Building Resilience: Enhancing Rural Advocacy for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Resource Sharing Project
Survivors of child sexual abuse exist, often silently, in every community in our country. And yet there is a real lack of resources focused on the needs of adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Building Resilience was created to expand advocates understanding of the needs of adult survivors of child sexual and to help advocates create services to meet those needs. Children grow up to be adults, and those adults deserve resources and community partners that can address healing in every sphere of their life. Contributing partners to the project include the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition, North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Just Detention International, Activating Change, rural sexual assault advocates, and many adult survivors of child sexual abuse.
Survivors of child sexual abuse exist, often silently, in every community in our country. And yet there is a real lack of resources focused on the needs of adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Building Resilience was created to expand advocates understanding of the needs of adult survivors of child sexual and to help advocates create services to meet those needs. Children grow up to be adults, and those adults deserve resources and community partners that can address healing in every sphere of their life. Contributing partners to the project include the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition, North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Just Detention International, Activating Change, rural sexual assault advocates, and many adult survivors of child sexual abuse.
- Building Resilience: Conversations with and about Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. 12 episodes, bonus content, and interviews with survivors. Each episode includes a recording and additional materials such as further reading and resources, discussion guides, and coloring pages. Each episode is in English and Spanish.
- Come on In: Reimagining Shelter as a Healing Space for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. This toolkit offers advocacy programs guidance on how to start transforming shelter into a healing space for adult survivors of child sexual abuse.
- Not Damaged, Not Broken: Exploring Mental Health & Substance Use with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. This tool sets the foundation for the toolkit by exploring the effects of child sexual abuse, common shelter practices that may be triggering, and the advocacy skills needed to serve adult survivors of child sexual abuse.
- Using Our Compass: Navigating Welcoming, Choice Points, Curiosity, and Grounding. This course is for rural advocates working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Learn to navigate common themes in advocacy: welcoming, choice points, curiosity, and grounding. Help survivors build their healing toolbox by building your own advocacy toolbox.
Looking for the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault? Head to mecasa.org. |