COVID-19

Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors

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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.

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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 …
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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.

Panelists:

Sandra Harrell, Vera Institute of Justice

Amber Hodson, Deaf Hope

Toby Shulruff, National Network to End Domestic Violence

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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 …
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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.
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? …
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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

Vera Institute of Justice
Language Access: The Lessons that COVID-19 has Reinforced

The current COVID-19 crisis is not over yet; however, in a short time we have seen how gaps in the system for language access are exacerbated by a pandemic. Did …
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Language Access: The Lessons that COVID-19 has Reinforced

The current COVID-19 crisis is not over yet; however, in a short time we have seen how gaps in the system for language access are exacerbated by a pandemic. Did we know what to do in a crisis? Were we prepared to ensure that everyone had access to information and services in their first language? What do we do during an emergency or a disaster? How does our language access plan monitoring help us achieve a more organized response? What went wrong, and how can we be sure that we do not make those mistakes again? Through this virtual training we will share lessons learned and answer these and other questions regarding language access preparedness, responsiveness and monitoring.

Objectives:

• Understand the implications and impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Limited English Proficient communities and survivors;
• Learn about language access compliance and monitoring and how they can be our guide for language access emergency preparedness; and
• Create a framework under which programs can create policies and protocols that facilitate access during a crisis.

Registration is closed.

Please check the Language Access: The Lessons that COVID-19 has Reinforcedresource page for the recording.

COVID-19

Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors

Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors

Tele-Advocacy Ensuring Accessibility for Underserved Crime Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tele-Advocacy Ensuring Accessibility for Underserved Crime Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Webinar Recording

Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

National Strategy Sessions on Sustaining Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

National Strategy Sessions on Sustaining Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Language Access: The Lessons that COVID-19 has Reinforced

Language Access: The Lessons that COVID-19 has Reinforced

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