Stalking Targeting Immigrant Victims
This factsheet breaks down stalking behaviors into four categories: Surveillance, life invasion, interference, intimidation, and discusses how these behaviors may be uniquely experienced by immigrant victims.
Supporting LGBTQ+ Stalking Victims – A guide for advocates
The guide for advocates gives an in depth perspective on stalking and the unique ways in which the LGBTQ+ community can be impacted (systemic barriers, stalking behaviors, additional safety planning considerations, etc.)
Stalking and LGBTQ+ Victims
This webinar discussed barriers to accessing helping services faced by LGBTQ+ people and how to mitigate harm. It talked about prevalence of stalking in the LGBTQ+ population and how various SLII stalking behaviors can be uniquely experienced by this population.
Stalking and Older Adults
This webinar overviews the prevalence and implications of elder abuse then dives into stalking of older adults, including the role ageism and stereotypes play, the unique barriers older survivors of stalking face in reporting and service seeking, and the response to older survivors of stalking.
Vicarious Trauma – An Indigenous Perspective: Cultural Strengths as the Roots of Resilience for Health Trauma and Building Worker Wellness
This webinar discusses collective historical and intergenerational trauma and provides information about vicarious trauma from an Indigenous-specific context. It discusses wellness approaches and culturally informed trauma approaches that providers can use when working with indigenous communities.
Crisis hotline advocate burnout panel
This recorded panel of crisis hotline advocates discusses the risk for burnout that hotline advocates often face and how they address those risks in their own work and give advice on how organizational leadership can support the wellbeing of crisis line advocates.
Recovering from Burnout
This article overviews what burnout is then deep dives into what people can do to recover with advice that includes identifying and addressing the specific cause(s), caring for the basics of the physical self, taking a vacation or time away, reassessing goals, setting boundaries, and focusing on positive thinking.
What Supervisors and Leadership Need to Know About Vicarious Trauma and Supporting Your Staff
This article highlights the importance and necessity of supporting advocate wellbeing at the organizational level and offers tips for leadership to mitigate the effects of vicarious trauma in their advocates.
#1Thing to #Care4Advocates Mind, Body, and Soul
The first webinar in the series focuses on identifying how advocates are feeling about their work and their workplace, discusses the oppression advocates face – particularly advocates of color – and how it impacts mental health, and how to observe and communicate your capacity and that of others.
How can writing and journaling support survivors’ and advocates’ healing and wellness?
This brief article explains expressive writing and how advocates and survivors can use it to promote healing and wellbeing.