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In
September 2003, EVAW in the United States and Carleton University in
Canada were awarded grants from the W. H. Donner and the Donner
Canadian Foundations to work with SATI, Inc., and Ed Renner,
Evaluation Research, and the founder of the National Action Plan
Against Sexual Assault (NAPASA) to sponsor two national conferences
within each country to promote an integrated community response to
sexual violence. Attendees of the conferences were selected through
application only. Conference scholarships were awarded to
joint applicant teams of six to eight representatives from the
police, prosecution, rape crisis centers and other sexual assault
service providers, within the same community. The core vision of the
conference is to challenge the legal process to effectively
prosecute sex offenders by redefining the way sexual assaults are
conceptualized by the criminal justice system. The goal of the
conference is intervention -- to effect social change and make a
difference in public policy. |
