Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Healing Harm employs a victim-centered, trauma informed approach to addressing harm. Informed by decades of experience confronting gender-based misconduct, Evan Krutoy understands that victims want to have their voices heard and want accountability for the trauma they have suffered. However, survivors often do not wish to participate in an adversarial adjudicative framework that mirrors the criminal justice system---a system with which many survivors have purposely decided not to engage.

Healing Harm offers an evidence-based alternative path to addressing gender-based misconduct. I facilitate a process that explores the issues that gave rise to the problematic conduct as well as addressing, head-on, the harm caused. Importantly, it allows survivors to be heard and affords offenders the opportunity to meaningfully understand and repair the harm that has been caused.

Other Highly Sensitive Misconduct Allegations

It can be challenging to discipline students in a manner consistent with a school's commitment to develop the whole child. Schools aspire to prepare students to be thoughtful, contributing members of society. However, exclusionary disciplinary processes that rely on suspensions and expulsions, often run counter to that mission. School safety and classroom effectiveness are important but "zero tolerance" strategies often have damaging effects on students and are simply ineffective. Healing Harm offers a disciplinary process that focuses on students’ social-emotional learning grounded in restorative justice principles.

Healing Harm's approach is an effective alternative to exclusionary discipline when addressing the following serious behavioral issues:

• Social media postings or comments that are harmful to individuals or the school community. Such postings can include harmful comments about a person's race, gender, religion, or disability

• Hazing

• Bullying

• Inappropriate technology and social media activity (i.e. phone, device, or computer), including the taking and disseminating of personal photographs and/or information

Trainings

Sexual Misconduct Prevention

Healing Harm offers sexual misconduct prevention training for both high school and college students. Upper school students at secondary schools as well as college students frequently have to contend with issues surrounding sexual misconduct. Studies show that more than 50% of college sexual assaults occur in the beginning of the fall semester, with some experts voicing concern that first-year female students are most at risk. Assaults are also increasing at the high school level. In the most recent statistics, the United States Department of Education found that reports of sexual violence at K-12 schools rose from about 9,600 in the 2015-2016 school year to nearly 15,000 in the 2017-2018 school year.

Healing Harm's workshops take aim at two critical and reoccurring issues surrounding sexual misconduct. First, the concept of “affirmative consent” and, second, the specific impact of alcohol consumption and consent. This training establishes definitions, identifies frequent points of confusion and provides prevention techniques, including bystander intervention training.

At the college level I have worked with administrations and tailored training sessions to effectively communicate key portions of a school's Title IX policies, and offered training sessions for campus organizations identified by school staff as needing individualized attention.

Tailored Trainings

Healing Harm also provides a range of other tailored trainings. I have extensive experience with misconduct allegations in secondary schools and on college campuses, as well as in the context of the criminal justice/legal system. I am familiar with issues that arise related to the sharing of sexual content on cellular telephones, bullying, problematic social media postings, and hazing. Healing Harm can work with school administrators on specific disciplinary concerns and offer trainings on a wide range of matters.