2025 Conference Overview
Chrysalis Network, the NC State University Counseling Center, and the NC State University Women’s Center are excited to bring you the 12th annual Solving the Campus Sexual Assault & Dating Violence Puzzle International Conference.
As the national lens continues to bring much-needed attention to the crisis of sexual and dating violence, now is the time, more than ever, to spotlight, celebrate, and learn from the transformative prevention and response work being done in and around our campus communities.
This year’s conference will highlight the courageous work of those on campuses and in the community who remain relentless in their push against the cultural norms of silence, victim-blaming, and minimization, to inspire action and healing for justice.
While “Puzzles”, as it has come to be known, facilitates learning opportunities in a traditional conference workshop format, it is also a space grounded in building community through relationships and wellness. Our virtual conference will offer a variety of opportunities for participants to connect with each other, experience mindfulness and wellness activities, and even win cash as part of daily engagement challenges and icebreaker games.
All sessions will be recorded and accessible to registrants for 3 months post-conference.
Please join us on our 12th year as we continue to work together to solve the campus sexual assault & dating violence puzzle.
Why Puzzles?
Yes, there are a ton of conferences out there – what makes this one so special you ask???
Here are our top 5 reasons:
- ACCESSIBLE: A national conference at 1/3 of the cost plus no travel fees. All sessions are recorded so you can watch live and/or at your own pace for 3 months post-conference.
- CONTENT: Focuses entirely on college SA/DV. All presenters are required to incorporate self-care and intersectionality into their sessions.
- PRESENTERS: We bring in headliners, but also spotlight local rock stars; we want the folks who DO the actual work.
- INCENTIVES: As an incentive to network with other participants, play morning games, and to visit our sponsor exhibitor booths, we will award multiple cash prizes per day. Winners will get cash Venmo’d straight to them!
- COMMUNITY: Puzzles is centered on the importance of building relationships and community. Our plentiful and hard-working team strives to create a personalized, connected, supportive, and welcoming conference experience tailored to you. Even though we are virtual, we believe you will continue to feel our personal connection!
Puzzles ’25 IMPORTANT DATES
2/21/25: Advisory Committee Application Due
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The NC State Counseling Center is proud to partner with the Chrysalis Network to bring the “Solving the Campus Sexual Assault & Dating Violence Puzzle” conference again this year. The Counseling Center is dedicated to being a part of the solution when it comes to sexual assault and interpersonal violence. We recognize the impact these traumatic experiences have on survivors, their friends and family, the campus and larger community as a whole. We also know that there is a stigma regarding what it means to be a survivor of sexual assault and interpersonal violence. With this stigma, survivors can feel unseen, unheard and unsupported. We understand how much courage it takes to reach out. We strive to “Stop the Stigma” and want survivors to know that we see you, we hear you and we are here to support you.
The NC State University Women’s Center is proud to co-host the Puzzles Conference this year. As a campus community center focused on addressing gender, equity, and social justice, we are committed to disrupting and dismantling rape culture, challenging harmful narratives, and providing space for healing and recovery for individuals impacted by interpersonal violence. Through this work, we critically examine the links between systemic oppression, interpersonal violence, and survivors’ multiple intersecting identities and traumas, always working to ensure that the voices of BIPOC, queer, and disabled folx are central to the work that takes place in the Center. While the Women’s Center works to end IPV, we are also committed to ending systemic racism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, sexism, ableism, and all forms of interpersonal, institutional, community, and state-sponsored violence that prevent us from realizing our vision of a world that honors, respects, believes, and values all survivors as being loved, worthy, and enough.
Join the Puzzles 2025 Advisory Committee!
Please consider being part of our 2025 team. All are welcome to apply as we appreciate the insight of those who have attended before as well as ideas from folks who have never been. Previous committee members are also welcome to apply.
Accepted committee members will receive:
- free conference registration
- The opportunity to include your agency/campus logo on the website/conference materials as a conference sponsor.
Committee members are expected to:
- Work a total of 10-12 hours from March – December to help with conference planning (i.e. set conference theme, review workshop applications, develop conference agenda, select speakers, etc.);
- Respond to emails within 48 hours (not weekends);
- Attend the entire virtual conference and assist with monitoring sessions.
For more information:
The application should take about 20 minutes to complete and are due by 11:59pm on Friday February 21, 2025.
For More Information:
Juliette Grimmett
juliette@chrysalisnetwork.com
(919) 624-9575