The 2022 conference will once again be held 100% online using state-of-the-art virtual conferencing software to bring you the best possible experience from the safety of your homes.
GETTING READY FOR THE CONFERENCE
Once you’re registered, here are the steps to access the virtual conference platform! PLEASE set-up your account before Friday 12/2 so we can help you if needed.
ACCESSING THE CONFERENCE
The conference will be hosted via Whova, a web conferencing platform. You MUST create an account with Whova to access both the weblink (best for presenting and viewing conference sessions), AND the Whova app (best for quick access to your schedule, easy network, etc – Apple/Android.). Please use CHROME to access all live sessions.
Only those registered for the conference will be able to set-up an account as it is tied to the email you registered for the conference with.
You should have received an email from me/Whova to create your account. If you are unable to find it, go HERE and don’t forget to write down your password so you remember it on conference opening day! You can also download the Whova app with the same password.
The Whova Attendee Guide is also an excellent resource as you navigate the online event space!
ENGAGE WITH PARTICIPANTS AND SPEAKERS NOW!
One unique advantage to a virtual conference is the opportunity to engage with the conference community ahead of time. Through Whova, you can start discussion boards about topics you care about, post information on upcoming trainings/conferences and even job opportunities, as well as meet participants, and ask presenters questions before the workshops begin. Start using the app and make the most of your virtual conference experience!
PLUS, the top 3 participants with the most app engagement before the conference begins will receive cash prizes. GET STARTED!
We can’t wait to “see” you soon!!!
2022 Conference Overview
2022 marks the 9th Annual Solving the Campus Sexual Assault & Dating Violence Puzzle International Conference, brought to you by Chrysalis Network, the NC State University Counseling Center, and the NC State University Women’s Center. Though it looks different under the current circumstances, with 100% virtual programming, we are bringing you the same great content that you’ve come to value every year, and that many of you experienced with us during the past 2 years.
While “Puzzles”, as it has come to be known, facilitates learning opportunities in a traditional conference format, it is also a space grounded in building community through relationships and wellness. Past participants regularly share that they feel connected, supported, inspired, and rejuvenated. Even though we will be virtual this year, we will do everything possible to continue to offer these opportunities. Please join us as we connect in a new way to work together to solve the campus sexual assault & dating violence puzzle.
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CONFERENCE MOBILE APP
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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.
Schedule at a Glance
All Concurrent Breakout Sessions will be live with most recorded so that attendees can access the sessions on their own time for up to 3 months after the conference.
All times are Eastern Standard Time
Wednesday, December 7
11:30-11:55am Welcome
12-1pm Taylour Neal: Mama, Auntie, ‘n Them: The intergenerational impact of Domestic Violence on multiple generations
1-1:30pm BREAK
1:30-2:45pm Breakout Session 1
3-3:30pm Poster Sessions
3:30-3:45pm BREAK
3:45-5pm Breakout Session 2
Thursday, December 8
11:30-11:45pm Welcome and morning game
11:45-1pm Gabrielle Evans: Keeping it Real: How Sex Among College Students Influences Sexuality Education and IPV Prevention Work
1-1:30pm BREAK
1:30-2:45pm Breakout Session 3
2:45-3pm BREAK
3-4:15pm A panel discussion: Beyond Gender Neutrality: LGBTQ+-Affirming Prevention Across the Social Ecology
4:30-5:30pm Veronica Quinonez: Music Through Self-Care
Friday, December 9
11-11:15am Welcome and morning game
11:15-12pm Veronica Quinonez: Creating Educational Tik Tok Videos
12-1pm Facilitated Learning Circles
1-1:30pm BREAK
1:30-2:45pm Breakout Session 4
3-3:30pm Poster Sessions
3:30-3:45pm BREAK
3:45-4:15pm CJ Suitt: Voice, Story, Healing: A Way Back To Wholeness
4:15-4:30pm Close
Poster sessions, discussion boards, and self-care “rooms” and activities available throughout the day each day.
Workshops & Poster Sessions
2022 Workshops
Addressing Serial Perpetrators on College Campuses by Connecting Survivors
Callisto: Tracy DeTomasi, CEO
Advocating for Inclusive Sex Education for Youth with Disabilities
North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services: Zoe Eriksen, Administrative Specialist & Laura Toptine, Transition Counselor
An Interprofessional Taskforce on Interpersonal Violence Education: Bringing Awareness through Simulations
University of Texas at Arlington: Karla Arenas-Itotia, Assistant Professor of Practice & Rachel Voth Schrag, Assistant Professor of Practice
Anti-Oppression Burnout: How to Keep Going
Fulton Consulting, LLC: Deena Fulton, Principal Consultant; & Legacy-NC Enterprises LLC: Chimi Boyd-Keyes, CEO & Founder
Approaches to addressing institutional harm and oppression at work
George Mason University: Courtney Diener, Associate Director; & Cultivating Consent, LLC: Caitlyn Largent, Co-Founder
A Sex & Relationships Education Workshop for Students: A How-To Guide
Central Washington University: Katie Parks, Health Promotion Coordinator for Violence Prevention and Response
Bystander Intervention and the Adultification of Black Youth
CBK Enterprises: Chimi Boyd-Keyes, CEO & Founder
Centering Inclusive Sex Ed in Prevention Programming
Dr. Andy Thyrring: Independent Preventionist and Educator Consultant; & King County Public Health: Isabella Kent, Sexual and Reproductive Health Educator
Centering Student Voices: Facilitating Identity-Based Listening Sessions to Improve Interpersonal Violence Services
National Organization for Victim Assistance: Em Alves, Campus Program Manager
Confidently Navigating Title IX Change: Identifying and Applying Best Practices in Times of Legal and Regulatory Upheaval
Bernstein Shur: Amanda Norris Ames, Shareholder, Co-Chair Investigations & Resolutions Team, & Kai McGintee, Shareholder, Co-Chair Investigations & Resolutions Team
Designing environmental and situational interventions to prevent sexual violence: Building your campus evidence base
Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault: Maddy LaCure, Policy Advocate for Prevention and Education; & Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Patricia Mahoney, Research Technical Lead
Drafting Clear, Thorough, and Consistent Reports: Writing Best Practices for Title IX Professionals
Bernstein Shur: Amanda Norris Ames, Shareholder, Co-Chair Investigations & Resolutions Team; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Tosha Barnes, Director of Investigations; & University of Denver: Stuart Evans, Deputy Equal Opportunity Coordinator/Senior Investigator
Let’s Really Talk About Porn
Dr. Andy Thyrring: Independent Preventionist and Educator Consultant; & Kaiia Eve: Adult Film Maker
Restorative Responses to Campus Sexual Misconduct: Pathways to Accountability & Repair
RK Resolution LLC: Rachel King, Restorative Justice Practitioner
STARRSA: Research informed Intervention for Students who Engage in Sexual Misconduct
DSM Consulting: Joan Tabachnick, Principal; & Klancy Street: Jay Wilgus, Principal
Strength-based Student Leadership: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Building More Inclusive Violence Prevention Volunteer Programs
University of South Florida: Jacqui Simmons Groves, Violence Prevention Coordinator
The Intersections of Sexual Violence, Ableism, Diet Culture, Weight Stigma, and White Supremacy: Prevention Informed by the Experience of Bodies
George Mason University: Courtney Diener, Associate Director; & Cultivating Consent, LLC: Caitlyn Largent, Co-Founder
2022 POSTER SESSIONS
A Review of Trauma-Informed Approaches to Higher Education
George Mason University: Courtney Diener, Associate Director
Consequences and Methods of Reducing Victim Blame toward Sexual Minority Survivors of Sexual Intimate Partner Violence
University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Michael Brienzo, Graduate Research Assistant
Elements of an informal resolution agreement, guided by principles of Restorative Justice
Bernstein Shur: Britt Swett, Attorney & Amber Attalla, Attorney
Sponsorship Application
This conference is made possible by generous sponsors who support this work!
Mama, Auntie, ‘n Them: The intergenerational impact of Domestic Violence on multiple generations
In this presentation, inspired by her own story, Taylour will share how the trauma of domestic violence appears in intergenerational patterns and impacts black womanhood. As supported by epigenetic research and storytelling on college campuses, the ancestorial impact of resiliency lives inside the bodies of family members of survivors.
Taylour Neal
![[Photo: Lydia smiles and tilts their head slightly to the side, looking confidently at the camera. They are a young-ish East Asian person with a streak of teal in their short black hair, wearing glasses, a cobalt blue jacket and navy tie, with a blue copper wall behind them. Photo by Sarah Tundermann.]](https://www.chrysalisnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Taylour-Neal.png "Taylour Neal")
Taylour Neal is currently serving as the Director of Campus Services at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Her passion for victim advocacy stems from her experience creating space for social justice, equity and healing others through motivation to be their authentic selves. Her previous roles have included therapy, crisis intervention, education, prevention and advocacy for students, policy creation and revision, facilitating faculty/staff, Title IX and student trainings about the issues of sexual violence, domestic/dating violence and stalking. Taylour Neal also founded Healing In Authenticity, PLLC to center the needs of Black people, POC folks and LGBTQ communities; HIA strives to provide accessible therapy services to clients who seek person-centered, trauma informed therapy, training and culturally affirming apparel and resources. Taylour received her Masters of Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She is currently a Nationally Certified Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate. Taylour also identifies as a mother, wife and dog mom who loves to binge movies and television!
Keeping it Real: How Sex Among College Students Influences Sexuality Education and IPV Prevention Work
Sex education is a multidimensional topic and critical across the lifespan for all identities. For many students, comprehensive sexuality education isn’t taught at the high school grade level. This leaves many students going to college with little to no information on topics such as healthy relationships, sex, pleasure, or even consent and a gap to be filled by colleges and universities. This keynote will review how the current ways in which college students are engaging in sex and how the work of prevention educators, victim advocates, and counselors needs to consider what sex looks like through the lens of college students. This keynote will further address these items with consideration for those with marginalized identities including but not limited to LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and PWD.
Gabrielle S. Evans
![[Photo: Lydia smiles and tilts their head slightly to the side, looking confidently at the camera. They are a young-ish East Asian person with a streak of teal in their short black hair, wearing glasses, a cobalt blue jacket and navy tie, with a blue copper wall behind them. Photo by Sarah Tundermann.]](https://www.chrysalisnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Gabrielle2.jpg "Gabrielle2")
Gabrielle S. Evans , PhD(c), MPH, CHES (she/her) is a sexuality educator and researcher from North Carolina and a proud citizen of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe. Gabrielle has taught comprehensive sexuality education since 2016, facilitating programs for faith-based organizations, providers, and Native American adolescents. Gabrielle is also a doctoral student at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston pursuing her Ph.D. in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on reducing sexual health disparities among Native American populations and analyzing the impact of historical and present traumas on Native sexual health. As a sexuality educator and researcher, Gabrielle hopes to expand research on Native sexual well-being.
Beyond Gender Neutrality: LGBTQ+-Affirming Prevention Across the Social Ecology — A panel discussion
Campus sexual and relationship violence prevention efforts have a history of focusing on cisgender heterosexual students. Many prevention educators have sought to foster greater LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer) inclusion by making prevention efforts gender neutral. However, LGBTQ+ students are often targeted for violence because they do not conform to rigid gender norms. Therefore, intentional efforts to center LGBTQ+ students are needed. This panel builds on findings from a qualitative study led by Dr. LB Klein that involved interviewing 32 LGBTQ+-identifying and -serving prevention educators about how current campus prevention efforts include and exclude LGBTQ+ students and prevention strategies across the social ecology to better affirm LGBTQ+ students.
Kamaria Excell
Kamaria Excell is a Black Queer Feminist, Doula, and Social Worker with a decade of experience in community engagement, violence prevention, birth, and community work. Originally from California she credits her arts-based lens to the vibrancy of South Central LA. Her diverse work experiences have equipped her with the skills to adequately create curriculum and facilitate programming related to sexual health, social justice, anti-oppressive social work, and self-awareness regarding themes of power, privilege, race, and oppression. Having been trained in Black Feminist Theory and Praxis at Spelman College she is sincerely invested in making a lasting impact through the mobilization of decolonial practices in fighting for the abolishment of structural and systemic barriers to equity for BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities. Her approach to this work centers the power of creative expression through the arts, storytelling, Reproductive Justice and rootedness in the Diaspora.
Gisella Lie
Gisella Lie (she/they) is a medical doctor from Indonesia. She is an MPH candidate from Gillings School of Global Public Health at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to starting graduate school, she worked as a general practitioner in Indonesia for two years. Over the summer, she completed a practicum experience with Dr. LB Klein of University of Madison-Wisconsin on campus sexual violence prevention among LGBTQ+ students’ population in the US, doing research translation and developing a toolkit for violence prevention practitioners. This is going to be her first experience as a panelist, and she is excited to share what she has learned.
Alex Nelson
Alex Nelson (they/them) is a Violence Prevention Specialist within University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The primary responsibilities of their role include administering required first-year violence prevention education programs for undergraduates including the online U Got This! program and the homegrown GetWIse@Home online program series. They also advise the UW-Madison student organization, Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment (PAVE-UW). Their professional interests include queer and trans perspectives on violence prevention, peer education, and leveraging technology to advance violence prevention education initiatives.
Rachel Stewart
Rachel Stewart (she/they) is currently the Director of the Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program at the University of New Hampshire. Prior to joining UNH in October 2022, Rachel was the Director of Sexual Violence Prevention and Advocacy at Connecticut College for nearly four years, with additional roles as Coordinator of the Gund Intergroup Dialogue Project and as Adjunct Professor in the Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies department. They have also held roles as Bucknell University’s Interpersonal Violence Prevention Coordinator, and within the Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life. Rachel began her work in the field in 2011 when she was hired as an undergraduate Peer Educator within UConn’s Violence Against Women Prevention Program (VAWPP) . They graduated from the UConn Honors Program in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, having written an honors thesis about how college students understand and communicate consent. Rachel also holds a Master of Education degree in Higher Education from Harvard University.
Voice, Story, Healing: A Way Back To Wholeness
How do we see ourselves in order to see each other more clearly? This session will be a poetic tribute to you; the survivors, the advocates, the prevention educators, the counselors. The world is a better place because of the work you have done and are doing.
CJ Suitt
CJ SUITT (he,him/they,them) is a performance poet, arts educator, and community organizer from Chapel Hill, NC, whose work is rooted in storytelling and social justice. CJ was recently appointed as the first Poet Laureate of Chapel Hill, NC.
CJ co-directed, produced, and starred in a historical reenactment of the 1947 Freedom Rides, performed at many national and local music festivals, including Gnarnia, Shakori Hills and Bonnaroo, and acted in a production of Hands Up: 6 Playwrights, 6 Testaments. His career as an educator has allowed him to work with young people awaiting trial at the Durham Youth Home, older inmates whose voices have been silenced within the Orange County Correctional Facility, and high school and college-aged men pushing to redefine masculinity in their schools and communities. Additionally, he has collaborated with organizations such as Transplanting Traditions, Benevolence Farm, and Growing Change on the intersection of storytelling and food justice.
He is committed to speaking truth to power and aims to be a bridge for communities who can’t always see themselves in each other.
Thursday: Using Music For Self-Care
Friday: Creating Educational Tik Tok Videos
Veronica Quinonez
Veronica Quinonez has nearly 15 years of equity and violence prevention experience in the field and a Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University. Her subject matter expertise has guided national, statewide, and countywide violence prevention and equity initiatives. Her academic and professional background have equipped her with content expertise in anti-oppression approaches to power based violence and diversity, equity, and inclusion to improve workplaces for marginalized staff. Veronica infuses public health violence prevention approaches with DEI in order to achieve behavior change and organizational culture change.
OVW Grantees and Continuing Education Credits
We have submitted a request for OVW Grantees from Campus, LAV, State Coalitions, and STOP programs to be allowed to use funds to attend Puzzles. We have received OVW approval for Puzzles every previous year and we hope and expect to again. Check back for updates.
***This conference has been approved for 12.50 Continuing Education credits, by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC)***
The NC State University Counselor Education Program and Chrysalis Network are cosponsors of this program. This cosponsorship has been approved by NBCC. The NC State University Counselor Education Program is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP 4096. The ACEP solely is responsible for this program, including the awarding of NBCC credit.
Social Workers should be able to get CE approval from their state board. All those needing CEs/CEUs will need to attend the entire conference and complete online conference evaluations for each session.
Scholarship Opportunities
Harassment Free NC Scholarship
Thank you to Harassment Free NC for funding 8 conference registrations!
Applications are due November 28, 2022, with notifications made by December 1, 2022. Please note, if you apply and do not receive the scholarship, we will offer you the early registration rate.
The Chrysalis Network Whole Circle Scholarship
A registration scholarship designed to support students, advocates, and prevention professionals who self-identify as belonging to neurodiverse or disability communities. In the spirit of “Nothing about us without us,” this scholarship was initiated by an Autistic advocate and survivor and seeks to increase visibility and support for individuals from these marginalized communities who work to end violence in all of its forms. Applications are due by November 28, 2022, and notifications will be made by December 1, 2022. Current funding provides for 5 scholarships. If you would like to donate to provide additional registration opportunities for this scholarship, please do so via Eventbrite.
All applications will be kept confidential among the small group of reviewers from the Puzzles Advisory Committee.
Child Policy
Child policy: We recognize and honor the challenges that come with being a working parent/caregiver/guardian – this year more than ever. A virtual conference provides more flexibility for childcare and we want to emphasize that we fully support children being with you while you are participating in the conference. In other words, if a child or baby is sitting on your lap while you are listening to a session, great! In fact, for many of us, seeing babies and children gives us comfort in such difficult times. So, please do you. Chrysalis Network will always fully support your childcare and nursing needs. Please contact Juliette for any questions: (919) 624-9575 or juliette@chrysalisnetwork.com.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
If you cancel your registration prior to November 1, 2022 you will receive a full refund, minus a $25.00 processing fee. You can receive a 50% refund minus the $25 processing fee if you cancel between November 1-November 14. No refunds will be given after Nov 15, 2022. Please submit cancellation and refund requests to Juliette.
In the event that Chrysalis Network must cancel the entire conference due to unforeseen circumstances such as illness, your registration fee will be transferred to the 2023 conference. You will be responsible for paying the remaining difference in the registration fee. No refunds will be issued. Additionally, Chrysalis Network does not assume responsibility for any additional costs, charges, or expenses such as those associated with travel, lodging, and per diem for the 2023 in-person conference.
If you register as a single campus/organization representative and other members from your campus or organization register at a later date, upon notification and confirmation, you will be reimbursed for your overpayment. Similarly, if you register as a multiple campus representative and you are the only representative, you must pay the difference no later than November 14, 2022 or your registration will be cancelled and subject to the refund schedule listed above.
For More Information:
Juliette Grimmett
juliette@chrysalisnetwork.com
(919) 624-9575