The Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center presents:

Bring Her Home: Creating Tribal Responses to Commercial Sexual Exploitation

June 12th-14th

Black Bear Casino Resort

Please join us in creating responses to commercial sexual exploitation in Indian Country!

How should we address commercial sexual exploitation in tribal communities? What is currently being done? Where do we go from here? How can I help?

Featuring art from the group exhibition Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island, this year's two and a half day sexual exploitation information summit, Bring Her Home: Creating Tribal Responses to Commercial Sexual Exploitation, will address these questions and more. It will be an opportunity for tribal community members, advocates, law enforcement, tribal officials, professionals, artists, experts, survivors, and others to collaborate to build stronger responses to commercial sexual exploitation in our communities. There will be time and space for collaboration to address the question: How can we confront commercial sexual exploitation in our communities?

This conference is targeted for people working in tribal communities and/or with those in tribal communities impacted by commercial sexual exploitation or sex trafficking. Registration priority will be given to these individuals. If there is additional space, registration will be approved on a first come, first served basis.

More information about the art exhibition that will be featured at this year's conference can be found at http://www.allmyrelationsarts.com/bring-her-home-stolen-daughters-of-turtle-island/.

HOTEL

Hotel accommodations are available at Black Bear Casino Resort.
Room block dates: June 11-13, 2018
Group code: Bring Her Home Conference
Room rate: $71.20 + tax or $92.00 + tax
Reservations: 1-888-771-0777 or http://www.blackbearcasinoresort.com/hotel.html

*** Please be sure that your registration has been accepted before reserving a hotel room ***

 

Thank you to the Minnesota Department of Health and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for making this conference possible.

Additionally, thank you to our partners:
The Native American Community Development Institute
Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault
The Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition
The Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
White Earth Nation
Red Lake Nation

Limited travel and lodging scholarships available! Contact Logan at ltootle@miwrc.org for more information.

Conference schedule coming soon!

Tuesday, June 12, 2018
8:00 AM CDT - 12:00 PM CDT

Learn more about the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center at our website at http://miwrc.org or find us on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/miwrc/!

Bring Her Home: Creating Tribal Responses to Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Day 1 - Tuesday, June 12th - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

8:00 - Registration and Breakfast

 

9:00 – Welcome and Opening Ceremony

 

9:45 – Mind Body Medicine
Linda Eagle Speaker
Ceremonial Elder in Residence
Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center

 

10:45 - Break

 

11:00 – Breakout Sessions

Sex Trafficking 101
Dave Pinto
Assistant Ramsey County Attorney

Sex Trafficking in Indian Country and TRUST 
Investigator Kelly Haffield
Fond du Lac Tribal Police Department

 

12:00- Lunch 

 

1:00 - Keynote
Linda Thompson
Membership and Outreach Coordinator
Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition

 

2:00 – Break

 

2:15 – Breakout Sessions

TBD
Amanda Colegrove
Safe Harbor Expansion Coordinator
Minnesota Department of Health

Kate Kalk
Family Violence Prevention Program Administrator
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe

LeAnn Littlewolf
Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Training Specialist
American Indian Community Housing Organization

 

Racial Disparities: The Trafficking of Native Americans and the Disproportionate Impact of Systemic Oppression
Anne LaFrinier-Ritchie
Northeast Minnesota Regional Navigator
Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault

 

Warrior Keepers: Restoration of Culture from a Men’s Perspective
Kansas Middletent
Ambassador
Native Hope

 

3:45 – Break

 

4:00 - Seated Yoga
Bonnie Fairbanks-Stangel
Behavioral Health
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

 

Day 2 - Wednesday, June 13th - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

8:00 - Breakfast

 

9:00 – Group Speaker
Great-grandmother Mary Lyons
Ojibwe Elder
Indigenous Wisdom Lessons

Representative Mary Kunesh-Podein
Minnesota House of Representatives

 

10:30 – Break

 

10:45 – Group Speaker
Angela Two Stars
Curator
Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island

Lori Greene
Featured Artist
Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island

 

12:00 – Lunch

 

1:00 –Breakout Sessions

Equaywug (Women): Women Leading in a Good Way for our Anishinabe People
Shirley Cain
Human Services Program Consultant
Minnesota Department of Human Services

 

The Song Remains the Same: Opioids and American Indians
Rick Moldenhauer
Human Services Representative 2/ State Opioid Treatment Authority Representative
Minnesota Department of Human Services

 

Empowering Native Youth to Combat Human Trafficking
Michelle Sauve
Intergovernmental Affairs Specialist
Administration for Native Americans
Administration for Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Beth Pfenning
Program Specialist
Office on Trafficking in Persons
Administration for Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

 

3:00 – Break

 

3:15 – Regional Collaboration Time

Northern Minnesota Collaboration

Southern Minnesota Collaboration

Twin Cities Area Collaboration

 

5:00 – Break

 

6:30 – Dinner

 

Day 3 - Thursday, June 14th - 8:00 am - 1:15 pm

 

8:00 - Breakfast

 

9:00 - Breakout Sessions

The Often Forgotten Population: Violence on the Two-Spirit/Native LGBTQ Community
Lenny Hayes
Consultant
Tate Topa Consulting

 

Leveraging Self Determination 638 Contracts to Meet the Needs of Trafficking Victims
Patina Park
Executive Director
Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center

 

Healing Trauma Piece by Piece: a Community Mosaic Project
Angela Two Stars
Curator
Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island

Lori Greene
Featured Artist
Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island

 

10:30 –Break

 

10:45 –Group Speaker

TBD

 

12:00 – Lunch

 

12:45 – Closing Ceremony

 

1:15 - End