SVPR Summit Registration

 

 

“Building Connected Communities through Primary Prevention”

June 3 – 4, 2024
Location: Hybrid via Teams
In-person location: MN Office of Higher Education, 1450 Energy Park Drive St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
Summit Title: Building Connected Communities through Primary Prevention

Summit Schedule Overview:

Topical Keynote Sessions: The sessions are engaging presentations by subject matter experts on topics of importance or interest. Please select one for reach timeframe listed in the schedule.

Roundtable Discussions: The roundtable discussions offer a chance to network with colleagues around the state and brainstorm innovative practices or ideas, discuss challenging situations or topics, and support each other in our work. Each roundtable will be moderated by a volunteer who will maintain discussion, record any general ideas, themes, or actions.

Day One June 3, 2024

• 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.   Registration (in person)

• 8:45 a.m.   Virtual Welcome & Introductions

• 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.   Supporting Muslim Students through Prevention & Response Efforts by Heart to Grow (presenters virtual) Session Description:

  HEART to Grow will lead participants through a four-part series focused on prevention and support of Muslim survivors of sexual violence entitled Community Agreements, Barriers to Disclosure and Facts of Sexual Violence, Power and Privilege and Gendered Islamophobia, and Responding with RAHMA principles. This workshop is grounded in trauma-informed and survivor-centric practices through interactive engagement, case studies, and dialogue.

• 11:00 - 11:45 a.m.   LUNCH BREAK (those attending in-person will have a complimentary boxed lunch)

• 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.   Healing-Centered Engagement in Prevention & Response presented by Laura Livalska, Christina Holmgren, & Jayne Sommers (presenters in person)
  Session Description:

  A trauma-informed sexual violence response focuses on the individual and the harm experienced, asking “what happened to you” and “how can we help to fix it?” This session will explore what it might look like to approach campus response efforts--as well as prevention--with a more culturally-grounded, community-centered emphasis on collective healing instead of individual harm. Significant time will be dedicated to action planning and identifying tangible next steps for campus communities.

• 1:45 - 2:00 p.m.   BREAK

• 2:00 – 3:15 p.m.   Online crimes, sexual extortion, and online harassment by BobbiJo Pazdernik, Special Agent in Charge, Predatory Crimes Section (presenters in person)

• 3:15 – 3:30 p.m.   BREAK

• 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.   BEST Comprehensive Approach to Campus Sexual Violence: Using Primary Prevention and Restorative Practices to Create Safe, Connected Campus Communities by Men as Peacemakers (presenters in person)
  Session Description:

  Every campus has a duty to create a safe learning environment for all students. When an act of sexual violence happens on campus, preventing it from happening again becomes a priority. This entails working with community partners to meet the needs of the victim, but campuses should also recognize their critical window of opportunity to address the beliefs and behavior of students (and faculty) who cause harm. The BEST Comprehensive Approach to Campus Sexual Violence provides practical tools for helping students connect the choices they make as individuals to the many relationships they will form during their time on campus, as well as to the important role they play in shaping campus culture and environment. In this highly interactive session, participants will develop a framework for integrating proven primary prevention strategies with restorative practices to engage students in the creation of safer, more connected campus communities.
  Through group discussion and activities taken directly from the BEST First Year Orientation and the BEST Restorative Alternative Response Program, in-person and virtual participants will:

  1. Develop a more comprehensive framework for campus sexual violence prevention;
  2. Better understand how restorative justice practices can be strategically and effectively incorporated into the broader campus response to sexual violence;
  3. Identify campus-specific opportunities to integrate primary prevention into existing programming, from matriculation to graduation.

• 5:00 p.m.   END OF DAY ONE

Day Two: June 4, 2024 (virtual only)

Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Roundtable Discussion Sessions

• 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.   Roundtable discussion on sessions from June 3rd

• 10:45a.m. - 12:15 p.m.   Topical Roundtable Discussions

REGISTER HERE

Contact information

Melissa Watschke, Title IX Training Administrator
651.259.3921(w) 651.528.0966 (c)