Live REWATCH 🔁 Ending Teen Violence and Cultivating Healthy Relationships
Wed, Feb 21, 1 - 2:30 pm (MST)
Join us for a re-watch of this powerful webinar originally presented in February of 2023, where our former NativeLove program specialist discussed how youth advocates can address teen dating violence in Tribal communities. This topic includes available tools and resources for Native youth, defining violent versus healthy relationships, and empowering the next generation through Indigenous values. This webinar is proudly hosted as part of NIWRC's NativeLove program.
You Are Invited To Celebrate 20 Years of VAWA Task Force and RestorationMagazine!
February 12, We 7 - 8:30 pm (EST) The Westin Washington, DC Downtown, 999 Ninth Street NW • Washington, D.C.
Join NCAI and NIWRC on February 12, 2024, as we celebrate 20 years of our grassroots organizing to restore Tribal sovereignty and increase Native women’s safety through the Violence Against Women Task Force and the Restoration of Sovereignty and Safety for Native Women magazine. Our united strong-hearted advocacy has helped identify and remove systemic barriers that Native women and Indian Tribes face and effect changes in the laws and policies women and Tribes need. We will have hard copies of the February 2024 edition of Restoration at the reception, and our online version will be published. Visit niwrc.org/restoration-magazine to view it online, as well as the previous editions.
Indigenous Leadership to End Violence Panel - Part 2: Indigenous Reproductive and Maternal Justice Work Strengthens Advocacy to End Gender-Based Violence
Wed, Feb 28, 1 - 2:30 pm (MST)
The overwhelmingly positive response to the previous webinar, “Indigenous Leadership to End Violence from A Woman’s Perspective,” inspired this Part 2 conversation. The panelists will discuss how Indigenous reproductive and maternal rights and justice work are essential to advocacy, ending gender-based violence, and sustaining and strengthening Indigenous communities in colonial spaces.
No need to register! Join via Zoom.Let’s visit! If you have questions about utilizing FVPSA funding or would like to share productive experiences utilizing FVPSA monies, we invite you to join us for coffee and conversation in this virtual space. Topics of conversation may include:
Successful ways you are utilizing FVPSA monies;
Brainstorming creative ways to spend funds;
Share the challenges and explore a means to overcome them.
If you have any questions or need any assistance at any time, please contact Brenda Hill, NIWRC Director of Technical Assistance and Training, at bhill@niwrc.org.
The Communications Specialist supports the planning and execution of NIWRC’s strategic dissemination plan to promote the organization’s activities, resources, and campaigns across a variety of channels and platforms. The Communications Specialist helps write, edit, design, format, and publish content for the website, social media, mailing list, press releases, statements, reports, and publications.
To apply, please complete and submit an employment application, a resume, three professional references, a cover letter, and writing/design samples. Submit all documents to the Human Resources Manager, Julie Weddell, at careers@niwrc.org. Open until filled
The Director of Communications and Advancement will take the lead for NIWRC’s communication and public awareness initiatives, fundraising and advancement, as well as manage NIWRC’s strategic communications activities. The Director will also have a wide array of responsibilities, including gaining visibility for priority Campaigns, helping NIWRC staff develop their media skills and strategies, utilizing NIWRC software and social media to communicate across our network.
To apply, please complete and submit an employment application, a resume, three professional references, a cover letter, and writing/design samples. Submit all documents to the Human Resources Manager, Julie Weddell, at careers@niwrc.org. Open until filled.
STTARS: Call for Proposals
Apply for Pass-Through ARP Funds
For Tribal domestic violence programs and shelters and Tribal not-for-profit organizations. Eligible programs can receive up to $15,000 per award and can reapply for additional funds. The deadline is rolling.
NIWRC Provides Culturally Specific Technical Assistance
We look forward to working with you!
This service aims to assist Tribes, Tribal programs, and advocates with policy development to establish and strengthen their responses to violence against Native women, as well as survivors who are 2-Spirit/LGBTQ+ and/or men. We can provide tailored technical assistance according to your program and community. If needed and within budget, we can also arrange in-person 2 to 3-day visits. Technical assistance may include (but are not limited to):
Consultation, Program development/staff development, Strategic planning,
Informational resources, Safety, and technology practices, and policies,
Pandemic or disaster relief, Strategies and policies for work with LGBTQ2S communities in the context of intimate partner violence,
Referral and/or virtual meetings, Incorporating community organizing, and more!
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