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2011 Membership Welcome Packet
Thank you for renewing your MNCASA Membership in 2011! Please check out your Welcome Packet for 2011. Click on the links below to learn more about MNCASA staff, services, website, and more!
Advocating in Child Sexual Abuse Cases Presented on 12/14/11
Child sexual abuse is a form of sexual violence that carries an enormous amount of heartbreak and outrage. With current events in the media like Penn State, it leaves us with so many questions and frustrations. How do we as advocates provide quality advocacy to those in our communities impacted by child sexual abuse, to the children who are subjected to the violence and to the families that love them? This webinar will provide an overview of key issues in child sexual abuse cases with a focus on how advocates can support victims and their families. Please join Lauren Pilnick for this presentation and discussion. Ms. Pilnick has knowledge and experience as an advocate, and also brings a perspective as a Penn State alumni and former student athlete.
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Presented on 10/12/11
Bobbi Holtberg, Program Manager at the MN Coalition for Battered Women and Karla Bauer, Membership Services and Communications Coordinator at the MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault presented about the dynamics and issues behind intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) as it relates to advocacy. IPSV crosses over both advocacy movements of sexual assault advocacy and domestic violence advocacy. It is vital that we find a collaborative response within our advocacy organizations and allies to respond to victim/survivors.
Some of the topics included in this webinar were:
The Prevalence of IPSV
The Impact of IPSV on Victims/Survivors
Responding to IPSV Within Your Communities
Risk Factors for IPSV Victim/Survivors
The Best College Parties Prevent Sexual Violence Presented 9/28/11
Parties and college are like books and classes. They just go together. For many, parties are a critical aspect of the college experience. Unfortunately, party environments often support domination, disrespect or violence against women. This can negatively impact individuals as well as the entire campus community.
The reality is that men are responsible for most of these damaging behaviors, and others are left to deal with party environments that become uncomfortable and dangerous. The party scene, however, does not have to be overshadowed by discomfort, fear and violence against women.
MN-MAN is working with college students to develop a Woman Friendly Party Guide for shaping safe, respectful and fun party environments that will prevent sexual assault. Through this webinar, the presenters will share the process for utilizing a public health, primary prevention model to assess the party environment and illustrate a concrete model for shaping the environment to prevent violence against women.
Self-Injury and Sexual Violence Presented 7/13/11
Self-injury is when a person inflicts physical harm on her/himself. Some victims of sexual violence may use self-injury to cope with the emotions s/he is experiencing because of the sexual violence s/he was subjected to.
Stacey Klempnauer, MSW, LICSW, talks about what self-injury is, how it is used as a coping mechanism, and how advocates can support the victim/survivors they work with who are coping through self-injurious behaviors.
Relationships Matter: Engaging Immigrant Communities in Volunteerism Presented 4/27/11
"Minnesota has experienced dramatic changes in population diversity over the last 25 years. Once a state of Northern European ancestry, Minnesota's diversity growth rate continues to be one of the highest in the United States" (Moua, 2009). Minnesota's population is increasingly becoming more diverse and it's not just happening in the Metro. According to Wilder Research (2010), every area in Greater Minnesota has seen increases in immigrant populations, some more than others. With changing demographics, it is imperative that sexual assault programs begin building relationships with Immigrant communities to provide more inclusive services and to engage Immigrant communities in volunteering.In this webinar, Dr. Mai Moua addressed the importance of engaging immigrant communities, and helped programs understand how relationships are formed in immigrant communities, articulate intentions for developing relationships with immigrant communities, and explore strategies to improve relationships with immigrant communities.
Sexual Violence and People with Disabilities Part II Presented 5/4/11
In the first webinar, participants examined sexual violence in relationship to the individual challenges people with disabilities experience as a survivor.
Part II took place Friday, March 4, 2011 and it explored sexual violence in a larger context for people with disabilities. In the webinar, the problem of sexual violence for people with disabilities was examined on a systematic level. The webinar introduced the integrated ecological model as well as The Spectrum of Prevention as tools to identify specific action that individuals and communities can do for long-term systematic change. It was tailored to provide specific approaches for sexual violence advocates.
Sexual Violence and People with Disabilities Presented 1/26/11
The Sexual Violence and People with Disabilities webinar was scheduled for Wednesday, January 26, 2011. This is the first of two webinars to address the full scope of sexual violence among people with disabilities.
Train the Trainer Follow Up
The Train the Trainer Follow Up webinar was on Thursday, February 24, 2011. This webinar provided a brief overview of what was covered at Train the Trainer, addressed additional training concerns and questions that came up during the training, and began to address volunteer management issues. The handouts that were discussed on the webinar are below. If you are interested in listening to the webinar, please contact Cher Hamilton, chamilton@mncasa.org to request the audio file.
The Undetected Rapist (6 minutes)
Dr. David Lisak re-enacts one of his interviews with an “undetected rapist” revealing the predatory nature of man non-stranger rapists. In the interview, the rapist, who was never reported or prosecuted, callously describes how he planned and executed the rape of a young college student. This video is available for purchase for $15 from the National Judicial Education Program http://www.legalmomentum.org/our-work/vaw/njep-resources-sexual-assault-the-undetected-rapist.html
Spin the Bottle, 2004 (45 minutes)
Spin the Bottle examines the culture of alcohol on college campuses, the role of advertising, gender roles, and sexual violence with perspectives from college students, Jackson Katz, and Jean Kilbourne.This video is available for purchase from the Media Education Foundation http://www.mediaed.org/
Stop Sexual Violence: Listen and Lead, 2009 (30 minutes)
Four Minnesotans tell how sexual violence changed them, but did not claim them. Listening to their stories can be difficult, but they survived because others listened. As survivors, civil and law enforcement leaders, and advocates tell us, listening is not enough. Stop Sexual Violence: Listen and Lead shows us how every Minnesotan has a role to play in bringing an end to sexual violence. Copies are available for free from MNCASA.
Killing Us Softly 3, 2000 (34 minutes)
In fascinating detail, Jean Kilbourne decodes an array of print and television advertisements to reveal a pattern of disturbing and destructive gender stereotypes. Her analysis challenges us to consider the relationship between advertising and broader issues of culture, identity, sexism, and gender violence.This video is available for borrowing from MNCASA. This video is available for purchase from the Media Education Foundation http://www.mediaed.org/
Killing Us Softly 4, 2010 (45 minutes)
In this new, highly anticipated update of Jean Kilbourne’s pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, she takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes -- images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.This video is available for purchase from the Media Education Foundation http://www.mediaed.org/
Tim Wise: On White Privilege, Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality, 2008 (57 minutes)
For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color, but to white people as well.
This video is available for borrowing from MNCASA. This video is available for purchase from the Media Education Foundation http://www.mediaed.org/
War Zone, 1998 (45 minutes)
What does it feel like to be a woman on the street in a cultural environment that does nothing to discourage men from heckling, following, touching or disparaging women in public spaces?
Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West believes that the streets are a War Zone for women. Armed with only a video-camera, she both demonstrates this experience and, by turning and confronting her abusers, reclaims space that was stolen from her. This video is available for purchase from the Media Education Foundation http://www.mediaed.org/
Healing and the Pursuit of Justice: Challenging Sexual Assault as a Weapon of War (34 minutes)
Produced to provide information on the situation of women in war and its aftermath, this DVD includes information for anyone who works with survivors of sexual torture and for human rights advocates. It includes an introduction to the issue, treatment issues, and efforts to prevent sexual assault in times of war and its aftermath and to hold the perpetrators responsible. Videos are available for purchase from the Center for Victims of Torture website http://www.cvt.org for $10.00 each (plus tax).
Sentencing the Victim
On June 17, 1988, Joanna Katz's life was changed forever. That night, she and another woman were abducted at gunpoint, taken to an abandoned house in Charleston, South Carolina, and brutally raped, beaten and tortured by five men for more than five hours. SENTENCING THE VICTIM is the story of how a blood soaked 19-year-old was able to walk away from her attackers, save her friend from certain death and continue fighting for the convictions of her assailants—and for the rights of crime victims everywhere. Film available for purchase www.sentencingthevictim.com
The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project
There are videos available to purchase through this website http://www.fgmnetwork.org/index.php
Spin the Bottle, 2004 (45 minutes)
Spin the Bottle examines the culture of alcohol on college campuses, the role of advertising, gender roles, and sexual violence with perspectives from college students, Jackson Katz, and Jean Kilbourne.
This video is available for purchase from the Media Education Foundation http://www.mediaed.org/
Broken Trusts Broken Childhoods, 2007 (58minutes)
Video features four survivor stories, clips from a presentation on sexual exploitation by educators, and interviews with the Dakota County Attorney’s Office. This video is available for borrowing from MNCASA.
The Healing Years (60 minutes)
Video features three incest survivor stories: former Miss America, Marilyn Van Derbur, speaking out; Janice Mirikitani, President of Glide memorial Church, San Francisco, who helps inner-city women addicts to heal from incest; and Barbara Hamilton, a 79-year old survivor who ends three generations of incest in her family. This video is available for purchase for $59 from Big Voice Pictures http://www.bigvoicepictures.com/the-healing-years/
Price of Pleasure, 2008 (55 minutes)
Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries, assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of our popular culture at the same time that its content has become more extreme and harsh, more overtly sexist and racist. This eye-opening and disturbing film tackles the complexity behind this seeming paradox, placing the voices of critics, producers, and performers alongside the observations of men and women as they candidly discuss the role pornography has played in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships. This video is available for purchase from the Media Education Foundation http://www.mediaed.org/
Rape Is, 2003 (32 minutes)
The film features survivors of sexual violence telling their stories; the film addresses the following topics: non-stranger sexual violence, prostitution, pornography, prison rape, child sexual abuse, rape during war, and legal issues related to sexual violence. This video is available for borrowing from MNCASA. This video is available for purchase from Cambridge Documentary Films http://www.cambridgedocumentaryfilms.org/rapeis-ordering.html
My Girlfriend Did it, 2008 re-release
Casa de Esperanza produced My Girlfriend Did It, a documentary film that explores Intimate Partner Violence in lesbian relationships by highlighting the struggles and resilience of women who share the impact of violence in their lives. This video is available to purchase for $150 from Casa de Esperanza http://www.casadeesperanza.org/purchase-products
Stories of Silence
This video follows a three-part path. First, men, unaccustomed to offering up their vulnerability, admit that they were victimized. They come to know the boy they once were. Second, they realize the creativity that underlay their early attempts to survive in a world seemingly without safe harbor. This is why they are survivors. But many men attest to a third stage, an advanced realm of experience that bears many names. In Stories of Silence, it is called "voice," that era of recovery where a man defines himself in his own terms, beyond the abuse and its fallout. It is this final stage that lends uniqueness to Stories of Silence. The film is available to purchase for $35 at https://www.createspace.com/252588
Boys and Men Healing
This video is a documentary about the impact the sexual abuse of boys has on both the individual and society, and the importance of healing and speaking out for male survivors to end the devastating effects. The film portrays courageous non-offending men whose arduous healing helped them reclaim their lives—while giving them a powerful voice to speak out, and take bold action toward prevention for other boys. This video is available for borrowing from MNCASA. This video is available for purchase for $59 from Big Voice Pictures http://www.bigvoicepictures.com/boys-and-men-healing/
No! The Rape Documentary
Produced and Directed over a period of eleven years, seven of which were full time, by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, an incest and rape survivor, this groundbreaking feature length documentary features riveting testimonials from Black women rape survivor stories who defy victimization. This video is available for borrowing from MNCASA. This video is available for purchase from AfroLez Productions http://notherapedocumentary.org/purchase-sexual-assault-prevention-films
Voices Ignored: Sexual Assault of People with Developmental Disabilities, 2002 (34 minutes)
This video raises awareness of sexual assault of people with developmental disabilities and provides guidelines for investigating these crimes. This video is available to purchase for $7 from The Center for Child and Family Studies College of Social Work http://ccfs.sc.edu/images/pdfs/voicesignored.pdf
To connect with other advocate trainers to ask questions, share resources and/or your experiences with the Guide for Trainers, please join the Train the Trainer Forum by visiting this website http://mncasatrainthetrainer.myfreeforum.org/index.php and clicking on Join at the top to create your own user name and password. After you have joined, make sure to click on Watch all forums for new topics (which is under the forums) to ensure you receive messages when people post materials or questions.
Feedback and Questions
Funding for the Train the Trainer Project went through the end of April 2011 so Cher Hamilton is no longer at MNCASA. Please contact Karla Bauer (651) 209-9993 Ext 207 with general training questions, or questions or input regarding Sexual Violence Advocacy in Minnesota: A Guide for Trainers. MNCASA wants the Guide for Trainers to work effectively for programs so any feedback or suggestions to improve it would be appreciated.
