🗓: Friday, November 15, 2024
🗺: Tree of Life Lutheran Church, Linglestown Road, Harrisburg, PA
🌐: Live Stream Online Via Zoom
Join us for a dynamic one-day conference dedicated to exploring and advancing justice, civil rights, and living conditions that allow reentrants and individuals affected by sexual offense laws to succeed. This event will bring together experts, advocates, and community leaders to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions. Attendees will engage in meaningful dialogue, participate in informative breakout sessions, and build new connections!
10/13/24 UPDATE: We have confirmed that there is sufficient bandwidth and are adding an online participation option so that those outside the area can attend.
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Information about:
Target Audience:
- Individuals affected by the public sexual offense registry
- Reentry Professionals
- Mental Health Professionals (Social Workers, Counselors/Therapists)
- Sociologists and Criminologists
- Public Administrators, Elected Officials, and Representatives
- Students in related fields
Confirmed Plenary Speakers
- Emily Kinkead is Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Corrections. She was elected to serve Pennsylvania’s 20th Legislative District in 2020. In a time filled with turmoil because of a raging pandemic, growing partisan strife, and ongoing attacks on our democracy and ability to vote, Emily has spent her time in office committed to being a voice for her district and advocating for the values that she believes need to be more central in our government policy – justice, equity, and diversity. Emily was born on Pittsburgh’s Northside, the child of a Pittsburgh paramedic, and after living everywhere from North Dakota to Washington, DC, returned to her roots in Pittsburgh. She learned her commitment to service from her dad who lives by the mantra that that you help people if you can. Before entering public service as a legislator, she applied this less in her career, tackling some of our society’s toughest problems – disability rights, campaign finance reform, gerrymandering reform, climate change, advocacy for HIV+ individuals, immigration, and criminal justice reform. Emily also worked in the legislative policy office at the National Institutes of Health and provided legal aid to vulnerable individuals facing eviction. Deeply dedicated to addressing disparities in the law, Emily co-chairs a program through the Women in the Law Division of the Allegheny County Bar Association that aims to end bias in the legal profession. Emily also serves on the board of a local local environmental conservation non-profit, Scenic Pittsburgh.
- Robert Reed is Executive Deputy Attorney General for Special Initiatives at Office of Pennsylvania Attorney General. He serves as chair and staff lead for the Pennsylvania Reentry Council. Determined to address the recidivism crisis directly, then-Governor Tom Wolf and then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro (now Governor) created the Pennsylvania Reentry Council (PARC) in 2021, a historic and unprecedented undertaking bringing together reentry stakeholders from around the Commonwealth to identify issues facing returning citizens and to develop and implement solutions.
Presenters Slated to Include…
- Theresa Robertson, Ph.D., Former PARSOL Chair, Expert in Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy & Psychadelic-Assisted Treatment.
- Jennifer Weeks, Ph.D., LPC, CSAT-S, CMAT, CAADC, Director of Sexual Addiction Treatment Services & PA SOAB Treatment Provider
- Stephanie Jerstad, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology & Criminology, Millersville University
- John W. Dawe, MNA, CNP, RCP, RCPF, PARSOL Managing Director, Recovery Coaching Professional & RCP Facilitator, NARSOL Marketing Director
- Lisa Kessler Peters, MS, Unsheltered Services Manager, Christian Churches United of the Tri-County Area, Author, PARSOL Board Member
- Amber Vlangas, Executive Director, Restorative Action Alliance
- Brenda Jones, NARSOL Executive Director
- Randall Hayes, PARSOL Legislative Director, Board Co-Chair
- Josiah Krammes, PARSOL Legal Information & Education Director, Board Chair
Tentative Schedule
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Film Synopsis: UNTOUCHABLE
Following the workshop series, participants and the community are invited to a screening of the award-winning film UNTOUCHABLE, followed by a discussion panel. UNTOUCHABLE tells the story When the most powerful lobbyist in Florida discovers that the nanny has sexually abused his daughter, he harnesses his extraordinary political power to pass the toughest ‘sex offender’ laws in the nation. UNTOUCHABLE chronicles his crusade and its impact on the lives of several of the 800,000 people forced to live under the laws he has championed.
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