Resource Library

This month's compilation includes webinars, articles, and more to consider about mental health and discusses how we can offer quality support to our clients and each other.

Uniting Three Fires Against Violence (UTFAV) created a cultural video series intended for individuals and communities across Michigan that may work with our Indigenous/Tribal/Native survivors who have experienced gender based violence.

The document highlights the commonality of co-occurring disorders (CODs) and negative outcomes in the absence of evidence-based integrated care, provides an overview of treatment barriers and potential solutions, and the effectiveness of integrated care. It also highlights six guide principles to work with individuals with CODs.

This brochure discusses age-appropriate Opioid Use Disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery approaches and provides key facts, considerations, program examples, and resources for older adults.

This webinar discusses higher rates of mental health issues in trans communities, explores why rates might be higher, talks about common barriers trans community members face in accessing effective mental health assistance, overviews what steps providers can take to reduce those barriers, highlights resiliency seen in the community, and more.

This web-article discusses mental health in the workplace. It details the “Five Essentials” to support workplace mental health and well-being: protection from harm, connection & community, work-life harmony, mattering at work, and opportunity for growth.

The Trevor Project’s 2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People amplifies the experiences of more than 28,000 LGBTQ young people ages 13 to 24 across the United States.

This two-page resource gives a brief overview on conducting a suicide assessment using a five-step evaluation and triage plan.

The guide emphasizes the distinctions between 988 and 911, aiming to reduce confusion and ensure timely, appropriate responses to both behavioral health crises and physical emergencies.

This chart maps out risk and protective factors and social determinants of health along various points in the social ecological model.

In this course, we will learn how to recognize when doing the work is starting to take a toll, how to get help, and useful individual and workplace practices for caring for ourselves and each other in this work.

In this course, you will learn about the intersectionality principle, privilege and allyship, a brief history of the sexual and domestic violence movement, and more.

In this course, we will explore the advocate’s role and define the guiding principles of advocacy: being intersectional, survivor-centered, trauma-informed.

In this course, you’ll learn more about what domestic violence means in an intimate relationship, how prevalent it is, and how to recognize risks, so that we can meet survivors where they are with consistent terminology, information, and services.

In this course, you’ll learn more about what sexual violence means, how prevalent it is, and how it impacts survivors, so that we can meet survivors where they are with consistent terminology, information, and services.

In this course, you will learn about creating a safety plan with survivors, identifying risks the survivor may face, and connecting survivors with other resources in Michigan and nationally.

In this course, we will discuss the prevalence and effects of sexual abuse & domestic violence on children, perpetrator tactics, how children experience and express their trauma, how to support non-offending caregivers, and how to promote the resiliency and healing of children.

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.

This training was developed and presented by ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services) and focuses on serving Arab Americans. ACCESS is in Dearborn, MI. ACCESS is the largest nonprofit Arab American human services agency in the U.S.

This month's compilation includes webinars, articles, and more to consider about preventing sexual violence and supporting survivors

This understandable research brief highlights findings that LGBTQ+ young people report higher rates of sexual violence than the general population. Nearly two in five LGBTQ+ young people (39%) reported that they had ever been forced to do “sexual things” that they did not want to do.