Turning Up the Volume

To End Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence

Social Media for Social Change

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June 26-27, 2013

Conference Center at OCLC :: Dublin, Ohio

In Partnership with: Ohio Department of Health and Ohio Domestic Violence Network

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Conference Highlights

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain a greater understanding of why effective use of social media and social justice are important strategies for sexual and intimate partner violence prevention and intervention.

Participants will identify two social media strategies that their organization can use, and increase their understanding of how social media strategies can best engage youth in bystander intervention.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS, INCLUDING:

Skill-Building for Healthy Relationships
Healthy Masculinity
Prevention of Bias-Based Bullying
Bystander Intervention
Civil Legal Remedies for SA Survivors
Responding to Victim-Blaming Arguments
Engaging Black Churches in Sexual Abuse Prevention
…And More!

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This conference is for sexual and domestic violence prevention educators and advocates, victim services and rape crisis center staff, professionals who work with youth in AToD prevention, youth violence prevention, pregnancy prevention, social workers, counselors, healthcare providers, community partners, and allied professionals.

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CONFERENCE CREDITS

Participants who attend both days of the conference will qualify for 11.75 CPE’s hours for social workers and counselors offered by the Ohio Domestic Violence Network’s Approved Provider Number: RSX 040202 and RCX 102302.

VENDORS

SELF-CARE ACTIVITIES

Yoga
Chair Massages
Walking Group
Drumming

Keynote Speakers

Emily May

Emily May, who launched Hollaback! at the age of 24 and became executive director at 29, will share her personal story of how she came to lead an international movement. She’ll talk about being told she was “too young”, that sexual harassment “didn’t matter” and “would never end” and learning how to do it anyway. Emily offers a bold new vision for a world without street harassment, and teaches that the elevation of all of our voices is the key to changing the world.

Dr. Marilyn K. Howard

Dr. Howard, Humanities professor at Columbus State Community College specializing in American Civilization and African American History , will speak on the history of sexual and intimate partner violence in America, the reaction of social media and the criminal justice system to that violence, changing views of the problem and how the lack of social justice in this particular area exacerbates this issue.

Leah Aldridge

Leah Aldridge, an expert in youth violence prevention and consultant who has worked with a number of violence prevention organizations, including Peace Over Violence in Los Angeles, will explore the application of a social justice approach to sexual and domestic violence prevention work, and make the case for why sexual and domestic violence prevention programs benefit from using such an approach.

Stephanie Trilling

Stephanie Trilling of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center’s “Be Safe” project, will address some of the benefits and challenges to working with young people around social media. The overarching goal of the presentation will be for audience members to examine their own beliefs and behaviors around using social media to engage youth in a responsible and effective way.

Scenarios, USA

Scenarios USA is a leader in creating socially conscious films developed by youth. Their latest film “Speechless” deals with sexual assault experienced by a male survivor. We will be joined by the films creator, Roxanne Lasker- Hall, and the organizer of the social media campaign that supports the film, Erin Fisher. This presentation will demonstrate the intersection of social justice and social media.

Conference Location

Conference Center at OCLC
6600 Kilgour Place
Dublin, Ohio 43017
614.764.6000

The conference site does not provide lodging. A limited number of sleeping rooms have been reserved for the evenings of June 25-26, at a reduced rate, at:

Hampton Inn Dublin
3920 Tuller Rd.
Dublin, Ohio, 43017
614-889-0573

To receive the reduced rate when making reservations, please mention that you are with the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence group block. Reservations must be made before June 1.

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Contact Us

For General Conference Questions

Jasmine Finnie, Statewide Prevention Coordinator

216.658.1381, ext. 123; jfinnie@oaesv.org

For Registration Questions

216.658.1381; info@oaesv.org

Funding for this conference was made possible in part by the cooperative agreement award Cooperative Agreement Number CE13-1301 from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The views expressed in written conference material or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessary reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.