Sexual Health and Disability Education (SHADE), YWCA Metro St. Louis, Missouri

The YWCA of Metro St. Louis, has a full program focused on teaching sex education to folks with disabilities as a component of abuse prevention. The program, called Sexual Health and Disability Education (SHADE), now has 2 full-time staff dedicated to this service. Much of this program is based off of Dave Hingsburger’s work, specifically his Ring of Safety model (6 protective factors for reducing the likelihood of abuse against people with disabilities).

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Post written by Cierra Olivia Thomas Williams, Prevention Specialist at Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Sexual Violence Toolkit by Self-Advocate

Kelsey Cowley (ICADV Disability Consultant) has written and had published a toolkit for self-advocates who want to learn how to prevent sexual violence in their communities. The toolkit called “Starting the Conversation: Addressing Sexual Violence within the Disability Community through Advocacy, Education, and System Change” was recently published by a national agency called Self Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center (SARTAC). This toolkit is so exciting for our field because this is what SVPP (sexual violence primary prevention) can look like when we move beyond consent to consider power. 

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Post written by Cierra Olivia Thomas Williams of Nothing Without Us Collective.  

Webinar 4: Best Practices for Working with People with Disabilities

Description

This webinar will address interpersonal and healthy intimate partnerships, professional policies and implementation, medical and social services, and notes on prevention.

Presenters
  • Skylar Ashton Kantola (she and they, Facilitator), MESA Program Coordinator, Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault, kantola@purdue.edu
  • Jody Powers (she/her), Consultant with Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence
  • Kirat Sandhu (she/her, Tech Moderator), Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking

Closed Captions & Transcript created by Skye Ashton Kantola, MESA Program Coordinator & Reshma Sunil Rawlani, MESA Graduate Student Worker

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Webinar 3: Advocacy & Survivorship

Description

This webinar features a cross disability panel of people who will address how to advocate for survivors with disabilities in the medical system, legal system, and after a crisis.

Presenters
  • Skylar Ashton Kantola (she and they, Facilitator), MESA Program Coordinator, Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault, kantola@purdue.edu
  • Michon Neal (zi/hir, Panelist)
  • Salem Goosby (he and they, Panelist)
  • Moriah Williams (they/she, Panelist)
  • Braycee Dudley (she/her, Panelist)
  • Danielle Pitmon (she/her, Panelist)
  • Kirat Sandhu (she/her, Tech Moderator), Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking

Closed Captions & Transcript created by Reshma Sunil Rawlani, MESA Graduate Student Worker

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