2023
Call for Presenters
DENVER, CO JUNE 5 – 7, 2023
Step 1
Create an Account
Registering is easy. Create your login to submit a workshop proposal.
Step 2
Add Presenters
Add yourself as a presenter. You can also create co-presenters.
Step 3
Add and Submit Your Proposals
Add your proposals. Deadline January 13, 2023, by 5:00 pm MT.
Content
Content will focus on the perspective and experiences of underserved communities, centering the services on the most marginalized survivors. Content aligns with the values espoused by CCASA and Violence Free Colorado. (See CCASA’s values here and Violence Free Colorado’s values here)
Safe & Supportive Space
Conversation should lead inclusive and respectful discussion that allows attendees to learn and process difficult conversations.
Hands-on Transferable or Interactive
Attendees have indicated on their feedback forms they are most interested in sessions that provide hands-on or interactive learning. We encourage presenters to develop their presentation and content with this in mind as opposed to an academic format. We will be prioritizing workshops that will be presenting their content in an innovative non-lecture style format.
Session Wrap-up
Provide a good closing to your session that helps attendees apply what they have learned, feel empowered to act, and feel a sense of closure. There should be a focus on self-care throughout, but especially in the closing.
CAIA 2023 will be in person! Yes, you read that right, we will be hosting the conference in Denver, CO. Stay tuned for our announcement on location and more!
“Without Community there is no liberation”
-Audre Lorde
The Colorado Advocacy in Action Conference is an opportunity to connect, collaborate and create change as we work together to end sexual and domestic violence. We recognize that DV and SA are rooted in multiple forms of oppression, and working to end gender-based violence means working to end oppression on all levels. Here we center the experience of survivors and advocates who face, challenge, and transform multiple systemic barriers in their work toward healing practices. We invite presenters and presentations that amplify stories, center the knowledge of their own intersectional identities, and lift up the wisdom of resilient communities that our movements have historically underserved.
The long-term health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, new waves of racial reckoning, the loss of reproductive choice, and deepening attacks on the legal rights of immigrants, queer and trans-identified people, have made plain the disparities that survivors face based on their identities and access to systemic power. CAIA 2023 will be a place to address the questions of this moment: What new skills, interventions, and technologies have we gained from the last two years? What practices and policies should we leave behind? How can we use our collective and positional power, not just to fill gaps, but to build new ways of advocacy that honor and incorporate the practices of resilient communities?
2023 CAIA Call for Proposals Now Open!
The Deadline is January 13, 2023
We welcome workshops on advocacy beyond services. Here are some questions that you might consider as you prepare your presentation/proposal:
- How has your program innovatively worked with other kinds of service providers (faith, culturally specific, military, sports leaders, etc.) to meet the needs of traditionally marginalized survivors/communities?
- How can we work toward dismantling oppression that is at the root of gender violence?
- How have you centered marginalized communities in service provision and/or your prevention efforts?
- What does advocacy look like? What are emerging issues and best practices that have been successful in your program/community?
- What is the role of a direct service program in prevention within the social movement?
- What is the role of collaborations to best support and engage underserved communities in your area?
Organizational
- Advocates
- staff/volunteers/interns
- Innovative practices
- Language access & justice – ways to get there
- Accessibility
- RJ-importance of finding ways to support people who cause harm.
- Prevention on campuses, education system
- What is going on?
- Systemic policies- staff turnover, staff retention
- Advanced advocacy
- Leadership conversations
- Post institute
- LGBTQIA2S+
Survivor
services
- Topics that discuss rural areas
- multiple intersections of violence and diverse approaches to working with survivors
Prevention education/youth work- primary prevention
- More concerning teens and the age of social media/internet
Intersections of advocacy and health equity services
- connection in community that can support with equity
As cohosts of this conference, we strive for our conference to reflect each of our organizations’ values. Please make sure that your proposal and content falls in line with this commitment.
- Anti-Oppression
- Social Change
- Survivor-Centered
- Accountability
- Collaboration
- Respect
Violence Free Values
- We respect the inherent strengths and self-determination of survivors
- We lead in partnership with survivors, heeding their experiences, and amplifying their voices
- We strive to end relationship abuse by taking bold, courageous actions
- We pursue social justice, knowing that equity is essential to ending relationship abuse
- We advance equality by challenging power-based perceptions, assumptions, and behaviors
- We mobilize grassroots activism to create systems and attitudes that are free of oppression
- We uphold advocacy and social change as essential to advancing our movement
- We act honestly and fairly, even in the face of adversity
All full submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, whether they identify with conference priorities and overall relevance to the conference.