Announcing MSH-TA’s Webinar Series on Key Issues and Promising Practices
Mending the Sacred Hoop TA Project is pleased to announce our “Key Issues and Promising Practices” Webinar Series! From April-November 2021, MSH-TA will be offering webinar trainings on a variety of topics addressing violence against women in Native communities, including: Privacy and Confidentiality, Transitional Housing, Enforcing Tribal Protection Orders, and more.
Please join us in June for:
Housing First – A Model for Transitional Housing:Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | 1:00 pm CDT. The Housing First model has been shown to be a highly effective approach to achieving permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals with serious mental illness and chemical dependency. The Housing First model is based on the presumption that helping people obtain stable housing before addressing other concerns makes dealing with these other issues easier, and the evidence has strongly supported this claim. There are many components of the model that lends itself toward achieving similar goals for homeless domestic violence survivors, survivors of sexual assault, and their children. Webinar participants will explore what housing first is and how it can serve as a strong model to providing transitional housing for victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking within their tribe. Presented by Victoria Ybanez, MPA, Executive Director of Red Wind Consulting, Inc.
Stay tuned for upcoming webinars in June and July: Crossing the Bridge: Tribal, State and Local Collaborations for Enforcement of Tribal Protection Orders, and Sexual Assault Protection Orders, presented by Kelly Stoner of the Tribal Law & Policy Institute.
See the OVW Tribal TA Provider Events Calendar below for other webinars and online training opportunities.
Every first and third Wednesday of the month, join Inspire Action for bi-weekly drop-in conversations to offer a place of convening, peer-support, brainstorming, and problem-solving for Tribal grantees providing or planning to provide supervised visitation and safe exchange.
Native Americans are a nearly invisible population in urban areas across the United States and they possess a unique legal status that many non-Natives have little to no understanding about. Sadly, this makes working with this population potentially quite harmful. This session will provide an overview of tribal jurisdiction and relevant laws that impact tribal life both on and off tribal lands. We will identity common legal issues that can impact the way a person would provide services and how to begin identifying when to seek additional expertise so that no harm is done to a victim by a service provider. Resources will be discussed that can be accessed to assist programs when working with unique legal issues.
This webinar will discuss the prevalence of intimate partner sexual assault, the challenges associated with reporting and the specific healthcare and safety needs of American Indian/Alaska Native survivors.
Every first and third Wednesday of the month, join Inspire Action for bi-weekly drop-in conversations to offer a place of convening, peer-support, brainstorming, and problem-solving for Tribal grantees providing or planning to provide supervised visitation and safe exchange.
Introducing the concept of social and behavior change through the practice of social marketing. Presenters will explain how social marketing can be used as a method for combating violence against women and children in Native communities.
Every first and third Wednesday of the month, join Inspire Action for bi-weekly drop-in conversations to offer a place of convening, peer-support, brainstorming, and problem-solving for Tribal grantees providing or planning to provide supervised visitation and safe exchange.
Two-spirit youth are at high risk of violence and exploitation. They are also often overlooked and underserved in the systems meant to protect them. Through the lens of her personal story of being trafficked, Jessica Gidagaakoons Smith, a two-spirit survivor and legal scholar, will present her extensive research on the MMIWG2S epidemic and discuss ways that agencies can start implementing changes and educating advocates to better serve all survivors by being culturally supportive and inclusive.
Advocates other service providers require continued education on the new dangers online. Since the pandemic, there are many new criminal and digital threats that are unknown to many doing this work. Please join us as we discuss what to look for, how to monitor, current trends/apps, and support digital trafficking survivors while creating safer online life-ways in Indigenous communities.
Every first and third Wednesday of the month, join Inspire Action for bi-weekly drop-in conversations to offer a place of convening, peer-support, brainstorming, and problem-solving for Tribal grantees providing or planning to provide supervised visitation and safe exchange.
American Indian/Alaska Native victims of intimate partner violence often travel across state and tribal land lines seeking safety and services. No matter where a victim may travel (for work, school, healthcare or housing), you can help to ensure maximum enforcement of civil and criminal protection orders issued by state or tribal courts.
Mending the Sacred Hoop TA Project is supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K028 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
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