Cassandra (pronouns: she/her) is driven by her lived experiences as a survivor, midwife, and advocate, to draw attention to the intersectionality of gender-based violence during the perinatal period. she is passionate about investigating stakeholder responses and their impacts on sexual, reproductive, and overall health outcomes. Her work is informed by an inclusive and anti-oppressive lens to identify responder-inflicted harms, barriers, and facilitators to help-seeking and health equity.
She is passionate about initiating innovative strategies that narrow gaps in access to culturally sensitive responses to gender-based violence. Cassandra believes in survivor autonomy and seeks to decrease revictimization, morbidity, and mortality using survivor-centered approaches in tandem with trauma-informed practices that emphasize the complexities of gender-based violence. She is a blissfully happy military spouse and mother of 4 incredible children who inspire her daily. Cassandra has her Masters in Maternal-Child Health Systems from Bastyr University, is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM)
This presentation will discuss the importance of midwives being an integral stakeholder in the systems-level response practices for intimate partner violence (IPV). We will identify clinical presentations of exposure to violence during childbearing, responder-inflicted harms, and barriers and facilitators to help-seeking. Next we will develop an understanding of how midwives can play a crucial role in decreasing re-victimization, morbidity, and mortality by responding with a survivor-centered approach. This presentation uses a social justice lens that addresses the complexities of IPV-related outcomes for marginalized individuals, offering actionable ways to use the midwifery model of care for individual needs by engaging a range of community-facing services.
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