Save the Date | NIWRC’s 2018 Women Are Sacred Conference
NIWRC is pleased to announce the Women Are Sacred (WAS) Conference will be held on June 26–28, 2018, at the beautiful Hotel Albuquerque (hotelabq.com).
The WAS Conference is one of the oldest and largest gatherings of advocates, survivors, tribal domestic and sexual violence programs, tribal community members, tribal leadership, law enforcement, and tribal court personnel dedicated to ending violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and children. WAS dates back to 1998 when the first conference was organized by the Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project and Sacred Circle National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women. In later years, the Tribal Law and Policy Institute and Clan Star, Inc. joined as partners to host the WAS conferences.
WAS offers state-of-the-art training opportunities designed to increase the capacity of tribal nations and tribal domestic violence and community-based programs to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and other forms of violence in tribal communities. Conference presenters include emerging indigenous leaders and experts in the movement toward ending violence against women.
Watch niwrc.org for more details, including registration and agenda.
Mark your calendars! Plan to attend WAS 2018!
