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07 Dec Stetson School for Boys, Screening and Q&A with Donna Jenson and Dr. Emily Samuelson

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Description This webinar will show a video of Clinicians discussing Donna Jenson’s work with the residents at the Stetson School for Boys, clinician interviews: https://vimeo.com/13703674 This webinar will feature a discussion about working with those who have done harm to others and a Q & A with...

07 Dec Survivor Writing Workshop with Donna Jenson & Dr. Emily Samuelson (Session Two)

Posted at 22:00h in Uncategorized

Survivors sometimes need opportunities to think, share, and collaborate together—as survivors. This workshop was developed by survivors in order to create a uniquely supportive environment within which participants can explore and share their experiences and have their voices heard, respected and understood. The survivor-led format...

07 Dec Survivor Writing Workshop with Donna Jenson & Dr. Emily Samuelson (Session One)

Posted at 21:54h in Uncategorized

The survivor community is integral to achieving an end to sexual violence. Their hearts, minds and voices must be core in the reimaging of current mainstream responses, programs, and policies for the transformation of justice. Survivors need opportunities to think, share and collaborate together—as survivors. Such...

07 Dec Telling Is Healing with Donna Jenson

Posted at 21:51h in Uncategorized

This webinar will provide an array of excerpts from a performance of Donna Jenson’s play, What She Knows, and readings from her book, Healing My Life: From Incest to Joy, interspersed with reflections, narrative, and comments. The webinar will be followed by a Q &...

07 Dec De-Criminalizing Our Youth

Posted at 21:30h in Uncategorized

Donna Hylton, author of 'A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound,' will discuss systemic oppression through foster care, educational, child protective and other institutions where racism, oppressive practices, cultural incompetence, and lack of trauma-informed perspectives that set up...

07 Dec A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound

Posted at 21:27h in Uncategorized

Donna Hylton, author of 'A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound,' will discuss her life, and how her early trauma impacted her life, later traumas including incarceration, and her connection to other victimized women and advocates doing the...

24 Nov Secondary/Vicarious Trauma in First Responders to Sexual Violence

Posted at 17:44h in Uncategorized

This presentation will educate the First Responder on the risk of experiencing secondary trauma, also called vicarious trauma, resulting from the work with victims of violence, most specifically victims of sexual assault. Secondary trauma is prevalent in the realm of providing care and resources to...

23 Nov Vidas Negra Importan: Black Latinx Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Posted at 20:14h in Uncategorized

This webinar will focus on effective approaches at the intersections of child sexual abuse, gender and race. As a Black Latinx adult survivor of child sexual abuse, incest and rape; Luz Marquez Benbow will share her findings from her Just Beginnings Project - Black Latinidad:...

23 Nov Healing Wounded Healers

Posted at 19:57h in Uncategorized

Many of the advocates, social workers, activists, and healers who support underserved victims of violence are also survivors of violence and trauma. Oftentimes these frontline service providers' own self-care and continued healing process is secondary to their commitment for caring and healing others. In some...

23 Nov Ending Violence Without Violence Opening with Seven Dancers Coalition

Posted at 19:50h in Uncategorized

To launch the Ending Violence Without Violence virtual series, Seven Dancers Coalition will lead an opening ceremony, including the Edge of the Woods Welcoming of Visitors and Bringing People into One Mind. The ceremony will welcome attendees and prepare them to participate in the virtual...

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