Scholarly review of research drawing on studies with data after 1985 that include a representative sample, direct measures of children's well-being, and descriptions of the children's living arrangements. Preliminary findings will be presented to the Legislature in 1999. The Auburn Domestic Violence Task Force, Green River Community College Women's Programs, and the Commission conducted the South King County Domestic Violence Summit on March 24-25, 1998. Almost 200 people attended the Summit at the Community College to learn how to improve their community response to domestic violence. One year after the Commission sponsored the Domestic Violence Summit, the Kitsap County Domestic Violence Task Force held a reunion to evaluate its progress.
Copies are available to interested parties.
Judge James Riehl, chair of the Kitsap County Domestic Violence Summit, described the program to the American Bar Association and distributed the manual at the National Judicial College to judges attending a leadership program. The Commission continues to provide all new Washington State judges and commissioners copies of the Domestic Violence Manual for Judges. Seventeen Washington State high school teams competed in the YMCA Youth and Government Mock Trial State championships in March 1998. Development of the mock trial script, which focused on a domestic violence case, was funded by the Gender and Justice Commission. The Commission continues to staff the quarterly conference calls of Northwest Region, Gender Fairness organizations.