DeafHope and DCARA First Joint Community Accountablity Forum! “Social Media” Featured Speakers Rochelle Greenwell and Aracelia Aguilar Rochelle Greenwell and Aracelia Aguilar will share about their journey with community accountability through social media from a survivor’s perspective. This will be followed by an open forum and discussion about how we as a community can increase community accountability. When: Friday, November 8, 2013 Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Where: Deaf Community Center 1550 San Leandro Blvd San Leandro, CA 94577 Refreshments Provided Admission FREE Requests for Voice/ASL/Spanish/ DeafBlind interpreters or other accommodations, please contact Vanessa Phillip at 510 343 662 or vanessa.phillip@dcara.org by November 4,...
TRANSCRIPT: Two people appear sitting down. Jim Brune is on the left, a white male wearing a pink collared shirt and a brown vest. Tara Holcomb is on the right, wearing a purple blouse and a black cardigan. DCARA and DeafHope’s logos are in the background. Tara: “Hello! I’m Tara Holcomb, Empowerment Director at DeafHope.” Jim: “Hello! I’m Jim Brune, Executive Director at DCARA.” Tara: “We’re thrilled to announce that DeafHope and DCARA has formed a partnership. The purpose of this? To provide stronger services to Deaf survivors in the Bay Area.” Jim: “Also, another purpose for this: We are working together as partners to create a safer Deaf community.” Tara: “As part of our partnership agreement, we developed a Memorandum of Understanding “MOU” which explains what roles DCARA and DeafHope will do. There are three parts. The first part is the kind of services we will provide to Deaf survivors. We at DeafHope will continue to provide crisis-related services such as If something just happened related to domestic violence or sexual violence. If you need a court advocate, hospital advocate, or if you need immediate services, counseling, support or references, DeafHope will be able to provide all that support to survivors.” Jim: “As for DCARA, once survivors come out of crisis mode and need follow-up services such as long-term housing, need help looking for a job, need court support with child custody, they can come to DCARA.” Tara: “We will continue to work together. Now, as for the second part of the MOU, DeafHope will provide DCARA staff with continuous training....
Since 1996, nearly 200 individuals have been murdered and many more have died, through perpetrators committing suicide or being killed by another, due to domestic violence in Alameda County. Our Empowerment Director, Jane Whitney read names at Alameda County’s Day of Remembrance to honor victims of domestic violence. [Image: Outdoors in a city plaza. Trees, buildings and a abstract sculpture in the background. Two women are standing behind a podium with “Alameda County District Attorney Office” on the front with an image of a scale representing justice. A bunch of purple flowers are next to the podium. Jane Whitney is standing behind the podium, dressed in black with a blue necklace, signing “6.” An interpreter is next to her, dressed in a black shirt and gray pants, her face covered by a...
Transcript: Julie Rems-Smario appears in her office. “Hello! I’m excited to share that I’m still with DeafHope as the Board Chair. I feel honored the board selected me to participate in this new capacity. I look forward to working with the community, staff, board, and survivors in unity to end domestic violence and sexual violence against Deaf women and their children and the community-at-large. Thank you for your trust in me.”...
