Empowering & Supporting Advocates, Activists & Allies Workshops
Modeling a Culture of Wellness
Dr. Martha Ramos Duffer and Liz Range
Workshop 3 G
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 2
This workshop will address a critical issue facing family violence professionals: a movement confronted with the potentially devastating effects of burn out and secondary trauma/compassion fatigue. This workshop will explore the latest research on resilience, burn out, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, and discuss how this work can be integrated into family violence organizations.
Learning Objectives: (1) The role of wellness practices in preventing and healing Secondary Trauma, Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue and Burn out. (2) Research-based best practices in fostering Resilience and Compassion Satisfaction. (3) How to implement an individual wellness program as well as an organizational wellness program.
Keywords: Research/Evaluation, Self-Care, Organizational Culture, Compassion Fatigue
Country: United States of America
Bearing Witness: Our Story of Survival and Healing
Carrie Smart, Tina Malinowski and Carol Warshaw
Workshop 5I
Date & Time: Wednesday, 9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 4
We were held hostage with a woman whose husband had come to kill her. Through a personal account of life-threatening trauma experienced while providing advocacy to a survivor, we share the profound contribution it made to healing and remaining steadfast and dedicated to our mission of ending violence against women.
Learning Objectives: (1) Recognize the parallel process of survivors, advocates and organizations. (2) Strengthen advocates’ perspectives around the complex experiences of battered women and the heroic measures they take every day to keep themselves and their children safe. (3)Increase awareness of the crucial need for self-care for advocates and what organizations can do to promote and support well-being
Keywords: Program/Shelter Services, Managing Trauma Exposure, Lethality Assessment and Safety Planning, Worker Safety
Country: United States of America
Creating a Management Structure to Support Survivor and Advocate Safety
Victoria D. Green, Michelle Linzy and Suzanne Marcus
Workshop 10A
Date & Time: Thursday, 11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: Maryland Ballroom
Presenters will explore how a team approach to staff supervision supports advocates with navigating the nuances that exist within a low barrier, voluntary services housing program and provides a mechanism for reflective practice to prevent advocate burn out which can lead to staff abuse of power.
Learning Objectives: (1) Enhanced understanding of how a management structure that centers on intensive supervision and support of the non-professional/ advocate staff can minimize compassion fatigue and increase staff retention. (2) Learn how having a Clinical Director, Chemical Addictions Specialist and other staff support can provide a space within the organization for on-going professional development, program innovation and individual growth.
Keywords: Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services
Country: United States of America
Silence Speaks Digital Storytelling: From Healing to Action
Amy Hill
Workshop 1E
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10:05 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Room: Chesapeake G
This session will explore practical, theoretical, and ethical issues raised by digital storytelling, a form of participatory media. We will screen stories from around the world and guide participants through a series of experiential writing and story-sharing activities. Participants will strategize about the use of personal narrative and digital storytelling in movement-building work for women’s shelters worldwide.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn the value of personal narrative and story for effecting individual, community, institutional, and policy change. (2) Learn the basics of what is required to carry out a digital storytelling workshop/project. (3) Learn specific strategies for integrating various kinds of storytelling into their work
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Program/Shelter Services, Working with Underserved Communities, Participatory Media
Country: United States of America
Acting Out: Youth Activism and Leadership
Colleen Gallopin, Melissa Kaufmann and Sarah Scanlon
Workshop 11G
Date & Time: Thursday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m
Room: National Harbor 2
Young people have an enormous capacity to contribute to the work of our movement. This workshop will share strategies to empower youth through bystander engagement, activism and peer leadership. It will highlight the work being done by youth and examine young people’s role as activists.
Learning Objectives: (1) Identify the benefits of engaging youth in their prevention and intervention programs. (2) Apply youth engagement strategies in their communities, such as peer to peer education and culture jamming.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Youth Engagement, Peer Leadership, Activism
Country: United States of America and Canada
Survivors' Voices
Ana Bella Estevez Jiménez de los Galanes
Workshop 3J
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 5
The Ana Bella Foundation creates peer-to-peer networks of women who have survived or are experiencing gender-based violence, and is delivering visibility to positive testimonies of women who have overcome an abusive situation. This session will explore how we successfully create peer networks, partner with the Public Administration and other social agents, and influence media.
Learning Objectives: (1) How to empower victims to transform into survivors able to act as changemakers in gender equality. (2) Avoid double victimization to get an effective integration of survivors in society.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Economic Justice/Empowerment, Survivors as Changemakers
Country: SpainEmpowerment of Low-Income Rural Women
Mavludakhon Shirinova and Tatyana Vyazikova
Workshop 7H
Date & Time: Wednesday, 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 3
In 1996, SABR began to render help to women and children in crisis. “SABR” became the first public organization in Uzbekistan that proposed “emergency assistance for the good of a soul". SABR renders psychological, social, legal and medical support in the frameworks of its counseling and referential activity over trust telephone lines and internal counseling. SABR works at empowerment of rural women, supporting them economically and via trainings on leadership and advocacy.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn about the experience of the SABR center; its model of socio-economic protection of vulnerable layers of population in rural area, thus empowering women, reducing domestic violence by giving necessary information, tools and education, support and assistance.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment
Country: Uzbekistan
ToGetHer (dance performance)
Ashley SK Davis, Reginald Dunnigan, Erika Brown, Viveca Hutchinson, Natasha Palazzolo, Ashlei Randolph (choreographer), and Adiah Simpson (soloist).
Workshop 8J
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 5
“ToGetHer” examines the emotional struggle that victims of DV encounter daily. The work follows one woman through the cycles of bliss and terror that are a part of her married life. Similarly, the audience shares her shame of her situation and her friends’ frustration as they attempt to help her. The overall purpose of “ToGetHer” is to serve as a “conversation-starter” between professionals who work for and advocate on behalf of DV victims and survivors and members of the public who are interested in volunteering or helping a specific friend or family member.
Learning Objectives: (1) Understand that domestic violence is an issue of exercising control over another person. (2) Explore opportunities to break the cycle of abuse.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Artistic Dance Performance
Country: United States of America
