Culturally Specific Initiatives to Address Sexual and Domestic Violence (CSIASDV) Program aims to increase equitable access to communities and lives free of sexual and domestic violence. This is done by prioritizing culturally specific programming 1, engaging Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC2) residents who experience inequities (people with lived experience) to understand those inequities, prioritizing solutions based on these lived experiences, and supporting intersectional community change to impact inequities.
This program focuses on building organizational capacity and strengthening the ability of organizations to deliver culturally specific programming for BIPOC communities to address sexual and/or domestic violence. Programming also builds or strengthens community connections and collective responses within BIPOC communities to prevent and/or respond to sexual and domestic violence.
Services offered:
Culturally Specific Initiatives to Address Sexual and Domestic Violence providers engage in programming that is specific to the strengths, needs, and experiences of the BIPOC community they serve to determine what effective sexual and domestic violence responses look like. Providers work in meaningful partnerships with residents, survivors, community leaders, and other service providers to work toward advancing the needs of the community and sexual and domestic violence survivors and their children. Programming can include:
- Community-led initiatives delivering culturally specific programming to BIPOC communities designed to enhance community responses to prevent and/or respond to sexual and domestic violence
- Expanding or enhancing capacity for organizations to engage in community mobilization, prevention, and intervention that build and elevate the capacity of the community to address sexual and domestic violence through access to resources (including staff time, space, etc.) and opportunities to learn about community-level approaches to respond to sexual and domestic violence
- Strengthening the infrastructure of organizations delivering culturally specific programming to ensure the long-term sustainability of the organization in their current/proposed efforts to address sexual and domestic violence.
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