Breaking Barriers: Working with African American Sexual Assault Survivors
July 2024
SASHA Center and MiVAN
Breaking Barriers is a series of trainings to help Michigan crime victim advocates better serve all Michiganders, and particularly those in groups identified as unserved, underserved, or marginalized. Throughout this series, advocates will learn about the barriers faced by members of these groups and strategies for addressing these barriers.
This training was developed and presented by the SASHA (Sexual Assault Services for Holistic Healing and Awareness) Center in Detroit, MI and focuses on working with African American survivors of sexual assault.
Learn more about SASHA Center from their website: https://sashacenter.org/.
Please follow along in the resource and reflection packet for this course.
Objectives
- Understand the importance of addressing anti-Blackness in mainstream organizations.
- Use the SASHA Center Black Women’s Triangulation of Rape Model to identify systemic barriers experienced by African American sexual assault survivors.
- Explore strategies for ensuring services and settings are culturally honoring
Access this training on MiVAN’s training page. You must be logged in to view the training page.