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In the summer of 2020, the Injury-Free NC Academy offered a virtual series on Sharing Power with Communities. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we adapted the academy from an in-person to an online platform.

Webinar Schedule & Archive

All webinars have been recorded and stored here with closed captions along with the corresponding slide deck and handouts.

Session 1: Sharing Power with Communities with Shemekka Ebony and shelisa howard-martinez

Date: May 19, 2020

Learning objectives:

  • Understanding how to center transgender and non-binary communities in our work
  • Explain the importance of utilizing an intersectional framework in gender liberation work
  • Ways to center racial equity in our violence prevention and harm reduction work
  • Skill-sharing and learning across harm reduction and violence prevention practitioners
  • Identify tools and strategies to make harm reduction and violence prevention work transformative, affirming, and liberatory for trans and gender non-conforming people

Recording (Passcode: Academy1! )

PowerPoint Slides

Additional resources

 

Session 2: Sharing Power with Communities: Centering Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Communities in our Work with Raye Dooley and Sarah Murray 

Date: July 22, 2020

Learning objectives:

  • The importance of utilizing an intersectional framework in gender liberation work
  • Tools and strategies to make harm reduction and violence prevention work transformative, affirming, and liberatory for trans and gender non-conforming people
  • The role of cultural humility and self-reflection in working with communities
  • Skill-sharing and learning across harm reduction and violence prevention practitioners

Recording

PowerPoint Slides

 

Session 3: Sharing Power with Communities with shelisa howard-martinez and SpiritHouse 

Date: August 27, 2020

Learning Objectives:

  • The role of cultural humility and self-reflection in working with communities 
  • Tools for building community power and stakeholder buy-in for our programs 
  • Ways to center racial equity in our violence prevention and harm reduction work
  • Skill-sharing and learning across harm reduction and violence prevention practitioners

Recording link will be available soon

PowerPoint Slides