Where: Seattle, Washington 
When: Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 - Friday, May 16th, 2025

Workshops will be held on Tues, Wed, Thurs and ½ day Friday
Welcome Reception Monday evening, May 12th

The rest of this section under construction - more information will be forthcoming in 2025!














FINAL AGENDA
        - click here for descriptions of PRESENTATIONS

HOTEL:


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​The 2025 NAVAC Conference provides an opportunity for post-conviction agency-based victim advocates and other criminal justice professionals responsible for serving victims of crime to: learn about national promising and best practices; network and enhance knowledge and skills; and foster a national conversation about the advancement of post-conviction victim services.

ONLINE REGISTRATION NOT YET AVAILABLE
If paying by check, you may click here to print and submit the registration form with your check.
​THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE IS SEEKING PRESENTATIONS THAT ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS.  Here is a link to submit your workshop proposal:  click here

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT:
  • Resiliency in victim services
  • Program development to address staff victimization and/or peer support
  • Program management, planning, and measuring outcomes
  • Leadership development and skill building
  • Improving access and services for underserved populations
  • Victim advisory councils: How to start, coordinate, and maintain
  • Legislative, policy advocacy and funding opportunities for post-conviction victim services
  • How to fight for better restitution accountability and promising practices in restitution collection
  • Innovative ways to improve a victim’s experience with the criminal justice system
  • Best practices for obtaining victim feedback
  • Technological advances to help with communication and case management
  • Training and assistance for victims of offenders acting as their own attorney. 
  • Victim safety planning and victim wrap around services while working with probation and parole

VICTIM-CENTERED RESTORATIVE JUSTICE:
  • Best practices for victim-initiated victim offender dialogue
  • Victim offender communication/dialogue options offered to victims
  • VOD case examples - learning from the experiences
  • Promoting and communicating about VOD/ALB programs
  • Measuring success of VOD and/or ALB programs
  • Operating an accountability letter bank
  • Impact of crime / Victim awareness programs for incarcerated individuals
  • What does healing mean for victims
  • The effect of trauma on the brain
  • Staff mental health/self-care/vicarious trauma

    NOT YET AVAILABLE -
    online registration form
    STANDARD conference registration rates available from 12.02.2023 - 02.01.2023: 
          $600 for NAVAC Members and $725 for non-members
    ON-SITE registrations may be available:  $700 for NAVAC Members and $825 for non-members
    Please hit the "submit" button below to submit your registration form.  Then, return here and scroll below to submit your online payment.  Online registration forms to be used ONLY with online payments.  If you prefer to mail your payment, please scroll up and print out the registration form to mail along with your payment.
Standard Registration effective Feb 2 2024
Presenter Discount Provided - please invoice me
PLEASE FOLLOW THE NAVAC FACEBOOK PAGE AT:  HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NAVACPOSTCONVICTION   
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*NAVAC Membership:  For all membership questions, please contact [email protected]

​The National Association of Victim Assistance in Corrections (NAVAC) provides a voice, vision, leadership and guidance for corrections-based and other post-conviction victim service providers.
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