Connection to Collective Impact: Partnerships That Put Survivors First

Date: November 17

Time: 10:00AM – 11:30AM ET

Amy Turner is a therapist, community educator, and program builder passionate about disrupting power-based violence, challenging systems, and creating spaces where communities can thrive. Her work sits at the intersection of healing, education, equity, body politics, and program development. A Kentucky-born practitioner with wide-ranging experience across multiple states and countries, Amy combines deep systemic advocacy with holistic practices, balancing movement (from yoga instruction to Muay Thai) and community-building to foster healing, justice, and accessible care.

Building meaningful partnerships within our communities is essential to creating a stronger, more responsive approach to addressing sexual and domestic violence. This means moving beyond simply providing services and actively engaging with community partners, fostering trust, collaboration, and shared responsibility. Most importantly, it means recognizing survivors as experts in their own experiences and ensuring their voices, perspectives, and lived expertise are central to the conversations, decisions, and solutions that impact them.

Through this discussion, participants will:

• explore practical ways to strengthen community relationships
• build more intentional and collaborative partnerships
• identify opportunities to meaningfully incorporate survivor voices into their work
• gain a better understanding of how to create spaces where survivors feel heard, valued, and empowered
• learn how survivor-informed approaches can strengthen programs, services, and community responses to sexual and domestic violence
• leave with ideas and strategies for building more inclusive, survivor-centered partnerships that create lasting community impact

This session is part of the “Coffee with the Coalition” training series hosted by the Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault (ICESA), featuring expert-led sessions on topics requested by sexual assault service providers and Rape Crisis Centers, which are tailored to meet the needs of professionals in the field.