Voices from the Margins – People with Disabilities on Desire

Elevatus is more than a training facility for sexual health competency for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities; it is a wealth of resources. The Elevatus newsletter is always full of free sexual health resources and goodies and this week’s newsletter is no exception. Click on the button below to access “Listening to Self-Advocates Voices: How Shameful, Negative Messages, and Fear-Based Sexuality Education Puts People At Risk”

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Please read the Elevatus article and if you can, track down the original article  Restrictions, Power, Companionship, and Intimacy: A Metasynthesis of People with Intellectual Disability Speaking About Sex and Relationships by Rhonda S. Black and Rebecca R. Kammes, (Intellect Dev Disabil. 2020 Feb;58(1):65-81), pass it on!

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Post written by  Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams, Prevention Specialist, Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV), cwilliams@icadvinc.org.

Webinar 10: Budgeting for Accessibility in Your Primary Prevention Programs

Description

Please join us for a webinar on budgeting time, resources, and funding to prioritize accessibility in prevention programming and organizing. CC Coming soon!

Webinar Outline
  • 5-10 minutes: Housekeeping & introductions (Skye)
  • 20 minutes: Grounding in SVPP & making a connection to budgeting (Cierra)
  • 20 minutes: What is in your budget? (Cierra)
  • 20 minutes: Consumer Education Fund, (Kat)
  • 10 minutes: Attendee questions (Skye)
  • 5-10 minutes: Resource recommendations (Crew)
Presenters
  • Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams (she/her), Prevention Specialist, Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, cwilliams@icadvinc.org.
  • Kat Chappell (she/her), Outreach and Operations Manager, Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities, kchappell@gcpd.in.gov.
  • Skye Kantola (she and they), Programs Coordinator, Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault, kantola@purdue.ed

Closed Captions & Transcript created by Skye Ashton Kantola, MESA Program Coordinator

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#PowerInPrevention CSA Prevention Webinar by PreventConnect

PreventConnect’s January 16th web conference will be discussing sexual abuse prevention efforts inclusive of children with disabilities: #PowerInPrevention Ending Child Sexual Abuse: Updates on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention with Elementary School Ages.

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Webinar 8: Nothing About Us Without Us: Accessible Organizing

Description

As a collaborative team we will discuss what we have learned about organizing sexual violence primary prevention work with people disabilities and through our lived experience as people with various disabilities.

Webinar Outline
  • 5-10 minutes: Housekeeping & introductions
  • 40 minutes: People with Disabilities to the front! (Jody)
  • 20 minutes: Outreach and Process (Skye)
  • 20 minutes: Budgeting for accessibility (Cierra)
  • 10 minutes: Attendee questions
  • 5-10 minutes: Resource recommendations
Presenters
  • Jody Powers (she/her), Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities
  • Skye Ashton Kantola (she and they), Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault
  • Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams (she/her), Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Closed Captions & Transcript created by Skye Ashton Kantola, MESA Program Coordinator

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