Plenaries & Sessions - National Sexual Assault Conference®

Best Practices in Advocating for Survivors of Sexual Assault (Session open only to California Rape Crisis Centers)

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PT)

VALOR Annual Meeting (VALOR Rape Crisis Center Members only)

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM (PT)

VALOR Member Reception (VALOR Rape Crisis Center Members only)

TUESDAY, AUGUST 22 CONFERENCE DAY 1

Registration and Exhibits Open | 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM (PT)

Opening Plenary Session | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (PT)

Welcome Message from Leanne Guy, Keely Linton & Nicole Matthews

Welcome Message from The White House Gender Policy Council Senior Advisor Cailin Crockett

Welcome Message from Allison Randall, Principal Deputy Director, Office on Violence Against Women

Welcome Message from Lynn Rosenthal, Director of Sexual Violence and Gender-Based Violence, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Welcome Message from Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Welcome Message from Sandra Henriquez, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, ValorUS

Welcome Message from Nicole Pittman, Executive Director, Just Beginnings Collaborative

Session 1 | 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM (PT)

Session 1 List

Crooked Beads & Other Stories for Decolonization

DAR TESTIMONIO Y EDIFICAR UN COMPROMISO: Ya Basta Center Model/ Modelo de Ya Basta Center

Historical Trauma & Implicit Bias: Addressing their Impacts on LGBTQIA+ BIPOC Survivors

Housing Justice is Violence Prevention: Sustainable, Systems-Based Solutions for Change

Including Athletes with Disabilities in Sport-Based Prevention

Increasing Access and Trauma Informed Approaches to Immigrant Survivors of Sexual Violence Accessing Systems and Institutions.

Introduction to Restorative Justice for Sexual Harm: An Interactive Workshop

Leaning into the YOUR Experience: Drawing from Self, Community Resources, and Technical Assistance to Become a Leader in an Impactful Culturally Specific Organization

Meet Them Where They’re At: Incorporating Harm Reduction Principles in Your Anti-Violence Work

PREA, Investigations, and Audits, Oh My! Providing Institutional Advocacy on Behalf of Incarcerated Survivors

Purpose, Possibilities, and Practice in Primary Prevention Strategy

Reports are not Supports: Mandatory Reporting Harm Reduction and Childhood Sexual Abuse

Transformative Justice in Practice: Governing Together to Keep Each Other Safe

What Does Equity Mean for COC Communities

When prevention is prevented: Proactive Strategies to Overcome School-Based Program Barriers

Why Decriminalizing Sex Work is a Sexual Violence Prevention Strategy

Lunch | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (PT)

Session 2 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM (PT)

Session 2 List

Adding to Options for Survivors: Rape Crisis Centers and Restorative Practices

Conversations About Alcohol and Sex – Changes in Community Norms and Culture

Developing and adapting a flexible statewide evaluation system for Rape Prevention Education in California

Ending the Silence: Advancing Equity Beyond The End of Forced Arbitration in Sexual Assault to All Forms of Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation

From Advocacy to Public Policy Reform: Sexual Empowerment for Persons with Disabilities

How the Survivor Support Movement Can Address Anti-LGBTQ Attacks

Identity as Empowerment: Utilizing our cultural identity for Resiliency and Healing

The Wayfinding Project: Centering Abolition Feminist Methodologies to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse

Understanding the Intersection of Sexual Violence and Reproductive Justice

Use What You Got: A Tool to Move Your Campus Data into Practice

Victim Dynamics: Tribal Perspective

Weekend Warrior & Sexual Assault Survivor: Navigating Justice on Military and Civilian Fronts

Worldbuilding in Practice: Radical Imagination as a Tool for Liberation

Break | 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM (PT)

Session 3 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (PT)

Session 3 List

Best Practices for Case Management and Advocacy Services

Changing the Narrative Through Storytelling: A Live Podcast Recording

From Problem to Partner: Engaging Parents to Address Campus Sexual Assault

Growing RPE Grantee Primary Prevention Efforts to Address Social Determinants of Health

Health, Healing, and Collaboration: Project NACES and a New Safety Card Tool

Navigating Community Engaged Needs Assessments: Strategies for Equity in Action

Rape Crisis Advocacy: Perspective on the TeleSAFE Project

Repairing & Reclaiming: Intersections of Sexual Violence and Sexual Health across the Lifespan (MIWSAC)

Restorative Justice for Sexual Harm: Why I Fought for a Circle, Not a Courtroom

State-Sanctioned Hate: The Impact of the “Culture Wars” on Trans Lives

Still I Rise: From Glass Ceilings to Glass Cliffs

Supporting Survivors with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Cross-Sector Collaboration

The Absence of Equity in Action in Tribal Communities

The Unique and Complex Challenges of Creating Safety Alongside Immigrant Survivors of Sexual Assault

Traumatic Memory and Child Sex Abuse: Here’s What Survivors Want You to Understand for Prevention and Healing

We Thrive Together: Building Narrative Strategies that Hold Space for All of Us

Film Screening | 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (PT)

The Recall: Reframed

Plaza Ballroom

Walking Tour | 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (PT)

150 Years of Creating Safety for Asian Women: Walking Tour of Cameron House

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23 CONFERENCE DAY 2

Registration and Exhibits Open | 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM (PT)

Opening Plenary Session | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (PT)

Ponny White, Youth Advocate, Girls for Gender Equity

Dr. Allyn Walker, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Tony Porter, Chief Executive Officer, A Call To Men

Session 4 | 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM (PT)

Session 4 List

A Human Rights and Public Health Based Approach to Anti-Trafficking Movement Work

Amplifying Black Trans Aliveness: Living Into Your Role(s) For Black Trans Liberation

Building Restorative Justice & Collective Responses to Sexual and Family Violence

Creating Culturally Responsive Interpreting Practices

Digging deeper: Uprooting internalized sexism to support both advocates and their clients

Envisioning Our Futures: Sexual Assault Prevention Strategies

Equity in Accessing Joy as COC Advocates

Lighting the Eight Fire

Measuring Love as Prevention

Navigating Abortion Rights in a Deep Red State- Playing the Long Game

Removing youth from sex offender registries: promoting justice, safety and fairness

Rising Above: Combatting Sexual Violence and Wage Theft in the Non-Union Janitorial Industry

The Messiness Within Communities of Color: Discovering Your Inner Voices to Build Inner Strengths for Social Change

The Trauma of Incarceration

Towards a New Paradigm of Antiracist Health Equity in Primary Sexual Violence Prevention: A New York State RPE Program Health Equity Capacity Assessment Case Study

WeGovern in Practice: Shifting Collective Power by Claiming Governance in Community

Lunch | 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM (PT)

Session 5 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM (PT)

Session 5 List

A Collaborative Approach Model to Providing Trauma-Informed Representation to Immigrant Survivors

A Team Approach: Sex Offender Management

Combatting Sexual Violence Among Bangladeshi Immigrant Women through the Reproductive Justice Initiative

Concepts of Consent from Intimacy Coordination and Sex Work

Empowered Voices: How Truth Telling Commissions Achieve Justice and Healing

Encouraging Understanding Over Child Sexual Abuse Perpetration Prevention

Equity in Action: Beyond All-or-Nothing Responses to Accountability

Everyday Workplace Intervention – A Foundation for Sexual Assault Prevention

Intentionally Erased

Letting Out the Pain from Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Through Poetry and Art ((Dejando salir el dolor de asalto sexual y violencia doméstica a través de poesía y arte)

Promoting Sexual Assault Healing Services to Men

Researcher-Practitioner-Educator-Youth Partnerships to Prevent Sexual and Related Forms of Violence Among Youth

Supporting Incarcerated Deaf Survivors and Survivors with Disabilities

Surviving the Mic: How to Make A Brave Space

The 4 C’s of Leadership Shifting

Utilizing Indigenous Values for Healing and Wellness

Break | 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM (PT)

Session 6 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (PT)

Session 6 List

A Silent Epidemic: The Impact of Sexual Violence & Human Trafficking of Men & Boys

Are We Ready? A Coalition’s Un/Learning Cohort Model for Grappling with Transformative Justice Principles

Beyond Borders: Intergenerational Trauma, Sexual Assault, and Migration

Building Respect on Set

Collaborating to Meet the Housing Needs of Sexual Assault Survivors: Policy, Advocacy, and Beyond

Culturally Responsive Care as a Social Justice Practice

Dignity Restored: Art and Somatics as tools to end Violence

Embodied Healing and Action for Organizers

Engaging Men through an Intersectional Lens

Filling the Leadership Gap: Reducing the Impact of Implicit Bias and Anti-Blackness in the Workplace

How shame and silence were taught in API communities, learning through the implementation of intergenerational approach to prevent and address sexual violence in API communities

Looking to the Experts: Lessons in Community-Led Prevention from New York City Nightlife

Preventing Sexual Abuse through Clinical Intervention and Risk Management: What We Know about Individuals that have Committed Sexual Offenses

The Diaspora of Trans Latinas: Life, Love and Triumphs

The Power of Interconnected Movements: Advancing Reproductive Justice to End Sexual Violence

Vigils, Voices, and Vision – How Criminalized & Stigmatized Workers Organize and Advocate with Intimacy through Art and Creative Expression

Evening Sessions

5:15 PM – 6:45 PM (PT)

Advocates Supporting Incarcerated Survivors Meet-Up Golden Gate 6-8

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (PT)

Listening Session: National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence: Strategies for Action Plaza Ballroom

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 CONFERENCE DAY 3

Registration and Exhibits Open | 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM (PT)

Session 7 | 9 :00 AM – 10:30 AM (PT)

Session 7 List

Adding Context: Understanding The Dalai Lama Video

Collective Action for Reproductive Freedom: Bridging the Anti-Sexual Violence and Reproductive Justice Movements

Composting Shame

Developing an Action Plan to Address School-Based Prevention Programming Resistance

Driving Change: Partnering to End Sexual Violence and Advance Equity

Everything I Never Dreamed

Intergenerational Partnerships to End Gender Violence

Make your data equitable: Using equity measures to systematically prevent sexual violence among our most marginalized populations

Pushing Back Against Paternalism – Asian Migrant Massage Worker Organizers Build Bridges Across Borders and Language Barriers

Rebalancing the Prevention Continuum through Lessons Learned from Offense Treatment

Reimagining Transitional housing options for API sexual violence survivors and Sexual Violence survivors of color

Restorative and Transformative Justice Approaches to Ending Sexual Harm

Supporting BIPOC Leaders in an Anti-Violence Agency

Survivor Led Practices in Detention Settings

The Power of Sexual Violence Prevention in Faith Communities

Transforming Organizational Conditions and Practices to Center People with Disabilities: Using Evaluation to Create Protective Environments