May 25, 2023, the White House Gender Policy Council will release the National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence: Strategies for Action. This first-ever National Plan advances an unprecedented and comprehensive approach to preventing and addressing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence (referred to collectively as GBV).
The White House Gender Policy Council will host a launch event that will include two roundtable discussions. During the first roundtable, leaders from key federal agencies will highlight the role of their agencies in strengthening ongoing federal action and interagency collaboration to advance the goals of the National Plan through a whole-of-government approach. During the second roundtable, survivors, advocates, and other leaders from civil society, including community-based organizations and private sector organizations, will discuss the importance of mobilizing a whole of society approach to prevent and address GBV.
Nicole Matthews, MIWSAC Executive Director, will serve on the whole-of-society roundtable, and will speak to existing challenges in addressing sex trafficking, sexual violence and our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives, as well as strategies needed to increase access to support, healing, safety and well-being within tribal communities.
To register for the launch livestream event (11:00 AM – 1:15 PM ET), visit: https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_QHRCwSrtRduFvRYVd0PBxQ
Survivors of sexual violence cannot be blamed for the trauma and pain inflicted upon them. As a community, we must educate ourselves and rise up to hold harm-doers accountable and interrupt all forms of violence.