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Webinar

Choosing the Margins: Amplifying Indigenous Pasifika Voices and Stories in Violence Prevention Research and Advocacy


Total Credits: 1.5 including 1.5 American Psychological Association, 1.5 California Board of Registered Nurses, 1.5 State Bar of California, 1.5 California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals

Categories:
Intimate Partner Violence
Faculty:
Matāpuna Levenson, MSW
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
90 minutes

Dates



Description

As advocates, practitioners and researchers in the movement to end intimate partner and gender-based violence, we enhance our understanding of this public health and human rights issue by collaborating with those who are most affected by this type of violence. By choosing the margins (hooks,1990; Smith, 2012). This webinar provides an overview of indigenous research methodologies and Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) principles reflected in the capacity-building efforts of Kanaka ʻŌiwi and Pasifika professionals and community members in addressing and preventing domestic violence in their respective communities. Three initiatives under the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) centered on indigenous Pasifika languages, cultural dynamics and structures, and nurturing dialogue and connection across the Pasifika Diaspora, will be highlighted. Attendees will be provided with tangible ways to implement community-based, culturally responsive principles and practice in their violence prevention work.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the principles of CBPR and Indigenous Pasifika research methodologies.
  2. Examine the connection between community-based and culturally-responsive research and practice.
  3. Develop their own organizational, program, and/or practice plan to insure Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voices and experiences are at the forefront of policy, programmatic, and practice decision-making.

Handouts

Faculty

Matāpuna Levenson, MSW's Profile

Matāpuna Levenson, MSW Related Seminars and Products

Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Initiative Program Manager

Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence


Matāpuna Ma’ilo-Levenson (she/her) is the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Initiative Program Manager for the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence. She is responsible for providing technical assistance and training on models and issues related to culturally relevant domestic violence homicide prevention (DVHP), as well as analyzing emerging issues and documenting best practices on DVHP in Asian, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. Prior to joining the Institute, Matāpuna was the Training and Technical Assistance Director for the Hawaiʻi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Born on the island of Tutuila, American Sāmoa and raised in Waialua, Hawaiʻi, Matāpuna now resides on Moku o Keawe (Hawaiʻi Island) with her ʻohana/aiga. She has served on various boards and commissions with her most recent appointment to the Hawaiʻi County Committee on the Status of Women. Matāpuna received her BSW from BYU-Hawaiʻi and MSW from the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work’s Department of Social Change and Innovation.