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One year later: How can advocates leverage lessons from grassroots pandemic responses to deepen our investment in community resilience?
Community care and mutual aid are powerful strategies to foster resilience and connectedness in the face of adversity. This month's Technica
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Q | 1 year later: How can advocates leverage lessons from grassroots pandemic responses to deepen our investment in community resilience?
A | #TeamNRCDV’s Casey Keene has answers in this month’s #VAWnet Technical Assistance Question of the Month.

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Trauma is everywhere, but so is resilience | Sherry Hamby | TEDxUniversityoftheSouth
Looking for #1Thing to watch today? 📽️ We especially appreciate the squirrel analogy and the connections Dr. Hamby draws to the collective trauma we have faced over the past year.

https://nrcdv.org/dvam/1thing

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Strengthening Hope and Resilience in Children, Youth, and Mothers in Domestic Violence Programs: Lessons from Friendship Home webinar
Strengths-Centered Advocacy is a unique approach to providing individualized, strengths-based support to survivors of domestic violence and their children.
The approach was developed by Friendship Home in Lincoln, Nebraska as a way to more intentionally tap into the power of resilience throughout survivors’ healing processes. Through the use of the Gallup Organizations’ Clifton StrengthsFinder and Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer tools, survivors and their children are given the opportunity to discover their unique personal talents and identify how this information can be applied to their lives in relevant and meaningful ways.
Presented by Julie Havener, Friendship Home’s Coordinator of Strengths-Centered Advocacy, as a part of NRCDV’s ACE-DV project, this webinar highlighted the ways in which strengths-centered advocacy can help to mitigate or repair some of the potential negative impacts of domestic violence on children and youth, while also strengthening protective factors that can lead to resilience across the lifespan.

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Telling Our Stories uses graphic novel lens to explore violence against immigrant women
A group of immigrant women are using colourful cartoons to tell dark stories about gang rape, marital rape and workplace sexual harassment.
Michelle Tomlinson, who moved to Canada in March 2016 after facing persecution for her sexuality in her home of Jamaica, helped write the 40-page graphic novel Telling Our Stories: Immigrant Women’s Resilience.
“One of the reasons we had said that we were going to use art is that it will appeal to people easily,” she said.
Read full article here.
Also see more information on immigrant women and domestic violence and immigrant women and sexual violence.

recoveryisbeautiful:
recoveryisbeautiful:
Front Pocket:
Index Card (ABDC)
  Active Situation
  Beliefs on Situation
  Consequences
  Dispute (how consequences overrule the good)
Pro-Con Chart for Unhealthful Behaviors
Safety Plan

Composition Notebook: For prompts and exercises in recovery books.
I personally have a 3-Subject because I use it for Regaining Your Self, 8 Keys to Recovery, and Telling ED No!

Stay in the Flow (now, daily, weekly, monthly)
What Do I Want?
Daily Self Love
60 Things I Love About… (life, myself, ect…)
What’s Your Solution?
Goal Setting
Commitment to Life Contract

SECTION I: INFORMATION
Use this section to keep information on what you’re recovering from. You can also put in a list of emotions, thinking styles, ect…
If you can find simple articles it could make things easier. You can try looking at my other masterposts for information.
Some examples, my binder isn’t yet complete in this section either.
- Scar Tissue
- Center for Clinical Intervention Module’s (use whichever one’s you feel may be useful to you- there are 12 modules)
- Anger Warning Signs
- Feeling Chart:
  column 1 (feeling)
  column 2 (action required)
- Working with Imagery (this is slightly different than the one I have but I couldn’t find the exact section on the site)
SECTION II: JOURNALING
SECTION III: MINDFULNESS
- What is Mindfulness?
- Mindfulness of the Breath
- Step Out of Automatic Pilot
- Mini Mindfulness Exercise
- Body Scan Mindfulness Exercise
- Somatic-Emotional Processing Worksheet
- Mindful Cognitive-Emotional Processing Worksheet
- Mindful Cognitive Processing Worksheet (I printed out multiple copies of page 2)
SECTION IV: MISCELLANEOUS
Back of Binder:
Seeking Solutions to Self-Injury

Back Pocket:
Relapse Prevention Plan
Safety Plan Cards

I also like to keep a lot of loose-leaf paper in the back and behind certain printouts. You can check out my recovery resources page for more places to find therapy and self-help worksheets- there is an entire section just for worksheets. Also, look at my worksheets tag (stuff I have yet to print out for myself).
My binder is still VERY incomplete so I will be going through and getting new worksheets off of all the websites listed on my resources page as well. Chose what you need for what you’re going through.
As you can tell, for my binder I really like to find worksheets from Jessica Mullen and Natalie Masson.
You can also categorize your binder by disorder differently, personally, I think mine needs to be reorganized but I’ll do that after I post this because it’s driving me crazy.

Coping Bank and Alternatives Jar
Some people may have been having trouble with the journaling links so I updated them for you. Hopefully this works better.
With everything that is going on right now we cannot forget to take care of ourselves. We are as effective in exacting change and transformation if we do not first give ourselves the transformational and foundational self-love and care we need.

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positivedoodles:
[Drawing of an orange tiger lily next to a caption that says “Beautiful and wonderful things still exist.” in orange text.]

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A Jacket can turn into a:
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While researching the refugee crisis, I noticed numerous daily issues faced by refugees that could be addressed through design. This prompted me to create a series of garments that responded to these needs. These products aimed to provide shelter, safety, comfort, security, and other things to people on the go. After testing in Greece, we are now offering one of the main jackets for pre-sale and donation.
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womenscci:
Survivors of abuse and sexual assault need to be heard. Telling their story can help survivors begin to heal. WCCI is here to listen. #speakup #survivor #healing #recovery #survivorstrong #listenup #wcci #fromcrisistocalmtogether #charity #bahrain #endvaw #advocacy #helpline

loveisrespect:
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Be Proud of Your Accomplishments, even the “small” ones. 💙
💙My edit, Please don’t remove caption/credit! 💙
#MondayMotivation!

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tearsrollingslowly:
Hey guys!
My production company, The Real Artists are holding auditions for our first original stage play, Love is Respect. I have included all audition information below, as well as attached the Audition Flyer. Thank you in advance for any help in spreading the word; it is greatly appreciated.
AUDITION INFORMATION:
Monday, February 6: 5PM-9PM
Tuesday, February 7: 5PM-9PM
Callbacks: Wednesday, February 8: 5PM-8PM
Location: 200 Centennial Ave, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Email Emanisimpson@gmail.com for appointment (5 minute slots)
Prepare: 30 second- One minute contemporary monologue
PERFORMANCE DATES:
Friday, May 5, 2017 @8PM
Saturday, May 6, 2017 @ 2PM & 7:30PM
Location: Hamilton Stage
370 Hamilton Street, Rahway, NJ 07065
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Love is Respect, written by Emani Simpson tells the story of a teenage girl, Carmen, who has found herself in an unhealthy relationship. She plans to keep her abuse by her boyfriend, Tyler to herself, but her friends will not stand by and ignore the signs. Carmen, searching for a solution, finds herself reverting to her true self. If Carmen won’t stand up for herself, someone will.
CHARACTER LISTINGS: Mixed racial casting and open to non gender specific casting.

Carmen Menendez: Must be able to play a teenager. A sweet girl caught between love and fear. Introvert.
Eve Sampson: Must be able to play a teenager. Carmen’s best friend. Level-headed. Wholesome Christian.
Donald: Must be able to play a teenager. Carmen’s male best friend who secretly likes her. Charming. Protective.
Michelle: Must be able to play a teenager. Smarter than she appears.
Ms. Madison: Carmen’s mother. Mid 30s. Workaholic. Overwhelmed.
Doctor: Late 30s. Stern. Intelligent.
Jason Sampson: Early 20s. Jokester.
Aaron: Early 20s. Lovable.
Mr. Sampson: Eve’s father. Early 40s. Wise. Encouraging. Loving.
Mrs. Sampson: Eve’s mother. Early 40s. House-wife. Devoted.
Tyler: Carmen’s boyfriend. Demanding. Aggressive.
Minister Johnson: Late 40s. Commanding.

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