Iowa

The world can look like a series of locked doors to adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Whom can you really trust? How can you find the words for what happened? As sexual assault advocates our job is to help survivors find a way to open the door. This webinar will address how rural programs can design and provide responsive services for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Topics will include the experiences of child sexual abuse survivors, long term services for healing, and specific ideas for how to make services more accessible to adult child sexual abuse survivors. 

Finding strong candidates for open advocacy positions can be difficult in rural communities.  Where are the best places to advertise open positions to find candidates? Where should you place your priority when hiring sexual assault advocates? What interview questions will get at the heart of advocacy? Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project on this VIDEO CHAT that will bring together leadership from rural programs across the country to discuss hiring and recruiting practices in rural communities. Our peer sharing video chats are a space to share success, challenges, and to brainstorm together how to move forward. This video chat is capped at 30 participants. Please note this video chat is for folks who have the ability and desire to join this conversation with video through our online video platform.

Finding strong candidates for open advocacy positions can be difficult in rural communities.  Where are the best places to advertise open positions to find candidates? Where should you place your priority when hiring sexual assault advocates? What interview questions will get at the heart of advocacy? Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project on this CALL that will bring together leadership from rural programs across the country to discuss hiring and recruiting practices in rural communities. Our peer sharing calls are a space to share success, challenges, and to brainstorm together how to move forward. This call is capped at 30 participants. Please note this call is for folks who would prefer to join the conversation by phone instead of video.

Teens are at a much higher risk of sexual violence than adult members of the community yet often are the least empowered to seek the services they need. This rural webinar will provide an opportunity for rural advocacy agencies to come together and learn about best practices in support teen sexual assault survivors. Topics will include outreach to rural teens, accommodations in services, holistic practices, and working with the parents and guardians of teen survivors.

Join us for Help is on the Line, an exciting webinar on providing crisis hotline services to incarcerated survivors. This webinar will address the challenges facing prisoner rape survivors who seek support, especially those who are held in rural detention facilities. Not only are crisis services far and few between, but many local programs have limited experience in — and limited funding for — giving services behind bars.  We will focus on how rape crisis centers can adapt their existing hotline for a correctional setting. It will cover strategies for working with inmates, including how to ensure that calls are kept confidential.  The webinar will feature JDI staff, as well as a rape crisis advocate from a rural program who has provided support to incarcerated survivors.