Arte Sana is pleased to announce the call for proposals for "NUESTRAS VOCES / OUR VOICES: Collaboration and Transformation en la Comunidad.” The goals of this two-day capacity-building event include: eliminating victim service barriers and engaging our communities as active partners in prevention, risk reduction and advocacy efforts. More information and workshop submission forms in both English and Spanish can be found at http://www.arte-sana.com/nuestras_voces_08.htm

The National Center for Victims of Crime is seeking presenters for its National Conference. The 2008 National Conference, "Responses, Rights, and Resources for Victims of Crime," emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach in sharing promising practices, current research, and effective policies to ensure comprehensive responses, rights, and resources for all crime victims. Our national conference is a forum for law enforcement, victim service professionals, allied practitioners, policy makers, and researchers to share current developments and build new collaborations. Conference sessions will highlight practical information to better support all types of crime victims.
Workshops will address a wide range of topics organized into conference tracks. We are especially seeking multidisciplinary workshops addressing:
* violent crime
* mental health needs of crime victims
* financial/property crime
* underserved populations
* administration and program development, and
* trauma and resilience.
The conference workshop proposal form can both be found at www.ncvc.org , under "Conferences and Trainings." Please complete and return the form to the specified address no later than November 15, 2007. Workshops will be selected and presenters notified by January 15, 2008.

The Sexual Violence Prevention Network, co-hosted by the MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA), the MN Department of Public Safety Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the MN Department of Health (MDH), is a quarterly gathering to support information sharing, networking and collaboration. Anyone interested in or working in the field of sexual violence prevention is WELCOME TO ATTEND. At each SVPN meeting, there is time for both informal and group networking, followed by a presentation on a special prevention topic. The meetings are held quarterly, on Fridays, at various locations around the state, free of charge."

Co-hosted with the Oregon Attorney General Sexual Assault Task Force
The 2008 National Conference will emphasize a multidisciplinary approach to sharing:
- Promising Practices
-Current Research
-Effective Policies
-Research Developments
-Skill-Building workshops
...to ensure comprehesive responses, rights, and resources for all crime victims.

"The National Crime Victim Law Institute is accepting workshop proposals and nominations of outstanding individuals for its award ceremony at the May 30-31, 2008 conference in Portland, Oregon. Entries must be postmarked by January 11 to be considered."

See website for details

"As the only national level conference devoted to prevention, PCAA will have keynote speakers and over 100 workshops with topics related to: effective prevention strategies, non-profit management, parent education and leadership, practical applications for direct service provisions, research, wellness and much more."

UC Davis International Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. See website for more details.

The Family Research Laboratory and Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire invites you to attend the International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference on July 27th -29th, 2008 at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel & Conference Center in Portsmouth, NH.

The 10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Women's Worlds/Mundos de Mujeres 2008 will be held in Madrid, Spain July 3-9, at the Complutense University. The motto of the Congress is "Equality: no Utopia" and the general theme "New Frontiers: Dares, Challenges and Changes". Violence and migrations will be part of the central themes. Please, visit the Congress website at: http://www.mmww08.org

"Engage in a community-wide response to violence against women by including your local communities of faith - without compromising belief systems, nor excluding community services already in place. This 1½ day workshop will focus on fostering working relationships between faith leaders and domestic violence/sexual assault service providers and advocates, while discussing strategies for combining efforts and expertise to better serve our communities. This workshop fosters a peer-to- peer learning environment, offering time for safe and honest dialogue, as well as for sharing promising practices with each other. Participants will design action plans to develop concrete steps in support of collaborative efforts addressing violence against women. Participants will also discuss strategies for stopping the violence before it occurs. Come with partners, or potential partners, from your local communities of faith."

"Inviting abstracts on all areas of family violence, research on methodological issues, as well as research on special populations, with a particular emphasis on minority issues in family violence and child victimization research."

"This national conference will provide opportunities for education, skills building, and strategies on a wide variety of important issues pertaining to victimization in tribal communities."

"The goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art information on various aspects of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. The conference will be of interest to those who are doing research with young people and to those working within child and adolescent mental health, education, social work and youth justice systems."

"This is the national conference for examining issues around alcohol and other drug abuse and violence prevention on college campuses and in their surrounding communities. The 2008 National Meeting theme, "Ensuring the Safety and Well-Being of Our Students: Widening the Lens of Prevention," provides an opportunity for participants to consider the wide array of issues that face college campuses in prevention today, including alcohol and other drug abuse, violence, mental health, and emergency preparedness and management. The National Meeting includes keynote speakers, workshops, town meetings, poster sessions, exhibits, and the National Forum for Senior Administrators cosponsored with The Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues. For complete participation advice, call for presentation proposals, exhibit and registration instructions, hotel and travel information, and agenda details as they develop, please check back often at http://www.higheredcenter.org/natl/2008/."

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