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July 2020
Identity Theft and Fraud Concerns for Businesses
Regional Victim Assistance Training
This session will provide an overview of business identity theft and its ramifications. Attendees will learn how to report and correct business identity theft and about the model approach designed by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and Colorado Secretary of State. Additionally, this session will include information about ongoing national efforts to raise awareness about business identity theft. Presenters will also discuss other ways perpetrators use stolen information to defraud business such as business email compromises, fraudulent websites, and wire transfers,…
Navigating Mainstream: Reflections from Cultural Leaders
Organizations spend a lot of time researching, strategizing, and working together to serve our communities better. But what about the team in our organizations; what conditions must shift to create a more compassionate, equitable space? Join us for an interactive question and answer conversation with cultural leaders who will self-reflect on their journey and share strategies they have developed to survive in systems not created with them in mind. A collective intersectional space that affirms and supports healing is needed…
Ibram X. Kendi on “How to be an Antiracist”
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
2019 Guggenheim Fellow and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi will discuss his renowned book “How to Be an Antiracist” on Monday, July 20 at 7:00 p.m. with Dr. Charlene M. Dukes, president of Prince George’s Community College. Dr. Dukes is the first African-American woman to serve as president of the College and has 30 years of progressive leadership experience and administrative responsibility in higher education. The conversation will be streamed live online on Crowdcast, Facebook, YouTube, and…
The Way Forward: Shaping the Future of Organizing
Regional Victim Assistance Training
The Way Forward: Shaping the Future of Organizing Tuesday, July 21, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm PT Moderator: Zoe Flowers Panelists: Junetta Jamerson and Annika Leonard Participants will be provided with an overview of the strategies employed by organizers from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Movement in Canada and connect the dots to the experiences of survivors of color in the United States. Our virtual panel will then utilize the successes, challenges and lessons learned from the Indigenous organizers…
World View Signs & Symptoms and How to Mitigate Them
Regional Victim Assistance Training
This six part webinar series will address secondary trauma and traumatic stress in order to help law enforcement, prosecutors, and other investigative personnel identify, reduce, and address the traumatic impact of their work in combating child sexual exploitation. The webinar series will detail how and why stress and trauma manifest, what signs and symptoms we should be looking out for, as well as how to mitigate the effect by using everyday tools, techniques and coping strategies. The first webinar in…
Trauma Informed Supervision Training Series
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Providing direct services to vulnerable people is exhausting and rewarding work. Many of us come to it because of the ways the mission of our organization has impacted us personally, and all of us have a desire to improve the lives and honor the strengths of those who need our services. Because of the intense connection individual employees bring to their direct service, supervision that is trauma informed and focused on trust and kindness is essential to creating healthy work…
Closing the Gap Between Values and Reality: Disability Inclusion in Culturally Specific Programs
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Culturally specific domestic violence and sexual assault programs have always known that when you create services by focusing on those in the margins, you end up with better services for everyone. When this is your core value, you also understand that to create services you focus your attention on those at the very edge of the margins. That, however, is often easier said than done. In this webinar, Luana Nelson-Brown will discuss how to close the gap between knowing it’s…
Protecting Your Business from Identity Theft and Cybercrime
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Small businesses are at the highest risk for identity theft and cyber-crime and are particularly vulnerable during COVID-19. Perpetrators of business identity theft can harm a small business's cash flow, affect relationships with creditors and suppliers, and damage a business's reputation. This webinar will engage advocates who work with small business owners to ensure that they are up-to-date on the most current methods by which identity thieves target small businesses, how to report these instances, and how to identify the…
Increasing Access to Justice with Technological Innovations in Rural Areas
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Data shows that people living in rural areas face high rates of victimization and myriad hurdles to accessing justice, including a lack of services, limited infrastructure hindering access to existing services, geographic challenges, and language access. Gaps in the availability of access to legal services in rural areas are particularly profound. To address these gaps, the federal Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) envisioned a national effort that would build upon existing models of victim services and use of technology…
Empowering Indigenous Women and Communities Through Self-Defense
Self-defense training promotes body-oriented healing and practical safety planning. Feminist empowerment approaches to self-defense teach a wide range of resistance strategies, which include assertive communication, boundary setting, de-escalation, strategic physical escape, and physical resistance. Empowerment-based programs emphasize choice and resilience while actively challenging victim-blaming. Research shows that empowerment self-defense programs reduce trauma symptoms, help survivors find their voices, and prevent sexual assault. This webinar presents one of the few empowerment self-defense programs that is located on sovereign tribal land and…