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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. Criminalized Survivors: Understanding & Addressing the Abuse to Prison Pipeline for Girls, Yasmin Vafa
Workshop 2. How Girls Experience the Juvenile Justice System, Dr. Vanessa Patino Lydia
Workshop 3. Strength, Resilience, and Her Story: Microaggressions and Racial Trauma Among Black Girls in Schools, Dr. Jasmine Haynes
Track 2: Programming
Workshop 1. Girl-Centered Practice, Dr. Vicky Basra
Workshop 2. Body and Breath in the Healing of Trauma, Linda Manning
Workshop 3. Girl -Centered Practice in practice, Policy Center Programming Staff
Track 3: Advocacy
Workshop 1. See the Girl Monologues: The Power of Narrative Storytelling for Systemic Reform, Corinne Fennelly
Workshop 2. Developing Strong Advocacy Platforms, Carol Wick
Workshop 3. Fighting Time, Dr. Amy Banks and Isaac Knapper
Keynote Speeches
How to stay resilient in the work despite opposition
Thursday, October 26th from 10:00-11:30am
Shawnda Chapman
Shawnda Chapman is a researcher, activist, and the Director of Innovative Grantmaking and Research at the Ms. Foundation for Women. Over the course of her personal and professional trajectory, her work has attempted to address inequality and injustice broadly with an acute focus on centering the needs and experiences of marginalized people. During her address, Shawnda will share tangible insights on how those working for system change can maintain their resiliency, even amongst opposition.
Mental Health Work and Self Care: Caring for the Care-ers
Friday, October 27th from 10:00-11:30am
Dr. Richmond Wynn
Dr. Richmond Wynn is the Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of North Florida. Dr. Wynn's research focuses on the intersectionality of identity, traumatic stress, and health outcomes. In his address, Richmond will explore the role of self care for those involved in mental health work.
System Failures and Trauma: Finding Strength in the Midst of Trauma
Friday, October 27th from 12:35-2:00pm
Amy Banks, M.D. & Isaac Knapper
Amy Banks, M.D. is a Harvard trained psychiatrist, author, and a Founder Scholar of the International Center for Growth in Connection. Isaac Knapper is a boxing head trainer, author, and exoneree. In 1979, their two lives became permanently linked when Isaac was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Amy's father. More than 30 years later the two shared their story in Fighting Time, chronicling the moments from the murder of Amy's father to the first time Amy and Isaac met face-to-face in 2015. In this workshop, Banks and Knapper will explore their story, friendship, work, and the intersection of justice reform and racial injustice.
Track 1: Research
Criminalized Survivors: Understanding & Addressing the Girls Abuse to Prison Pipeline
Thursday, October 26th from 12:35-2:00pm
Yasmin Vafa
First identified in The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls' Story (2015), the Abuse to Prison Pipeline is a term to describe the pathways of gendered violence that lead girls - especially girls of color - into the justice system as a direct result of their victimization. In 2023, the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law and Rights4Girls released an updated report - Criminalized Survivors: Today's Abuse to Prison Pipeline - to examine the current state of the pipeline in the wake of the #MeToo movement, Black Lives Matter movement, and the pandemic. This workshop, led by Rights4Girls Executive Director Yasmin Vafa, will examine the intersection of abuse and system involvement, ways to disrupt the pipeline, and the promising legislative responses that have occurred following the identification of the pipeline.
How Girls Experience the Juvenile Justice System
Thursday, October 26th from 2:15-3:30pm
Dr. Vanessa Patino Lydia
Researchers and advocates for girls have called for juvenile justice system responses that are based on girls' individual needs and context for their offenses. This workshop will present qualitative research findings from Northeast Florida girls who have been incarcerated. Using a girl-centered lens, the research delves into the ways they describe the context for their system involvement (arrest, probation, court experiences), their perceptions and expectations, and their wishes to improve the response by systems. Participants will reflect on girls' wisdom and their explicit calls for changes in the process.
Strength, Resilience, and Her Story: Uncovering Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Racial Trauma Among Black Girls in Schools
Friday, October 27th from 2:15-3:30pm
Dr. Jasmine Haynes
Black girls in school environments often experience a range of racial stressors, including gendered racial microaggressions (Gadson & Lewis, 2019). These microaggressions are subtle yet impactful manifestations of oppression, arising from the intersection of race and gender (Lewis et al., 2016). The psychological toll of gendered racial microaggressions is substantial, leading to adverse effects on mental well-being such as an increased risk of traumatic stress (Moody & Lewis, 2019). While prior research is primarily centered on Black women, attention is shifting towards comprehending the detrimental impact of gendered racial microaggressions on Black girls (Gadson & Lewis, 2019; Nunn, 2018).
This critical dialogue session serves as a contribution to the evolving discourse by examining the connection between gendered racial microaggressions and racial trauma experienced by Black girls in educational settings. Additionally, the session will explore vital implications, encompassing the utilization of Black girls’ strengths and resilience, alongside the creation of nurturing environments that alleviate the burden on their strengths and resilience.
By shedding light on the complex interplay between gendered racial microaggressions and racial trauma faced by Black girls in schools, this session empowers participants to foster a more inclusive and supportive educational environment. Through awareness, understanding, and strategic interventions, we can collectively choose to See the Girl and pave the way for a healthier and more equitable schooling experience for all Black girls.
Track 2: Programming
Girl-Centered Practice
Thursday, October 26th from 12:35-2:00pm
Dr. Vicky Basra
Dr. Vicky Basra, President & CEO of the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center, is a dedicated and renowned advocate for gender equality and the rights of girls, recognized on a national scale for her expertise, leadership, and unwavering commitment to driving positive change. With a remarkable career spanning over two decades in various non-profit leadership roles, Dr. Basra has consistently contributed to research studies that delve into the profound impact of trauma on girls and young women. In this workshop, Dr. Basra will delve into the core tenants of girl-centered practices and share research that underscores the necessity for a holistic, girl-centered approach in reforming harmful policies and practices and advancing the rights of girls.
Body and Breath in the Healing of Trauma
Thursday, October 26th from 2:15-3:30pm
Linda Manning, Ph.D.
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-Centered Practice in practice
Friday, October 27th from 2:15-3:30 pm
Jessie Brumfield, Kim Gallon, Shelby Garner, Sakenia Washington, Whitney Washington • Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center programming staff
This panel discussion, featuring staff members from the Policy Center and moderated by Dr. Vicky Basra, will explore in greater detail girl-centered principles, the continuity of care model, and what the practical application of these principles looks like.
Track 3: Advocacy
See the Girl Monologues: The Power of Narrative Storytelling for Systemic Reform
Thursday, October 26th from 12:35-2:00pm
Corinne Fennelly
Corinne Fennelly, school counselor and private practitioner, has served in multiple leadership roles where she was responsible for spearheading community programs from the ground up. Her passion is to promote the well-being of others through mental health counseling, advocacy, and training. In this workshop, Corinne will underscore the importance of youth-led, girl-centered advocacy, identify opportunities for utilizing advocacy as a healing tool to overcome trauma, and offer insight on current advocacy opportunities.
Developing Strong Advocacy Platforms
Thursday, October 26th from 2:15-3:30pm
Carol Wick
Carol Wick, founder and President of Sharity Global, has decades of success in advocating for reform, engaging key decision makers, and facilitating system change. In this workshop, Carol will offer tangible solutions to engage and influence stakeholders and policy makers.
Fighting Time
Friday, October 27th from 2:15-3:30pm
Amy Banks and Isaac Knapper
From Fighting Time:
Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision on the evening of April 12, 1979, to walk several blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inches from the safety of their hotel, they were accosted by two young men - a scuffle ensued, a shot was fired, and Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time is a tale of two families whose lives became entangled in that moment of trauma.
Isaac Knapper, a sixteen-year-old boy from a nearby housing project, was wrongfully convicted of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. In Maine, the Banks family believed justice had been served by Isaac's conviction, and his exoneration in 1992 unleashed a sea of confusion and grief. In 2015, Dr. Banks' daughter, Amy, a psychiatrist and trauma specialist, realized it was time to unpack her own family trauma. After learning details of the prosecutorial misconduct, Amy and her sister, Nancy, traveled to New Orleans to meet the man wrongfully convicted of killing their father.
In Fighting Time Isaac Knapper and Amy Banks narrate the story of their thirty-six-year journey from murder to meeting with clarity, humility, and vulnerability.
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