Resilience Con 2016 [Portsmouth, NH]

Resilience Con 2016 will take place Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in Portsmouth, NH, at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside immediately after the UNH violence conference (July 10-12).

Resilience Con will be a capstone think tank/workshop where we build on the UNH presentations and envision next steps.

Co-Chairs:  Sherry Hamby, Victoria Banyard, and John Grych

What will Resilience Con include?

1. A resilience “track” at the UNH International Family Violence & Child Victimization Research Conference, which will highlight submissions with a focus on resilience and/or protective factors that we hope “Res Con” attendees will make an effort to see. If you have any data related to resilience, we encourage you to submit it to the main UNH conference. (Dr. Hamby is co-chairing the UNH conference and will give special consideration to all submissions on resilience or protective factors.)
2. Opportunity to digest, integrate, and develop what was presented.
3. Training in new techniques from the communications field called “Liberating Structures.”
4. Take-aways will include concrete, tailored steps to shift your own research, advocacy, or practice to a greater focus on resilience.
5. Registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and all materials.

We are excited about the potential to advance to the next generation of violence and resilience research!  This will be an opportunity to use our precious interactive time to produce useful and actionable ideas.

For questions about Resilience Con, contact Sherry Hamby (sherry.hamby@acrr.us) or Elizabeth Taylor (elizabeth.taylor@acrr.us).

Click here to register for Resilience Con.

Click here for more information about the UNH International Family Violence & Child Victimization Research Conference.

We have received a grant of more than $299,000 from the Digital Trust Foundation for a two-year (2015-2017) study of privacy and security issues related to cell phone and internet use in the local area. Click here to read the official press release.

The project will investigate both online privacy concerns – such as identity theft, collecting personal information online, tracking location, “phishing” schemes, and spam – and security practices in rural Appalachia. The project will also study security practices to learn more about how people protect themselves from all of these privacy intrusions, and will investigate whether there are unique aspects to privacy and security issues in rural communities, where access to computers and cell phone networks is less widespread.

Serving as Principal Investigator, our director Dr. Sherry Hamby, is joined by Co-Investigators Drs. Kimberly Mitchell and Lisa Jones, both from the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. Over two years, the project will use focus groups, interviews and a large-scale survey of over 500 people in the Appalachian community to document experiences of privacy risks as well as security practices and strategies.

[For more information go to http://www.acrr.us/]