Are you feeling increased levels of stress and anxiety? If you answered yes, know you are not alone. Join us for a virtual wellness session to help manage your stress, as you navigate the many challenges involved in continuing services for survivors during the COVID-19.
People across the country are mobilizing quickly to ensure services for survivors of crime continue during the COVID-19 crisis. Confronting this new set of challenges in rapidly changing and uncertain times can be stressful. It is critical that we in the crime victims field integrate strategies to manage stress and anxiety into our day-to-day practice. In this virtual wellness session, we are joined by Zoe Flowers – advocate, healer, writer, poet, and filmmaker. Zoe will guide us through a number of activities to help us stay grounded and manage stress and anxiety.
Register:
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Join us for a town hall forum to discuss how to sustain victim services during the cornavirus (COVID-19) public health crisis. The town hall will feature experts in victim services who will discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on crime survivors and their access to vital systems of support and answer your most pressing questions so we can continue to support survivors and keep our staff and programs healthy.
The spread of COVID-19 and the rapidly evolving circumstances in which we find ourselves present an opportunity for us to come together and tackle these unprecedented challenges together. Survivors need victim services now more than ever. Protecting against the spread of COVID-19 is creating new dynamics and barriers to services for survivors. It is also creating an urgent call to action for advocacy programs.
How do we stay connected with survivors and continue to provide support, especially to those with the fewest resources and in greatest need, while also keeping our programs, staff, and communities healthy? We need each other now more than ever to solve these challenges. We know that survivors and advocates are resilient and our collective strength will carry us through these unprecedented and unpredictable times.
We invite you to join us for a series of discussions where we tap into this strength and one another’s creativity to solve the challenges before us together.
Registration is closed.
Please check the National Strategy Session on Sustaining Services resource page for the recording.
The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and the rapidly evolving circumstances in which we find ourselves presents an opportunity for us to come together and tackle these unprecedented challenges together. Survivors need victim services now more than ever. Protecting against the spread of COVID-19 is creating new dynamics and barriers to services for survivors. It is also creating an urgent call to action for advocacy programs.
How do we stay connected with survivors and continue to provide support, especially to those with the fewest resources and in greatest need, while also keeping our programs, staff, and communities healthy? We need each other now more than ever to solve these challenges. We know that survivors and advocates are resilient and our collective strength will carry us through these unprecedented and unpredictable times.
We invite you to join us for a series of discussions where we tap into this strength and one another’s creativity to solve the challenges before us together.
Friday, March 20
Tele-Advocacy: Ensuring Accessibility for Underserved Crime Survivors
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and the rapidly evolving circumstances in which we find ourselves presents an opportunity for us to come together and tackle these unprecedented challenges together. Survivors need victim services now more than ever. Protecting against the spread of COVID-19 is creating new dynamics and barriers to services for survivors. It is also creating an urgent call to action for advocacy programs.
How do we stay connected with survivors and continue to provide support, especially to those with the fewest resources and in greatest need, while also keeping our programs, staff, and communities healthy? We need each other now more than ever to solve these challenges. We know that survivors and advocates are resilient and our collective strength will carry us through these unprecedented and unpredictable times.
We invite you to join us for a series of discussions where we tap into this strength and one another’s creativity to solve the challenges before us together.
Registration is closed.
Please check the National Strategy Session on Sustaining Services resource page for the recording.
The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and the rapidly evolving circumstances in which we find ourselves present an opportunity for us to come together and tackle these unprecedented challenges together. Survivors need victim services now more than ever. Protecting against the spread of COVID-19 is creating new dynamics and barriers to services for survivors. It is also creating an urgent call to action for advocacy programs.
How do we stay connected with survivors and continue to provide support, especially to those with the fewest resources and in greatest need, while also keeping our programs, staff, and communities healthy? We need each other now more than ever to solve these challenges. We know that survivors and advocates are resilient and our collective strength will carry us through these unprecedented and unpredictable times.
We invite you to join us for a series of discussions where we tap into this strength and one another’s creativity to solve the challenges before us together.
Wednesday, March 18
Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors
12:00 PM – 12: 45 PM ET
The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and the rapidly evolving circumstances in which we find ourselves present an opportunity for us to come together and tackle these unprecedented challenges together. Survivors need victim services now more than ever. Protecting against the spread of COVID-19 is creating new dynamics and barriers to services for survivors. It is also creating an urgent call to action for advocacy programs.
How do we stay connected with survivors and continue to provide support, especially to those with the fewest resources and in greatest need, while also keeping our programs, staff, and communities healthy? We need each other now more than ever to solve these challenges. We know that survivors and advocates are resilient and our collective strength will carry us through these unprecedented and unpredictable times.
We invite you to join us for a series of discussions where we tap into this strength and one another’s creativity to solve the challenges before us together.
Registration is closed.
Please check the National Strategy Session on Sustaining Services resource page for the recording.
Event Information:
In this meeting we will discuss some of the key findings and recommendations of our new report, Opening the Door to Healing: Reaching and Serving Crime Victims Who have a History of Incarceration. Participants are invited to share their reactions and ideas for expanding upon this work.
Please ask people to email me at kkall@vera.org for registration information.
Winter Storytelling: Our Indigenous Past, Present, and Future of Advocacy
During this month’s meeting, we are privileged to welcome back Ashley McSwain. In addition to directing Community Family Life Services, a DC-based service provider for incarceration-impacted women, Ashley is a professor of social work and teaches university-level courses on grant-writing. In Friday’s meeting, she will discuss tips and myths about grant-writing, review components of success applications, and be available for Q&A.
These monthly virtual learning community meetings provide a space for service providers, advocates, and directly-impacted people working and living at the intersection of victimization and incarceration to share and learn from each other about promising practices for working with survivors with incarceration histories.
For information on the learning community, including how to join this month’s meeting, please contact Kaitlin Kall at kkall@vera.org.
Through a highly interactive and engaging process, learn how you and your program can better reach survivors from underserved communities. Together, we will explore topics, such as: Who is being served by your program and who is not, Barriers to services and what you can do to remove them, Steps you can take to strengthen partnerships, build trust, and engage
communities, Healing-informed, culturally responsive approaches to services, and Resiliency among survivors and advocates. You will leave the training with an action plan to help you take what you learn and make practical changes in your work and program.
This training series is designed for victim advocates who work with a range of victims and survivors across the lifespan. Advocates in systems such as law enforcement, prosecution, and probation, as well as community-based advocates working from organizations such as culturally specific victim services, domestic violence and sexual assault services, homicide, or gun violence services are encouraged to attend.
This training series is designed for victim advocates who work with a range of victims and survivors across the lifespan. Advocates in systems such as law enforcement, prosecution, and probation, as well as community-based advocates working from organizations such as culturally specific victim services, domestic violence and sexual assault services, homicide, or gun violence services are encouraged to attend.
Training is FULL.