DESCRIPTION Staff from Seven Dancers Coalition will facilitate a self-care space to support self-identified victims and survivors. TECHNOLOGY/LOGISTICS This event will be held via Zoom Meetings. Video participation is not required. Registrants will receive the meeting link by email. A recording of the event will be distributed to...
DESCRIPTION Staff from Seven Dancers Coalition will recount the histories of genocidal government policies, mission schools, broken treaties, and white supremacy that have had lasting impacts on Indigenous communities, with a specific focus on the Haudenosaunee people. TECHNOLOGY/LOGISTICS This event will be held via Zoom Meetings. Video participation...
DESCRIPTION Staff from Seven Dancers Coalition will share information about their Men’s Program, “Standing the Trees Back Up.” This workshop will discuss the work done with people who have experienced violence, trauma and grief, through abuse, incarceration and addictions, and how together we can Pick up...
Please join the NYSCASA Staff and Board of Directors for our 2021 Annual Meeting, to be held virtually on Thursday, June 10, at 3:00 PM ET. Preliminary Agenda: Opening/introductions Mindfulness activity Business meeting, including voting results and committee updates Presentations on vicarious trauma, self-care, and therapy modalities Wrap-up/closing Logistics: This event will be...
Re-envisioning How We End Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence, a virtual panel event hosted by the Office of NYS Attorney General Letitia James and PowHer™ New York, will explore how the criminal justice system does not meet the needs of some survivors, particularly those of...
The fourth annual SUNY SPECTRUM conference will take place digitally June 28 - July 2, 2021. SPECTRUM is the nation’s largest education conference devoted to preventing and responding to sexual and interpersonal violence against members of the LGBTQI+ community. Registration General registration is $25. If you are having...
Please join the Sex Ed Now NY Coalition and partners for the Sex Ed Now NY Virtual Advocacy Day on April 22, 2021, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET. There will also be a Virtual Rally for Sex Ed from 12:00 PM to 1:00...
Join the People's Campaign for Parole Justice and crime victim & survivor organizations across New York State on April 22nd for a "Parole Justice & Survivor Justice – Expanding Pathways to Hope, Healing, & Accountability" virtual advocacy day during National Crime Victims Rights Week. RSVP: bit.ly/april-22-advocacy-day ...
NYS-based victim services staff/volunteers who are white and aspire to be allies, accomplices, and co-conspirators in support of racial justice are invited to participate in NYSCASA Solidarity PLACE meetings for aspiring allies at victim services programs. These informal conversations will be facilitated by NYSCASA staff....
The events of 2020 point to the need for a society that moves away from racial and other social-identity based supremacies, colonialism, and racial capitalism, and grows new roots in the values of human dignity, abolition, democracy, and radical transformation. To develop this society, we...