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EDUCATION about and PREVENTION against gender and relationship violence
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The Heartland Campus Safety Summit
About the Conference
The Heartland Campus Safety Summit is an affordable conference for college and university administrators, faculty, staff, advocates, Title IX officers, Campus Security and Police, and students interested in improving their campus efforts to prevent and respond to sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and stalking. The 2019 Summit will be Wednesday and Thursday, November 13-14, and will be held on the campus of Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas (in the greater Kansas City area). At the conference Jana's Campaign will host national experts, and encourages the sharing of best practices among participants.
The Summit is designed for key campus personnel from the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Those invited include: Title IX coordinators, college/university legal representatives, public safety officers, residential life and student affairs personnel, athletic directors, women’s center staff, student leaders, health and counseling professionals, and other campus and community representatives interested in campus safety.
Thanks to corporate and foundation sponsors and partnerships, we are able to keep Heartland Campus Safety Summit registration fees extremely affordable. Our rationale is to encourage campuses to send multi-disciplinary teams to attend, increasing the impact of the Summit on every campus represented. We are committed to hosting a wide range of regional campus safety representatives at every Summit, while maintaining the highest quality conference of its kind.
The Heartland Campus Safety Summit is the result of a collaborative relationship between Jana’s Campaign, Inc. and Johnson County Community College. Utilizing their expertise and knowledge of the field, both Jana’s Campaign, Inc. and Johnson County Community College provide conference coordination and facilitation for the Summit. Other colleges, universities and gender-based advocacy groups are participating as supporters and collaborators for this project.
The Summit is designed for key campus personnel from the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Those invited include: Title IX coordinators, college/university legal representatives, public safety officers, residential life and student affairs personnel, athletic directors, women’s center staff, student leaders, health and counseling professionals, and other campus and community representatives interested in campus safety.
Thanks to corporate and foundation sponsors and partnerships, we are able to keep Heartland Campus Safety Summit registration fees extremely affordable. Our rationale is to encourage campuses to send multi-disciplinary teams to attend, increasing the impact of the Summit on every campus represented. We are committed to hosting a wide range of regional campus safety representatives at every Summit, while maintaining the highest quality conference of its kind.
The Heartland Campus Safety Summit is the result of a collaborative relationship between Jana’s Campaign, Inc. and Johnson County Community College. Utilizing their expertise and knowledge of the field, both Jana’s Campaign, Inc. and Johnson County Community College provide conference coordination and facilitation for the Summit. Other colleges, universities and gender-based advocacy groups are participating as supporters and collaborators for this project.
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2019 Conference Information
Speakers, program information, and Presentations
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The Deputy Director/National Representative reports to the Director and serves as the Agency’s “master mediator” of high profile collective bargaining disputes and is responsible for developing and coordinating increased engagement with FMCS customers for future relationship development and mediation opportunities in key industries and occupations. The Deputy director also is responsible for mentoring the Agency’s next generation of major dispute mediators and serves as the management Chair of the Mediator Partnership Council. The Deputy Director handles a variety of assignments to support the initiatives, policies, and programs of the Director of FMCS and represents the Director in meetings of various national, state, and area organizations concerned with labor relations and conflict resolution matters to explain and promote the use of FMCS services by employers, unions, and government entities.
Scot L. Beckenbaugh, who serves as FMCS Deputy Director/National Representative, joined the Agency in 1988. He was appointed Western Regional Director in January 2004, having served as Regional Director for the Upper Midwestern Region since 1997. He was the Director of Mediation Services (currently Regional Director) for the Upper Midwestern Region for two years and, before that, he was a field mediator stationed in Des Moines, Iowa. In addition to providing the full range of FMCS services to the labor management community in Iowa, he served as the Minneapolis District Alternative Dispute Resolution Coordinator. Mr. Beckenbaugh has also served on an interim basis as the Agency’s Acting Director on three occasions. Deputy Director Beckenbaugh is the Agency’s “master mediator” of high profile disputes. He has mediated national master agreements in the aerospace, national defense, professional sports, cereal, heavy equipment manufacturing, aluminum, grocery, health care, meatpacking, and aritime industries. He has extensive experience in public sector dispute mediation, as well as in regulatory negotiations, public policy, land use, and civil rights disputes. A longtime member of the Association of Labor Relations Agencies, Mr. Beckenbaugh also serves on the ALRA Executive Board. From 1986 to 1988, Mr. Beckenbaugh was a Member of the Iowa Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). Prior to his appointment as Member, he was an Administrative Law Judge and Director of Mediation Services for Iowa’s PERB. He also had a private arbitration practice and was listed with FMCS. He has served on the Twin Cities Labor Management Committee and for two terms as Chairman of the Industrial Relations Advisory Council at the University of Minnesota. He has taught at the high school, junior college, and university level and was a bill drafter and research analyst for the Iowa Legislature. Mr. Beckenbaugh holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Northern Iowa and an M.A.P.A., with an emphasis in Industrial Relations, from the University of Iowa. |
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Casey Gwinn, Esq. serves as the President of Alliance for HOPE International.
Casey has been recognized by The American Lawyer magazine as one of the top 45 public lawyers in America. He is an honors graduate of Stanford University and UCLA School of Law. Casey served for eight years as the elected City Attorney of San Diego from 1996 to 2004. Prior to entering elected office, Casey founded City Attorney’s Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Unit, leading the Unit from 1986 to 1996 – prosecuting both misdemeanor and felony cases. The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges honored his specialized prosecution unit as the model domestic violence prosecution unit in the nation in 1993. In 2002, Casey saw his vision of a comprehensive Center for services to victims of family violence become a reality in San Diego as he led the effort to open the nationally acclaimed San Diego Family Justice Center with professionals from 25 agencies together under one roof. His leadership as a prosecutor has been widely credited for the 90% drop in domestic violence homicides in the City of San Diego since 1985. In October 2003, President George W. Bush announced a national initiative to begin creating Family Justice Centers across the country and asked Casey to provide leadership to the effort. Today, Casey and his team support more than 130 open and developing Family Justice Centers in the U.S. and around the world. He is also an expert in the handling of near-fatal strangulation assaults. Casey has served on the U.S. Attorney General’s National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women and the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence. He chaired the California Attorney General’s Task Force on Domestic Violence. He also served on the congressionally created Department of Defense task force, studying the handling of family violence throughout the Department of Defense. His work has been profiled nationally on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS The Early Show, USA Today, The Huffington Post, New Yorker Magazine and a host of other news outlets. Most recently, Casey received the Ronald Wilson Reagan Public Policy Award from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime. He has authored or co-authored a host of articles and media commentaries and ten books on domestic violence and the Family Justice Center movement. In 2015 he authored “Cheering for the Children: Creating Pathways to HOPE for Children Exposed to Trauma”, a clarion call to all caring people to become cheerleaders for children exposed to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). In the book, Casey explains why childhood trauma should be the preeminent public health issue in America today and how we can all help change the lives of children for the better. This book was the result of one of Casey’s great personal passions, Camp HOPE America, the unique camping initiative he founded at the San Diego Family Justice Center that is now expanding across the nation. Camp HOPE America is the first specialized camp in the country focused exclusively on children exposed to domestic violence and child abuse. Casey’s newest book, written with Dr. Chan Hellman from the University of Oklahoma, is entitled “Hope Rising: How the Science of HOPE Can Change Your Life.” It is a roadmap to a life-well lived and points the way toward the power of hope in the lives of all those who have experienced hardship or adversity. Casey and his wife, Beth, have three grown children. He is a proud grandfather of three grandchildren. |
Registration, hotels, and location
Registration for the 2019 Heartland Campus Safety Summit has not yet opened.
Hotels near Johnson County Community College Include:
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Kansas City – Overland Park
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Olathe North
Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Overland Park
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Kansas City – Overland Park
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Olathe North
Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Overland Park
The summit will be held on the campus of Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.
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Call for proposals
The call for proposals is now available here.
past summits
2013-2018 Heartland Campus Safety Summits
Sponsors/exhibitors
For information about sponsorship opportunities, please click here.
Proposed Summit Topics
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Summit Objectives
Campus leaders will be encouraged to develop a team of key campus stakeholders to create a comprehensive and integrated approach to preventing and responding to gender-based violence at their institutions. Furthermore, promoting a focused and coherent system of support that encourages respectful, non-violent relationships will also be addressed. The summit’s ultimate goal is to transform area colleges and universities to:
- Prevent abusive behaviors by engaging faculty, staff, and students in promoting healthy relationships;
- Ensure that the institution is prepared to respond promptly and effectively to incidents and reports of violence when they do occur; and
- Ultimately to change campus norms so that campus members hold themselves and each other to respectful and non-violent standards of interpersonal behavior.
The conceptual framework for this educational summit was developed with the assistance of the report Beyond Title IX: Guidelines for Preventing and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education.
This document was developed by Futures Without Violence and the Avon Foundation for Women.
This document was developed by Futures Without Violence and the Avon Foundation for Women.
Summit CoordinatorsJana's Campaign Staff
Paul Kyle, Johnson County Community College |
Summit Sponsors
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2018 Summit Feedback
“Thank you! Please continue to have Husch Blackwell present on updates and compliance. Keynote speakers this year were the best so far." “It was insightful and certainly a worthy use of my time." “I LOVED both keynote speakers. That was my favorite parts of the day. I also loved the River of Cruelty presentation. It felt like a nice mix of topics. I appreciated presenters taking the topics to a deeper level than other conferences I have been to, which present basic information." “First time attending this conference and I loved it! I gained so much knowledge through the keynote speakers and sessions." |
“I realized that I knew very little about administrative practices with campus safety compared to what I thought I knew, and I was thankful for the opportunity to learn more.” “Very good conference, as always. A lot of good information. Love that all sessions are in the same area.” “This was a great conference, especially for Title IX personnel." “This was a great conference, largely due to the powerful speakers. Thanks for bringing in some ‘heavy hitters in this field’!" |
Regional Summits
The Heartland Campus Safety Summit has been the foundational Summit from Jana’s Campaign since 2013; its model has been expanded to the Rocky Mountain Campus Safety Summit (Denver, CO), the Midwest Campus Safety Summit (Muncie, IN), and the Campus Safety Summit in conjunction with the national Conference on Crimes Against Women (Dallas, TX). Together, these summits have attracted hundreds of participants from dozens of states across the United States.
Exhibitor Space
If you are interested in having a booth space at the summit, please contact us.
