Agenda
Multnomah County ANTI-Trafficking Conference 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
8:30 am Check-In and Breakfast - Moriarty Auditorium
9:00 am Event Begins - Welcome by Alix Sanchez, DSVCO Manager
9:10 am Remarks by Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran
9:20 am-10:20 am Lived Experience Plenary Panel (Betty, Dawn, Kat, Nikole, TJ, Wenseay)
10:20 - 10:30 am BREAK
10:30 am - 12 pm Workshop Session 1
Survivor Track - “When Relating Becomes Deflating: Grounding and Boundary Setting for Helpers with Lived Experience” (Alice) - TEB Room 217
Community Based Provider Track - “Looking Past Trauma to Meaningful Survivor Engagement in the anti-trafficking Field” (Dawn) - TEB Room 219
System Based Provider Track - “The Importance of Survivors in Decision Making Spaces” (Betty) - TEB Room 220
Healing Space - TEB Room 218
12 pm - 1 pm LUNCH (Moriarty Auditorium) and baby goat party (lawn East of Moriarty Auditorium)
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Workshop Session 2
Survivor Track - “Healing for Survivors” (Bri and Vic) - TEB Room 217
Community Based Provider Track - “Trafficking and Addiction/Substance Use Issues and Recovery” (Heather and Kiera) - TEB Room 219
System Based Provider Track - “Avoiding Coercion, Addressing Power and Control Dynamics in SB Interaction with Survivors” (Kara and Martha) - TEB Room 220
Healing Space - TEB Room 218
2:15 - 2:30 BREAK - Coffee, tea and snacks in TEB, 2nd Floor Hallway
2:30 - 3:45 pm Workshop Session 3
Survivor Track - “Survivor Only Space” (Jay) - TEB Room 217
Community Based Provider Track - “Intersections of DV and ST” (Saiya) - TEB Room 219
System Based Provider Track - “What it takes for survivors to report and participate in prosecution” (Joel) - TEB Room 220
Healing Space - TEB Room 218
4:00 pm Closing and Call to Action - Moriarty Auditorium
4:30 pm End of Day - Thank you for coming!
Planning for the Conference has been led by the Sex Trafficking Community Advisory Board and supported by the Sex Trafficking Collaborative, Sexual Assault Advisory Committee and the Multnomah County Department of County Human Services (DCHS) Domestic and Sexual Violence Coordination Office (DSVCO)
The conference space has been generously donated by Portland Community College (PCC)
Questions? Contact: Lee Watts lee.watts@multco.us or claire barrera claire.barrera@multco.us