NSAC 2023

The National Sexual Assault Conference® (NSAC) brought together over 2,000 advocates and activists invested in ending sexual violence. This annual conference provides opportunities to share information and resources, advance learning, develop new skills, and increase our capacity to assert the dignity of all people. The 2023 conference theme of “Equity in Action” allowed us all the opportunity to build strong partnerships and strategies that will strengthen our work to end sexual violence.

The 2023 National Sexual Assault Conference® was held in-person in San Francisco, CA on August 22-24.

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August 22, 2023

Plenary Speakers

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Sessions

Session 1
Crooked Beads & Other Stories for Decolonization
DAR TESTIMONIO Y EDIFICAR UN COMPROMISO: Ya Basta Center Model/ Modelo de Ya Basta Center
Historical Trauma & Implicit Bias: Addressing their Impacts on LGBTQIA+ BIPOC Survivors
Housing Justice is Violence Prevention: Sustainable, Systems-Based Solutions for Change
Including Athletes with Disabilities in Sport-Based Prevention
Increasing Access and Trauma Informed Approaches to Immigrant Survivors of Sexual Violence Accessing Systems and Institutions.
Introduction to Restorative Justice for Sexual Harm: An Interactive Workshop
Leaning into the YOUR Experience: Drawing from Self, Community Resources, and Technical Assistance to Become a Leader in an Impactful Culturally Specific Organization
Meet Them Where They’re At: Incorporating Harm Reduction Principles in Your Anti-Violence Work
PREA, Investigations, and Audits, Oh My! Providing Institutional Advocacy on Behalf of Incarcerated Survivors 
Purpose, Possibilities, and Practice in Primary Prevention Strategy
Reports are not Supports: Mandatory Reporting Harm Reduction and Childhood Sexual Abuse
Transformative Justice in Practice: Governing Together to Keep Each Other Safe
What Does Equity Mean for COC Communities
When prevention is prevented: Proactive Strategies to Overcome School-Based Program Barriers
Why Decriminalizing Sex Work is a Sexual Violence Prevention Strategy
Session 2
Adding to Options for Survivors: Rape Crisis Centers and Restorative Practices
Conversations About Alcohol and Sex – Changes in Community Norms and Culture
Developing and adapting a flexible statewide evaluation system for Rape Prevention Education in California
Ending the Silence: Advancing Equity Beyond The End of Forced Arbitration in Sexual Assault to All Forms of Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation
From Advocacy to Public Policy Reform: Sexual Empowerment for Persons with Disabilities
How the Survivor Support Movement Can Address Anti-LGBTQ Attacks
Identity as Empowerment: Utilizing our cultural identity for Resiliency and Healing
Lift as We Rise: Introducing the new Culturally Specific Resource Centers
Practicing What We Preach: Cultivating Ani-Oppression Workplaces and Leaders
The Trusted Messengers in Farmworker Communities
The Wayfinding Project: Centering Abolition Feminist Methodologies to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
Understanding the Intersection of Sexual Violence and Reproductive Justice
Use What You Got: A Tool to Move Your Campus Data into Practice
Victim Dynamics: Tribal Perspective
Weekend Warrior & Sexual Assault Survivor: Navigating Justice on Military and Civilian Fronts
Worldbuilding in Practice: Radical Imagination as a Tool for Liberation
Session 3
Best Practices for Case Management and Advocacy Services
Changing the Narrative Through Storytelling: A Live Podcast Recording
From Problem to Partner: Engaging Parents to Address Campus Sexual Assault
Growing RPE Grantee Primary Prevention Efforts to Address Social Determinants of Health
Health, Healing, and Collaboration: Project NACES and a New Safety Card Tool
Navigating Community Engaged Needs Assessments: Strategies for Equity in Action
Rape Crisis Advocacy: Perspective on the TeleSAFE Project
Repairing & Reclaiming: Intersections of Sexual Violence and Sexual Health across the Lifespan (MIWSAC)
Restorative Justice for Sexual Harm: Why I Fought for a Circle, Not a Courtroom
State-Sanctioned Hate: The Impact of the “Culture Wars” on Trans Lives
Still I Rise: From Glass Ceilings to Glass Cliffs
Supporting Survivors with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Cross-Sector Collaboration
The Absence of Equity in Action in Tribal Communities
The Unique and Complex Challenges of Creating Safety Alongside Immigrant Survivors of Sexual Assault
Traumatic Memory and Child Sex Abuse: Here’s What Survivors Want You to Understand for Prevention and Healing
We Thrive Together: Building Narrative Strategies that Hold Space for All of Us

August 23, 2023

Plenary Speakers

Sessions

Session 4
A Human Rights and Public Health Based Approach to Anti-Trafficking Movement Work
Amplifying Black Trans Aliveness: Living Into Your Role(s) For Black Trans Liberation
Building Restorative Justice & Collective Responses to Sexual and Family Violence
Creating Culturally Responsive Interpreting Practices
Digging deeper: Uprooting internalized sexism to support both advocates and their clients
Envisioning Our Futures: Sexual Assault Prevention Strategies
Equity in Accessing Joy as COC Advocates
Lighting the Eight Fire
Measuring Love as Prevention
Navigating Abortion Rights in a Deep Red State- Playing the Long Game
Removing youth from sex offender registries: promoting justice, safety and fairness
Rising Above: Combatting Sexual Violence and Wage Theft in the Non-Union Janitorial Industry
The Messiness Within Communities of Color: Discovering Your Inner Voices to Build Inner Strengths for Social Change
The Trauma of Incarceration
Towards a New Paradigm of Antiracist Health Equity in Primary Sexual Violence Prevention: A New York State RPE Program Health Equity Capacity Assessment Case Study
WeGovern in Practice: Shifting Collective Power by Claiming Governance in Community
Session 5
A Collaborative Approach Model to Providing Trauma-Informed Representation to Immigrant Survivors
A Team Approach: Sex Offender Management
Combatting Sexual Violence Among Bangladeshi Immigrant Women through the Reproductive Justice Initiative
Concepts of Consent from Intimacy Coordination and Sex Work
Empowered Voices: How Truth Telling Commissions Achieve Justice and Healing
Encouraging Understanding Over Child Sexual Abuse Perpetration Prevention
Equity in Action: Beyond All-or-Nothing Responses to Accountability
Everyday Workplace Intervention – A Foundation for Sexual Assault Prevention
Intentionally Erased
Letting Out the Pain from Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Through Poetry and Art ((Dejando salir el dolor de asalto sexual y violencia doméstica a través de poesía y arte)
Promoting Sexual Assault Healing Services to Men
Researcher-Practitioner-Educator-Youth Partnerships to Prevent Sexual and Related Forms of Violence Among Youth
Supporting Incarcerated Deaf Survivors and Survivors with Disabilities
Surviving the Mic: How to Make A Brave Space
The 4 C’s of Leadership Shifting
Utilizing Indigenous Values for Healing and Wellness
Session 6
A Silent Epidemic: The Impact of Sexual Violence & Human Trafficking of Men & Boys
Are We Ready? A Coalition’s Un/Learning Cohort Model for Grappling with Transformative Justice Principles
Beyond Borders: Intergenerational Trauma, Sexual Assault, and Migration
Building Respect on Set
Collaborating to Meet the Housing Needs of Sexual Assault Survivors: Policy, Advocacy, and Beyond
Culturally Responsive Care as a Social Justice Practice
Dignity Restored: Art and Somatics as tools to end Violence
Embodied Healing and Action for Organizers
Engaging Men through an Intersectional Lens
Filling the Leadership Gap: Reducing the Impact of Implicit Bias and Anti-Blackness in the Workplace
How shame and silence were taught in API communities, learning through the implementation of intergenerational approach to prevent and address sexual violence in API communities
Looking to the Experts: Lessons in Community-Led Prevention from New York City Nightlife
Preventing Sexual Abuse through Clinical Intervention and Risk Management: What We Know about Individuals that have Committed Sexual Offenses
The Diaspora of Trans Latinas: Life, Love and Triumphs
The Power of Interconnected Movements: Advancing Reproductive Justice to End Sexual Violence
Vigils, Voices, and Vision – How Criminalized & Stigmatized Workers Organize and Advocate with Intimacy through Art and Creative Expression

NSAC Programs

NSAC 2023 Conference Sponsors 

Thank you to our 2023 National Sexual Assault Conference® sponsors!