Trauma Conference

The Action Alliance is presenting our first-ever Trauma Informed Approaches Conference May 4-5, 2016 in Charlottesville. We are seeking workshop proposals that are diverse, practical, creative, in line with current trends, and reflect the best thinking in our field of sexual and domestic violence.

Please respond to this survey no later than December 28, 2015.

There will be 3 tracks -Advocacy Track, Clinical, and Community Track. Topics could include:

*Trauma-informed prevention strategies
*Racial justice through a trauma lens
*Resilience
*Survivor perspectives
*Wellness/Self-care
*Voluntary Services Model implementation
*Organizational policies and practices
*ACEs
*Interviewing techniques
*Designing spaces
*Under-served survivors
*Secondary Trauma and Self-Care
*Memory
*Generational trauma
*New theory, integration, and application
*Healing/therapy/counseling
*Witnessing trauma - helping those we love
*Public disasters and trauma including environmental catastrophes
*Disease, public health and trauma
*Political trauma, silencing dissent/voicing dissent
*Social trauma
*Trauma in the workplace
*Experiential trauma work and practical projects
*Cultural barriers to diagnosis and treatment
*Animals and healing
*Medical, therapeutic, and holistic approaches to trauma management

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