Our culture has an ingrained habit of all-or-nothing responses to when harm happens, often focusing on punishment and removal of the person who caused harm from the community, or ignoring the behavior as well as ignoring survivors’ diverse needs. The time is long overdue to examine how to address what accountability for harm means, what […]
The Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence, alongside the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections, sought to build individual and community resilience to prevent sexual violence through the development of the Lupine Story Project, a model program to re-imagine a future free of violence for girls who are incarcerated through the juvenile criminal system. This […]
In 2022, advocates rejoiced as federal legislative efforts to end pre-dispute forced arbitration in workplace sexual assault and sexual harassment cases came to fruition. But we always knew that progress couldn’t end there. An estimated 56% of private-sector non-union U.S. employees are subject to mandatory pre-dispute arbitration by their employers, meaning more than half of […]
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The National Sexual Assault Conference®® (NSAC) is an annual conference that brings together more than 1,500 people to share information, advance learning opportunities, and support professional growth to those who work to address the needs of survivors of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse, to raise awareness about these issues, and to prevent them from happening. […]
