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Building a Survivor-Centered Pretrial System: How Survivor Advocates Helped End Use of Money Bail
This presentation will detail the coalition-building, advocacy, and communication strategies by Illinois victim advocacy groups to win support for the PFA.
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TeleSAFE: Revolutionizing Access, Quality and Local Partner Collaboration for Sexual Assault Care
Explain how the use of teleSAFE technology for sexual assault care can improve access to quality medical forensic exams.
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Hope, Healing and Empowerment: Build Resiliency, Reclaim Lives from Victim to Survivor to Thriver
Learn a motivational model based on Dr. Judith Herman’s stages of recovery from trauma that can help survivors build resiliency, restore their self-esteem, and bolster their self-determination to move beyond abuse.
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What’s Hiding in the Text? Analyzing Sexual Assault Police Report Narratives for “Signaling”
In this presentation, we discuss what we have learned about what the computer can teach us about how to write better rape reports and what this means for law enforcement moving forward. Specifically, the presenters will discuss the important but often overlooked aspect of reporting writing, share information on barriers to analyzing police reports, how the information from this research project can be leveraged to transform policies and practices in police report writing, and key research findings from this project.
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Children Have Voices – Now Let’s Get Them Heard: Preparing Children to Testify in Court
This presentation will outline a strategy for those working with child witnesses in preparation for the courtroom experience.
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“It Wasn’t Me!!” Who really goes to jail in LGBTQIA+ Intimate Partner Violence Cases
Recognize the prevalence of dual arrests in same sex intimate partner violence cases vs. opposite sex cases.
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How will Virtual Reality and the Metaverse Affect the Way We Interact, Work, and Fight for Survivors
This presentation will examine how Virtual Reality will impact the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault and domestic violence.
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A Human Trafficking Specific Medical Forensic Evidentiary Flowsheet
List the unique challenges and medical forensic needs of patients who experience human trafficking.
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Can You Qualify as an “Expert?” Do You Want to?
Have you ever been asked to testify as an expert? What does it mean to be an expert? What does it take to be one? These and many more questions will be answered during this presentation.
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Preventing Sexual Assault in Sport While Centering Athletes and Athlete Survivors
This session will unpack how to develop creative and innovative strategies to create change within agencies where survivors and intersectional advocacy are centered. The Army of Survivors, founded by a group of athlete survivors of sexual assault that was enabled by Michigan State University, USA Gymnastics, and the U.S. Olympic Committee, is an example of such an agency.