive Change in Batterers
• Incorporating Prevention in your BIPP
• Group Facilitation: Overcoming Resistance
• Violence as Oppression
• Group Facilitation: Collusion for Tenured Professionals
• Building Collaboration with Systems

The BIPP Educational Series, Part Two is an intermediate training for professionals who have provided BIPP services for three or more years. It builds on fundamental information and best practices for group facilitation. 
 
The BIPP Educational Series, Part Two is facilitated by a team of TCFV staff members working to improve BIPP services statewide and a contract faculty of tenured professionals who work with family violence offenders. 

The Texas Council on Family Violence will provide up to 20 hours of training through a mixture of mediums including: self-directed online presentations and classroom training.

Training hours are approved by TDCJ-CJAD to meet the requirements towards BIPP Accreditation training requirements.

CONFERENCE DETAILS

Registration
Click here to visit the 2010 BIPP Package page
• Deadline is July 15, 2010
• Conference Fees:
• Members: $225/person
• Non Members: $250/person
• Members save when bundling BIPP Educational Series and Annual BIPP Conference
• All three are $500/person
• Click here to register by fax or mail
• Onsite conference registration available, if not at capacity.

Hotels and MealsHotel Reservations:
Room Rates
Single: $85
Phone:  1-512-441-7900
Fax:  1-512-441-7899
Toll-Free: 1-888-236-2427

• Refreshments provided; lunch is on your own
• Attendees reserve a room directly with Marriott reservations at the number(s) below.
• The deadline for room reservations is Wednesday, July 5, 2010.
• When calling, please indicate you are with the “Texas Council on Family Violence BIPP Ed Series”
 
For more information, please contact: 

Cassie Taylor, Family Violence Services Coordinator
1 (800) 525-1978
ctaylor@tcfv.org

The minimum grant award is $5,000 and there is no required match. Applications are due before December 21, 2009. TCFV is available to provide technical assistance regarding the issue areas targeted for this funding. Please visit our Grant Applications page for more details and for contact information.

Mary and her family soon became an interest to me, perhaps it was that I was so new in my role at the program that I clung onto this family’s story and followed their progress. And what I saw wasn’t quite what I assumed would be the reaction to the trauma that had foreshadowed.

Mary and her family held steadfastly to their faith while trying to comprehend how life could continue. They had lost their home, all their modest possessions, but above all their safety. 

Hope is often many things. From the textbook definition a feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best to what many poets and writers have tried to capture through words and stories.

One of the most famous is Emily Dickinson’s thought that hope is a link to the soul and is everlasting.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
and sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all…

But to me, a novice advocate at best, hope is the replacement of despair and fear in the eyes of women and children like Mary and her family with trust and comfort and the possibility that families like Mary’s can regain their independence and identity as empowered.

Five years later, Mary did not simply earn her GED, but she earned it with superior scores.  She pushed herself to excel and now is a successful entrepreneur.  Mary’s resiliency not only propelled her to overcome each of the obstacles she faced, but also challenged herself to expect greater.

And isn’t that after all, the hope we all share?

By Gloria Terry
President, TCFV

This two-day conference will include sessions on Framing Prevention Messages, Online Fundraising, Human Resources Legal Clinic, Intersections of Family Violence and Human Trafficking, Recovery Act Reporting, and Diversifying your Development Strategies. A continental breakfast and light refreshments will be served each day. Lunch will be provided on Tuesday, February 2nd.

A networking social will be held at the hotel on Tuesday immediately following the last workshop.

Keynote Speaker
Russell W. Strand is currently the Chief of the U.S. Army Military Police School Family Advocacy Law Enforcement Training Division.  Mr. Strand is a retired U.S. Army CID Federal Special Agent with an excess of 34 year’s law enforcement and investigative, and consultation experience.  Mr. Strand has specialized expertise, experience and training in the area of domestic violence intervention, critical incident peer support, and sexual assault, trafficking in persons and child abuse investigations.

A New Executive Directors’ Roundtable will be held February 1, 2009 from 2-5pm at the TCFV offices. This is an optional component for Executive Directors with less than three years in this role of leadership.

Monday, February 1, 2010
New Executive Directors’ Roundtable
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
TCFV Offices

Executive Directors’ Conference
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Executive Directors’ Reception begins at 4:15 p.m.
Austin Marriott South
4415 South IH-35
Austin, Texas 78744

Wednesday, February 3, 2010
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Austin Marriott South
4415 South IH-35
Austin, Texas 78744

Conference Fees:
Member: $ 75
Non-Member: $85

Click here to Register Online

Hotel Reservations:
Room Rates
Single $99
Double $125
Phone:  1-512-441-7900
Fax:  1-512-441-7899
Toll-Free: 1-888-236-2427

• Attendees reserve a room directly with Marriott reservations at the number(s) below.
• The deadline for room reservations is Wednesday, January 20, 2010.
• When calling, please indicate you are with the “Texas Council on Family Violence Executive Directors’ Conference.”

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO MAKE RESERVATIONS ONLINE.
Contact:
Molly Woodard
Mwoodard@tcfv.org
1-800-525-1978

How could this have happened? We were so close to getting her out of this horrible relationship. The next morning she was to move to Phoenix. Our dad had put a down payment on an apartment for her and she was going to distance herself from the life she was living; to start anew… Finally we arrived at the Shock and Trauma Unit of Hermann Hospital.  Nothing could ever have prepared me for the first glimpse of my sister.  She lay in a medically induced coma which lasted for weeks.  Her body was trussed up in a sling to prevent anything but her head and shoulders from touching the stark white hospital sheets.  For days she continued to cling to life, enduring countless surgeries to piece her back together and flush out the shotgun pellets that had dispersed throughout her body. She didn’t have insurance so we all pulled together during that time to raise as much money as we could. She finally pulled through after 8 weeks in the hospital and was ready to go home to my parents for months of physical therapy.

Nicole is now a kindergarten teacher learning how to live and love herself. I feel so blessed to have found such a great organization to support in TCFV where they are helping women like my sister Nicole realize that violence is unacceptable. Hope is lost when you are affected by family violence but the work of TCFV employees and volunteers, everyday, are bringing it back to those that need it most.

By Meghan Wegleitner

Meghan Wegleitner works in the hotel industry and resides in Austin, Texas.  She is the Logistics Chair for TCFV’s Honoring Women in Our Lives Luncheon.