Training and TA Team Update
At Violence Free Colorado, our work is rooted in the belief that survivors have diverse experiences and exist within resilient communities.
We'll be conducting collaborative learning groups with our coalition members to engage members in a guided process of reflection, collaboration, and intentional action.
Our collaborative learning group will be based in an Accessible, Culturally Responsive, Trauma-Informed approach to improve direct services for resilient communities that have experienced historical traumas, multiple systemic stressors, and have intersectional identities that result in complex experiences with marginalization.
We acknowledge that our previous framework for supporting survivors excluded the experiences of several resilient communities. In our continual efforts to end all forms of violence, we are (re)centering accessible, culturally responsive, trauma-informed practices by acknowledging unique experiences found at the heart of gender-based racial violence and other intersectional oppressions.
Recent political, social, and historical events have amplified this need with the evident intersectional violence we have witnessed internally, collectively, systemically and ideologically. We support collective healing by challenging how we, as organizations against violence, can broaden our understanding of what we bring into our interactions with survivors, and evaluate frameworks within our organizations to include all survivors and all experiences of trauma.
