Description:
Rape Crisis Centers are doing life-saving and life-changing work every day throughout the state of Florida. Organizations are facing constant external changes, from threats to federal funding, changes to Title IX, and increasingly fragile accessibility to resources, while also weathering internal changes such as leadership changes and high rates of turnover. This training will be a space to support leaders to sustain our movement and strengthen our sustainability individually and collectively. Participants will explore how to lead by embracing change, learn how to increase retention, and acquire tangible strategies to increase the sustainability of their respective organizations and the movement as a whole.
Objectives:
As a result of attending this workshop, participants will:
Explore how to lead by embracing change.
Have tangible strategies to plan for transition.
Know how to avoid revolving door positions and increase retention.
Build programs that are sustainable even with personnel change.
Increase the sustainability of respective organizations and the movement as a whole.
As a result of this workshop, participants will feel:
Connectedness: with themselves, with their personal journeys, and with each other
Supported: to be vulnerable, know they can ask for help, and listen to their personal wisdom.
Confident: understanding how to plan for change rather than just responding to it.
Trainer:
Jessica Teperow
With more than two decades of experience working with organizations that address sexual and domestic violence, Jessica Teperow has extensive experience in the development and execution of prevention programs and trauma-informed practices within nonprofit, healthcare, corporate, and academic settings. She has provided guidance and consultation to all levels of professionals seeking information, resources, and options for care and reporting related to experiences of violence. Jessica has worked with colleges and universities to develop policies and procedures to foster trauma-informed classrooms and enable faculty and staff to recognize, respond to, and prevent gender-based violence. Over the last ten years, she has developed trainings and workshops to help organizations and individuals identify and mitigate burnout and vicarious trauma and has partnered with a number of institutions to adopt an approach of collective care and to create trauma-informed workplaces where employees and students can thrive. In 2023, Jessica founded JT Consulting (JTC). JTC's mission is to empower individuals, organizations, and institutions to strengthen their capacity to recognize, respond to, and prevent sexual and domestic violence. You can learn more about Jessica and JTC at www.consulting-jt.com.
This project was supported by Subgrant No. LN270 awarded by the state administering office for the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice's STOP Formula Grant Program. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this training are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the state or the U.S. Department of Justice.