CALCASA Institute, 2009 in Hawaii!
Posted on February 24, 2009 by Savvy Group
We have recently returned from our trip to beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii for the 2009 CALCASA (California Coalition Against Sexual Assault) Institute http://www.calcasa.org/. We learned so much from so many wonderful presenters and have returned with renewed energy to put towards our prevention of violence against women at USD! There were four of us that attended the three day conference. We had the opportunity to choose from many different topics addressing sexual assault, intimate partner violence and stalking. We are very excited to have brought back new ideas for SAVVY!
If you are interested in learning more about the topics that were addressed at the institute, please visit the following websites!
The Real Men of MSU (Montclair State University,New Jersey)
Center for Non-violence and prevention programs
www.montclair.edu/RealMen or http://www.montclair.edu/cnvpp/index.html
--This session described the creative way the cnvpp at Montclair State University got their male students involved in preventing violence!
Voices and Faces Project, Anne Ream, Chicago, Illinois. http://www.voicesandfaces.org/
--Voices and Faces is a literary documentary of survivors of sexual assault. This project sheds light on the true humaness of each person by using their real stories accompanied by their pictures and names.
Our Sisters in Indian Country, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Tribal Court Clearing House: www.tlpi.org
Amnesty International: Maze of Injustice www.amnestyusa.org/women
--The issues of domestic violence and sexual assault were addressed in this session. Native American women are faced with additional issues when assaulted depending on who's jurisdiction the crime takes place in.
Best Practices Campus Stalking Policy
--Do you know the stalking laws in your state? Are they the same at the University campus? Know your rights!
--South Dakota stalking laws: http://www.ncvc.org/src/main.aspx?dbID=DB_SouthDakota123
University of South Dakota: http://www.usd.edu/studentserv/handbooks/StudentHandbook20082009.pdf Student Code of Conduct begins page 79.
These are only a few of the informative programs we got to attend at the CALCASA Institute. For more information, visit: http://www.calcasa.org/
Tell us what you think! Do you have ideas about how to get USD students involved in the prevention of violence on our campus? We want to hear from you! Email SAVVY! at savvy@usd.edu