Confidentiality When Working With Incarcerated Survivors

AUDIENCE: PREA Advocates; Corrections Facility Personnel

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Thursday, September 19, 2019
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. CST

Confidentiality can be hard to navigate when working with survivors who are incarcerated.

This webinar will provide information on:

• Different confidentiality frameworks between advocates and corrections
• What the PREA standards say about confidentiality
• Confidentiality in action and common challenges

Presenter:

Megan Shepard
PREA Coordinator
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence

Megan Shepard is the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Coordinator at Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. Megan started in corrections in 2010 at Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility where she supervised the records and classification office. After 4 years she was promoted to Kansas Department of Corrections Central Office to work as Sentence Comp Administrator, working with attorneys, judges, sheriff offices and parole staff to process offenders sentencing.  Megan was recruited to the PREA department in Central Office as a PREA Advocate Specialist. After 2 years Megan transitioned into a position with Department of Children and Families as a Grant Specialist. Ultimately the work in corrections called her back to help advocate for incarcerated survivors and she started with KCSDV as PREA Coordinator in April 2019.

Register now at:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1561754413474561548

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Questions:
Megan Shepard
mshepard@kcsdv.org or 785-232-9784

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This grant project is supported by subgrant number 19-VAWA-22 awarded by the Kansas Governor’s Grants Program for the STOP Formula Grant Program. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of the Kansas Governor or the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Total Training Hours: 1.0