Advocates to the Front! 2024 WSCADV Conference

This workshop will consider how our movement requires leaders to hold the complexities of trauma-based work alongside our role responsibilities for grant compliance, laws, and HR.  With a lens of grace and compassion for the weight of that charge, participants will learn topics such as: 1) how nice is not always kind, 2) how positions of power require an ongoing commitment to earning trust 3) FEAST principles 4) how leaders are (good) people too, and 5) how to ensure our own needs are tended to so that we can sustain.  There will be time for Q&A for specific leadership/management questions during the final half hour of the session.

Historically remote and rural communities have had limited access to reproductive health care and as a result survivors experience lifelong impacts that can undermine their health and choices. Rural Resources Victim Services created strategic messaging about Reproductive Justice and health care options while making sure neither survivors nor staff had a target on their backs.