Welcome to NSAC! Every registrant had the opportunity to sign up for workshops during registration. If you did not sign up for sessions during registration, or if you would like to attend a different session than the one you had registered for, you may attend any workshop that has not reached capacity. Listed below are all of the workshops that still have availability.
Once at the conference, signs will indicate whether a session has reached capacity. If a session has reached capacity, no additional attendees will be permitted inside the conference room. This is to ensure not only safety, but the comfort and well-being of all attendees. Please be mindful of this and cooperate with our conference moderators.
For houseless youth, sexual assault often isn't a case of ""if,"" but ""when,"" and seeking help in traditional atmospheres can feel risky. This workshop provides an opportunity to examine the importance of street outreach programs, and the ways in which you may be able to create or grow yours.
We say that we are committed to creating intersectional programs and services, but are we really? What does being intersectional actually mean? Do we know what is needed, what is missing and how to figure it out? This workshop will provide practical tools, activities and resources for assessing the gaps in addressing intersectionality, ways to build allies and community, and how to implement programs and services that speaks to multiple identities. Come with a willingness to take a long hard look at yourselves, roll up your sleeves and get to work!
People with intellectual disabilities are seven times more likely to experience sexual abuse, yet sexuality and relationship education is often missing from special education classrooms. This workshop will describe the IMPACT:Ability program’s collaboration with Boston Public Schools, which offers leadership development and sexuality education to young adults with disabilities.
Prevailing research highlights the dangerousness of serial perpetrators, leading to assumptions that "good guys" don't rape and "bad guys" need to be punished with extreme measures and eradicated from our communities. It's important to unpack the implications of this dominant narrative including how it disservices survivors and reinforces systemic injustice.
Advocates and nurses have critical roles in the response and treatment of sexual assault survivors. These roles shape both the victims' recovery and the success of investigations. The SANE nurse brings a level of expertise to the collection of forensic evidence and histories that is documented to result in successful prosecution of cases (Department of Justice). Advocates provide the emotional support and resources needed to make survivors good victim witnesses for prosecution and/or to begin the journey of healing.
For houseless youth, sexual assault often isn't a case of ""if,"" but ""when,"" and seeking help in traditional atmospheres can feel risky. This workshop provides an opportunity to examine the importance of street outreach programs, and the ways in which you may be able to create or grow yours.
Former prisoners face numerous barriers to getting support services — including from rape crisis centers. This workshop will challenge the notion that some victims are less deserving of help. It also will highlight how victim services and reentry programs can collaborate to promote access to victim services for all survivors.
Hearing and sharing personal stories and life lessons from men and women who choose to confront and challenge the power and privilege that supports men’s violence against women and other men can be incredibly impactful. The creator and host of the symposium will share the framework and outcomes of convening a national conversation on men’s leadership and accountability around the #MeToo movement.
Gender bias is recognized as an impediment to competent police investigations of sex crimes. Developing a partnership between police and victim advocates is needed to root out implicit/explicit bias that has permeated police investigations. This workshop will describe components of creating an advocate review of police sex crime files.
Trauma in media has drastically contributed to youth anxiety, depression, suicide and homicide by glorifying sexual violence through movies, music, and advertising. Not only through images shown, but through messaging via product placement. Normalize conversations with youth using the 3 C’s of Consumerism, which encourages media literacy and healthier relationships.
Without recognizing the effects of race, intersectionality and oppression is to be complicit in the continued marginalization of and traumatization of underrepresented communities. This workshop will unpack the internal work of leaders and staff in addressing the impacts and challenges related to better serve victims and survivors of sexual violence.
Forensic exams are difficult for anyone. Trans survivors face additional social, legal, and medical barriers to pursuing justice. This workshop will explore how forensic nurse examiners and advocates can support trans survivors pursue evidence collection, minimizing barriers and increasing both physical and emotional comfort.
The purpose of the 2019 NSAC Leadership Roundtables is to promote culturally specific skills development of leaders of color within the gender-based violence moment. Additionally, participants will identify innovate ways in which they have demonstrated culturally specific ways to address sexual violence in their communities. To promote an open, honest and authentic space, the leadership sessions are open to attendees and facilitated by persons who self-identify as LGBT+/Queer.
Across the country, schools are funneling our most marginalized children into the juvenile and criminal justice systems by using harsh discipline practices to address misbehavior. This training will provide a brief overview of the pipeline epidemic and the various intersections of vulnerability that increase a child’s risk of victimization in order to create innovative and relevant ways of engaging with targeted youth.
In this presentation we are going to look at the life course trajectory of people who have committed sexual abuse, focusing on why they committed the abuse that they did, how they are managed by the system post conviction and how they can be helped to stop offending again in the future. The presentation will draw from the international evidence base on aetiology of Sexual Abuse, Adverse Childhood Experiences, trauma informed care, treatment, reintegration and Desistence to highlight how sexual abuse is a lifecourse issue for those who commit abuse.
Why does privacy matter--now more than ever--for immigrant survivors across identities? In this interactive workshop we’ll work to deepen our collective understanding of immigrant survivors’ privacy rights, risks and needs. Join us as we develop and apply privacy skills to advance survivor agency and safety in the current climate.
As advocates, we are easily able to talk about sexual violence but often have difficulty relating other forms of oppression into our work. During this workshop, participants will learn to use the same terminology and examples from sexual violence to speak about racial justice issues. This workshop is recommended for people seeking additional tools to have tough conversations in the workplace and with allied professionals in order to end sexual and racial violence.
This workshop addresses radical self-care as it relates to sexual assault advocates of color. We talk about how power and oppression has affected us personally and professionally. We will develop a plan to look at self-care holistically so we can sustain our work in the movement to end sexual violence.
Keeping our bodies safe: Strategies to end FGC in Iowa’s African communities
Since the 2005 VAWA reauthorization, victims were guaranteed access to free ‘rape exams’ and have those exams paid for. 10+ years later barriers exist for victims seeking exams, including victims being billed for exams, resulting in debt being sent to collection agencies. We explore ideas for ‘fixing’ this broken system.
This workshop will share Maine’s creation of a child sexual abuse prevention law and its implementation, a six-year process. We will review the legislative process, creation of the implementation tools and resources, and efforts in schools and communities. Participants will walk through their own planning process throughout the session.
The purpose of the 2019 NSAC Leadership Roundtables is to promote culturally specific skills development of leaders of color within the gender-based violence moment. Additionally, participants will identify innovate ways in which they have demonstrated culturally specific ways to address sexual violence in their communities. To promote an open, honest and authentic space, this leadership session is open to attendees and facilitated by persons who self-identify as Pan African.
This workshop will examine ways in which to incorporate community organizing in primary prevention efforts for SV/IPV agencies. It will challenge attendees to critically assess organizational supports/barriers to community level prevention, discuss the importance of organizational identity when building community connections, and examine best practices.
During this session, participants will gain a deep understanding of how identity affirmation fits into prevention work. This will be done by taking a deep dive into the intersections of anti-oppression work and sexual violence prevention. Activities will focus on self-reflection, improving the gender box activity, and allyship.
People with disabilities - especially intellectual disabilities - are many times more likely to be victims of sexual abuse. Many are not provided any kind of sexual education. Abuse is unrecognized and unreported, and often leaves the victims without supports to understand or cope with the experience. Few rape crisis centers are equipped with staff or volunteers who understand how best to communicate with people with disabilities.
En esta sección, utilizaremos el poder de la narración de historias para compartir acerca de nuestra experiencia como mujeres Afrolatinas sobrevivientes e intercersoras. En este taller cubriremos los temas de abuso sexual infantil, la intersección de la raza y el género, y presentaremos las resultados preliminares de Black Latinidad:Adult Survivor Listening Circles.
This workshop will focus on increasing awareness of technology-facilitated sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking cases. Participants in this session will learn how to utilize Break the Cycle and CALCASA’s Cyber Abuse Project (CAP) tools, resources, and strategies to serve youth survivors of cyber abuse.
This workshop features the editor and three of the 43-contributors in the #LoveWITHAccountability anthology (AK Press, October 2019). Their presentations will highlight the need to prioritize child sexual abuse, healing, and justice in dialogues, writings, and work on racial justice and gender-based violence through the lived experiences of diasporic Black survivors and advocates.
The Minnesota Department of Health in partnership with the University of Minnesota, Advocates for Human Rights and Rainbow Research released a groundbreaking strategic plan expanding supports for adult survivors of sex-trafficking and other persons with lived experience. Nearly 300 participants provided insights on ways to create a comprehensive response statewide.
In this repeat overview workshop from NSAC 2018, presenters will share strategies for effectively framing and delivering key messages about normal responses to sexual violence, prevention, and intervention services. This session will build skills to: deliver effective prevention messages, shift from “field lingo” to plain language, and increase accessibility of messages to more audiences.
This session will help to unlock the mystery of sustainability. The session will lay out the concrete and proven strategies by which nonprofits can position themselves to be sustainable. The participants will be able to identify the keys to unlocking sustainability by building upon the core elements. In addition, it will show participants how to get their organization from where they are to where they would like to be.
Evidence is growing for the effectiveness of empowerment self-defense as a strategy to prevent, interrupt, and reduce sexual and gender-based violence. This interactive session will present the research on empowerment self-defense and use dialogue, interviews, and brainstorming to increase connections among researchers, practitioners, and advocates.
Many underserved, unserved, and ignored Communities have limited resources created for them. This workshop will assist participants in practical ways of developing tools and leverage the supports in community partners to meet the needs of those from these communities that are affected by sexual violence.
Results from a campus health center-based intervention for sexual violence and alcohol use will be presented. Attention will be paid to groups at high risk for sexual violence on campus (i.e. students reporting disabilities, sexual minority students). Interventions will be discussed, including Giving Information For Trauma Support and Safety (GIFTSS).
Responding to survivors of one of the fastest growing immigration populations requires us to understand when and how sexual violence can occur in the refugee context. Examining vulnerabilities before their flight, while in exile and as settled refugees promotes better responses, intervention and advocacy for survivors.
The use of art therapy interventions with forensic populations who have sexual assault trauma in their history will be explored. After discussing issues related to their trauma and the ways in which incarceration can further affect them, the benefits of addressing these issues through creative interventions will be explored.
This presentation challenges established stereotypes and social norms. Men of color do not fully benefit from the same male privileges as their white counterparts; there’s an importance discussion concerning healthy black masculinity that is needed. This is a very pivotal time to engage individuals in this discussion.
The #MeToo movement has created a powerful urgency for employers to change how they combat sexual harassment and assault--but many do not know how or where to begin. Learn how to build a business case for effective harassment prevention, and engage employers in developing and implementing innovative, evidence-based prevention strategies.
This workshop applies lessons learned from Vulcan and twenty-five years experience with sexual abusers in discussing the elements necessary for change to occur in the prevalence of sexual assault. Healers, witnesses, and helpers learn important strategies from the ancient legend that can help transform the isolation of pain into creativity, community action, and prevention.
Deaf and hard of hearing survivors of sexual violence and abuse face daunting barriers in the complex maze of navigating systems of protection, care, and justice due to unawareness of crime victim and legal rights. Systems collaboration between anti-violence entities, trauma informed lawyers, and Deaf advocates is imperative for survivors in midst of unfamiliarity of civil and criminal justice systems linguistically inaccessible court forms; and lack of certified sign language interpretation services.
Staff with lived experience in human trafficking is directly linked to higher quality human trafficking and CSEC services. However, many agencies encounter barriers to employing trafficking survivors. This session will explore best practices for expanding services to human trafficking survivors and how to hire, support and maintain survivor staff.
The purpose of the 2019 NSAC Leadership Roundtables is to promote culturally specific skills development of leaders of color within the gender-based violence moment. Additionally, participants will identify innovate ways in which they have demonstrated culturally specific ways to address sexual violence in their communities. To promote an open, honest and authentic space, the leadership sessions are open to attendees and facilitated by persons who self-identify as Native American/First Nation.
This interactive workshop will explore strategies for addressing sexual violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities. Part one will address sexual violence in LGBTQ+ communities and strategies for inclusive services across institutions. In part two, participants will analyze youth services and sexual assault response teams in depth.
Healthcare facilities are prepared to face all types of medical emergencies and providing superior care is a driving force in the industry. However, when it comes to sexual assault care, there is often no plan in place and some hospitals even turn survivors away. It’s TIME to fix this
The workshop covers OVC’s current cohort of four programs for incarcerated survivors: comprehensive in-person services in rural Kentucky; a four-jail pilot in Pennsylvania; a statewide crisis line in Michigan; and support for immigration detainees in California. The panelists will share strategies to help advocates provide quality services behind bars.
From Bessie Smith to Janelle Monae, Black women have used music to create dialogue around racism, sexism, sexuality, class, and liberation. This workshop will highlight the history of Black women in music, the social and psychological impact of music listening, and how to incorporate music into advocacy and self-care.
This workshop will provide participants with tools to replicate a four-part healthy relationship series on their campus. Presenters will share experiences creating and facilitating this series for students. Participants will experience an activity from each of the workshops and explore the discussion and self- reflection questions. Presenters will also share information about effectiveness based on evaluation.
Referencing a case study of anti-LGBTQ legislation in North Carolina, this session will explore how to use health-focused data to connect discriminatory policy to sexual and other kinds of violence. Participants will learn to frame messages around health data, amplify marginalized voices, and inform policies that impact violence.
We will provide an overview of lessons learned from the development and operation of a web-based crisis hotline for sexual assault survivors on a college campus, including preliminary findings from a federally-funded evaluation project. Hands-on activities will build capacity for the design, implementation and evaluation of web-based crisis hotlines.
The most well known of child sex abuse policy work has had a very mainstream focus, providing resources for white, non-intersectional children and law enforcement intervention. Learn from survivor and ally policy experts about how to create more inclusive, multi-intersectional policy.
Acá intentaremos crear un espacio de seguridad, confianza y comunidad para explorar las dinámicas que nos impactan como miembrxs de la comunidad Latinx en lugares de trabajo que son predominantemente blancos. Así los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de conectarse con personas como ellxs y recibir apoyo, entendimiento y comunidad.
The first high-profile prosecution in the #MeToo era took more than three years. Now, the sexually violent predator sits in a cell. There were two trials, scores of motions, and nearly two dozen criminal defense attorneys. This workshop will focus on the most impactful decisions made in the Cosby case.
This workshop will look at strategies for helping transgender survivors of sexual abuse. Presenters will discuss the barriers incarcerated transgender survivors face in accessing culturally sensitive support services, and how advocates can use the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards as a tool to ensure the safety and dignity of transgender prisoners.
The purpose of the 2019 NSAC Leadership Roundtables is to promote culturally specific skills development of leaders of color within the gender-based violence moment. Additionally, participants will identify innovate ways in which they have demonstrated culturally specific ways to address sexual violence in their communities. To promote an open, honest and authentic space, this leadership session is open to attendees and facilitated by persons who self-identify as Latinx.
This workshop highlights systematic action research as an approach to addressing sexual violence. Using a high school prevention program as an illustrative case study, we will demonstrate how parallel action and systematic action research that engages teachers, students, and administrators.
An interactive workshop during which participants will explore varied manifestations of privilege and oppression. Building on that foundation, participants will learn the elements of cultural humility and how to aptly apply its framework to all aspects of organizations’ administration from policies and procedures, to outreach and engagement, to service provision.
This workshop assists parents, educators, advocates and others to recognize, respond and intervene appropriately to problematic sexual behavior in children.
This workshop assists parents, educators, advocates and others to recognize, respond and intervene appropriately to problematic sexual behavior in children.
This workshop will discuss strategies and considerations for implementing primary prevention programming in communities that may be unreceptive or outright hostile to the anti-violence movement and sexual assault prevention. The workshop will provide examples of arts-based primary prevention lessons designed to be immediately actionable for participants.
Empowerment self-defense offers a range of tools for self-advocacy—from communicating boundaries to healing past trauma, from asking for what we want to resisting threats and intimidation. This workshop will give advocates practical options for communicating their needs and limits in the stressful situations that rape crisis workers commonly face.
This workshop will discuss the impact of sexual violence on African American Women as they are affected disproportionately. Racism and sexual violence will be defined as participants critically look at the intersectionality of race and sexual violence. Also, assessing personal biases which is essential to advocating for African American women.
Two state coalitions share tools and tips from conducting statewide hotline audits for quality improvement. Hotlines are often the first contact survivors have with sexual violence programs and influence their decision to engage in services. Robust, quality hotlines are critical to ensuring every call delivers the support survivors deserve.
Presenters will address the connections between sexual abuse and system-involved persons, and will introduce a brief “training in a box” which participants can use to spark conversations with community-level educational systems about simple steps to take to reduce the number of youth referred to law enforcement by responding to students in trauma-informed ways. Participants will be given copies of the customizable “training-in-a-box”.
Join us for a robust discussion of immigrant survivors’ experiences seeking sexual assault victim services, programmatic challenges to serving foreign-born victims, and an innovative model for statewide service delivery and capacity building.
Schools are wrestling with the question -- what are equitable services for both survivors and respondents? Based upon the results of a recent survey, this session will address a range of issues, including best practices for both forms of services, discussions of equal versus equitable services, and interactive engagement.
Trauma-Focused, Equine Assisted, Psychotherapy -- A proven, experiential, team approach to moving from sexual assault victim to survivor.
The ‘me too.’ Movement gained virality in 2017 with the use of a hashtag, but it is not just a trendy phenomenon; it is a set of principles and values that center sexual assault survivors and their healing. This session will broadly explain the organization’s framework an action plan for 2019-2020."
Society has recently begun to acknowledge that preventing child sexual abuse may be possible, but what does prevention looks like? This presentation will describe a prevention intervention aimed at providing middle school students and their caregivers with knowledge, skills, and tools to avoid sexual behavior with younger children.
The workshop will examine mainstream/non-culturally specific anti-violence workspaces, traditions and the potential for radical transformation within. The discussion will center on power dynamics, systemic oppression and the cycle of violence within the organization. The facilitators will present some tools to interrupt and navigate spaces based on the role of vulnerability, acknowledgment, accountability, and relationship through community.
Strangulation laws in most states recognize the significance of this form of violence. However, without a plan to implement sustainable training and protocols these offenders will not be held accountable. Through the use of a strangulation supplement, attendees will learn to develop credible evidence to overcome common challenges and defenses.
Este taller se centrará en la importancia de comprender influencias culturales. Nuestra cultura influye la forma en que pensamos, nos comportamos y reaccionamos ante la vida. Muchas de nuestras experiencias/enseñanzas se desbordan en el trabajo siendo una de las razones para agotamiento. Exploraremos estas influencias y estrategias para el autocuidado.
"This presentation introduces the concept of a reflective professional nursing practice, theory of social justice in nursing and presents the concept of an aspiring ally as the role of the forensic nurse. According to the Women Of Color Network:""To be an aspiring ally in the movement to end domestic and sexual violence is to strive toward social justice and end oppression against all survivors as well as colleagues and community partners from underrepresented communities in this movement" (2008)
The purpose of the 2019 NSAC Leadership Roundtables is to promote culturally specific skills development of leaders of color within the gender-based violence moment. Additionally, participants will identify innovate ways in which they have demonstrated culturally specific ways to address sexual violence in their communities. To promote an open, honest and authentic space, this leadership session is open to attendees and facilitated by persons who self-identify as Asian and/or Pacific Islander.
This workshop will discuss the collaborative work of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Urban Institute, and Uber Technologies to develop a taxonomy for customers reports of sexual violence. We will highlight our process of collaboration, lessons learned from that collaboration, and advice for other seeking to do similar work.
The facilitator plans to discuss the unique treatment needs rural clients, including survivors of sexual. Rural survivors of sexual assault are often faced with fewer resources and greater barriers to receiving medical and psychological services. The facilitator will provide suggestions for adapting treatment to meet those needs.
This workshop will educate the participants on the therapeutic benefits of trauma-informed music therapy programming for survivors of sexual violence as demonstrated through an interactive presentation comprised of video, discussion, and modeling of music therapy techniques for this population.
Communities at the margins (youth, people w/ disabilities, LGBQ/T, refugees/immigrants, people of color) are better served when they are fully supported by those who understand their service needs and available resources. And due to structural barriers and disproportionate access to opportunity, those at the margins aren’t reflected in staffing and volunteer patterns. This session will illustrate how one Rape Crisis Center engaged volunteers at the margins to align with programs and build agency capacity to support survivors. Their volunteer team is the core of the agency and without them couldn’t provide robust resilience-informed services.
What is helpful? What doesn’t work? The workshop will offer concrete, discipline-specific recommendations from the youth for each MDT member (law enforcement, prosecutors, forensic interviewers, medical providers and more). The presentation will help prepare first responders to meet high risk and exploited youth “where they’re at” in a long-term recovery process, and will integrate personal anecdotes and case examples to bring youth advice to life.
In 1998, Connecticut’s Women of Color Caucus Against Sexual Assault (WOCCASA) was founded. WOCCASA supports Women of Color sexual assault crisis advocates and volunteers in CT. This workshop will focus on caucus creation, working outside white supremacist paradigms, and navigating challenges to create a Wakanda in the anti-sexual violence movement.
Does slavery have an impact on how Black students respond to interpersonal violence at PWIs (predominately white institutions)? This workshop takes a look at rape culture in the Black community, how it is related to slavery, racial climate at PWIs, barriers to reporting, and examine how to change the culture.
Sexual assault is not only a frequent consequence of forced marriage; it can also be the motivating factor behind a forced marriage. Serving survivors of these intersecting harms is complex, and is more challenging when a survivors’ family or legal spouse does not conceptualize consent through a framework of equality.
Immigrant survivors face a complex web of barriers to justice. In today’s climate of fear, meaningful advocacy calls upon lawyers and non-lawyer advocates to work together as a survivor-centered team. This workshop explores best practices for holistic, interdisciplinary approaches to support survivors in building bridges to safety and justice.
Gender role socialization and ideas of masculinity strongly affects male survivors of sexual violence and the way they seek help. This workshop will explore some of those ideas as well as culturally appropriate ways to enhance services for Latinx male and male identified survivors.
This workshop focuses on understanding circumstances of Native and Indigenous communities through exploration of colonialism, generational trauma and how empowerment self-defense can be used as a healing space. Through experiential exercises, participants will learn how teaching physical and verbal resistance skills can offer a unique healing experience to Indigenous peoples.
People working with survivors of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse recognize stress as something that can greatly impact the wellness of the individuals they serve. However, people committed to addressing and preventing sexual harassment, assault, and abuse may neglect their own wellness and not realize that an even a greater challenge is to manage their own stress.
This workshop will explore the intersection between disability, healthy sexuality and sexual violence in the intellectual disability and autism communities.
This presentation will prepare sexual violence advocates to enhance their outreach to EMS providers. Advocates will acquire an understanding of the skills needed by EMS providers to respond appropriately to the health and safety needs of survivors. Practical tools and strategies to build successful partnerships will be discussed.
In 2017, two Boston-area theaters made news for failing to prevent sexual abuse. In response, StageSource, the membership organization for New England theaters, launched LINE DRAWN, which brings arts organizations together to create a shared prevention strategy. This workshop introduces a sector-wide collaboration including policies, standards, accountability, and bystander skills.
Sexual assault survivors of all genders can benefit from group support services, helping them connect, share their story, and gain skills to advance healing. This workshop will share the results of in-depth research with experienced all-gender support group facilitators, focusing on their tips and advice for others facilitators.
The purpose of the 2019 NSAC Leadership Roundtables is to promote culturally specific skills development of leaders of color within the gender-based violence moment. Additionally, participants will identify innovate ways in which they have demonstrated culturally specific ways to address sexual violence in their communities. To promote an open, honest and authentic space, the leadership sessions are open to attendees and facilitated by persons who self-identify as a person with disabilitie(s), and persons whose primary professional responsibilities focus on the various disabilities communities.
This session will explain the law enforcement perspective of working with survivors and the multi-disciplinary team. By having a better understanding of law enforcement’s role and how they interact with other victim service professionals’ advocates better serve survivors by leveraging this information in relationship building between multi-disciplinary team members.
"You can't pour from an empty cup" is a phrase that advocates often hear when they are describing their exposure to the emotional hazards that come with advocacy work. But what if we could go beyond this tired metaphor, and give organizational leaders more tools to create vicarious trauma-informed agencies?
This workshop will walk us through the new law, SESTA/FOSTA and how it affects sex workers, and how the impact differs from sex workers to victims of sex trafficking
When it comes to program evaluation, all too often, data get buried under piles or rushed to provide numbers for a report. We’ll talk about carving out time to analyze data and think intentionally about evaluative practices using Data Retreats as an example.
Advocates show up every day for people who are hurting due to sexual violence. Many of these advocates are survivors themselves. How are our organizations taking care of advocate-survivors? We will take a look at how we build programs that support those who have experienced violence in their own lives.
Young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) encounter numerous challenges involving victimization in both social and workplace interactions. This workshop will illustrate many interpersonal concerns for young adults with ASD and present knowledgeable teaching accommodations for self-determination related to healthy relationships, responsible sexual behavior, and sexual harassment.
This workshop provides Direct Services Professionals with an opportunity to more effectively serve Black Women survivors of sexual violence. By increasing the understanding of the historical implications connected to the hyper-sexualization of Black Women and the black female form, Professionals will have an increased understanding of the population needs, and how to better provide trauma-informed, empowerment based care and clinical support to Black Women survivors.
While most campuses offer programs and services, international and queer students often find their voices left out. Drawing upon their lived experiences, this workshop will demonstrate the need for targeted primary prevention and informed direct services for student survivors living at these intersections; and outline best practices and concrete tools for inclusive engagement strategies.
Sexual misconduct has historically been problematic throughout Pacific college campuses. This session will report the findings of the ARC3 Campus Climate Survey administered in seven campuses as part of the Pacific Partners Project, and feature the PPP culturally-competent toolkit developed for the prevention of campus sexual misconduct in the Pacific.
This interactive workshop will help victim service providers strengthen confidential support for sexual assault survivors in prisons, jails, and juvenile and immigrant detention centers. We will consider how VAWA confidentiality, victim-advocate privilege, and the Prison Rape Elimination Act Standards addressing confidentiality can impact victim service providers’ work with confined survivors.
Communicating boundaries are hard enough without having to navigate the negative impacts that sexual violence has on intimacy and self-love. This workshop will address the topics of healthy sexuality, how to communicate wants, needs and desires to partners and how to be comfortable speaking about sexual healing with survivors.
This workshop is structured to introduce and discuss sexual violence within the world of adaptive sport and how the perpetuation of ableism through prevention efforts in sport can be harmful to the community of people with disability.
This workshop will analyze dynamics, trends and contexts of sexual violence affecting Asian/Pacific Islander (API) immigrant, refugee, LGBTQ and other survivors; identify abuser-generated, family-generated, community-generated, and system-generated historical and current traumas affecting advocates and survivors; and address how historic, cultural and linguistic barriers to help-seeking are mitigated by the A-Z Model.
Philadelphia is home to a large number of immigrants from around the world. Latinx survivors, both documented and undocumented, face many challenges in their healing. This workshop will focus specifically on the relationships between Latina mothers and their daughters, who are often both survivors of sexual assault.
SAFE-T Center provides innovative telehealth-enabled services to address access and quality of care issues in underserved communities by providing expert 24/7 live examination support, mentoring, peer networking, and education. In this workshop, we will present the SAFE-T Center model, discuss interdisciplinary community partnerships, and demonstrate the telehealth solution.
How does being fat impact a person’s experience of sexual violence? How do spaces that are colonized perpetuate fatphobia and enforce diet culture, creating oppressive spaces for fat folks? This workshop will explore the connection between size discrimination, fatphobia, and diet culture to sexual violence and prevention.
The purpose of the 2019 NSAC Leadership Roundtables is to promote culturally specific skills development of leaders of color within the gender-based violence moment. Additionally, participants will identify innovate ways in which they have demonstrated culturally specific ways to address sexual violence in their communities. To promote an open, honest and authentic space, the leadership sessions are open to attendees and facilitated by persons who self-identify as immigrant and/or refugee.
This workshop will discuss areas of critical overlap between prevention and intervention best practices. It will provide practical examples of how agencies can align intervention and prevention work to reduce burnout and maximize impact. Participants will increase their understanding of how prevention and intervention advocates view goals and how to unite their work more effectively.
Without recognizing the effects of race, intersectionality and oppression is to be complicit in the continued marginalization of and traumatization of underrepresented communities. This workshop will unpack the internal work of leaders and staff in addressing the impacts and challenges related to better serve victims and survivors of sexual violence.
Finding the power in our bodies can be healing and empowering. This hands-on, experiential workshop will give participants the opportunity to learn physical and verbal skills that are part of feminist self-defense programs. This intensive workshop is highly interactive and engaging, featuring movement, discussion, small-group work, and pairs exercises.
This workshop will overview how campus advocacy has been enhanced through a partnership with a local rape crisis center. We will discuss how this relationship was maintained after the campus advocate position was rehoused and the benefits of this relationship will be highlighted along with suggestions for establishing and maintaining similar cross-agency partnerships.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide strategies for collaboration with an intercollegiate athletics department (including NCAA regulations); an overview of Fair Play: Sexual Violence Prevention for Athletes (content and facilitation); and discussion on best practices and challenges in working with athletes.
Advocates can both support survivors during the childbearing year and help healthcare providers in developing trauma-informed care, acknowledging both the challenges that arise from sexual trauma, as well as unique coping skills that survivors bring to the process of childbirth.
The Maine Transgender Network and the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault received a grant to fund support groups for trans and gender non-conforming survivors of sexual violence. We will share all we did to get this shared project off the ground and implement co-facilitated support groups in local Maine communities.
This workshop examines recruitment tactics of child sex traffickers, risk factors increasing a child’s vulnerability to trafficking, and protective factors lowering through the use of trauma-informed mentoring for child victims and youth at-risk of trafficking. Early indicators of success through infusing those protective factors will be explored.
This workshop will provide participants with an overarching understanding of the importance of integrating a linguistic justice approach to working with gender-based violence survivors in service and in research. Presenters will discuss the main principles of linguistic justice, as well as strategies to promote the integration of linguistic justice within organizations and systems committed to supporting survivors with limited English proficiency.
To provide insight into the history of sexual assault in the Air Force and demonstrate how certain high profile events provoked significant policy changes in the DoD. It will shed light on how the SVC program was developed to effectively provide comprehensive, independent, legal representation to sexual assault survivors worldwide.
Learn about MOCSA’s partnership with United Soccer Coaches to develop sexual violence prevention tools and trainings for soccer coaches nationwide. This workshop will help participants understand how to build robust and innovative community partnerships to prevent sexual violence and address the opportunities and challenges experienced along the way.
LGBT SA rates are disproportionately high. LGBT lifelong victimization patterns start with school and family bullying. This workshop will explore how adults formal advocates or not can make a substantial and long-lasting difference in the life of a bullied
Somos, “Rotundamente Negra”, poet Shirley Campbell gifted us the language and rhythm of our ancestors. Join us as we affirm our Blackness, build in hermandad and share Afrocentric wellness strategies. This is a space for ALL Black people from Central and South America, and the Spanish and French-speaking Caribbean.
The purpose of the 2019 NSAC Leadership Roundtables is to promote culturally specific skills development of leaders of color within the gender-based violence moment. Additionally, participants will identify innovate ways in which they have demonstrated culturally specific ways to address sexual violence in their communities. To promote an open, honest and authentic space, the leadership sessions are open to attendees and facilitated by persons who self-identify as senior, and persons whose primary professional responsibilities focus on the multifaceted needs of seniors.
