Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Summit

 

“Building Connected Communities through Primary Prevention”

Summit Title: Building Connected Communities through Primary Prevention
Date: June 3 – 4, 2024
Location: Virtual via Microsoft Teams
Please note: Located has been updated. Both June 3-4 Summit dates will take place virtually.

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 each 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 (virtual)

8:45 a.m.	Virtual Welcome and Introductions
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.	Supporting Muslim Students through Prevention & Response Efforts by Heart to Grow (presenters virtual)
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.	LUNCH BREAK
11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.	Healing-Centered Engagement in Prevention & Response presented by Laura Livalska, Christina Holmgren, & Jayne Sommers (presenters virtual)
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 virtual)
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 virtual)
5:00	Closing and End of Day

 

Session Descriptions:

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.

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Healing-Centered Engagement in Prevention & Response presented by Laura Livalska, Christina Holmgren, & Jayne Sommers (presenters virtual)

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.

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BEST Comprehensive Approach to Campus Sexual Violence: Using Primary Prevention and Restorative Practices to Create Safe, Connected Campus Communities by Men as Peacemakers (presenters virtual)

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.

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Day Two: June 4, 2024 (virtual)

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

 

Please note: The web registration form is closed at this time; participants can email melissa.watschke@state.mn.us directly to register for the Summit until 8:00 a.m. on June 3, 2024.

 

Contact information:

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