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Facilitators and Barriers to Screening and Management of Elder Abuse by Tribal Health Care Providers

International Association for Indigenous Aging The International Association for Indigenous Aging conducted the first comprehensive, systematic, national needs assessment to date that included personal interviews (n=23) and an online survey …
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Facilitators and Barriers to Screening and Management of Elder Abuse by Tribal Health Care Providers

International Association for Indigenous Aging

The International Association for Indigenous Aging conducted the first comprehensive, systematic, national needs assessment to date that included personal interviews (n=23) and an online survey (n=90) of tribal providers and participants from 22 states. The goal was to identify facilitators and barriers for screening and management of elder abuse by tribal health care providers working in the outpatient setting. Project findings regarding tribal provider experiences with elder abuse, mistreatment and financial exploitation in our full report are presented in conjunction with the words of our participants.

High level findings indicate that outpatient tribal health care provider participants are willing and ready to embrace screening for abuse among their older patients– 89% of survey respondents believe tribal health care providers should play a role in screening for elder abuse. These same providers indicate they are already required to intervene in clinical settings that more often than not lack proper protocols for managing cases of elder abuse, offer little training, and either lack information about available community services or supports or lack the actual community services and supports.

Facilitators and Barriers to Screening and Management of Elder Abuse by Tribal Health Care Providers Report Includes:

Full Report

Summary Report

Brief

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The Way Forward: Emerging Strategies for Crime Victims of Color Virtual Roundtable Series

The current public health crisis has shed a light on what victims of crime from communities of color have been saying for decades: institutional and systemic barriers and racial disparities, …
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The Way Forward: Emerging Strategies for Crime Victims of Color Virtual Roundtable Series

The current public health crisis has shed a light on what victims of crime from communities of color have been saying for decades: institutional and systemic barriers and racial disparities, combined with gaps in victim services, have made pathways to healing and justice out of reach for many victims of crime, particularly for victims of crime from communities of color.

This four-part virtual series, led by Zoe Flowers from Women of Color Network, will explore the way forward as victim service providers continue to pivot and adapt as a result of the current health crisis and also leverage this moment of change to better support crime victims from communities of color.

Webinar Roundtable Series

#1 Shaping the Future with Culturally Specific Innovations

This dynamic virtual roundtable will highlight the need to lift up the pre-pandemic innovations being made by culturally specific organizations in reaching and supporting survivors from communities of color. This session will explore what survivors and advocates of color are seeing, hearing and feeling. Join us for this virtual roundtable to share what is happening in your community as we envision the way forward for victims of crime from communities of color. Moderated by Zoe Flowers, featuring panelists Purvi Shah and Maria del Rosario Franco-Rahman.

#2 Shaping the Future of Protective Structures

This virtual panel will highlight community models of change and provide information on the various ways aspiring allies and advocates can serve as proactive partners in the move to end gender-based violence. Join us for this virtual roundtable as we envision the way forward for victims of crime from communities of color. Moderated by Zoe Flowers, featuring panelists Purvi Shah, Maria del Rosario Franco-Rahman, Annika Leonard, and Lórien Castelle.

#3 Shaping the Future of Organizing

This virtual panel will explore the successes, challenges and lessons learned from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Movement in Canada as a potential framework for addressing violence against women of color in the United States.

Join us for this virtual roundtable as we envision the way forward for victims of crime from communities of color. Moderated by Zoe Flowers, featuring panelists Junetta Jamerson, Rachelle Venne, and Annika Leonard.

#4 Shaping the Future of Healing Justice

Communities of color and aspiring allies need time to breathe, relax, re-orient themselves with their authentic self, tend to legacies of harm and untreated trauma as well as connect to lineages of resilience. This interactive virtual workshop is designed to provide a community of support where participants may practice techniques to slow down and reconnect to their strength, creativity, and spirit. Join Zoe Flowers and Maria del Rosario Franco-Rahman to learn more about the natural responses to and effects of stress, vicarious trauma, and the various healing modalities for sustaining your well being and those that you serve.

About the Panelist:

Zoë Flowers

Purvi Shah

Maria del Rosario Franco-Rahman

Annika Leonard

Lórien Castelle

Junetta Jamerson

Rachelle Venne

Vera Institute of Justice and Women of Color Network, Inc.
Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth is Violence Prevention (White Paper)

It’s not just LGBTQ adults who experience higher-than-typical rates of violence; the problem actually begins when they are children. This white paper explains how and why LGBTQ children and youth …
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Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth is Violence Prevention (White Paper)

It’s not just LGBTQ adults who experience higher-than-typical rates of violence; the problem actually begins when they are children. This white paper explains how and why LGBTQ children and youth are experiencing more violence and trauma, and how those experiences tend to lead to even more violence and trauma down the road. Most importantly, it explains how this trajectory can be disrupted, even by neighbors and other bystanders.

FORGE, Inc.
Reclaiming the Power of Breath: A Virtual Healing Series with Zoë Flowers

There’s so much going on. Our chests are tight. We are experiencing fear and confusion. It may be hard for you to sleep, be present, and keep a handle on …
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Reclaiming the Power of Breath: A Virtual Healing Series with Zoë Flowers

There’s so much going on. Our chests are tight. We are experiencing fear and confusion. It may be hard for you to sleep, be present, and keep a handle on all you need to do. And we still have “jobs” to do. It is our pleasure to present another set of healing sessions with advocate, healer, writer, poet, and filmmaker Zoe Flowers. Zoe provided almost 1500 advocates with her virtual wellness sessions from March to May 2020. She is returning on June 11th to guide us through another round of sessions to help us stay grounded, manage our stress and alleviate anxiety.

Vera Institute of Justice
Reaching Victims Mini-Grant Program 2019 Program Overview

Overview In 2018, the National Resource Center for Reaching Victims – a collaborative effort to increase the number of victims who receive victim services in the United States – launched …
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Reaching Victims Mini-Grant Program 2019 Program Overview

Overview

In 2018, the National Resource Center for Reaching Victims – a collaborative effort to increase the number of victims who receive victim services in the United States – launched the Reaching Victims Innovations Mini-Grant Program. The purpose of this program was to address unmet needs and close gaps that prevent survivors from underserved communities from accessing and benefiting from healing services and avenues to justice. We invited applications for projects that sought to better identify, engage, and/or serve
survivors from underserved communities or who face particular barriers to accessing victim services.

Grant Recipients:

Alma Center, Inc. – Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Boston Area Rape Crisis Center – Boston, Massachusetts

Casa Juana Colón, Apoyo y Orientación a la Mujer, Inc. -Comerio, Puerto
Rico

Deaf Unity – Madison, Wisconsin

Girls for Gender Equity, Inc. – Brooklyn, New York

IMPACT Boston, a project of Triangle Inc. in collaboration with Turtle
Mountain Empowerment Self-Defense – Belcourt, North Dakota

Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative – Olympia, Washington

International Association for Indigenous Aging – Silver Spring, Maryland

International Organization for Adolescents – Chicago, Illinois

Korean American Family Service Center – Flushing, New York

Monarch Services-Servicios Monarca – Santa Cruz, California

Rape Crisis Intervention & Prevention – Chico, California

The Love More Movement, Inc. – Hyattsville, Maryland

Victim Rights Law Center – Portland, Oregon

Vera Institute of Justice
Helping Those Who Help Others Needs Assessment Report

Key Findings From a Comprehensive Needs Assessment of the Crime Victims Field To better understand the reasons why some victims are not receiving services and what resources and tools the …
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Helping Those Who Help Others Needs Assessment Report

Key Findings From a Comprehensive Needs Assessment of the Crime Victims Field

To better understand the reasons why some victims are not receiving services and what resources and tools the field needs to reach more people, the NRC undertook a comprehensive assessment of the crime victims field and related
fields.

From July 2017 through March 2018, the NRC completed the following activities:

• Conducted 103 informational interviews with victim service providers, advocates with relevant lived experience, and other experts in the crime
victims field

• Completed more than 15 informational interviews
with VOCA administrators

• Conducted 45 listening sessions with stakeholder groups representing the voices and needs of various groups of victims who have been historically underrepresented

• Carried out five listening sessions with VOCA administrators

• Distributed a survey to the crime victims field and allied professionals and received more than 1,500 responses

• Reviewed more than 500 practice documents related to the victimization experiences and needs of survivors who often do not access services

• Conducted a communications audit of the victim services field to understand the strengths and weaknesses of current outreach and service strategies. This included an analysis of more than 75 brochures and other outreach materials from crime victim service programs from across the country, a survey of 35 leaders from the crime victims field, and in-depth interviews
with 15 experts in serving crime survivors from underserved communities.

This report summarizes the findings and crosscutting themes that the NRC gleaned from these activities and outlines its strategies to support the crime victims field’s goal of reaching more people and closing service gaps.

Vera Institute of Justice
Tips for Helping Trauma Survivors During COVID-19

During a public health crisis, the survivors you serve need your support even more. COVID-19 is an uncontrollable threat and is raising fear and anxiety. As advocates, you can help …
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Tips for Helping Trauma Survivors During COVID-19

During a public health crisis, the survivors you serve need your support even more. COVID-19 is an uncontrollable threat and is raising fear and anxiety. As advocates, you can help survivors manage these fears and help them cope with the added anxiety this crisis brings up. To help you help survivors, we’ve developed a few infographics and a compilation of tips that survivors may find useful. We’ve written these with the survivor as the audience. Feel free to distribute these infographics and utilize the tip sheet as needed. You cut and paste these tips into emails, text, and message apps. You can also use these to create your own fact sheets.

Helping Survivors Cope During COVID-19: Tip sheet for advocates to help survivors cope with the fear and anxiety of COVID-19.

Healthcare Guide During a Crisis: Survivors of violence, especially those who’ve survived child sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, or sexual assault, can find visiting the doctor or going to a health clinic really challenging. The chaos of waiting areas, emergency rooms and the vulnerability of being sick can combine to make these experiences anxiety producing and triggering. There are steps survivors can take to make accessing healthcare a little easier. This guide is to help survivors prepare should they need care due to COVID-19.

Recommendations for Self Care: Self-care Infographic for advocates helping survivors during the COVID-19 health crisis.

Grounding Techniques: Infographic on grounding techniques for advocates helping survivors experiencing fear and anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis.

Listening Session Recording

Caminar Latino and Vera Institute of Justice
Healing of Boys and Men of Color Training Curricula

The Healing of Boys and Men of Color Training Curricula supports victim service providers in understanding and implementing a holistic healing framework for Boys and Men of Color. The series …
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Healing of Boys and Men of Color Training Curricula

The Healing of Boys and Men of Color Training Curricula supports victim service providers in understanding and implementing a holistic healing framework for Boys and Men of Color. The series has three core modules: Trauma 101; Historical Trauma; and Strengths-Based Policy Development. Additionally, each module has a corresponding Trainer’s Guide with additional resources, activities, and guidance on using the curricula.

Trauma 101-Men of Color Anatomy of Healing: The Trauma 101 curriculum is meant to provide a basic overview of trauma and its causes for those without prior education on the topic. It is meant to create discussion on the trauma and victimization of boys and men of color and ways to better serve them. The goal is to get people to talk about trauma, victimization, and healing without debating right or wrong or focusing on how the problem is perpetuated.

Historical Trauma: The Historical Trauma curriculum provides an overview of historical trauma, ways we experience trauma, and how socioeconomic factors play a significant role in communities of color, specifically boys and men of color. The purpose is to create an understanding as to why boys and men of color may feel more pressure, or feel more anger or frustration but not know why due to these circumstances with the intent helping men move forward by being able to name the problem, and how trauma impacts an individual as creates barriers to services for boys and men of color within institutions. It also seeks to provide an understanding of how institutions can re-traumatize people through limited service, stringent requirements, or functions that benefit the institution rather than the individual. It concludes with ways to make institutional change and ways to promote healing.

Strength-Based Policy Development: The Strengths-Based Policy Development curriculum is meant to shift thinking from deficit-based programming to strengths-based programming when serving boys and men of color. Practitioners working with boys and men of color are often looking to offer services that address identified needs, and in that manner, they identify gaps in skills, knowledge, or capacity that they seek to fill. When we start from a strengths-based approach, instead, practitioners identify skill, knowledge, or capacity in the person they’re serving, as opposed to the person’s deficits, and in doing so, works with the individual to build upon their strengths.

Common Justice
Older Victims of Crime Social Media Toolkit

Social media can be a critical tool for sharing the stories, needs, and barriers for older survivors of crime and abuse. We invite you to use this toolkit to help …
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Older Victims of Crime Social Media Toolkit

Social media can be a critical tool for sharing the stories, needs, and barriers for older survivors of crime and abuse. We invite you to use this toolkit to help expand your networks’ knowledge of and access to services for older survivors.

The “Older Victims of Crime Social Media Toolkit” is designed to make it easy for victim service agencies and allied professionals to share knowledge, increase engagement, and start conversations online to support older victims of crime and abuse. The toolkit includes designed and ready-to-upload posts for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram that address topics like:

• Confronting ageism
• Elder Abuse
• Anti-oppression and victimization
• Building rapport with older survivors
• LGBTQ+ older survivors
• The role of culture in providing services
• Considerations for tribal communities
• Building a network of resources for older adults

How to use this Social Media Toolkit:

1. Download the toolkit pdf and the zipped files that contain all social media graphics. The zipped files include: 10 images correctly sized for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The toolkit pdf includes recommended text and hashtags for each image as well as helpful tips for considering accessibility needs using each platform. The image file names correspond with numbers listed in the toolkit pdf.

2. Select the posts that most resonate with your work. (Feel free to alter the suggested post text to better meet your needs.)

3. Schedule or post throughout the year! All posts are relevant at any time and are not linked to any specific date.

4. Include any or all of the suggested #hashtags, which will increase your reach and impact.

5. Enjoy the positive impact your posts will make!

National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL)
Resources to Transform Access for LGBTQ+ Sexual Assault Survivors

Victim Rights Law Center Tips for Strengthening LGBTQ+ Sexual Assault Survivors’ Access to Services in Oregon This Tip Sheet is designed to help advocates, attorneys, and others serving sexual assault …
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Resources to Transform Access for LGBTQ+ Sexual Assault Survivors

Victim Rights Law Center

Tips for Strengthening LGBTQ+ Sexual Assault Survivors’ Access to Services in Oregon

This Tip Sheet is designed to help advocates, attorneys, and others serving sexual assault survivors improve their services to the LGBTQ+ communities. The tips are based on feedback from LGBTQ+ survivors about what they’d like from service providers, as well as feedback from victim service providers about the tools they lack. We’ve included a resource list to help providers further their learning and identify additional tools to improve services to LGBTQ+ sexual assault survivors.

Transforming Access for LGBTQ Sexual Assault Survivors: Why Is it Important and What Can You Do?

This one-hour webinar is intended to help victim advocates in Oregon better serve LGBTQ+ survivors. The webinar covers key terminology; barriers LGBTQ+ survivors face in accessing services; steps providers can take to address those barriers; and a discussion of why, how, and when to ask survivors questions about sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression (SOGIE questions).

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Facilitators and Barriers to Screening and Management of Elder Abuse by Tribal Health Care Providers

Facilitators and Barriers to Screening and Management of Elder Abuse by Tribal Health Care Providers

Facilitators and Barriers to Screening and Management of Elder Abuse by Tribal Health Care Providers Report Includes:

The Way Forward: Emerging Strategies for Crime Victims of Color Virtual Roundtable Series

The Way Forward: Emerging Strategies for Crime Victims of Color Virtual Roundtable Series

Webinar Roundtable Series

About the Panelist:

Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth is Violence Prevention (White Paper)

Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth is Violence Prevention (White Paper)

Reclaiming the Power of Breath: A Virtual Healing Series with Zoë Flowers

Reclaiming the Power of Breath: A Virtual Healing Series with Zoë Flowers

Reaching Victims Mini-Grant Program 2019 Program Overview

Reaching Victims Mini-Grant Program 2019 Program Overview

Overview

Grant Recipients:

Helping Those Who Help Others Needs Assessment Report

Helping Those Who Help Others Needs Assessment Report

Key Findings From a Comprehensive Needs Assessment of the Crime Victims Field

Tips for Helping Trauma Survivors During COVID-19

Tips for Helping Trauma Survivors During COVID-19

Listening Session Recording

Healing of Boys and Men of Color Training Curricula

Healing of Boys and Men of Color Training Curricula

Older Victims of Crime Social Media Toolkit

Older Victims of Crime Social Media Toolkit

Resources to Transform Access for LGBTQ+ Sexual Assault Survivors

Resources to Transform Access for LGBTQ+ Sexual Assault Survivors

Tips for Strengthening LGBTQ+ Sexual Assault Survivors’ Access to Services in Oregon

Transforming Access for LGBTQ Sexual Assault Survivors: Why Is it Important and What Can You Do?

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