Our services.

Training | Technical Assistance | Organizational Change | Research | Supportive Spaces

Training.

We enjoy developing and facilitating customized trainings. Our team has trained at national and international conferences and have developed trainings for various nonprofit and government entities. We have also created and led regional conferences.

Our 4 focus areas for trainings are Equity & Inclusion, Vicarious Trauma, Human Trafficking/Gender-Based Violence, and Economic Empowerment. Some of our available trainings include:

• Equity & Inclusion

  • The Survivor Equity & Inclusion Framework: Preventing the Re-Exploitation of Survivor Leaders/Lived Experience Experts (Available as a Brief 90 Minute Overview, 2 or 3 Day Interactive Executive Leadership Training, or a Series of Workshops)

  • Cultural Humility in the Gender-Based Violence Movement

  • Language Justice: Individual and Organizational Recommendations for Trauma-Informed Interpretation and Translation

• Vicarious Trauma & Vicarious Resilience:

  • Vicarious Trauma, Vicarious Resilience, & Systemic Oppression: Individual & Organizational Interventions (Available as a Training or a Series of Workshops)

  • Trauma-Informed Supervision: The ARCS Model and Setting Boundaries (Available as a Training or a Series of Workshops)

• Human Trafficking/Gender-Based Violence:

  • Psychological Coercion: Understanding the Dynamics of Exploitation

  • Trauma Bonding in Sex Trafficking: How to Support Survivors

  • Covert Pimp Control: Trafficking from Behind the Scenes

  • Victim-Offender Intersectionality: The Harms of Criminalizing Survivors

  • The Process of Seduction: How Grooming Leads to Exploitation

  • Online Exploitation of Youth

  • Supporting Missing and Runaway Youth

  • Intersections of Intimate Partner Violence, Reproductive Health, and Sexual Health

  • Human Trafficking and Child Welfare (2-Day or 4-Day Interactive Training)

  • Mental Health and Human Trafficking: Misdiagnosis and Co-Morbidity (1-Day or 2-Day Training)

• Economic Empowerment:

  • Self-Employed Survivors: How to Start a Small Business

  • Setting Boundaries as a Marginalized Entrepreneur

  • Speaker Bio Development: Safety Planning around Public Disclosure of Lived Experience

  • Owning Your Power: Marketing as Lived Experience Expert

Technical Assistance.

We love creating new trauma-informed, strengths-based programs, processes & protocols and doing things that have never been done before. We have designed and supported multiple innovative projects alongside various organizations. Some of our current and past technical assistance projects include:

• Economic Empowerment: National Employment Program for Survivors of Trafficking

• Film and Television Industry: Technical Advising on Human Trafficking, Sexual Violence, and Mental Health for the Television and Film Industry; Survivor-Centered, Trauma-Informed Documentary Filmmaking (Testimonials for Early Release of Incarcerated Survivors)

• Training Institute Development: National Sex Trafficking Prevention Training Institute for Child Welfare, Tailoring Curricula for State Child Welfare Agencies

• Housing- Community Needs Assessments and Listening Sessions: Trauma-Informed Listening Sessions for Community Input on Needs and Recommendations for Housing for Survivors of Violence, with a Focus on Queer Homeless Youth and BIPOC Survivors

Organizational Change.

Our team of consultants specialize in organizational change. We provide training, coaching, consulting, and capacity building to support organizations and empower advocates to shift their agency culture over time.

Some of our organizational change work includes:

• Change Management & Strategic Planning: Developing change management and strategic plans for and with organizations and teams

• Survivor Equity and Inclusion: Designing organizational policies around re-exploitation prevention in the anti-trafficking movement, using the Survivor Equity and Inclusion Framework

• Vicarious Trauma & Resilience: Advising on organizational culture change around vicarious trauma and resilience, with a focus on the impact of racial injustice and the pandemic on helping professionals

• Trauma-Informed Supervision: Providing a series of interactive workshops on trauma-informed supervision using the ARCS Model

Research.

We co-create our research projects from beginning to end with the communities we serve and in their preferred languages, and we advise organizations on how to design project with the same equitable and inclusive approach. Some of our current and past research projects include:

• Economic Justice: National Economic Justice Report: Beyond Workforce Development for Survivors of Human Trafficking (Research conducted in English, Spanish, and French)

• Safe Housing: San Francisco Safe Housing Report: Community Needs Assessment Increasing Access to Housing for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence (Research conducted in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic)

• FGC and Human Trafficking: Intersections of Female Genital Cutting and Human Trafficking

• Safety Planning: Safety Planning for Travel for Lived Experience Experts

• More: See Publications for more.

Supportive Spaces.

We design and facilitate supportive spaces for organizations navigating vicarious trauma, harm repair, crisis, tragedies, and/or loss due to trauma-related work. Some of our current and past projects include:

• Vicarious Trauma: Supporting staff experiencing vicarious trauma and co-creating organizational recommendations for change

• Harm Repair: Conducting listening sessions to develop a plan for organizational harm repair, including addressing oppression in the workplace utilizing a restorative justice approach

• Crisis Management: Co-creating and facilitating supportive spaces for team members during organizational crises and tragedies including suicide and/or homicide of colleagues or clients, strikes, and more

• Collective Wellness: Facilitation of holistic, collective wellness workshops with teams including but not limited to processing groups, poetry, art, African dance, music, and trauma-sensitive yoga for healing