The Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs (KASAP) will host its 2027 conference, “Deep Roots, Strong Branches: Grounded in Care, Growing in Impact”, June 8-10, 2027 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Conference Purpose
This conference is designed to support learning, collaboration, and action across the movement to end sexual violence. We bring together advocates, prevention educators, health care professionals, legal and systems partners, researchers, community leaders, and allied professionals to strengthen survivor-centered response, advance prevention strategies, and build more coordinated, equitable systems of support.
Invitation to Participate
We welcome workshop proposals from practitioners, advocates, attorneys, researchers, educators, community leaders, and people with lived and professional expertise who are committed to strengthening response, advancing prevention, and supporting collective action to end sexual violence. We seek proposals that share evidence-informed practices, emerging research, community-based strategies, innovative partnerships, and practical tools that participants can apply in their organizations and communities.
Standard workshops should be 90 minutes in length, with 180-minute workshops focused on skill-building to be considered.
Selected presenters will receive a speaker fee of $500 for a single presenter or $1,000 for workshops with multiple presenters. Fees are inclusive of all costs associated with presenting, including travel, lodging, and any other related expenses.
Priority Topics
- Trauma-informed, survivor-centered advocacy and intervention
- Primary prevention and community-level change strategies
- Leadership/Management practices
- Workforce sustainability and retention
- Criminal justice system responses and best practices
- Healthcare response and forensic evidence collection
- Coordinated community response and multidisciplinary collaboration
- Equitable and culturally responsive services and support for underserved and historically marginalized populations
- Anti-oppression, racial justice, and intersectional approaches to ending sexual violence
- Policy, systems change, and community accountability
- Research, evaluation, data-informed practice, and program sustainability
- Practical strategies for self-care, resilience, preventing burnout, and secondary traumatic stress
Intended Audience
Conference participants may include sexual assault advocates, prevention educators, coalition staff, campus professionals, educators, public health professionals, health care providers, legal advocates, law enforcement partners, prosecutors, researchers, policymakers, community organizers, tribal and territorial partners, funders, and others committed to preventing and responding to sexual violence.
To learn more and submit your proposal, click here: Speaker Portal
Questions? Contact training@kasap.org
