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Creative Advocacy Strategies: Beyond the CJS
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Trauma-informed Advocacy Strategies:
Solutions Beyond the Criminal Justice System
The Best Advocates are Balanced Advocates
- Burnout is the biggest inhibitor of effective advocacy work.
- Candles and yoga are fun, but they don't solve the real issues.
- Learning about your "Window of Tolerance" will help you assess, respond and even prevent burnout.
Strategies
for the Advocate
WoT
Roles
Reflection
What would you need?
Strengthening Support Systems
Support
Systems
- Reflecting on the needs we identified, what support people are needed to meet these needs?
- What needs are best met by professional helpers vs. other support people, and why?
- What needs are best met by the CJS Advocate, Community-based Advocate, and Counselor/Therapist?
- There are clear strengths and limitations to these roles
- Strengths of each?
- Limitations of each?
- What does effective collaboration look like?
- How does effective collaboration impact a survivors healing?
Navigating Boundaries
- Effective relationship and role boundaries promote:
- Client empowerment
- Strong support networks
- Provider self-care
- Healthy provider-client relationships
- How do you navigate boundaries when a client has a very limited support network?
Advocacy Boundaries
The Paradox of #MeToo:
Solutions Beyond the CJS
Beyond
the CJS
- Not all victims will choose to participate in the CJS. Stats tell us that only 1 in 4 victims will report. Many of those who do report choose not to continue cooperation.
- What are some of the reasons a victim may decide not to report or cooperate with the CJS process?
- What are the limitations to the CJS response?
- Be aware of your own bias in this.
- Do you assume that reporting to police is the "right" thing to do?
- How have your experiences with police informed your approach to advocacy?
Beyond Buzzwords
Empowerment
Trauma-informed
Client-Centered
Survivor Empowerment
How are these terms related?
What are some of the barriers to creating advocacy strategies that align with these principles?
How do we identify what our clients really need, rather than using a "one size fits all" approach?
Applications
Empowerment Model
Questions for Your Client
Questions to Assess Client Needs:
- If you could identify your top three concerns right now, what would they be?
- What would feel most supportive to you right now?
- Where are you feeling most stuck right now
- Would it be helpful if I ______________________?
Advocacy Tips:
- Get to know your clients needs before you begin offering solutions.
- Be clear about your role in addressing client needs, both with yourself and your client.
- Don't be afraid to express when you are feeling stuck.
- Be honest about the limitations of whatever resources/solutions you are offering .
Advocacy Strategies
Strategies
for the Survivor
- Once you have identified what your client needs, you can determine what your advocacy strategy should be. Note, even the best strategies, when they are not informed by client need, can feel invalidating and unhelpful.
- Strategies may include:
- Normalizing/validation
- Psychoeducation
- Skill building
- Connection to resources & information
Normalizing/Validation
- Don't underestimate the power of validation. Sometimes we all just need to hear that the way we are feeling makes sense, and that we are not crazy!
- Often when clients are feeling stuck in the personal or interpersonal "permission" realm, validation is the most important intervention we can provide.
- Validation might look like:
- Sharing common acute stress reactions
- Saying things like "it makes sense to me that you are feeling that way."
- Avoid talking clients out of their thoughts, fears, and feelings. Learn to validate the experience, whether or not you agree with it.
Psychoeducation
- Advocates may provide education about:
- Rape myths
- Post-traumatic stress
- What to expect from various systems and providers
- Boundaries, consent and healthy relationships
Skill Building
- We all experience a crisis reaction when a situation exceeds our ability to cope.
- Effective learning, information processing and social engagement cannot happen when we are in a crisis reaction.
- Advocates can assist their clients in identifying effective coping strategies by:
- Brainstorming what has worked for them in the past. Ask, "when you have felt overwhelmed before, what have you done to cope?"
- Offering lists of self-care/distress tolerance skills
- Practicing mindfulness and emotion regulation skills in the moment.
Making Connections
- Making referrals and connecting survivors with resources is an advocacy superpower most of us are familiar with!
- Be cautious about referrals that don't meet the client where they are at.
- Seemingly useful resources (ex. protective order support) can feel unhelpful if they do not meet the clients concerns.
- Be honest and realistic about the referrals and resources you are offering.
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