Considering a Facility Dog for Your Victim Service Program?
“During this session, experts will provide practical information about how you can incorporate a courthouse facility dog … into direct victim service programs.”
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Defense Based Advocacy And The Domestic Violence Movement Part 3/3
“Participants will learn about the scope of the crisis of the criminalization of survivors; ways that the criminal legal system causes, replicates, and perpetuates harm to victims, their families, and communities; and explore why anti-domestic violence advocates are critical to the fight for justice for criminalized survivors.”
Combating and Preventing Sex Trafficking of Black Girls
“In this first video, you’ll learn about trauma informed services, youth partnership, as well as choice and voice for survivors.”
Resources and trainings for advocates serving the Oxford community
MiVAN would like to invite you to take a look at some of the useful trainings, videos, and other resources available from us and national organizations that highlight varying ways in which an advocate can practice trauma-informed care, especially in the wake of mass violence.
Serving Teen Survivors: A Manual For Advocates
“This manual is designed to help those providing services to survivors of sexual violence serve teens using a trauma-informed approach.”
Grief and Loss in Supervised Visitation
“We will help staff define and identify the different types of grief and loss, learn how culture and grief interact, explore the impact on individuals, families, organizations, and institutions, and provide strategies for supporting grieving participants and team members.”
The Survivor Decides: Core Confidentiality For Victim Service Providers
“Confidentiality is an essential part of community-based, survivor-centered victim services. But sometimes, we can start to lose track of what we really mean by “confidentiality” and what its actual purpose really is.”
2022 Tribal Justice, Safety and Wellness Summit
“The Summit features four training tracks:
Criminal Justice Personnel, Records Collection and Data Sharing, Tribal Courts and Corrections, Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons
Trauma and Human Trafficking in Tribal Communities
“Join the American Indian and Alaska Native panelists as they offer insight and answer participant questions on recognizing and addressing trauma from a human trafficking survivor’s lived experience.”
Upcoming Trauma-informed Workshops
Advocacy Tools For Healing Trauma Register Building Trauma-informed advocacy skills Many advocates already know a lot about trauma and use their knowledge and training to help survivors recover every day, but it can also be healing in and of itself to share information about trauma directly with survivors. Being prepared with evidence-based responses to challenges,…