Submissions to the Alternative Justice track should describe successful approaches and programs that center on transformative justice, restorative justice, and other systems of community accountability in the context of responding to sexual violence and promoting healthy communities. Submissions for this track should identify the needs of communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the criminal and legal systems as well as resiliency and strength based factors for success.

Submissions to the Child Sexual Abuse track should describe efforts, strategies and programs that focus on preventing child sexual abuse and/or creating conditions that protect children from harm.

Submissions to the Advocacy in Lockdown track should describe efforts to provide supportive services and institutional advocacy to survivors of sexual abuse and harassment in all forms of detention, including, state and federal prisons, jails, juvenile facilities, and immigrant detention facilities. Submissions may also include strategies to transform the culture of detention facilities to be driven by trauma-informed practices and a culture of consent in collaboration with correctional partners. 

Submissions to the Disability Advocacy and Inclusion track should feature measures that enhance the capacity to serve survivors with disabilities or draw connections between Disability Justice and sexual violence prevention. Submissions should demonstrate practices that: remove barriers for survivors, recognize the spectrum of people who are at elevated risk of harm, emphasize intersecting identities within disability communities, and center on people with disabilities in prevention efforts. 

Submissions to the Immigration track should describe systemic and social movement in promoting changes to immigration policies and a commitment and community collaboration to encourage economic and emotional independence in support of immigrant communities and survivors.

Submissions to the Embracing Movement Leaders track should demonstrate and demystify the barriers to reaching one’s leadership potential and build leadership capacities of emerging leaders, especially leaders of color. Ultimately, submissions must contribute to creating equitable environments in the movement by empowering a diverse group of movement leaders to take the lead in creating social change in their communities.

Submissions to the LGBTQ+ track should describe efforts to transform and elevate foundational and innovative work in queer and anti-violence communities. Track submissions should be rooted in an intersectional, anti-oppression lens that engages participants in critical and thought-provoking conversations and action planning to advance queer and transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex justice in and beyond the anti-violence field.

Submissions to the Decolonizing Victim Advocacy track should identify advocacy efforts that center indigenous knowledge, advocacy and/or activism in the movement to end sexual violence. Ultimately, submissions must expand cultural awareness and resources for indigenous survivors, advance the work of indigenous leaders and/or partnerships with indigenous-led organizations. 

Presentation or workshop submissions to the Prevention category should describe efforts to strengthen and engage states and communities in the primary prevention of sexual assault.  Submissions should feature evidence-based or evidence informed work that draws on the best available research or presents current research that can inform the sexual violence prevention practice field.

Priority will be given to submissions that:

Submissions to the Collective Action for Reproductive Justice track should describe how to engage community leaders and thought partners at the local, state, and national levels to identify a path towards reproductive justice. Track submissions may focus on policy development, community and national mobilization, and creating opportunities to be in conversation with anti-violence and reproductive justice experts.