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.
Grassroots Organizing
SexEd Works is Healing to Action’s first survivor-designed and survivor-led campaign. Graduates of HTA’s leadership program came up with the campaign idea after intensive healing and community-building that illuminated the multiple forms of trauma they had endured throughout their lives. They decided to work together to build a future where their sons and daughters do not experience the same violence that they survived.
Building a Survivor Centered Chicago
HTA's toolkit for elected officials to increase civic engagement with survivors who disproportionately experience gender-based violence due to socio-economic inequalities and structural racism, and develop responses to gender-based violence based on survivors’ lived experiences.