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Sexual Violence Prevention Network (SVPN) Newsletter |
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Register: Sexual Violence Prevention Network (SVPN) Meeting Relaunch
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2025
The Sexual Violence Prevention Network (SVPN) Meetings will return this fall. With new leadership, we are looking forward to creating spaces and unique opportunities for sexual violence prevention professionals and enthusiasts across Minnesota to gather in community. The Minnesota Department of Health Sexual Violence Prevention Program (MDH SVPP), the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA), and SVPN’s new collaborative partner, the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition (MIWSAC) are working together to facilitate an event that will help us bring SVPN into a new era.
To celebrate the relaunch and this new era of SVPN, we are gathering in person and having a potluck lunch. We ask that everyone who plans to attend the SVPN meeting please sign up and bring something to share. The potluck sign-up is located in the registration link.
Below is a schedule to help provide a sneak peek into what is in store for the day:
(Please note that presentation titles and timings are subject to change.)
9:30 – 10 a.m. - Registration, networking, and potluck prep
10 – 10:15 a.m. - Welcome, housekeeping, andintroductions
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. - Sexual Violence Data Walk and Talk
12:15 – 1:30 p.m. - Potluck
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. - Three Sisters, a Bicycle, and the Social Ecological Model: Different ways of knowing (and talking) about sexual violence prevention
3:30 – 4 p.m. - Community announcements and closing
Please note that this meeting will be in-person only and will not have a virtual or hybrid component. The presentations will be recorded and shared online at a later date.
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Research and resources
New Study: Understanding Physical and Psychological Health Needs of Minor Sex Trafficking Victims
In a study released earlier this year, youth impacted by commercial sexual exploitation reported higher rates of physical and mental health concerns related to their peers. The study involved survey data from 534 youth who experienced or were at risk of commercial sexual exploitation, along with 35 adult survivors. The report describes their experiences and health concerns, and has implications for all those working with victim survivors of sexual exploitation.
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Suicide and Intimate Partner Violence: Screening and Safety Planning With Adults
Registration: Suicide and Intimate Partner Violence: Screening and Safety Planning With Adults
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) developed this self-paced, two-hour course for clinicians seeking to increase their clinical knowledge and confidence in conducting screening and safety planning with clients at risk of both intimate partner violence and suicide. The course presents tools and strategies for screening and safety planning and provides scenarios and example clinical scripts to demonstrate ways to introduce these tools and discuss them with clients in practice. The course also includes tips on supporting the therapeutic alliance between a clinician and client in this context. Certificate of Completion Available, 1 Hour CE Available.
988 Minnesota Lifeline community engagement toolkit
The Minnesota Department of Health is working to increase awareness, understanding, trust and ultimately use of the 988 Minnesota Lifeline by Minnesota’s Black/African American, Asian/Asian American, Hispanic/Latine and American Indian cultural communities. One of the best ways to help people learn about 988 is through outreach by trusted partners and organizations serving their communities.
This 988 Minnesota Lifeline community engagement toolkit contains fact sheets, posters, newsletter articles, social media posts, images and video, and messages in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali. These resources can be used to help raise awareness and understanding about the 988 Minnesota Lifeline with the communities and encourage people to reach out to 988 for crucial, lifesaving mental health support if they are struggling.
To download the 988 Minnesota Lifeline community engagement toolkit materials, visit the 988 Minnesota Lifeline Dropbox.
Please contact health.suic...@state.mn.us with any questions.
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