Survivor-Centered Economic Advocacy Training Series:
Part 2 - How to Build an Economic Safety Plan and Economic Assessment with Survivors
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 from 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the virtual training “Survivor-Centered Economic Justice Training Series: Part 2 - How to Build an Economic Safety Plan and Economic Assessment with Survivors”. This six-part training series will provide participants with an increased understanding of how economic security affects a survivor’s ability to seek safety, justice, and healing. This series will provide practical tools for advocates to address issues of economic security and credit-related barriers to safety.
Part 2 - “How to Build an Economic Safety Plan and Economic Assessment with Survivors”
Economic safety planning requires a thorough understanding of survivors' economic strengths, resources, past strategies, values, and the wide-ranging economic risks survivors face both from their abusive partners and from systemic challenges. This hands-on training will give advocates tools to holistically assess survivor's economic situations and to create strategies to increase safety and reduce harm. Through relevant survivor stories, advocates will practice motivational interviewing, cost of living planning, and economic assessment skills to co-create economic safety plans for survivors in the short, medium, and long term.
Presenters:
Katie VonDeLinde (she/her), MSW, LCSW, National Trainer & Consultant
KMCV Consulting, LLC (MO) | kvondelinde@gmail.com
Katie is an energetic social worker, educator and activist working on issues of survivor centered intimate partner violence (IPV) advocacy, the intersection of economic justice and IPV, and empowering social work practice. Ms. VonDeLinde has advocated for the rights of survivors of violence for over twenty years including as Assistant Director of a DV/SA program in rural Iowa and as program director at ROW, an urban economic advocacy intimate partner violence program. Katie has trained thousands of social workers and advocates across the nation on the intersection of economics and IPV to increase survivors’ financial security. Ms. VonDeLinde is an award-winning adjunct faculty member at the Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, co-directs KMCV Consulting, LLC, works as an advocate at the AWARE program, a hospital based intimate partner violence program, and serves as an expert advisor to the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice.
Participant Registration and Cost: This training series is free. Participants need to register in advance for the training. Please visit here to register.