Leadership Development

Healing to Action promotes the individual and collective transformation of survivors through a community-designed program that builds relationships between survivors to break through their personal isolation, facilitate their collective healing from trauma, and provide skills and training so survivors can organize against structural barriers that perpetuate gender-based violence.

Background

In 2018, Healing to Action collaborated with over 65 survivors from the Latinx and Korean communities who work in restaurants, factories, hotels, homes, and other low-wage jobs to design a program that provided survivors the skills and resources they need to lead their communities to combat gender-based violence. These survivors collectively shaped the curriculum and structure of our flagship leadership program.

Healing Generations

Leadership Program

Survivors who attend the eight-week program develop:

An understanding of gender, sexuality, and gender-based violence

Communication skills around gender-based violence

Tools to organize with survivors

Opportunities to join or create grassroots campaigns to fight gender-based violence in their communities

Apply Now

This summer, Healing to Action will hold the second cohort of its eight-week leadership program and will be accepting applications and nominations for up to 20 community leaders  to attend the program.

Program Dates

The program will launch in late spring/early summer 2020. The dates and times for the program will be set based on the collective availability of the selected cohort, and will include a4-hour introductory session, six 2-hour intermediate sessions, and a 4-hour closing session. 

Program Location

The program location will be finalized with the participants selected for the program to maximize accessibility.

Nomination Criteria

For this cohort, Healing to Action is interested in building a multicultural cohort of communities most impacted by gender-based violence. HTA is seeking to build power across black, brown, disability and LGBTQ communities. Applicants who identify with these communities are strongly encouraged to apply. 

Nomination Process

To nominate a candidate or self-nominate to join Healing to Action’s leadership program please contact Sheerine Alemzadeh at sheerine@healingtoaction.org with the candidate’s name, phone number, zip code, and best hours to contact them. Applications due April 30th.

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