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Expand your knowledge and renew your passion to serve girls at this dynamic gathering of advocates and experts.
Customized workshop tracks allow you to select the experience that most aligns with your learning goals and interests.
3 TRACK OPTIONS:
Track 1: Research
Workshop 1. Status of Girls in Florida
Workshop 2. Black Feminist Framework for Research and Evaluation
Workshop 3. Engaging Girls of Color as Leaders
Workshop 4. Predatory Helpfulness: Tactics Used by Pimps to Recruit and Commercially Sexually Exploit Young Girls and Women
Track 2: Programming
Workshop 1. Girl-Centered Principles in Practice
Workshop 2. Body and Breath in the Healing of Trauma
Workshop 3. Girl Matters: It's Elementary
Workshop 4. What does it look like when the work is survivor led?
Track 3: Advocacy
Workshop 1. Advocating in Partnership with Youth
Workshop 2. See Me Now, Human Trafficking Survivor Panel
Workshop 3. Justice for Girls Blueprint
Workshop 4. The Positive Impact of Storytelling
Keynotes
My Voice, Your Voice, Our Power
Thursday, October 13th from 1:00-2:30pm
Dr. C. Nicole Mason • Institute for Women's Policy Research
A critical component of serving is listening. Dr. C. Nicole Mason uplifts the power of voice through her personal story. Mason uses her platform and power to shift the untrue narratives she commonly encountered about Black women’s experiences. By using her voice and encouraging others to boldly do the same, she charges us all to share our stories, but also to listen with the goal of deeper learning, mutual respect, and greater collective impact.
See the Girl Monologues
Friday, October 14th from 9:00-10:45am
The lived experiences of girls inform every aspect of the Policy Center’s work. Research, Programming, Training, Community Engagement, and Advocacy platforms are all shaped by the stories of the justice system involved girls, young women and those identifying as female we experience in our community. The See the Girl Monologues performance highlights the lived experiences of girls and women told in their own words. Hearing their powerful stories will build empathy and inspire action for audience members and create spaces of belonging for those who take the stage to share their powerful truths.
Track 1: Research
Status of Girls in Florida
Thursday, October 13th from 10:15-11:45am
Dr. Vanessa Patino Lydia, and Vinessa Gordon, MPH • Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
Collecting and using data directly from girls is critical. This workshop will delve into the self-reported indicators of wellbeing of girls in middle and high school in Florida as well as experiences of girls impacted by the justice system. Discussion topics will include education indicators, victimization in school and community, mental health, and justice system trends. The Status of Girls series gives life to the voices of girls and their experiences from across the state.
Black Feminist Framework for Research and Evaluation
Thursday, October 13th from 3:00-4:30pm
Sydney McKinney, Ph.D., MPH, MA & Janaé Bonsu-Love, Ph.D., MA, LMSW • National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI)
In this workshop session, the National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI) will present a Black Feminist Framework for Research and Evaluation, a values-based approach to research and evaluation that speaks to the "power of voice" theme of the See the Girl Summit. Presenters will provide the opportunity to engage in critical dialogue and collective visioning about the framework’s operationalization and application in different settings to best support and center the girls we all serve.
Ms. Foundation for Women, National Crittenton, and GrantMakers for Girls of Color, Young Women's Freedom Center
Experience a thought provoking conversation with national leaders in girls advocacy work to explore the imp
Predatory Helpfulness: Tactics Used by Pimps to Recruit and Commercially Sexually Exploit Young Girls and Women
Friday, October 14th from 11:00-12:30pm
Dr. Vicky Basra, President & CEO • Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
As sex trafficking research becomes increasingly sophisticated, we now recognize that understanding how traffickers entrap and exploit young girls and women is crucial to effectively develop prevention models. These models must shift the focus to the perpetrators' behaviors and away from victim blaming, to create communities that embrace and support the victims impacted by Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE). Research shows pimps use recruitment techniques of love and seduction, housing assistance, access to drugs, and emotional support, as well as, physical violence, debt bondage, and psychological manipulation to entrap women into CSE. Pimps typically use seemingly positive offers to lure young girls and women into a relationship via grooming tactics, then subsequently shift the initial relationship into a sexually exploitive one via recruitment tactics. The goal of this session is to map this progressive sequence, a two-prong process termed ‘predatory helpfulness’ and show how providers can best support victim/survivors by more clearly understanding the coercive tactics used by pimps. We will examine coercive control tactics, trauma-coerced attachment and predatory helpfulness as concepts professionals need to understand to reduce victim blaming and provide better support to victims. This session will identify what might be otherwise undetected coercive behaviors on the part of the pimp. These concepts can inform interventions, policies, and practices of the criminal justice system and better inform us of the impact of commercial sexual exploitation on survivors.
Engaging Girls of Color as leaders
Friday, October 14th from 2:15-3:45pm
Ms. Foundation for Women, National Crittenton, and GrantMakers for Girls of Color
Experience a thought provoking conversation with national leaders in girls advocacy work to explore the importance of research as an advocacy and organizing tool. Experts from leading girl serving organizations will illustrate the importance of organizations partnering with directly impacted girls and girls of color to most effectively serve their needs. Learn how to create pathways to engage girls as leaders in the work.
Track 2: Programming
Girl-Centered Principles in Practice
Thursday, October 13th from 10:15-11:45am
Dr. Lawanda Ravoira, President Emeritus & Dr. Vicky Basra, President & CEO • Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
Three core principles of girl-centered practice are explored: girls as experts, mutuality, and honoring the lived experiences of girls. Join this discussion-based workshop to learn how to implement the key elements of girl-centered practice in day to day interactions with girls.
Body and Breath in the Healing of Trauma
Thursday, October 13th from 3:00-4:30pm
Linda Manning, PhD • Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at Vanderbilt University
Our earliest memories are all implicit memories, stored in the body. Even later memories from traumatic events are often stored exclusively in the body and inaccessible through cognition and “story.” This presentation will describe how we can work with these memories by working with the body and breath through somatic approaches that encourage the healing of trauma.
Girl Matters: It's Elementary
Friday, October 14th from 11:00-12:30pm
Kim Gallon, School-Based Programs Manager • Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
Explore what can happen when you let girls lead. Experienced Policy Center practitioners show how to tap into the power of girls' voices in your programs. This interactive workshop will illustrate how to incorporate girls’ voices and experiences in every aspect of the work from assessments, lesson planning, intern training, partnerships, and service delivery. Leave this experience equipped to create or improve programs and best center the power of girls’ voices in direct services work. Hear real-life and applicable examples of how this innovative approach transforms the way girls are served and their communities are supported. Concepts include group vs. individual sessions, community collaboration, the value of girls' leadership, creative engagement methods, and resource maximization.
What does it look like when the work is survivor led?
Friday, October 14th from 2:15-3:45pm
Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center Survivor Mentors
Human Trafficking work that is survivor-led epitomizes what it means to “See the Girl” in every aspect of the work. The “See Me Now” workshop engages the voices of Survivor Mentors who work to support survivors of commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) as they build new lives after the trauma of trafficking. Through Survivor Mentors’ work and experiences, gain greater insight on how to engage, support, and honor the voices of girls and women, survivors of CSE, and their families. Learn about the unique challenges and barriers to the work and how to overcome them through “The Power of Voice”.
Track 3: Advocacy
Advocating in Partnership with Youth
Thursday, October 13th from 10:15-11:45am
Betsy Dobbins, Founder and Executive Director & Abdul-Hai Thomas, Child and Youth Ombudsperson • Center for Children's Rights
Youth participation refers to how young people can be involved in processes, institutions and decisions that affect their lives. Youth are the best experts on their own experiences. Youth can thrive when given opportunities to be partners with adult allies to engage in radical inquiry and transformative practices for community change. Through this workshop, participants will understand the basic principles and practices of youth participation, strategies for engaging youth in meaningful youth participation, and the intersection of youth participation and youth participatory action research. Participants will engage in embodied restorative practices and reflection in the co-led session with girl leaders from the community.
See Me Now: Human Trafficking Survivor Panel
Thursday, October 13th from 3:00-4:30pm
Panel including three members of the the Sex Trafficking Survivors Leadership Council appointed by the Jacksonville City Council
This panel discussion is open to the public at no charge. Please check in at the registration table to let us know you would like to attend!
Justice for Girls Blueprint 2022: The Way Forward for Florida
Friday, October 14th from 11:00-12:30pm
Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
The Justice for Girls Movement was born in the late 1990’s when Florida policymakers faced a critical crossroads in the state’s approach to treating justice-involved children and teens. More than two decades later, there are still alarming numbers of girls in Florida experiencing sexual victimization, interpersonal violence, unaddressed mental health issues, homelessness, and involvement in the juvenile justice system. Perhaps most shocking, in Florida, police have arrested girls as young as six years old. The Justice for Girls Blueprint: The Way Forward for Florida (2022) is a renewed call to action that addresses the unfinished reforms identified in the first Blueprint published in 2008 as part of the JFG movement. The Blueprint includes the voices of justice involved girls, stakeholders, and leading edge research and identifies where reforms are urgently needed now. Learn how you can be part of this movement.
The Importance of Storytelling
Friday, October 14th from 2:15-3:45pm
Yvette Angelique Hyater-Adams, MA-TLA • Narratives for Change
How might storytelling influence personal choices, community perceptions, and practices leading to policy change? How might silenced voices be heard? When we learn how to tell our most profound truth and connect it with larger practices and policies that do not serve us well, we reveal a new way of seeing. In this interactive and informational workshop, learn how storytelling helps educate, re-imagine, and influence changes in unhealthy practices and policies that liberate the personhood and well-being of women and girls.
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