Join the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center in celebrating June as Pride Month, a time to celebrate love, acceptance, and safety. We acknowledge that domestic and sexual violence affects individuals of all genders, including our 2S+/LGBTQ+ relatives, who experience these forms of violence at disproportionately high rates. Feel free to visit our social media channels all month long, in which we’ll be sharing 2S+/LGBTQ+ resources, support, statistics, and definitions.
WAS Talks!
For Women Are Sacred (WAS) 2023, we are excited to continue WAS Talks! WAS Talks will be RECORDED during the Women Are Sacred (WAS) Conference and is a project inspired by the national TED Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading. WAS Talks is an active reminder that our stories hold power in shining light on the issues of violence in our communities. It’s time to talk.
Foundation and Key Principles: Strengthening the Role of Advocacy in Indian Country Workshop - July 25-27
This workshop will focus on the dynamics and impacts of battering/intimate partner violence, particularly on Native women. Discussion and interactive exercises are planned throughout. Given the pandemic, we added a special session on COVID-19 mitigation best practices and indoor air mitigation tools. Register and attend in person or virtually.
To apply, please complete and submit an employment application, a resume, and a cover letter. Submit all documents to the Human Resources Manager, Julie Weddell, at careers@niwrc.org. Open until filled.
To apply, please complete and submit an employment application, a resume, three professional references, and a cover letter. Submit all documents to the Human Resources Manager, Julie Weddell, at careers@niwrc.org. Open until filled.
For more information, please visit our Careers page.
NEW WEBINAR July 24!
Introducing the Pouhana O Nā Wāhine (PONW), Serving as the Native Hawaiian Resource Center on Domestic Violence. This webinar will introduce the PONW and their work to implement the NHRCDV over the next five years. In addition, they will share the history of Native Hawaiians and their unique relationship with the federal government, which is rooted in colonization and violence reflected in U.S. policies and practices. Register here.
NIWRC Research & Evaluation: Representing Community Voice
The NIWRC actively strives to advocate for social justice for our Native Communities. We are thus listening and want to hear from the community about your needs for resources (materials, etc.). Aligned with cultural sensitivity, our Native Researchers may better serve the community’s needs and begin to implement best practices. Our aim is to improve our approach to understanding your community’s needs and then produce meaningful materials for you. Go to the feedback form.
To apply, please complete and submit an employment application, a resume, and a cover letter answering the following four questions:
Describe your knowledge, experience, and expertise regarding the spectrum of housing programs.
What do you believe are the root causes of homelessness?
What are some key steps in addressing homelessness and housing insecurity for Indigenous survivors of gender-based violence?
Do you believe housing is a human right? Why or why not?
Submit all documents to the Human Resources Manager, Julie Weddell, at careers@niwrc.org. Open until filled.
The STTARS Indigenous Safe Housing Center offers culturally rooted technical assistance and training, policy development, and Indigenous-centered resource materials to support Tribes, and Tribal programs, address the intersection of domestic violence and housing instability, and create meaningful social change within communities. Request technical and training assistance and sign-up for the STTARS mailing list.
For more information, please visit our Careers page.
Greetings Relatives,
As our seeds sprout and begin to rise above the surface, this is now the time to water what we have planted from the lessons learned. The time is now to put our learnings into practice.
We are preparing for NIWRC’s Women are Sacred Conference and looking forward to gathering this June in the community as safe as we can. To do so, we will be implementing a layered mitigation approach to reducing the risk of transmission of COVID-19 and other airborne viruses. We know Indigenous communities have experienced disproportionately negative COVID-19 impacts along with disparities in treatment. Therefore, in line with NIWRC’s values of safety and respect, we will implement a multi-layered approach to COVID-19 mitigation, consisting of reduced attendance capacity, mask wear, self-monitoring practices (such as daily pre-event testing), enhanced indoor ventilation and air filtration and monitoring of indoor air quality. We strongly advocate for WAS participants to wear a mask and to take part in additional layered mitigation strategies to protect themselves and others, and ultimately your families and communities. The intention of this prevention strategy is to provide an equitable, accessible, and safe gathering space for all participants as a practice of community care.
As the public health emergency was declared over on May 11, 2023, the CDC recently updated masking guidance for children stating, “COVID-19 can cause serious health problems, so it’s more important than ever to protect your child’s health”. The CDC also made a critical update in the form of launching new guidance and an interactive tool for ventilation to prevent the transmission of airborne viruses. The World Health Organization (WHO) Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced in the May 2023 WHO briefing:
“It’s therefore with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency. However, that does not mean Covid-19 is over as a global health threat. Last week, Covid-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about. The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about…Early in the pandemic, it was important for overwhelmed health systems to focus all of their life-saving efforts on Covid-19 patients presenting with acute infection. However, it is critical for governments to invest long-term in their health system and workers and make a plan now for dealing with long Covid.”
We have a responsibility to one another, our communities, our children, and future generations to implement the tools we know to create safer, more accessible, and more equitable gathering spaces.
Wastewater testing, as reported by Biobot, continues to show a leveling off to a slight decrease, both nationally and regionally. The national average as of May 24 is 186 copies/mL, which remains about 4.6 times higher than the previous low point of 40 copies/mL on May 26, 2021.
To access county-level wastewater data (scroll down to “Filter by State to View Counties”) may provide more detailed information about your local COVID-19 situation.
Support your immune system by eating traditional foods and herbs rich in vitamins and nutrients, and talk to your health care about supplementing with Zinc, vitamin C, Vitamins D3, K2, and Magnesium.
Water is our first medicine. Stay hydrated, ground yourself using traditional medicines, and pray for our collective health and the protection of our little ones and future generations.
Best Ways To Protect and Educate Your Community
COVID-19 Resource Page: You can now access our COVID-19 Layered Mitigations: Workplace Community Care, which includes expandable menus for “Layered Mitigation for In-Person Meetings & Travel Guidance” “In-Office Community Care Best Practices,” and “Internal Staff Correspondence.”
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