CANCELED “Building on Culture and Community”: Unpacking the Need for Culturally Responsive Services when Supporting Black Women Survivors

THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELED

 Join Ujima’s Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Ayana Wallace Vieux, for an interactive workshop which will explore strategies and unpack current realities for Black survivors, that enhance advocate capacity by building from the cultures and community of the survivors they serve. 

Throughout this workshop, participants will:

• Unpack layered violence and the multitude of ways in which it impacts Black women.
• Delve into modern day experiences of Black survivors seeking domestic violence resources.
• Explore the ways in which a trauma-informed, person-centered, and culturally responsive approach best supports survivors.

About our speaker:

Ayana Wallace Vieux, MS, is a Training and Technical Assistance Manager with Ujima, The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community. Ayana’s career began as a client case coordinator providing direct services and support to victim-survivors who sought emergency shelter. Ayana has been instrumental in the national implementation of the Lethality Assessment Program—Maryland Model (LAP) and has served as the lead trainer for the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence, the state coalition. Ayana has worked for over a decade in the domestic violence field providing both direct service to survivors and technical assistance to advocates, law enforcement, community-based partners, and faith communities.