The opening afternoon will include state-of-the art presentations from researchers and practitioners to provide the framework for the remainder of the conference. Monday evening will be a group event to include dinner and a dramatic production that reflects the human impact of violence in the workplace and its effects on the victim as well as the victim’s family and co-workers. It is hoped that some of the cultural issues surrounding violence can best be explored in this kind of dramatic and interactive medium.

This will be a true working conference in that after a brief plenary session, the second day will be devoted to small group discussions. The organizing principle for these breakout sessions will be the typology of workplace violence that has evolved over the last decade. Specifically, the topic is divided into four categories:

• Criminal Intent (Type I);
• Customer/Client (Type II);
• Worker-on-Worker (Type III);
• Personal Relationship (Type IV).

Concurrent breakout sessions for each “type” of workplace violence will begin with a panel presentation and discussion to include researchers, practitioners, and survivors. The remainder of the day will be utilized for facilitated small group discussions of key issues and questions for moving toward best practices in workplace violence prevention. Each “typology” working group will develop a summary report to be presented in plenary sessions on the final morning of the conference.

The goals of the conference include:

1. identifying successful workplace violence prevention strategies;
2. identifying the barriers and challenges to implementation of workplace violence prevention efforts and strategies for overcoming them;
3. identifying major research and information dissemination gaps that must be addressed to advance workplace violence prevention;
4. the roles of the various groups, agencies, and organizations in making significant progress in workplace violence prevention over the next decade.

These would be captured in a NIOSH document addressing workplace violence prevention strategies and research needs.

The registration deadline for this conference is November 7, 2004.

Agenda

Concurrent Sessions Panelist

Committee Members

For further conference information please contact:

Matt E. Bowyer
NIOSH
Division of Safety Research
1095 Willowdale Road, MS 1811
Morgantown, WV 26505
Phone: 304-285-5991
FAX: 304-285-6235
E-mail: MBowyer@cdc.gov

A block of rooms has been reserved for conference participants at the conference hotel, the Wyndham-Baltimore Inner Harbor at 101 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Please ask for the group name, Workplace Violence Prevention Conference. Please make your room reservations directly with the Wyndham at (410) 385-6700 or their national reservation line at 1-800-WYNDHAM.

Collection bins will be provided to collect cell phones for Verizon's Wireless HopeLine Phone Recycling Program. Through its HopeLine^sm program, the company focuses primarily on putting wireless products and services to work to combat domestic violence. The company recognizes that domestic violence is an epidemic that devastates neighbors, friends and co-workers. As such, it dedicates its resources to both the prevention of domestic violence and the life rebuilding process.

The company collects previously owned wireless handsets to be refurbished, recycled and/or sold, donating all the proceeds to non-profit domestic violence advocacy organizations and purchasing new handsets for victims. In 2002 Verizon Wireless collected more than 1,000,000 used wireless phones nationwide for the benefit of domestic violence victims. Last year the company's phone, airtime and monetary donations and contributions totaled over $1.4 million dollars.

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