VIDEOS FOR LAST YEAR’S SESSIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE.
ASL and Spanish Interpretation Available!
Durante el evento “NC Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Academy” (Cumbre de prevención primaria de violencia sexual de Carolina del Norte) se ofrecerá interpretación en español y en lengua de señas estadounidense (ASL).
2021 NC Virtual Academy on Community-Level Sexual Violence Prevention
November 4-5, 2021
All times are in eastern time
| Thursday, November 4 | Friday, November 5 | ||
| Block 1 9:30-11:00 | Opening Plenary Session: Alexis Flanagan and Kassamira Carter Howard, Resonance Network | Block 1 10:00-11:00 | SVPAC Workgroup Highlights Campus CommunityK12 |
| Block 2 11:15-12:45 | Community Level Prevention: Introduction and Examples Ruben Cantu and William Crary, Prevention Institute | Block 2 11:15-12:45 | Introduction to the Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience Framework Ruben Cantu and William Crary, Prevention Institute |
| Block 3 1:00-1:30 | SVPAC: What is Our Work? | Block 3 1:00-2:00 | Closing Session and Call to action Alexis Flanagan and Kassamira Carter Howard, Resonance Network |
Thursday November 4
9:30-11:00 Opening Plenary
Alexis Flanagan, Co-Director, Resonance Network
Kassamira Carter Howard, Program Manager, Resonance Network
Resonance Network is a national network of people building a world beyond violence.
Resonance Network believes this world is possible–and within reach.
Our work, then, is worldbuilding.
A world beyond violence is one where all beings can thrive–a world rooted in mutual care, where all people live in dignity. This world will exist when there is:
– widespread individual commitment to personal healing and transformation;
– deep relationship building in communities to practice and grow beyond dominant culture norms;
– the will and capacity to create collective systems that reflect these values and take them to scale.
This world is not new. These ideas of collective care and self governance have their roots in Indigenous wisdom in which each generation shares in the responsibility for the care and well-being of the earth and generations before and after; these practices have been lived for generations, and are being practiced today in communities around the world.
As activists, practitioners, and leaders in the movement to end gender-based violence, we share a belief in what is possible beyond violence–and an understanding of what it will take to transform the world we live in. In this session, through storytelling, peer sharing, and deep reflection, we will explore our individual and collective experiences in this work, reflect on our respective roles in transformation, and explore what is possible when we bring our whole selves to the practices of community building and liberation.
11:15-12:45 – Community Level Prevention: Introduction and Examples
Ruben Cantu, Associate Program Director, Prevention Institute
William Crary, Associate Program Director, Prevention Institute
Over the last decade, our understanding of how community factors influence health and safety outcomes impact health and safety outcomes has grown. In recognition of that, Prevention Institute, with the support of the Federal Office of Minority Health, developed the Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE), to help communities determine how to improve health and safety, and promote health equity through addressing community determinants of health. THRIVE is a framework for understanding how structural drivers, such as racism, play out at the community level in terms of the social-cultural, physical/built, and economic/educational environments. In addition to being a framework, THRIVE is also a tool for engaging community members and practitioners in assessing the status of community determinants, prioritizing them, and taking action to change them in order to improve health, safety, and health equity. As a framework, THRIVE is widely applicable to local, state, and national initiatives to inform policy and program direction. As a tool, THRIVE can be used in a variety of planning and implementation processes.
This session will introduce participants to the THRIVE framework, with additional information taken from PI’s paper, Countering the Production of Health Inequities: Ensuring the Opportunity for Health for All, and examples from community groups across the country that are implementing community level strategy to achieve health equity.
Objectives:
– Gain a deeper understanding of the role that community conditions play in the production of equity and inequity
– Be able to define community conditions that can serve as risk and resilience factors in your community.
– Identify lessons from a range of examples of community organizations implementing a community level approach to health and equity.
1:00-1:30 – NC’s Sexual Violence Prevention Advisory Council: What is Our Work?
Chris Croft, Anna Wallin, and Deena Fulton
This session will be an overview of what the NC Sexual Violence Prevention Advisory Council is, and how it works. We will be expanding membership in the SVPAC in the coming year as we reinvigorate in our new COVID reality, and this session will provide an overview for anyone curious about the role and responsibilities of the SVPAC either as an engaged stakeholder or a potential applicant.
Friday, November 5
10:00-11:00 SVPAC Workgroup Highlights and Upcoming Work
Chris Croft, Anna Wallin, and Deena Fulton
The NC Sexual Violence Prevention Advisory Council (SVPAC) has three workgroups: K12, Campus, and Community. In this session, we will share some of three workgroups’ recent work and accomplishments, and will highlight some possible directions for future work. We will be expanding membership in the SVPAC in the coming year as we reinvigorate in our new COVID reality, and this session will provide an overview for anyone curious about the role and responsibilities of the SVPAC workgroups either as an engaged stakeholder or a potential applicant.
11:15-12:45 – Introduction to the Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience Framework
Ruben Cantu, Associate Program Director, Prevention Institute
William Crary, Associate Program Director, Prevention Institute
Interpersonal violence, structural violence and exposure to trauma can harm individuals and communities by breaking down social networks and relationships, interfering with basic needs, and damaging individual and community resilience. These adverse community experiences can also lead to community trauma in the form of disinvestment in communities, a crumbling and often unsafe built environment, and a lack of economic opportunity. To counter this and provide a path toward building resilience, Prevention Institute, in partnership with Dr. Howard Pinderhughes and with support from Kaiser Permanente Northern California Community Benefit, developed Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience (ACE|R): A Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma, to advance an understanding of trauma at the community level and to work toward community resilience and prevention. The Framework advances the understanding that adverse community experiences contribute to trauma at the individual and community levels. Supporting community healing and building community resilience fosters communities that can thrive, even in the context of future adversity, and creates the conditions for effective collective action by communities to find solutions to improve community wellbeing.
Since the development of the Framework in 2016, multiple networks and communities have shared it, as well as adopted, adapted and/or implemented it. Examples include 14 communities across the US that are addressing trauma and improving mental wellbeing for men and boys; 12 rural communities in Ohio that are addressing the drivers of the opioid epidemic; and several communities working on a public health approach to multiple forms of violence. The Framework has emerged as a useful lens for addressing complex problems, recognizing that healing is an important starting point to build further collection action and that solutions necessarily involve engaging sectors and systems that may have contributed to community trauma. The session will focus on the application of the Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience framework, discuss the importance of multisector collaboration in preventing and addressing community trauma, and explore emerging strategies across issue areas to change the community factors that contribute to trauma and promote resilience.
Objectives:
– Explain the Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience framework as a tool to understand and prevent community trauma
– Engage in a discussion about the Framework in action to address multiple forms of violence, the opioid epidemic, and high levels of trauma in communities
– Explore opportunities for cross-sector partnerships and comprehensive efforts to prevent trauma
1:00-2:00 Closing Session and Call to Action
Alexis Flanagan, Co-Director, Resonance Network
Kassamira Carter Howard, Program Manager, Resonance Network
Zoom links for all rooms will be provided to participants prior to the conference.
