During this difficult time, rates of domestic violence are increasing, and service providers are struggling to meet victims’ needs. JWI is offering a peer-to-peer support call as a forum to share challenges and strategies for providing trauma-informed spiritual, physical, and emotional support to Jewish clients during COVID-19. The conversation will be led by Naomi Tucker of Shalom Bayit, Berkeley, Calif., and Shana Frydman, ED, Shalom Task Force, New York City.
Space is limited. Link to join the call provided with registration.
What is a Peer Support Call?
A Peer Support Call is an in-depth virtual meeting in which participants actively engage with each other and with designated facilitators. Attendees are encouraged to use their webcams and will be encouraged to share their experiences with the subject and to have conversations with the facilitators and each other.
SPEAKERS
Naomi Tucker is the founding executive director of Shalom Bayit, a Jewish domestic violence agency in the San Francisco Bay Area where she has worked for 28 years. With over 36 years of expertise in the field, Naomi has been instrumental in developing a national Jewish communal response to abuse. She co-authored some of the first Jewish healing rituals for survivors of abuse (1992), the Love Shouldn’t Hurt Jewish teen dating violence prevention curriculum (2007), multiple training curricula for Jewish domestic violence advocates, and Faith in Violence-Free Families, an interfaith clergy training manual in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health. Naomi serves on the national task force to combat Jewish poverty, the We Commit Steering Committee organizing a communal response to sexual harassment in Jewish workplaces, and the advisory board for REVEAL, a national research study on domestic abuse in affluent communities. Naomi is a writer, trainer, and national expert on faith-based approaches to ending gender-based violence.
Shoshannah Frydman, PhD, LCSW is the executive director of Shalom Task Force. She was previously the managing director of Family Violence and Social Services at the Met Council and founded their Family Violence Services Program. She has worked in the field of gender-based and family violence in the Jewish community for over 15 years. As a licensed clinical social worker she provides a range of services to diverse survivors of abuse and sex trafficking. Shana is a graduate of University of Maryland School of Social Work and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York/Hunter School of Social Work. She speaks regularly and has published on the subject of intimate partner abuse within the Jewish community.