Working Together for Victims: Building Effective Partnerships between Community and System-Based Victim Advocates

• • Presentation speakers
    • Ashley Riley Lopes, MPA
    • Janice Holman

  When working in rural communities, creating strong multi-disciplinary partnerships is essential to ensuring victims’ access to resources. By understanding the different roles system and community-based advocates each play and respecting each other’s limitations, strong partnerships between the two often times adversarial parties can be constructed. This workshop will explore how community and system-based advocates can overcome their differences and truly work collaboratively to best help child and adult victims of domestic and sexual violence. The Co-Presenters will provide real examples of ways their two agencies have worked together successfully to keep victims and their needs forefront and center.

  Workshop Slides and Handouts:
  VA Presentation
  HANDOUT #1 – System v Community advocates Modified
  HANDOUT #2 – Excerpts
  HANDOUT #3 – Diplomacy Quiz
  HANDOUT #5 – Four Steps to Resolve Conflict

 

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