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Language Access for Advocates

This webinar will discuss lessons learned and experiences from the field around ensuring meaningful and effective communication with all survivors, with a special focus on situations that involve multiple language …
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Language Access for Advocates

This webinar will discuss lessons learned and experiences from the field around ensuring meaningful and effective communication with all survivors, with a special focus on situations that involve multiple language needs, languages of limited diffusion and scarce resources. Presenters will explore the legal and ethical mandates for language access, strategies for language advocacy both within and outside one’s organization, and we will offer a multilayered approach to language accessibility that involves developing a relationship with an interpreting agency, utilizing bilingual staff, and developing meaningful community partnerships.

Casa de Esperanza and Casa de Esperanza - National Latin@ Network and 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
The Impact of Violence, Trauma, and Racial Oppression on Survivors

From a practitioner who directly works and identifies as a Native American women, Nicole Mathews provides an understanding of the complexity and various forms of violence experienced by historically marginalized …
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The Impact of Violence, Trauma, and Racial Oppression on Survivors

From a practitioner who directly works and identifies as a Native American women, Nicole Mathews provides an understanding of the complexity and various forms of violence experienced by historically marginalized communities, strategies for intervention, and intersectional responses being employed by advocates and educators.

Webinar Recording

Vera Institute of Justice and Women of Color Network, Inc.
Healing Informed Care for Survivors from Historically Marginalized Communities

As a way to re-release years of trauma-based on sexual assault, domestic violence, and other traumas– Zoe Flowers from WOCN, INC. shares her body, mind, and spirit connection techniques drawn …
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Healing Informed Care for Survivors from Historically Marginalized Communities

As a way to re-release years of trauma-based on sexual assault, domestic violence, and other traumas– Zoe Flowers from WOCN, INC. shares her body, mind, and spirit connection techniques drawn from decades of experience as a trauma practitioner and healer. More than ever, survivors and advocates alike need new ways to slow down, breath, relax and reconnect to their strength, creativity, and spirit.

Webinar Recording

Vera Institute of Justice and Women of Color Network, Inc.
Bridging Research and Practice to Expand Our Reach

Each year, millions of people in the United States become victims of crime. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey of 1, 900 individuals {survivors, advocates, law enforcement officers, funders …
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Bridging Research and Practice to Expand Our Reach

Each year, millions of people in the United States become victims of crime. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey of 1, 900 individuals {survivors, advocates, law enforcement officers, funders and others}, only 13% of victims report receiving victim services. Here, The National Resource for reaching victims shares their key findings from this assessment and discuss implications for the field.

Webinar Recording

Vera Institute of Justice

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