The conference was convened to assess progress made in New York from 1976 to 1986 in confronting and overcoming family violence. The conference also provided a forum for exchanging program and policy information on family violence. Approximately 450 social service providers, educators, public officials, criminal justice professionals, and mental and medical health personnel participated. Sixteen workshops and nine professional training sessions offered information and technical assistance to service providers who work with domestic violence victims and their families. Workshops focused on displaced homemakers and victim self-sufficiency, effect of domestic violence on employment, incarceration and family violence, unmet needs and discrimination in domestic violence services, outreach and education, adult abuse prevention, battered women, effect of family violence on children, sexual offenders, alcohol use and domestic violence, elder abuse, rural domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and incest. Training sessions dealt with adult domestic violence services and treatment, child sexual abuse, criminal justice, health care provider responses to adult domestic violence, abused elderly, and alcohol and substance abuse. 195 references.