Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors
Wednesdays in April from 4:00 - 4:45 pm ET
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Are you feeling increased levels of stress and anxiety? If you answered yes, you are not alone. Join us for a live, virtual wellness session to help manage your stress, as you navigate the many challenges involved in continuing services for survivors during the COVID-19 crisis. We will be 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.
Please register to attend any or all of these sessions!
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We use Zoom as our virtual engagement platform. We will provide live captioning and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation for these listening sessions. If you need assistance with registration, please contact us at reachin...@vera.org.
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Centering Survivors from Underserved Communities
The past few weeks have brought significant and unprecedented changes to our lives and work. While everyone is impacted by the COVID-19 public health crisis, the impact is far greater on people from underserved communities: older adults, people with disabilities, communities of color and so many more. Prior to COVID-19, these communities were already underserved by victim services despite experiencing higher rates of victimization. These same communities have access to fewer resources, which compounds the challenges they already face and the new challenges created by COVID-19.
To ensure these survivors from underserved communities are at the center of all COVID-19 response efforts, we need to better understand the impact this health crisis is having on survivors' needs and better resource the crime victim services field to respond to their needs. We are hosting a series of listening sessions designed to surface the unique challenges facing survivors from specific underserved communities and to identify solutions. We believe that the collective wisdom and creative-problem solving within our field is needed now more than ever. We invite you to attend and share your perspective.
All listening sessions are FULL. We will post the recordings and resources from each session as soon as they are available on reachingvictims.org.
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Recordings from COVID-19 Response Meetings |
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We have hosted a series of strategy sessions that brought together people in the crime victims field to explore how we sustain services to survivors and keep our staff, programs, and communities healthy during this public health crisis. Each session features a different set of panelists who discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on crime survivors and programs who serve survivors and provide best practice guidance to address the most challenging issues facing the crime victims field.
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Strategy Session Recording from March 19. |
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Tele-Advocacy: Ensuring Accessibility for Underserved Crime Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Tele-advocacy – using technology like text messaging, on-line chat, or video conferencing to serve survivors – is one of the most promising strategies for staying connected and serving survivors during the physical distancing requirements in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19. This webinar provides an overview of tele-advocacy, confidentiality and security considerations in digital services, and strategies to tele-advocacy that are accessible and inclusive for survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors.
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Working Remotely: Considerations for Survivor-Centered Organizations |
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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.
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Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors |
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Are you feeling increased levels of stress and anxiety? If you answered yes, know you are not alone. Watch one of our virtual wellness sessions to help manage your stress, as you navigate the many challenges involved in continuing services for survivors during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Staying Centered Recording from March 25. |
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The National Resource Center for Reaching Victims, a national collaboration funded by the Office for Victims of Crime at the U.S. Department of Justice, is a one-stop shop for victim service providers, culturally specific organizations, justice system professionals, and policymakers to get information and expert guidance to enhance their capacity to identify, reach, and serve all victims, especially those from communities that are underrepresented in healing services and avenues to justice. For more information, visit reachingvictims.org.
Together, we are working to increase the number of victims who receive the support they need to help them heal.
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