Beyond Mandatory Reporting: Responding to Disclosures in the Classroom

At any given moment, students may disclose their experiences with sexual violence to their professors. This panel/talk story session will provide audience members with survivor-centered approaches to disclosures. Additionally, audience members will be provided with an overview of resources they can provide students and colleagues to address sexual violence disclosures.

Leslie Cabingabang, Senior Confidential Advocate, UH System

Leslie D. Cabingabang is a daughter, sister, cousin, friend, and mother to little Maya! Leslie serves as the Senior Confidential Advocate with the UH System Confidential Advocacy Program, for all Oʻahu campuses. She is also currently working toward her doctoral degree in education administration in higher education at the UH Mānoa College of Education. Her research goals are to examine campus advocacy and sexual harassment policies throughout the student experience. This year marks twenty years since she began working with families and individuals experiencing interpersonal violence. She started as an advocate at the PACT Family Peace Center and PACT Ohia Shelter. She became a fellow with the Consuelo Foundation and Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work Philippines Program, working with child survivors of abuse in Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippines. Leslie then returned to Hawaiʻi as the community educator with the Pilipina Rural Project at the Domestic Violence Action Center. She joined the University in 2009 to begin the Prevention, Awareness and Understanding Violence Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and started her work as a confidential advocate in higher education.

Ashley Nelson, Graduate Student with the Thompson School of Social Work

Ashley Nelson is a 2nd year Master of Social Work Student at the Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health with a specialization in Behavioral Mental Health. Currently, Ashley is an intern at the UH Systems Confidential Advocate Program under her Field Instructor and Senior Advocate Leslie Cabingabang. While Ashley is completing her graduate degree, she is also a Graduate Assistant at the Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, an Administrative Student Assistant at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Graduate Medical Education Office, and the Communications Assistant for the Office of Public Health Studies. Ashley is passionate about advocacy, education and awareness, and mental health.

Kris Teves, Graduate Student with the Thompson School of Social Work