NCCEV Announcements

For immediate release: February 15, 2005

NCCEV Domestic Violence Expert to Attend National Meeting

NEW HAVEN, CT - Miriam Berkman, assistant clinical professor in social work at the Yale Child Study Center will attend a curriculum development meeting for the National Institute on the Prosecution of Domestic Violence in Destin, Florida, February 23-25.

The meeting will examine and update the curriculum for a series of three-day training sessions for prosecutors from communities around the country. According to its website, the Institute, using hypothetical cases, role-playing and other activities, “equips prosecutors with the tools and strategies they need to wage the battle against domestic violence” and allows them to return to work “with new ideas and techniques for keeping victims safe and holding offenders accountable.”

“The purpose of this meeting is to review and revise the current curriculum for prosecutors in domestic violence cases. It is also an excellent opportunity to share information on the latest and best practices we can use to help women and children who face violence in their daily lives,” said Ms. Berkman who is a lawyer as well as a social worker.”

Ms. Berkman directs the Domestic Violence Initiative which is a key component of the Child Development – Community Policing Program (CD-CP), which is a program of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV). The CD-CP Program was established in 1991 and formed the basis of the NCCEV, which was established in 1999. The NCCEV is directed by Dr. Steven Marans, the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. The goals of the NCCEV are to raise public awareness about the effects on children of exposure to violence; provide training and technical assistance in the CD-CP Program model to communities nationwide; and, to serve as a national resource center for professionals and the public on children’s exposure to violence.

For more information, please contact:
National Center for Children Exposed to Violence
www.nccev.org
(203) 785-7047 or 1-877-49-NCCEV
Email: nccev@info.med.yale.edu