Speakers: Dr. Arthur L. Caplan, New York University School of Medicine;
Dr. Julie Chor, University of Chicago Medicine.
Speakers: Steven Marans, Yale University School of Medicine, and Marci Hamilton, CHILD USA
Learn from two of the foremost experts about the effects of childhood sexual trauma and statute of limitations reform across the United States to inform the next steps for Connecticut.
The Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed by Congress in 2003 to address the prevalence of sexual violence in correctional facilities. The Act funds research and implementation of zero-tolerance standards to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish sexual violence in prisons Join us to learn more about PREA and the role of anti-sexual violence advocates in supporting incarcerated survivors. Please note: Due to a technical issue, this recording was cut short. To review the rest of the information provided, please access the slides below.
View SlidesThis presentation highlights lessons learned about institutional collaboration and cross-sectoral work at the national, subnational, and local levels in Latin America, that can be translated to prevention strategies in the United States.
Unlike women of all other racial groups, Native women are more likely to be sexually assaulted by people who are not Native. Sexual violence against Native women has a deep, brutal history in the United States, beginning with Christopher Columbus and the colonization of Native land. In this training, participants will learn about sexual violence against Native women, the history of colonization, and sexual violence as a tool of oppression.
Floripa (she/they/him) is a two-spirit auntie from the Pueblo of Isleta and Navajo Nation. She received her BA in Ethnic Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. While studying at Brown University, Floripa found her passion for work against issues of violence, especially sexual violence. Now at the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, Floripa is interested in working in solidarity with Black and Indigenous voices against sexual violence.
How are survivors of sexual violence criminalized for their survival? In this training, we examine some of the underpinnings of the criminal legal system that pose particular challenges for survivors, explore three models to help us understand the ways in which survivors are criminalized, identify various sources of violence and barriers criminalized survivors experience, identify possible supports criminalized survivors may need, and practice centering values that uplift the complicated realties of surviving both sexual violence and the criminal legal system.
Este taller altamente interactivo utiliza escenarios de casos relevantes y juegos de roles para mostrar las habilidades de comunicación necesarias para tener conversaciones sobre el suicidio con Sobrevivientes de Asalto Sexual.
This highly interactive workshop uses relevant case scenarios and role-plays to showcase the communication skills needed to engage in conversations about suicide with Sexual Assault Survivors.
This is the first of a two-part workshop exploring the social and cultural factors that create risk and/or protection for suicide in Latinx and Black communities. This workshop also offers an overview of community care values that can be used to support those in distress.
At the end of the two-part workshop, participants will be able to
This is the second of a two-part workshop exploring the social and cultural factors that create risk and/or protection for suicide in Latinx and Black communities. This workshop also offers an overview of community care values that can be used to support those in distress.
At the end of the two-part workshop, participants will be able to
In part 2 of this series Tabitha discusses engaging practices for sexual violence services providers. By the end of this session participants will have:
El entrenamiento sobre la Prevención del Suicidio Desde la Perspectiva de la Justicia Racial explora los factores sociales y culturales que crean riesgo y/o protección para el suicidio en la comunidad Latina/x y Negra.
Este entrenamiento también ofrece una descripción general de los valores del Cuidado Comunitario que se pueden utilizar para apoyar los que están en riesgo de suicidio. Al final de este entrenamiento (los dos días), los participantes van a:
identificar factores sociales y culturales específicos que crean riesgo y/o protección para el suicidio en la comunidad Latina/x y Negra;
deconstruir los mitos y tabúes suicidas que existen en nuestro idioma, cultura y medios;
reconocer las señales que indican que alguien podría estar en riesgo de suicidio;
aplicar los valores del Cuidado Comunitario para apoyar a los que se encuentran en riesgo de suicidio.
El entrenamiento sobre la Prevención del Suicidio Desde la Perspectiva de la Justicia Racial explora los factores sociales y culturales que crean riesgo y/o protección para el suicidio en la comunidad Latina/x y Negra.
Este entrenamiento también ofrece una descripción general de los valores del Cuidado Comunitario que se pueden utilizar para apoyar los que están en riesgo de suicidio. Al final de este entrenamiento (los dos días), los participantes van a:
identificar factores sociales y culturales específicos que crean riesgo y/o protección para el suicidio en la comunidad Latina/x y Negra;
deconstruir los mitos y tabúes suicidas que existen en nuestro idioma, cultura y medios;
reconocer las señales que indican que alguien podría estar en riesgo de suicidio;
aplicar los valores del Cuidado Comunitario para apoyar a los que se encuentran en riesgo de suicidio.
As the Asian community continues to grow, service providers and administrators at domestic violence and sexual assault agencies are facing increasingly new and difficult challenges when it comes to outreach services and the delivery of advocacy for Asian families (Yoshioka & Chang, 2016).
This presentation incorporates research conducted by Asia Nhatavong that includes conducting interviews and focus groups with several CT agencies that provide services to victims of domestic violence or sexual assault in the Asian community and other literature reviews.
Resources ListSpeaker: Daniela Ligiero, PhD, Executive Director & CEO of Together for Girls
An exciting presentation on collaborative and innovative approaches to child sexual abuse prevention globally. During this session, Dr. Daniela Ligiero, Executive Director & CEO of Together for Girls, draws on global lessons learned for implementing evidence based practices for prevention, justice, and healing to identify opportunities for here in the United States.
Featuring Melissa Merrick, PhD, President and CEO, Prevent Child Abuse America, Liz Linehan, Connecticut State Representative, Krystal Rich, Director, CT Children’s Alliance, Sarah Eagan, CT Office of the Child Advocate, Beth Hamilton, Executive Director, Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence.
Researchers have recently discovered a dangerous biological syndrome caused by abuse and neglect during childhood. As the documentary Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness, prison time, and early death. While the broader impacts of poverty worsen the risk, no segment of society is immune. Resilience, however, also chronicles the dawn of a movement that is determined to fight back. Trailblazers in pediatrics, education, and social welfare are using cutting-edge science and field-tested therapies to protect children from the insidious effects of toxic stress—and the dark legacy of a childhood that no child would choose.
Through opportunities for writing, reflection, and discussion, participants
explore how Black queer and trans people have used the written word as resistance against systems of violence and criminalization; and engage with intergenerational Black feminist texts to imagine what repair, equity, and safety will look like.
This workshop was sponsored by the Queer Caucus Against Sexual Assault (QCASA).
An engaging discussion on creating a culture of consent starting with very young people, and how this can inspire social change and a new way of framing values, relationships, and sexuality. Hear from Tracy Wright who leads North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault’s Young Advocates Institute, a weekend-long social justice summer camp that houses and trains 200 teens, ages 13-17.
learn more about the LGBTQ spectrum, issues that disproportionately impact LGBTQ folks, how to be an effective ally, and available resources. This training is sponsored by the Alliance’s Queer Caucus to End Sexual Assault.
This 2-part training hosted by the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence looks at the strengths and gaps in effective sexual assault response and recovery. Jo Johnson, a social worker for over 40 years, completed a three-year fellowship at the Office for Victims of Crime gathering information on what exists, and what is needed to improve our response to sexual assault.
The second session of this workshop presented by Jo Johnson will focus on two areas: new information on offenders and patterns of offending and data banks and data sources. Information in each of these areas is expanding like never before.
In her OVC fellowship, Johnson was able to sit in on the roll-out of national initiatives like the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, the national update of the military response, the development of the Victim Service Provider Survey and many other federal-level projects. How might this improve local and state sexual assault response and how might it undermine our efforts to reduce sexual violence?
Event program available here.
This half-day conference includes speakers, panelists, and group discussion as we explore best practices in providing support to survivors of sexual violence on college and university campuses in our state in light of the recently released, revised Title IX regulations.
Viewers will have the opportunity to learn what prevention and response efforts have been successful on other campuses, hear from policymakers about the role of state law, and explore available community-based resources.
Culture change and public policy go hand in hand. Our cultural understanding of sexual assault has grown exponentially in light of the #MeToo movement, but Connecticut’s laws have not kept pace. Survivors of sexual assault who seek criminal justice should not be denied because of antiquated laws based on resistance, not consent.
State Representative Jillian Gilchrest and the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence welcome Erin Murphy to Connecticut for a Discussion on Consent & Connecticut Law.
