11 Jul Rape Crisis Clients Who Trade Sex: Social Context and Competent Services
From 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM ET
At Online via Zoom
Free
Presented by the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault / Josie McPherson, Senior Director of Systems Advocacy, jmcpherson@nyscasa.org
Description
This presentation will provide historical and policy context that informs the way different nonprofits talk about and build services for sex-trading clients, and practical strategies for providing competent services to all sexual violence survivors in the sex trades, whether trafficked or consensual.
Access/Logistics
This event will be held via Zoom webinars. Registrants will receive the webinar link by email.
This event will be conducted in spoken English. Please indicate in the registration form or by email (ahill@nyscasa.org) if you require language interpretation and/or closed captioning. Please provide this information at least 3 business days prior to the start of the session.
About the Presenters
Chris Ash (they/them) is the Survivor Leadership Program Manager at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST-LA), where they are developing supports, opportunities, and professional development for survivors of human trafficking to engage meaningfully as the movement’s organizational, strategy, and thought leaders. Before coming to CAST-LA, Ash provided training and technical assistance to rape crisis centers, dual domestic violence agencies, and human trafficking programs as state sexual assault coalition staff after over a decade of rape crisis center crisis direct services. Ash’s current work brings together lived experience, years of direct service and community-based consent and prevention education work, and graduate study in social justice, human rights, and gender theory. Ash has provided training or programmatic support for organizations including Freedom Network USA, HEAL Trafficking, Futures Without Violence, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, PreventConnect, Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign, the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre, and the Centre for the Study of International Slavery.
Leigh LaChapelle (they/them) is a queer and trans organizer currently working as the Associate Director of Survivor Advocacy at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST-LA). In their role they lead emergency and crisis response, public policy, and survivor leadership programming. Previously, they’ve worked with various grassroots organizations across the rural south building community response to sexual violence, unhoused youth, and harm reduction.