Riding the Wave: Bias to Equity – Supporting Black Survivors by Exploring Race, Culture, and Bias
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Date & Time
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Educational Goal
Participants will gain competency in working with Black women and girls who have experienced violence.
Description
This webinar will explore intimate partner violence and its impact on Black women and girls. Multiple forms of oppression, bias, and violence shape how Black women are perceived, positioned and treated by advocates, service organizations, and when navigating various systems. Participants will discuss and deconstruct harmful narratives about Black women and girls and will together envision strategies to support survivors and influence healthy and safe communities.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Victoria Reaves (she, her, hers) serves Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community as the Program Specialist. She is primarily responsible for providing national training and technical assistance to service providers and the community-at-large, that center the needs, voices, intersections, and realities of Black women and girls.
Before joining Ujima, Inc, she served as a family violence services coordinator for the Texas Council on Family Violence, providing technical assistance and responding to regional and statewide program needs through resource development and signature training. She was also responsible for auditing and assessing Batterer Intervention Programs for compliance and offender accountability. Through these findings, she organized Tools for Transformation, the agency’s largest batterer intervention and prevention conference where power, privilege, and oppression were highlighted to address how societal systems influence violence against women.
Victoria is dedicated to educating the community on Black women’s experience with violence and the intersections of abuse and racism. She completed her undergraduate studies at Bowie State University in Sociology. She is a mother to a beautiful daughter and enjoys spending time with family, traveling, and shopping.