NYSCASA's Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with our March 29-30 conference. |
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CONFERENCE DEADLINES FAST APPROACHING! JOIN US IN ALBANY ON MARCH 29-30! |
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Aleese Moore-Orbih presents Connecting the Dots: People of Color Advocates and Anti-Violence/Oppression Work. Aleese has over 15 years of leadership experience in family violence advocacy, 20-years of experience in Pastoral leadership and Women's Spiritual Direction. Aleese's specialization has been in equipping communities and advocates with the tools and knowledge they need to address the religious and cultural issues related to violence against women and child and youth exposure to domestic and sexual violence. |
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Loretta Ross presents Fighting Sexual Violence Through Human Rights. Loretta is an expert on women's issues, racism, and human rights. Her work emphasizes the intersectionality of social justice issues and how this transforms social change. Loretta is a nationally-recognized leader, an author, a rape survivor forced to raise a child born of incest, and a survivor of sterilization abuse. |
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PLENARY SESSIONS Jennifer Nadler presents No More Sorrow, No More Silence: The Voice of a Survivor. Through photographs, personal artwork and poetry, images, music and personal narrative, Jennifer not only shares her experience, but helps us feel the emotions of her journey to become a survivor. Jennifer offers powerful insight into the pain, coping and healing that many survivors of child sexual abuse experience, and shatters the confines of secrecy and shame that surround child sexual abuse with unguarded openness. Ebony Williams Ebony Williams presents P.A.C.T. (Prepare to create. An actionable plan. Change Yourself/Community/Workplace. Triumph) for P.E.A.C.E. (Positively. Empowering. All. Changes. Everyone). Utilizing an ice breaker that will assist in analyzing self and begin a brief dialogue that will help identify how, where, and when unhealthy patterns may have developed, all participants will be effectively challenged in engaging/interactive activities to address prevention of oppression and sexual violence. |
WORKSHOP TRACKS - Calm in the Chaos
- Empowering Ourselves: Incorporating Self-Care into Our Everyday Interactions
- When We Dare to Be Free: Tools for Collective Empowerment
- Wellness Recovery Action Plan for Working Through Trauma
- Self-Care for the Patient and the Practitioner: A Guide
- What Really Defines Our Well-Being and Why is Change Usually Necessary
Social Justice - Naming Our Power: Workshop for Women of Color - Parts 1 and 2
- Disciplined Too Young and Too Often: The School-to-Prison Pipeline
- Sex Trafficking
- Revenge Porn
- Eliminating the Wedge: End Gender-Based Violence and Mass Incarceration
- "They Got What Was Coming" - Experience of a PREA State Services Pilot Site
- New Army Efforts to Stop Sexual Assault
- We're Better Together: College and Community Organizations Can Unite
- Not Alone: How to Help Transgender Survivors in Detention
- Restorative Justice Approaches to Campus Sexual Misconduct
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Sexual Violence Prevention - Pornography: Normalizing the Relationship Between Violence and Sex
- Don't Forget About Me: Talking About Safety with Children with Disabilities - Parts 1 and 2
- One Size Does Not Fit All: Bystander Intervention for Communities of Color
- Connecting the Violence(s): Interpersonal, Structural, Racial, Gender
- Community Mobilization Prevention with Individuals with Disabilities
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- Pornography: Normalizing the Relationship Between Violence and Sex
- Empowering Ourselves: Incorporating Self-Care into Our Everyday Interactions
- We're Better Together: College and Community Organizations Can Unite
- One Size Does Not Fit All: Bystander Intervention for Communities of Color
- Restorative Justice Approaches to Campus Sexual Misconduct
- Disciplined Too Young and Too Often: The School-to-Prison Pipeline OR Revenge Porn
- "They Got What Was Coming" - Experience of a PREA State Services Pilot Site
- New Army Efforts to Stop Sexual Assault
- Disciplined Too Young and Too Often: The School-to-Prison Pipeline
- Not Alone: How to Help Transgender Survivors in Detention
- Connecting the Violence(s): Interpersonal, Structural, Racial, Gender
- Eliminating the Wedge: End Gender-Based Violence and Mass Incarceration
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EVENING EVENTS ON MARCH 19 Sharon Lastique presents Shake It Off: Use Music and Motion to Shift Our Mindset and Emotion. Luz Marquez Benbow holds a caucus for people of color survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Black Women's Blueprint offers a dynamic presentation about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Back to top |
AND MORE! Working breakfasts and lunches included! NYSCASA's annual meeting held mid-day on March 30. Farah Tanis of Black Women's Blueprint receives Visionary Voice Award. Door prizes! Back to top |
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