PARTners in Progress 2026

SATURDAY, APRIL 25TH, 9AM-5PM

Join us at AFSSA’s second Prevention Summit!

PARTners in Progress is a one-day gathering that celebrates healing, togetherness, and collective action. Together, we will weave connections across generations and cultures—celebrating our shared resilience and envisioning a future free from violence.

Together, we can pave the way for progress and build a future free from violence.

WHEN

Saturday, April 25th, 2026 from 9am to 5pm.

WHERE

City of Austin Permitting and Development Center,
6310 Wilhelmina Delco Dr.
Austin, TX 78752

GET TICKETS

Registration link coming soon!

2026 Summit Themes

Community Healing
Reclaiming Our Power: From Survival to Self-Determination

This track centers community-led transformation and self-determination as acts of healing and resistance. Sessions on this track will explore how we move beyond reactive systems of care toward proactive, community-driven approaches to safety and accountability.

Participants will engage in conversations and skill-building around collective healing, leadership, organizing, and creating sustainable systems rooted in justice and collective care.

Resistance in Narratives
Stories that Guide Us

This tracks centers storytelling, art, and cultural expression as mechanisms for healing and systems change.

Participants will engage in author-led discussions, local dance and performance groups, improvisational workshops, and community storytelling initiatives that elevate narrative as a tool for collective transformation and organizing.

Intergenerational Justice
Remembering Our Roots, Building Our Future

Grounded in ancestral wisdom and intergenerational leadership, this track explores decolonizing parenting, healthy masculinity, caregiving, boundaries, and communal protection.

Sessions highlight elders’ and youths’ contributions to movement-building while supporting new models of care, accountability, and mutual aid as core strategies for violence prevention.