Anchored in Resilience: Stress Management Tools for Advocates Working with Incarcerated Survivors

Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Anchored in Resilience: Stress Management Tools for Advocates Working with Incarcerated Survivors

In this interactive webinar, we will: identify the links between caring for ourselves and our commitment to serving all survivors of sexual abuse, including incarcerated survivors; gain a basic understanding of dynamics of sexual abuse in detention; and learn a framework and tools to help manage our stress-- so we can do the work that we love over the long haul. This workshop is designed for advocates who are new to this work and as well as those who are more seasoned in the field.

Desiree F. Magsombol JD, (she/her) is a Certified Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit, a TRE (Tension/Trauma Release Exercise) Provider, and a Field-Initiated Training and Technical Assistance Provider for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act(PREA) Resource Center with Impact Justice. Working with, living in, and being a part of communities with high levels of stress and trauma and limited access to mainstream tools, Desiree is committed making multi-modality tools of resilience accessible to all individuals, organizations, and communities.

Desiree began her advocacy career as a law clerk at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children where she worked with survivors of domestic and sexual violence who were incarcerated for felonies involving their perpetrator. Her individual experiences with violence, passion for anti-violence work, and love for community, led her to advocacy work with foster youth in residential care, LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence, and survivors of sexual violence in prisons and jails throughout the country. For five years, she provided training and technical assistance and developed policy, protocol, and programming for prison, jail, juvenile facility, and sexual assault agency staff across the US and Indian Country to address sexual abuse behind bars.

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