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Saturday, March 21, 2015: 9:50 AM-11:10 AM
Room 15 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- Have increased understanding of how survivors across CA define and achieve success and wellbeing in their own lives, including the range of strategies and supports they utilize outside of formal service systems.
- Hear about the project findings across mainstream, culturally-specific and other undeserved communities, and where these findings challenge traditionally held views about the inherent differences between these various communities.
- Learn about how different stakeholder groups in CA - survivors, practitioners, policy makers and funders - understand success for survivors, and recommendations for improving systems' response to better support survivor-defined success.
Many survivors live at the intersection of poverty and multiple forms of violence and struggle with interrelated issues that negatively affect their health. Systems responding to survivors often hold different definitions of survivor success. FFI conducted 46 participatory workshops with more than 150 survivors and more than 185 practitioners in mainstream, culturally-specific and underserved communities, and twelve interviews with policy makers and funders, across California, to document how these four groups understand what it means for survivors to be successful.