Many victim service and survivor-center training and technical assistance providers find themselves navigating a new landscape during COVID-19: working from home. This shift for providers raises many questions, uncertainty, and a complex dynamic of work/home life balance. Through this interactive...
Working Remotely: Key Considerations For Survivor-Centered Organizations
Many victim service and survivor-center training and technical assistance providers find themselves navigating a new landscape during COVID-19: working from home. This shift for providers raises many questions, uncertainty, and a complex dynamic of work/home life balance. Through this interactive virtual session, panelists who have varied experiences working from home – some are new and some have been doing it for over a decade – talk about the benefits, challenges, technology, share tips, and ideas for how to maintain connection and well-being in a remote environment.
Panelists:
Nancy Smith, Vera Institute of Justice
Olga Trujillo, Caminar Latino
Amanda Watson, Praxis International
Webinar Recording
Latinos United for Peace & Equity (LUPE) at Caminar Latino and Vera Institute of Justice
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...
Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors
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.
Victim service providers and other systems of care are implementing new strategies to sustain critical services for survivors of crime while physical distancing and other requirements to reduce the spread are in place in communities across the country. Tele-advocacy –...
Tele-Advocacy Ensuring Accessibility for Underserved Crime Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Victim service providers and other systems of care are implementing new strategies to sustain critical services for survivors of crime while physical distancing and other requirements to reduce the spread are in place in communities across the country. Tele-advocacy – using technology like text messaging, on-line chat, or videoconferencing to serve survivors – is one of the most promising strategies for staying connected and serving survivors during the COVID-19 crisis.
This webinar provides an overview of tele-advocacy, confidentiality and security considerations in digital services, and strategies to tele-advocacy is accessible and inclusive for survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors. In addition, an advocate experienced in tele-advocacy discusses strategies she uses to build relationships and provide practical tips for communicating effectively with survivors using digital platforms.
Are you feeling increased levels of stress and anxiety? If you answered yes, know you are not alone. People across the country are mobilizing quickly to ensure services for survivors of crime continue during the COVID-19 crisis. Confronting this new...
Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Are you feeling increased levels of stress and anxiety? If you answered yes, know you are not alone. 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. We are joined by Zoe Flowers – advocate, healer, writer, poet, and filmmaker – in a virtual wellness session. Zoe guides us through a number of activities to help us stay grounded and manage stress and anxiety.
Vera Institute of Justice and Women of Color Network, Inc.
How do we stay connected with survivors and continue to provide support, especially to those with the fewest resources and greatest needs, while keeping our programs, staff, and communities healthy? The National Resource Center for Reaching Victims is hosting a...
National Strategy Sessions on Sustaining Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
How do we stay connected with survivors and continue to provide support, especially to those with the fewest resources and greatest needs, while keeping our programs, staff, and communities healthy?
The National Resource Center for Reaching Victims is hosting a series of strategy sessions to bring people in the crime victims field together to tap into our collective strength and creativity to solve the unprecedented challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic together. Each strategy session feature a different set of panelists. Panelists discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on crime survivors and their access to victim services, police, courts, hospitals, and other vital systems of support. They also answer attendees’ most pressing questions.
March 17 Panelists:
Kris Bein, the Resource Sharing Project
Lisa Fleming, Rose Brooks Center
Meg Garvin, the National Crime Victim Law Institute
Toby Shulruff and Deb Debare, the National Network to End Domestic Violence
March 18 Panelists:
Sandra Harrell, Vera Institute of Justice
michael munson, FORGE
Erica Olsen, National Network to End Domestic Violence
Olga Trujillo, Caminar Latino
March 19 Panelists:
Kim Day, International Association of Forensic Nurses
Lisa Fleming, Rose Brooks Center
Erica Olsen, National Network to End Domestic Violence
Olga Trujillo, Caminar Latino
March 23 Panelists:
Meg Garvin, National Crime Victim Law Institute
Michael munson, FORGE
Erica Olsen, National Network to End Domestic Violence
Erika Sussman, Center for Survivor Agency & Justice
Sara Wee, Center for Survivor Agency & Justice
March 26 Panelists:
Olga Trujillo, Caminar Latino
Greg Flett, National Children’s Advocacy Center
Amanda Watson, Praxis International
Nancy Smith, Vera Institute of Justice
Karla Vierthale, National Sexual Violence Resource Center