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he New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, in partnership with Seven Dancers Coalition and the Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action Project, is seeking workshop proposals for a multi-day, multi-track, statewide conference to be held on June 4-6, 2020, in Syracuse, NY.
We anticipate approximately 200-250 conference attendees, consisting of survivors, leaders, organizers, and professionals from the advocacy, health care, mental health, community organizing, campus, legal services, and human services fields. Participants will build the knowledge, skills, and courage to prevent and respond to harm and sexual violence with community-centered practices.
Please consider sharing your expertise, stories, models, research, best practices, testimony, etc.!
We encourage workshop proposals related to the following areas of focus:
- Implementing Community-Centered Practices: What do Restorative Justice, Peacemaking, Transformative Justice, Community Accountability, and other community-centered processes look like in practice?
- Preventing and Responding to Child Sexual Abuse: How can these frameworks help us prevent and respond to childhood sexual abuse? What are the opportunities and challenges of using community-centered processes and transformative and restorative approaches in cases of child sexual abuse?
- Interrupting Incarceration and Criminalization: How does the criminal legal system criminalize survivors of gender-based violence? How do transformative and restorative frameworks help us organize support for currently and formerly incarcerated survivors of gender-based violence while also developing policies and practices that help us shift from punitive systems to healing and accountability?
- Healing Justice and Community Care: How do we take care of ourselves and each other while engaged in transformative, community-centered, anti-violence work? How do we nourish and sustain communities that can prevent sexual violence and collectively and holistically respond to the effects of trauma and oppression in our lives?
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