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...
Description This workshop will provide participants the opportunity to explore how to create opportunities for conversations within their organizations and with community members to inform organizational priorities. In this remote workshop, participants will explore different information gathering approaches that create open conversations and build community connections....
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...
Join Spring Up during June–July 2021 for an online course on Transformative Justice. Learn more about everyday transformative justice tools, the roots of this philosophy and praxis, and build community around abolitionist, consensual, and liberatory ways of being. This six-module course has been designed and developed...
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...
Attendees will learn about the basic principles of transformative justice, reflect upon the mission, values, and practices of their anti-violence organizations, and engage next steps in considering expanding their organization’s values and practices to include transformative justice-informed responses to gender-based violence. This virtual workshop will...