Title IX: Gathering Facts on Dating Violence, Partner Violence and Stalking
Date: June 5, 2024
Time: 9:30 am PT, 10:30 am MT, 11:30 am CT, 12:30 pm ET
Length: 3 Hours
This workshop will not be recorded.
Course Description
Most Title IX professionals agree that complaints centered on dating violence or domestic violence are among the most challenging and complicated to address. In this comprehensive online program, Liz DeChellis and Lexi Zuidema will draw on their experiences working with allegations of partner violence and stalking and provide you with the background you need to navigate these emotionally charged cases.
Some of the topics covered in this program include:
- Managing the parties and witnesses
- Navigating trauma and secondary trauma
- Ensuring a fair process for all parties
- Understanding campus policies and their interactions with federal laws such as VAWA and the Campus SaVE Act
- Using medical records and other treatment records
- Working with law enforcement
This course will familiarize participants with the complex nature of these cases. While the program is built around the demands of investigation and fact-gathering, it will be beneficial for anyone who addresses student complaints. This includes Title IX coordinators, investigators, hearing officers/adjudicators, campus administrators, campus security, athletic directors and student life professionals.
Presenter
Liz DeChellis serves as Van Dermyden Makus’ Title IX Program Director, overseeing all Title IX investigations and hearings. She also frequently conducts Title IX trainings as a faculty member of T9 Mastered. Trained in Trauma Informed Forensic Interviewing, Liz is also an experienced investigator in Title IX sexual misconduct claims. Liz understands best practices in the Title IX arena, and the challenges facing schools and parties when sexual violence allegations surface. She has conducted investigations for K-12 Districts, as well as higher education institutions. Liz is an expert in conducting Title IX Hearings. She has served as a Hearing Officer for multiple schools, applying a variety of policies and practices, and is familiar with both “new regulation” cases and cases falling outside the new regulations. In this role, Liz serves as the final adjudicator, completing the complaint and investigation process. She also serves as an Appeal Officer when students challenge the process, the outcome, and/or the sanction. Liz has overseen cases involving dating violence, drug abuse, sexual assault, and incapacitation. She has experience questioning parties using trauma-informed techniques, making admissibility and relevance decisions, and issuing well-reasoned, thorough decisions. She is licensed to practice law in the State of California, and is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).
Lexi Zuidema is an Attorney Investigator and Adjudicator with Van Dermyden Makus Law Corporation. Her practice focuses on discrimination and harassment complaints in both private and public-sector employment contexts and Title IX campus investigations and hearings. Trained in Trauma Informed Forensic Interviewing, Lexi is an experienced investigator in Title IX sexual misconduct and harassment claims. Lexi has experience in investigating University faculty and administrators, underage complainants, multiple respondents, and complex issues involving incapacitation and consent. Prior to joining Van Dermyden Makus, Lexi completed an externship with Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye at the California Supreme Court. While completing her undergraduate degree, she worked for her school’s legal counsel researching requirements and applications of Title VII and Title IX. She also worked as an intern for the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office, aiding in the investigation of numerous sexual violence cases. Lexi graduated from UC Davis School of Law in 2019 with business law and tax law certificates. She received her Bachelors of Arts from Westmont College in 2016 with a double major in Political Science and Economics & Business.
Audience
This workshop will be beneficial for anyone who addresses student complaints. This includes Title IX coordinators, investigators, hearing officers/adjudicators, campus administrators, campus security, athletic directors and student life professionals.
Registration
- Early Registration: $350 (Ends 5/21)
- Regular Registration: $400
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