Our services.

Training | Program Design | Organizational Change

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 in the Anti-Trafficking Movement (Available as a 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

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

Program Design.

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 projects include:

• Employment: National Employment Program for Survivors of Trafficking

• Filmmaking: Survivor-Centered, Trauma-Informed Filmmaking

• Research: Culturally and Linguistically Inclusive Research with Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

• Training Institute: Sex Trafficking Prevention Training Institute for Child Welfare

• Holistic Wellness: Trauma-Informed Weightlifting & Strength Training

• Community-Wide Responses: San Francisco Community Needs Assessment- Increasing Access to Housing for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

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:

• 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