2018 AVP USA National Gathering

Richmond, IN

May 25th-28th, 2018

TRACKS 

Denoted throughout the Conference Program:

-Youth Leadership (Star)
-Mentorship (Circle)
-Trauma Resilience (Triangle)
-Program "Nuts and Bolts"  (Square)
-New AVP Activities (Asterisk)
-Diversity (Smiley Face)

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 PRE and POST CONFERENCE PROGRAMMING:

THURSDAYMAY 24, 2018

Offering 1

9:00 am - 4:00 pm - Education Committee Workshop, at the Landrum Bowling Center

To Be Announced

Offering 2

8:30 am - 5:00 pm - Trauma Awareness and Resilience Workshop:

Correctional Training Institute, New Castle, Indiana, 

 SDC Building Classroom H

***Shuttle departs at 7:30 am from parking lot behind Runyon Center ***

A day working with others to develop skills and understanding of Trauma Resiliency

Facilitators: Jim Higginbotham and Rachel Goldberg

Lunch will be provided. 

AVP facilitators will be joining Indiana correctional officers for this workshop on Trauma Awareness and Resilience. 

Offering 3

8:30 am - 6:30 pm - Mini-Advanced Workshop:

Plainfield Correctional Facility 

***Shuttle departs at 8:30 am from parking lot behind Runyon Center ***

***Participants must have filled out the volunteer paperwork prior to attending this 

     workshop.***

Learning from those Inside: Participate in a mini-Advanced workshop on a topic chosen by the inside facilitators at Plainfield Correctional Facility in Plainfield, IN. 

AVP Indiana has been holding workshops at Plainfield Correctional Facility since January 2017. In that short time, 24 inside facilitators have been trained and 75 participants have been able to take workshops. This is a Medium Security Prison. 

Open AVP Visioning Retreat held in the Landrum Bowling Center 

What does "Political" mean within AVP? - Alternatives to Violence Project grew out of strong activist roots, focusing on "finding effective ways to communicate and practice active nonviolence."  (Liveoak: Hoover interview)  Ghandi called politics the "art of right action."  AVP's politics is about not taking sides, but seeking to do the right thing.  What is more political than actively working toward self-change of "transformation" of power structures within communities, institutions or systems?

Please join a day long planning retreat as we expolore who  we are idealistically as an organization, how we act upon our shared beliefs, and identify implications as wee move forward organizationally.

Open Post-Conference Planning Session (All welcome) to be held at the Earlham School of Religion Building. 

In this session we will break into smallthematic groups to process things learned at the conference. Each group identifiesspecific action steps for Board & Committee follow-up in the yearahead. 

Join us in the opening gathering to meet and greet  AVP facilitators from far and wide. 

Highlighting AVP Committees and Working Groups anc various projects that are being conducted in the wider AVP Community.  Each person will be able to attend up to 3 sessions in carousel style meet and greet.  

To Be Announced

To Be Announced

Our Keynote Speaker this year is Sammy Rangel, Founder and CEO of the group Life After Hate. Sammy is a man of many talents: he is first a father. He has Native American roots as well as Mexican heritage. He is a second-degree black belt, practices mixed martial arts, is a singer on a Native American drum. He is an author, social worker, peace activist, speaker, and trainer, with a gripping story. 

His part autobiography and part manual, Fourbears: The Myths of Forgiveness, was launched in Dublin, Ireland in 2011 at the Summit Against Violent Extremism. It is in schools, colleges, youth detention centers, jails, AODA and mental health treatment centers, Human Services Departments, and in hands all over the world.

In 2014, Sammy founded Formers Anonymous, a recovery network of people seeking redemption and freedom from a lifestyle of self-destructive involvement with crime, violence, power, and control through change and recovery.

Join fellow AVP-USA members to ratify new officers for the AVP-USA Board, view the proposed budget for the next fiscal year, and discuss and important items of concern for the AVP body at large. 

To Be Announced

In this panel, various persons from Indiana who have spent their lives interacting with the justice system will speak to the question: How can we create a more just system? Each member of the panel will speak from a different perspective.

Susan Cronau: Prison Chaplain at Putnamville Correctional Facility. 

Rick Rosales: Community and Mentor Engagement Coordinate for the IDOC. 

(More participants will be added as they are confirmed.)

Take this time to get more involved in AVP-USA's leadership! Join a Committee discussion to learn about the "behind the scenes" work at the national level. The following committees will be meeting:

The Youth Panel will feature youth from the first ever Richmond High School AVP class, joined by youth trained in HIPP by the Peace Learning Center in Indianapolis, and youth from AVP New Jersey. Check back for updates on this exciting opportunity to see and hear from our youth - the future of AVP.