Biennial Conference
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May 25—27, 2021
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12:00pm—5:00pm
NCCASA’s 2021 Conference, Exploring Emergent Strategies for Long-Term Transformation, will focus on potential applications of emergent spaces, explore the need for intentional connection and sustainability, and identify ways to center humanity and interconnectedness while in a physically distant, often virtual, context. Throughout the pandemic, we have highlighted creative ways of coping with the collective and intersectional traumas we are all experiencing. As we look toward long- term transformation and yet are still dealing with the global crisis, we are still reminded that there is a need to offer spaces for recovery and to collectively share ideas for equilibrium and rebuilding.
Conference Agenda
Day One
12:00-12:15
Welcome, Announcements and a Cultural Offering
Monika Johnson-Hostler, Executive Director at NCCASA, will welcome folks to the 2021 Biennial Conference, Exploring Emergent Strategies for Long-Term Transformation, as well as provide announcements for the day. Chucho Ruiz Vai Sevoi of the Eudeve Tlamanalcah peoples will be sharing a Cultural Offering in the form of ceremonial & traditional songs that invoke ancestral wisdom and healing.
12:15PM - 1:15PM
The Physiology of Resilience – Somatic Trauma Healing as a Way of Reclaiming Our Humanity
Drawing from a combination of her own sexual trauma healing journey, medical and legal advocacy work, trauma-informed yoga teaching, and her Somatic Experiencing studies, Molly will share how trauma responses understood as resilience responses remind us that healing is an ongoing, organic process of emergence – a practice of yielding to and embracing the language of our individual and collective bodies as a foundation for restoring our individual and collective humanity.
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Somatic Approaches for Transforming the Imprints of Sexual Trauma
The workshop will include both lecture and invitational experiential practice to support participants in increasing a sense of trauma and resilience consciousness within their own body, relationships, and work.
1:30PM - 3:00PM
The Other Side of the Same Coin: A Conversation About Those Who Cause Harm
A conversation with Joan Tabachnick, nationally recognized for her work in preventing the perpetration of sexual violence, and Christi Hurt, a long-time survivor advocate and community safety consultant, will address the commonalities of these two seemingly divergent points of view, as well as the stark differences. A conversation with Joan Tabachnick, nationally recognized for her work in preventing the perpetration of sexual violence, and Christi Hurt, a long-time survivor advocate and community safety consultant, will address the commonalities of these two seemingly divergent points of view, as well as the stark differences.
1:30PM - 3:00PM
The Greater Charlotte Hope Line: Leveraging Community Partnerships to Develop a Holistic Approach to Crisis Hotline Support
Presenters will highlight and facilitate discussion around the applicable aspects of this collaborative model to other victim services programs that are seeking to enhance and expand service delivery through identifying and tapping into new resources and partnerships within their own communities.
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Moving Beyond the Binary: Expanding the Narrative on Healthy Masculinity When Engaging Men and Boys
At A Call to Men we believe that heterosexism is the glue that holds the Man Box together and, as a result, we see homophobia and transphobia as critically damaging byproducts of the Man Box.
3:15PM - 4:45PM
Food Justice Creates Emergent Space and Long-Term Transformation of Communities
This panel centers the voices of grassroots food justice leaders in North Carolina. Anti-violence workers will have the opportunity to hear their wisdom on food justice and how food can be used as a tool against violence.
3:15PM - 4:45PM
Trauma Informed Care in Rural Communities
Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project for an interactive workshop on using trauma-informed care to build relationships with sexual assault survivors in rural communities.
3:15PM - 4:45PM
Making the Right Call: Implementing A Structured Follow-up Process
Evaluation: https://forms.gle/x5eR5HCfAtDEnvYG7
3:15PM - 4:45PM
Beyond Gay vs. Straight: Embracing Diversity in Sexuality
More focused than an LGBTQ 101 but incorporating about 15 minutes of 101 content, this interactive workshop will move beyond the binary of gay vs. straight to collaboratively challenge our biphobia and find concrete strategies to meet the needs of non-monosexual survivors.
3:15PM - 4:45PM
Self Care Room: Drawing Out Tenderness
This activity will be most effective if you have paint or a charcoal stick/pencil.
Day Two
12:00-12:15
Welcome, Announcements and a Cultural Offering
Monika Johnson-Hostler, Executive Director at NCCASA, will welcome folks to the 2021 Biennial Conference, Exploring Emergent Strategies for Long-Term Transformation, as well as provide announcements for the day. Chucho Ruiz Vai Sevoi of the Eudeve Tlamanalcah peoples will be sharing a Cultural Offering in the form of ceremonial & traditional songs that invoke ancestral wisdom and healing.
12:15PM - 1:15PM
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder: What it Means for Your Work
Participants will learn what DID is, how someone develops it, what it feels like to have it, what it looks like from the outside, what the healing process can look like and how you can work with someone who has it.
1:15PM - 3:00PM
Building Resilience: Serving Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Part One
Join Leah Green and Olga Trujillo for a two-part workshop series covering, the impact of trauma from early abuse, the intersection of oppression, healing and what this means for how advocates can help.
1:15PM - 3:00PM
Action & Healing: How a Survivor Advisory Committee & a Survivor Speakers Bureau Will Transform Your Work
Two powerful ways to center survivor voices, improve our services, and educate the public are the Survivor Advisory Committee and the Survivor Speakers Bureau. In this workshop, attendees will learn what these two groups are and what role they can play in your agency.
1:15PM - 3:00PM
Outreach and Prevention in a Digitally Connected World
This workshop will explore ways in which organizations can provide outreach, education, and prevention using traditional and digital marketing tools in new and innovative ways.
1:15PM - 3:00PM
Creating Trauma Informed Digital Spaces: Text and Chat Features for working with Sexual Assault & Human Trafficking Survivors
A growing number of intimate partner violence and sexual assault-focused community programs are adding chat and text services to their phone hotlines. These new services are often implemented rapidly and without substantial guidance. In this webinar, we provide information from our National Institute of Justice funded study of SAFEline, SAFE Alliance’s 24-hourchat and text hotline service.
3:15PM - 4:45PM
Building Resilience: Serving Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Part Two
Part two of this workshop series will explore challenges adult survivors of child sexual abuse face in moving through the world as adults.
3:15PM - 4:45PM
Supporting Survivor Reentrants Project: Learning to Serve Those Returning Home
In this workshop Courtney will facilitate a discussion among members of the Supporting Survivor Reentrants project team that will highlight the project’s background, the work of the Local Reentry Council and clients, the needs and challenges of survivors who are “returning home,” and how rape crisis centers can adapt services to support survivor reentrants.
3:15PM - 4:45PM
The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission- a Trauma-Informed Approach to Post Conviction Investigation and Victim Services
The purpose of the Innocence Inquiry Commission’s panel is to discuss the agency’s mission and its process for evaluating claims of innocence, the development of the Commission’s victim services program, and how Commission staff have addressed the challenges the victim services program faced in its first year. This presentation will discuss each topic through the lens of agency capacity and program management.
3:15PM - 4:45PM
Community Collaboration is a Non-Zero Sum Game
In this session, the founders of Engage Together will provide the information, ideas, and inspiration community stakeholders need to understand how each of them is uniquely positioned to help end and prevent human trafficking, and how together, every need in communities can be met.
5:00-6:00pm
Happy Hour
Join us for our happy hour, hosted by Chef Camorrow Drake! Chef Drake will demonstrate a mixology course, featuring drinks you can make with ingredients found in your participant box! These can be made as mocktails or cocktails.
Day Three
12:00-12:15
Welcome, Announcements and a Cultural Offering
Monika Johnson-Hostler, Executive Director at NCCASA, will welcome folks to the 2021 Biennial Conference, Exploring Emergent Strategies for Long-Term Transformation, as well as provide announcements for the day. Chucho Ruiz Vai Sevoi of the Eudeve Tlamanalcah peoples will be sharing a Cultural Offering in the form of ceremonial & traditional songs that invoke ancestral wisdom and healing.
12:15PM - 1:15PM
Strengths and Shadows: Susceptibility to Trauma and Building Resilience
We come together with the knowledge that trauma has happened, to take steps for healing, and to build resilience for moving forward.
1:15PM - 3:00PM
Building Individual and Team Resilience
We will explore individual and team Strengths and Shadows to champion our strongest positive qualities, and to shine light on qualities that are too often denied and hidden.
1:15PM - 3:00PM
Taking Care of Our Own: Supervising Survivors
This workshop will give supervisors the opportunity to discuss the challenges and barriers to effectively manage the various needs of survivors in the workplace.
1:15PM - 3:00PM
An Action-Oriented, Historical, Intersectional, and Trauma-Informed Exploration of the Sexual Assault Kit Backlog in North Carolina
Participants will have the opportunity to: explore the NC SAKI dashboard; process the systemic, historical, and cultural reasons that lead to the current backlog; learn about free victim notification tools and financial resources for SAKI survivors; and brainstorm actions they can take in their communities to prevent a future backlog.
1:15PM - 3:00PM
So You Want to Create an Evidence-Informed Curriculum
In this 90-minute webinar, attendees will learn the differences between emerging practices, promising practices, and best practices, and important steps to take to create an evidence-informed strategy.
Registration Information
Tickets for the conference are available online through Eventbrite. For more registration information, please visit our events page there.
FEES
Current NCCASA Members: $125.00 $90
Non-NCCASA Members: $175.00 $140
Students*: $50.00 $15
One Day: $75.00 $40
*Full-time Undergraduate Students
Call For Proposals
Our Call for Proposals has ended. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a proposal.