Track 1 - CHILD ABUSE

Workshop 1: Risk factors for Sexual Offenders
Dr. Jackson Tay Bosley, presenter

This workshop will address known risk factors for sexual offenders based upon relevant empirical research and examine successful treatment methodologies.

Workshop 2: Strategies for Sexual Violence Prevention
Dr. Jackson Tay Bosley, presenter

This workshop will focus on strategies that decrease recidivism among juvenile and adult offenders and results from current programs.

Workshop 3: Building a Movement to Advance Prevention
Cordelia Anderson, presenter

This workshop will present tools to advance prevention and build stronger coalitions, and will present a National Plan that frames child exploitation not only as a public safety issue but also as a public health concern.

Track 2 - Youth Violence

Workshop 1: Risk Factors for Sexual Violence Perpetration
Rus Ervin Funk, presenter

This workshop will examine the dynamics of youth sexual violence, including bullying, the Manhood Box, and prevention strategies that hold boys accountable.

Workshop 2: Model Prevention Strategies
Dr. Dorothy Edwards, presenter

This workshop will examine the bystander role in youth violence, presenting a review of literature, Dr. Edwards’ Green Dot model of prevention, and the risk and protective factors that allow the application of the model to other settings.

Workshop 3: Creating an Institutional Response to Prevent Youth Sexual Violence
Rus Ervin Funk, presenter

This workshop will define sexual violence and examine the ecological framework, the community accountability model, model organizational protocols, and emergent curriculum design as a model of intervention.

Track 3 - DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY COMMUNITY

Workshop 1: Risk Factors for Sexual Violence Perpetration of and by Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Juan Santiago, presenter

This workshop will identify risk factors for sexual violence perpetration in the juvenile and adult communities of developmentally disabled individuals and especially for those offenders on probation.

Workshop 2: Strategies for Increasing Protection of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Juan Santiago, presenter

This workshop will present information for criminal justice professionals, service providers and others to increase their awareness about perpetration in the disability communities.

Workshop 3: Institutional Response to Prevent Sexual Violence in the Disability Community, TBD

Track 4 - GENDER NORMS

Workshop 1: Understanding Perpetrators of Gender Violence
Dr. Alan Berkowitz, presenter

This workshop will provide an overview about men and boy perpetrators, including risk factors for perpetration, personalities and life experiences, the social and environmental variables that may facilitate assaults and individually focused prevention strategies.

Workshop 2: Reducing Male Victimization of Women
Dr. Alan Berkowitz, presenter

This workshop will examine the research on effective strategies and provide guidelines for effective community collaboration, including empathy induction, teaching men and boys about consent, and fostering bystander interventions.

Workshop 3: Impact of Socialization on Prevention Work
Dr. Dorothy Edwards, presenter

This workshop will explore issues of gender inequity, review historical approaches to addressing gender issues, and pose new directions for creating institutional level change through bystander strategies.

Track 5 - MEDIA

Workshop 1: Risk Factors for Sexual Violence Perpetration
Dr. Kristin Keenavy, presenter

This workshop will examine the effect of media messaging on potential perpetrators from a sociological perspective.

Workshop 2: Strategies for Working With the Media
Cordelia Anderson, presenter

This workshop will examine media as part of the problem as well as part of the solution to prevent sexual violence perpetration, presenting strategies to bring media and advertisers to the table.

Workshop 3: Using Media to Change Cultural Norms
Dr. Alan Berkowitz, presenter

This workshop will examine the research on effective and ineffective media campaigns and discuss approaches to using media (including marketing the positive and the social norms approach) to change cultural norms that foster violence against women.