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Canceled: It’s Beyond Important, It’s Survival: Essential Justice Work with Native Women
SESSION INFO
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Session Type: Workshop
The push to implement gender responsive policies and practices with justice-involved women and girls has led to improved outcomes with this historically neglected population. At the same time, efforts to confront the ways in which Indigenous communities have been harmed by criminal justice system practices have led to impactful, Indigenous-centered initiatives. Unfortunately, Native women have remained invisible in these efforts. Native American women are incarcerated six times the rate of white women, have different experiences than Native men, and are disproportionately impacted by various criminal justice system practices. This workshop elevates the narratives and perspectives of Native women and explores essential community supervision practices. It centers the realities and resilience of Native women, and their critically important perspectives on justice. Designed for criminal justice and behavioral health supervisors and staff, this workshop will provide concrete steps that can be taken to improve policies, practices and outcomes with Native women.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Alyssa Benedict
Executive Director, CORE Associates, LLC
Alyssa Benedict, PhD, has 20+ years of experience in justice and behavioral health and specializes in the design and implementation of gender responsive, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive policies and practices. She is the founder of CORE Associates, and provides training and technical assistance to government, private and non-profit organizations. Alyssa has served as a consultant and faculty member on various state and federal initiatives, and has also authored and co-authored various publications, models and tools designed to support practitioners, administrators, and policy makers in their efforts to implement gender responsive and trauma-informed approaches, and improve outcomes among women, girls, and staff throughout the justice continuum. These include comprehensive staff training curricula, organizational assessments designed to advance implementation of gender responsive and trauma-informed policies, and model approaches to building cultures of resilience and motivation. Alyssa has a sub-specialty in the neurobiology and ecology of trauma and resilience and co-authored Creating Regulation and Resilience (CR/2™), a gender responsive and trauma-informed staff communication model. She is co-chair of the APPA Women and Girls Committee, a founding partner of the National Resource Center for Justice Involved Women (NRCJIW), and co-founder of The Women’s Justice Institute (WJI).
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