Raising the Bar on Juvenile Reentry
“A panel of young people with lived experience discussed their experiences and how juvenile justice agencies could have better helped them with reentry.”
Advocates push for release of women’s prison abuse victims
“FAMM, also known as Families Against Mandatory Minimums, sent a letter Tuesday to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco pushing for the Justice Department to file motions for compassionate release for those who have been victimized at the prison.”
Returning to School After a Crisis: A Guide to Addressing Traumatic Events at School
“This guide is intended as a resource that teachers and other school personnel can use to help students cope with the aftermath of a school shooting or other traumatic events.”
Indigenous Mindfulness As An Intervention Tool For Native American Youth
“Teaching mindfulness methods as an intervention for the negative trauma in our children’s lives is a meaningful and strength-based approach to healing that is both effective and sustainable. It has the potential to be used as a preventative measure.”
Uplifting the Indigenous LGBTQ2S+ Community through Indigenous Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention
“This presentation is an introductory webinar on how the cisgender and heterosexual community can be more supportive of the LGBTQ2S+ community and proactive in IPV prevention.”
Secondary Trauma & Traumatic Stress: Worldview Signs and Symptoms and How to Mitigate
“This webinar held on April 20, 2022, focused on the worldview signs and symptoms of stress and shared specialized resiliency tools and coping strategies to help professionals combat traumatic stress and develop personalized tools to help alleviate the effects of trauma.”
Identifying Stalking: SLII Strategies
“Ask specific questions about the major stalking categories—surveillance, life invasion, intimidation, and interference (SLII) — to better assess if a victim is experiencing stalking.”
A Guide to Exploring Trauma: A Blog Series
“This blog series hopes to shed light on many aspects of trauma to facilitate deeper conversations and spawn not only education and awareness, but change.”
Advocacy & Male-Identified Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
“As advocates we must work on increasing our understanding of the socio-cultural barriers to disclosing abuse. This requires addressing bias and stigma. It also requires the elimination of structural barriers to help-seeking for male-identified survivors.”
Indigenous women more likely to face violence if they were children in care
“Front-line workers are calling for more support for Indigenous families after a Statistics Canada analysis found First Nations, Inuit and Métis women are more likely to experience physical or sexual assault in their lifetime if they were in government care as children.”