The Role of Tribal Shelter Advocates Part 1
Goal: Build capacity for Tribal emergency shelter staff to engage in culturally specific and holistic responses to survivors
I. Introduction to Tribal Specific Advocacy
a. Advocacy vs case management
b. Culturally specific vs mainstream advocacy
II. Culturally specific trauma informed advocacy
a. Historic/intergenerational trauma
b. Impacts of systems-level trauma
c. Coping skills and survival skills
d. Expressing and processing emotions
III. Indigenous advocacy approaches
a. Building relationships and trust
b. Power and control shelter dynamics
IV. Implementing shelter services and supports
a. Wrap-around services and culturally specific healing options
b. Mainstream vs Indigenous “boundaries”
c. The solidarity of language
V. Policies and Procedures
a. Weaving Indigenous core values into shelter environments
b. Implementing voluntary services
c. Asks vs rules
VI. Additional Resources
a. Equality Wheel
b. Intimate Partner Violence: Unnatural Power and Control Descriptions
c. Ten Steps to Evaluating your Shelter Rules
d. Trauma Informed Care
