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Mujeres' National

Resource Center

Supporting providers and survivors across the country
 

The National Resource Center equips Latine, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ providers with culturally specific, survivor-centered knowledge and clinical tools in service of addressing provider burnout, isolation, and vicarious trauma.

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Who is a
Provider?

We recognize the importance of the whole community to end gender based violence.

The term “Provider” includes all who witness gender-based violence's impact on survivors.

This includes:

Family and Friends

Loved ones offer emotional support and safety for survivors.

Licensed Professionals

Therapists, advocates and professionals.

Community Members

Advocates and volunteers support their comunidad daily.

As a collective, we aim to prevent and reduce the harm and stigma experienced by survivors through preventative education and awareness for the entire community.

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How We Approach the Work

Learn more from our national partners

National Sexual Violence Resource Center
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Survivor - Centered

The survivor-centered approach honors each individual’s unique healing journey by supporting their autonomy and choices. It prioritizes the rights and needs of survivors, ensuring they lead their own recovery through compassionate, confidential, and trauma-informed care.

Trauma - Informed

Trauma-informed care is a relationship-centered approach that helps providers recognize, address, and prevent traumatic stress for children, families, and caregivers.

Culturally Specific

Culturally specific approaches address the unique linguistic and cultural challenges faced by survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Clinical and Alternative Healing:

This approach integrates complementary cultural practices with conventional Western approaches, as well as alternative healing treatments. By using these integrative or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities, we focus on holistic wellness, treating the whole person, and managing symptoms like pain or anxiety.

"In My Power" Video

This script was informed by the lived experiences shared by survivors and providers during listening sessions. The video highlights key insights from the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative (SADI), a national research study documenting how oppression and racism impact survivors. It emphasizes the critical need for alternative healing modalities and intergenerational approaches tailored to cultural communities.

"In My Power" Video

Sexual Assault Awareness · 06 min

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The “In My Power” Educational Awareness video explores what sexual assault looks like in the Latine community through the stories

Of

intergenerational survivors and their different routes to healing.

Discussion “Guide”

Free downloadable tool designed to support providers in hosting conversations, screenings, and educational events within their communities.

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Access our free facilitation guide and lead meaningful conversations in your community.

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Annual Conference

The “Heal, Thrive and Lead” Conference seeks to move from “crisis” models to wellness models in the response to gender-based violence. Recognizing the intergenerational impact of gender-based violence, the conference integrates both clinical and holistic practices for intergenerational healing through critical conversations (panels, presentations, and circles), best practices, and somatic healing strategies. The conference equips providers with actionable tools and expanded skill sets to effectively support culturally specific populations in the gender-based violence field.
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Provider Resources

Culturally grounded resources to support provider wellbeing, prevent burnout, and sustain the healers doing this work.

Provider Support Group

Provider support groups are focused on supporting the holistic health of survivors. We offer four core provider support trainings that weave together a trauma informed, culturally specific approach to address vicarious trauma and burnout for providers of gender based violence services.

As a collective, we aim to prevent and reduce the harm and stigma experienced by survivors through preventative education and awareness for the entire community.

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Past NRC Webinars

The NRC hosted an online series of trainings and communities of practice — small group sessions to offer providers holistic support, culturally specific tools, and connection with our growing Facultad en Acción.
Replay

Mujeres’ Approach to Healing and Prevention of SA and Empowering Latine Survivors

“Mujeres’ Approach to Healing & Prevention of SA” sheds light on the SA program’s commitment to empowering survivors of sexual assault through the lens of cultural sensitivity, fostering a healing space that promotes resilience and community solidarity.
  • English and Spanish
  • 90
  • Dual
Replay

Mujeres’ Approach to Healing and Prevention of SA and Empowering Latine Survivors

“Mujeres’ Approach to Healing & Prevention of SA” sheds light on the SA program’s commitment to empowering survivors of sexual assault through the lens of cultural sensitivity, fostering a healing space that promotes resilience and community solidarity.
  • English and Spanish
  • 90
  • Dual

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