Iowa

Rural advocacy programs typically have large spread-out service areas and a small staff to provide services to survivors of sexual and domestic violence. This reality for rural programs can make it difficult to provide outreach and services to all of the many small communities within the larger service area. This webinar will focus on mobile advocacy, hiring practices and organizational culture, and outreach to rural communities. Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project to learn more about methods of structuring rural programs in order to best serve the whole community.

Supervision can be complicated enough when staff are all under the same roof. So how do you supervise staff when they are spread across your entire rural service area?  How do you provide support, connection, and navigate the supervision relationship when you are counties apart? Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project on this call that will bring together advocates from across the country to discuss supervising remote staff 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.

Rural communities have a much higher percentage of older adults than urban communities. Are you curious why they aren’t walking in your doors asking for services? Your program is not alone. Sexual violence does happen to older adults and not surprisingly there are barriers for those survivors in seeking services. Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project to learn more about how to support older adult survivors in rural communities. Topics will include risk factors, accessibility, communication, and why rural communities are poised to help this vulnerable population.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) provides an exciting opportunity every year to re-engage our communities in our anti-sexual violence work.  Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project on this call that will bring together advocates from across the country to discuss rural SAAM events and strategies. So, bring your ideas, questions, and energy to this rural peer-sharing call! 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.

Through our 24-hour helplines advocacy programs are able to accomplish so much for our rural communities. We provide a powerful outlet for survivors of sexual violence, their friends and family, and professionals to ask questions, learn about resources, navigate healing, and break their silence. Our helplines offer our community support when people need it most and on their own timelines. This webinar will focus on the skills necessary to provide strong helpline services and how to welcome sexual violence survivors to our helplines, through the lens of rural programs. Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project to learn how to create strong helpline support for sexual violence survivors in rural communities.

Evaluating sexual assault services can feel murky and overwhelming. Where should programs start? What is the best form of evaluation? How can programs best incorporate the thoughts and perspectives of survivors? Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project on this CALL that will bring together advocates from across the country to discuss evaluating rural sexual assault services. 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.

Rural dual/multi-service advocacy programs consistently struggle to create strong sexual assault services. The Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative (SADI) was created to address the challenges dual/multi-service programs face in reaching sexual assault survivors by dedicating resources, support, and replicable tools tailored specifically to the needs of those programs. Join Leah Green from the Resource Sharing Project to learn about the key lessons developed from the SADI. This two-part webinar will provide an overview of the SADI, outline the key lessons learned, and point rural programs towards follow up resources created by the Resource Sharing Project.

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.