Additional Resources 

 

Shaping the Future with Culturally Specific Innovations: 

• The Dad Gang 
o Defying stereotypes, shatter myths, and celebrate 
black fatherhood every day. 
o Deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind orgs: The Dad 
Gang by state 
• Amani Women’s Center 
o A one-stop safe haven for refugee women of all cultures, 
who are seeking a space for spiritual, mental, and 
physical healing. 
• The National Compadres Network 
o The mission of the National Compadres Network is to 
strengthen and re-root the capacity of individuals, 
families and communities to honor, rebalance, and 
redevelop the authentic identity, values, traditions and 
indigenous practices of Chicano, Latino, Native, Raza 
and other communities of color as the path to the 
honoring of all their relations and life long well being. 
• The Alma Center 
o The Alma Center works to heal, transform, and evolve the 
unresolved pain of trauma that fuels the continuation of 
cycles of violence, abuse and dysfunction in families and 
community. 
• Black Women’s Blueprint 



o We work to place Black women and girls’ lives, as well 
as their particular struggles, squarely within the 
context of the larger racial justice concerns of Black 
communities. 
• Victim Assistance Program 
o We are here to help you navigate through the aftermath 
of victimization or trauma. 
• Freeform 
o We envision a world where survivors have sustaining 
income, savings and credit with which to build wealth 
and the resources to support individual, intergenerational, 
and community healing. 
• Freedom, Inc. 
o Engages low- to no-income communities of color in Dane 
County, WI. Our mission is to achieve social justice through 
coupling direct services with leadership development and 
community organizing. 
• Court Innovation 
o Seeks to create a more fair, effective, and humane justice 
system. 
• The Audre Lorde Project 
o is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender 
Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing 
center, focusing on the New York City area. 
• SASHA Center 



o Focuses on educating the public, raising awareness and 
providing support to self-identified survivors of sexual 
assault. All support groups are free of charge and 
confidential. 


 
Shaping the Future of Organizing- Applying the Lessons Learned from 
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Organizers: 

• National Indigenous Women’s Center 
• Rosa Perreira: Black Women and Girls Matter 
• Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIW) 
Final Report 
• The Action Network: #FreeGrace 
• Shawn Ginwright: Shifting from Trauma- Informed Care to 
Healing Centered Engagement 


 

 

Shaping the Future of Healing Justice: 

• A Not-So-Brief Personal History of the Healing Justice 
Movement, Leah Lakshmi 
• Corazon & Alma: September 21st Virtual Workshop 
• Soul Requirements 
• Trauma & resilience training for families, communities, 
professionals and organizations