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October 21.2005 ’ JlMrt OUt,, 3 mTTTTTTTTílnewsbríefs Continued from Page 11 the Providence Employees for Equal Rights group, which initially brought the issue of equal benefits to the table in 1999. “We wanted Prov idence diversity to include benefits, and leader ship has been very responsive,” she says. E quity P resents G ay F inancial P lanning W orkshop S eries Equity Foundation is offering a financial planning workshop series called “Gay Finances in a Straight World.” The events are free and open to the public. Seating will be limited to the first 50 people who register for each session. You may register for one, two or all three workshops. Register by contacting Amy Williams at 503-231-5759 or amywilliams@equityfoundation.org. The Nov. 14 workshop “Gay Finances in a Straight World: Advanced Topics in Financial Planning” will be facilitated, by Luna Jaffe, financial adviser with Edward Jones, and lawyer Eden Rose Brown. The workshop will take place between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Para mount Hotel, 808 S.W. Taylor St. A free lunch will be included. The workshop will then be repeated from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Studio 1050, 1050 S.E. Yamhill St. The topics of this workshop include estate planning and wealth transfer (living trusts, char itable remainder trusts, life insurance trusts), tools for transferring wealth and advanced char itable giving (transferring securities, property, creating donor-advised funds, family founda tions). You can also mark your calendar for a workshop on socially responsible investing, facilitated by Jan Schorey, founder of Portlandia Investment, on Jan. 26, 2006. R ace and G ender R eading and A ction G roup F orms In Other Words Women's Books and Resources, Talking Drum Bookstore and the National Organization for Women have come together to create the Race and Gender Read ing and Action Group. The group will meet monthly, after reading a txxrk on race or gender, and discuss it with a hope for political action. The first meeting will be held 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at In Other Words, 3734 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., to discuss rhe controversial How to Rent a Negro by Damali Ayo. The author will speak 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at Talking Drum, 446 N.E. Killingsworth St. T raining C onference on Q ueer D omestic V iolence S et “A few years ago, I found myself presiding over a case of manslaughter,” recalls Washing ton County Circuit Court Judge Nancy Camp bell. “The man accused had been in my court room twice before on domestic violence charges, having repeatedly beaten his older and disabled male domestic partner, and had been convicted both times. Now the partner, whom I’d seen and spoken with in court, was dead, and I found myself wondering where the system had failed him.” She decided to take matters in hand by plan ning a daylong training conference. “We began by forming a small group to iden tify what services exist for sexual minorities hut realized we really needed to begin a discussion with the police, social workers, lawyers and judges in our community to address the issue effectively. Portland has the fifth-largest con centration of same-sex couples in the country,” says Campbell, “and domestic violence happens in the same proportions in sexual and gender minority relationships as it does in heterosexual ones. The all-day training conference is a start toward building awareness and creating the potential for services, especially for sexual minority domestic violence victims and perpe trators. We have a legal, moral and ethical obli gation to make appropriate services accessible to all of our citizens.” The training takes place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center, 25425 S.W. 95th Ave. in Wilsonville. The con ference will open with a special welcome by Campbell and Portland Mayor Tom Potter. Nationally recognized conference educa tors include senior research fellow Gary Gates and executive director R. Bradley Sears of UCLA School of Law’s Williams Project; Loree Cook-Daniels, executive director of the American Society of Adult Abuse Profession als and Survivors; and Delena Couchman, domestic violence prevention coordinator of family violence services at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Stop Partner Abuse/Domes- tic Violence Program. Participating local experts in the domestic violence arena are Naomi Morena, senior parole/probation officer with the Washington County Department of Community Correc tions; Jonathan Weedman of the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center; Shelagh Johnson of Cascade AIDS Project; Jim Fun, senior deputy district attorney for Washington County; Jason Jones of the Portland Police Bureau’s Domestic Violence Reduction Unit; Emily Gardner, sexual and gender minority services coordinator at Bradley-Angle House; and Nancy Glass, co-director of the Center for Health Disparities Research and assistant professor at Oregon Health &. Science Uni versity’s School of Nursing. Register by Nov. 18 by contacting confer ence liaison Linda G<x>d at 503-846-2774 or 1 i nda_g( x >d@co.wash ingti>n .or.us. jH Compiled by SARAH D o UGHER and JAYMEE R. CUTI Author Damali Ayos widely acclaimed book How to Rent a Negro kicks off the Race and Gender Reading and Action Group. 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