Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
This workshop aims to dissect functions of anti-Blackness by providing nuance, reflection, and tools to guide participants in recognizing their own anti-Black biases, an ability to recognize anti-Black practices and policies at a macro level, and to encourage the dismantling of anti-Black practices at all facets of social existence.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
In this workshop, we will break down the nuances with language & cultural norms to examine how they fit into institutional expectations. We’ll spend time discussing how power moves in and out of spaces shaping the ways in which we engage with one another. For us to discuss several facets within sociocultural groups, we must dissect how our organizations and structures contain a US-centric lens. We will look at how white supremacy shows up within the US versus other countries. By identifying ways in which we can dismantle US culture taking dominance within our institutions, we can start to build a foundation that supports multi-cultural, multi-lingual sociocultural identities..
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
The Disability Justice workshop aims to center the social and colonial context surrounding the experiences of people with disabilities. Participants will learn about the historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the way people with disabilities are perceived and treated in society, across all facets. The workshop will also cover topics such as accessibility, inclusion, and the rights of people with disabilities. By attending this workshop, participants will gain a roots-centered understanding of disability justice issues and how they can work to deconstruct supremacist values and actions that perpetuate harm onto people with disabilities.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
In this interactive workshop, we will explore the principles and practices of restorative justice as an approach to conflict resolution that focuses on repairing harm, building relationships, and restoring community. Through a variety of activities, including breakout discussions and reflection activities, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how restorative justice can be used to address a wide range of issues, from relationship and communication ruptures, to addressing community violence.
Facilitated by Meleani Bates Online via Zoom
The Cycle of Liberation illustrates how we can identify our own impacts toward equity, healing and liberation, to actively interrupt our participation in the cycle of socialization. Liberation can be described as critical transformations that empower us to analyze how systemic and dominant assumptions, structures, prescriptive rules, and roles are inherently flawed and violent. In this session we will explore our own socialization. Each session is 2 hours. The Cycle of Socialization offering is a prerequisite to the Cycle of Liberation workshop.
Presented Online via Zoom
YWCA offers the 40-Hour Domestic Violence Advocacy Training to community members who are looking to become domestic violence advocates. Each certification is for 40 hours of training in advocacy for Survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault. This training ensures that the needs of domestic violence Survivors have been met and served through a trauma informed, culturally responsive lens.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
This workshop is geared towards individuals and organizations that see the need to take a bold move to improve the way they provide an environment of equity and inclusivity in the workplace.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
Remember what was most important to you as a teen or young adult? Through a voluntary group role play, we will try to set the stage for understanding youth between the ages of 16 age 24, who statistically experience the highest rate of intimate partner violence. Why do youth stay in abusive relationships? In addition to the numerous barriers adults face, there are a myriad number of reasons unique to their age group; peer pressure, distrust of adults, conflicting emotions and more. We will explore how best to support and safety plan with teens and young adults while helping to maintain their confidence and trust.
Presented by Tyesha McCool-Riley Online via Zoom
In this workshop we will discuss how survivors work outside of dominant systems when they aren’t safe and reliable. We will discuss underground avenues of responding to domestic violence; what barriers impact the willingness to seek support; identifying ways systems can respond; and identify DV support outside of mainstream channels. My hope is that the audience will leave the workshop feeling empowered and equipped to navigate DV support-mainstream and underground- with confidence, comfort, and optimism.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV), sometimes known as sexual assault in the context of domestic violence, is a pervasive and often hidden problem. IPSV creates a highly dangerous situation and is associated with increased risk of death, severe long-term trauma for victims, and repeated victimization. In this workshop we will describe the nature and prevalence of IPSV. The dynamics and impact of IPSV and the specific challenges faced by survivors will be identified. And we will investigate the use of sex as a weapon of power and control and strategies for supporting and providing services for survivors.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
e will explore the 3 main components that contribute to the existence of gender violence: sexism, sexual objectification and victim blaming. Looking through the lens of history and our current culture, we will reveal the pervasive myths and norms that justify sexual violence and that keeps the focus on blaming and silencing survivors. We will explore how gender violence highlights a male-patterned violence: a prevalent violence committed most often but not always by men, often motivated by aggression, revenge, competition, and entitlement used to help to maintain patriarchy, male dominance, and oppressive stereotypes.
Presented by Kevyn Way Online via Zoom
You have probably been taught that gender is determined by one’s sex. However, this is not the case, and I am here to explain why! As more and more nonbinary, transgender and gender-nonconforming people starting to feel safer to live in their truths, it is important that others have a base level of understanding the difference between gender and sexuality. Join me as we dismantle the binary and learn about the beautiful mosaic of gender identities. In this interactive workshop, we will break down terms, participate in activities and engage in interactive learning focusing on gender and sexuality.
Presented by Mara Martinez-Hewitt & Brianna Suslovic Online via Zoom
In this 3-hour workshop we will use Spring Up’s power mapping tool to discuss the intersectional power dynamics at play between partners, and explore how social norms of coercion and control show up in everyday communication and decision making in relationships. Participants will collaboratively uncover how both survivors and people who cause harm to internalize social scripts that shape their communication and expectations within relationships as well as from external interveners like the police and advocates. Finally, we will analyze a scenario to learn how to shift coercive and controlling communication into consensual healthy conversations.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
Through open dialogue and critical thinking, participants will seek to understand the root causes of oppression, challenge oppressive narratives, and identify strategies for dismantling these systems of injustice. Participants will explore the role of education, activism, and collective action in promoting social transformation and creating a more just and equitable world for all.
Presented Online via Zoom
Whether this is your first social justice workshop or you are at the advanced level, we encourage participants at all learning levels.
After completing the certification, you will take this knowledge outside of the workshop space, commit to being an lifelong social justice learner and engage what you’ve learned to better your community.
Presented Online via Zoom
YWCA offers the 40-Hour Domestic Violence Advocacy Training to community members who are looking to become domestic violence advocates. Each certification is for 40 hours of training in advocacy for Survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault. This training ensures that the needs of domestic violence Survivors have been met and served through a trauma informed, culturally responsive lens.
