TRAUMA RESILIENCE KEY TO ADVOCACY
“Advocacy may sound like a rewarding job because saving lives is undeniably an honorable profession. That may be true, but the fact of the matter is – the work of an advocate is steeped in trauma.”
Advocacy for Firearm Awareness and Risk: Improving the Victim Advocate Response: Rationale and Understanding laws (Part 1)
“The Advocacy for Firearm Awareness and Risk training seeks to provide advocates with specific knowledge and tools to improve their comfort in and likelihood of speaking about firearms with their clients.”
Podcast: Building Safe Online Spaces Together
Learn how white supremacy shows up in online spaces, what’s missing in the mainstream conversation about online safety, and what we can do.
How can victim advocates and housing service providers respond to the needs of Native human trafficking survivors?
“Native women experience high rates of homelessness. Native women also have the highest rate of domestic violence and rape of any group of women. To support Native survivors, we must understand the historical context of their experiences.”
Supporting and Sustaining Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Practitioners
“Integrating trauma-informed principles to their workplaces and how internal organizational shifts are key to improving relationships with communities involved in sexual and intimate partner violence prevention.”
Uniting Isolated Voices; Girls and Gender Expansive Youth During COVID-19
“Uniting Isolated Voices provides a roadmap on the investments and strategies needed to achieve greater equity, especially for girls and gender expansive youth of color.”
Reconnecting with Native Teachings and Creating Healing Spaces
“Information and strategies to support families and friends to improve their capacity to support their 2S+/LGBTQ+ family and friends who are survivors of domestic violence or sexual violence or abuse.”
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.”