Working with sexual assault survivors who are incarcerated can be both rewarding and challenging. While the core principles of advocacy services remain the same in any setting, many advocates have limited experience providing services inside prisons and jails. Detention facilities environments are distinctive—this offering will provide the opportunity to discuss this unique culture and ways to overcome the obstacles that may prevent safe, effective advocacy.

Please join Kim (Coalition) and Sidnee (Center for Survivors) for a Virtual Peer Share. We will share experiences of working in county jails with incarcerated survivors. If you are currently offering advocacy within your local jail, or if you would like to know more about jail advocacy, please join us.

Sidnee Pavel

Sidnee has been the Coordinated Response Advocate at the Center for Survivors for a year and a half and has been offering advocacy to survivors for almost 10 years. She has been working with her local county jail for the last year offering advocacy to incarcerated survivors. In addition, she is the Coordinator and Facilitator for a Batterer Intervention Program.

Registration
Please complete the brief registration process at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PFJSST8

Registration Deadline: April 23rd 2021

A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent the week before the meeting.