WEBINAR SERIES: Serving Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

Black women-identified survivors have been disproportionately harmed by the triple pandemics of COVID-19, intimate partner violence, and racial injustice. As a field, we must boldly design and create innovative approaches to service provision. These webinars will give advocates the tools and practical strategies to identify, reach, and effectively serve this population.

Presenters will offer highlights from their newly released 4-part NRCDV TA Guidance document series of the same name. The series includes:

• Part 1: Providing Survivor-Centered, Culturally Responsive, Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based Care
• Part 2: Taking an Intersectional Approach
• Part 3: Understanding Reproductive Coercion, Non-Fatal Strangulation, and Intimate Partner Homicide
• Part 4: Using a Web of Trauma to Understand Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

In Part 1, advocates will learn to:

• Provide survivor-centered, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, strengths-based care and advocacy that leads to real-world change.
• Learn how IPV is influenced by the intersecting identities of Black survivors, such as ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity.  

In Part 2, advocates will learn:

• How to conduct culturally responsive assessment and treatment for the forms of IPV that disproportionately impact Black survivors, including reproductive coercion, non-fatal strangulation, and domestic homicide.
• How IPV occurs within a Web of Trauma (historical trauma, family violence, structural violence, institutional violence, cultural violence, and community violence).