Sacred Circle

ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN TRAINING INSTITUTE

AUG. 23-27
Rapid City, SD

The Ending Violence Against Native Women Training Institute provides a strong foundation for advocates and their allies to work effectively with their own programs and within a coordinated response. The Institute begins with a one day plenary session to build a shared understanding of the dynamics of violence against native women and highlights coordinated community response initiatives. The last 4 days you will attend one of the five workshops offered and closing ceremony.

Plenary Topics include:
Historical and Cultural Roots: Colonization & Violence Against Women
Internalized Oppression Battering: Definition & Dynamics
Federal Laws Impacting Native Women

Effective Coordinated Tribal Community Response.

The last four days you will choose one of these five break-out workshops to attend:

Role of Batterers’ Program Workshop: Batterers’ Re-Education
Program Facilitation.
Role of Advocate’s Workshop: Advocating for Women who have
been Battered/Raped and their Children.
Sexual Violence in the Lives of Native Women Workshop.
Role of Coordinated Community Response Workshop.
Women Who Use Force

Training Registration Form

If this is your first time attending the Institute, please consider attending the Role of Advocate Workshop first to gain an integral understanding of effective response to violence against native women and appropriate relationships with women who are battered. Men are encouraged to attend the Role of Batterers’ Program Workshop to best understand their roles as men in ending violence against women.