About us
OUR MISSION
Self-Care For Advocates is dedicated to promoting. Self-care and preventing work-related stress, trauma, and exhaustion conditions among anti-violence advocates.
WHO ARE ANTI-VIOLENCE ADVOCATES?
There are an estimated 25-million anti-violence advocates in the United States. Anti-violence advocates are trauma-focused professionals in the fields of victim advocacy, public health, nursing, social work, mental health, law enforcement, and related disciplines who prevent respond to, or provide direct care to people impacted by violence (family violence, sexual assault, suicide, substance abuse, etc.). These are at an increased risk for both physical and mental health problems as a direct result of the extreme stress and frequent trauma exposure they experience everyday.
OUR VALUES
ADVOCATE-CENTERED COMPASSION
Above all else, our work begins and ends with the advocates and helping professionals we serve. We envision a world free from fear, oppression, and violence. We believe that world must begin within our own movements and organizations. We aim to re-imagine health, safety, and social justice movements as grounded in radical compassion as much for ourselves as for others.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
INTEGRITY
COURAGE
COLLABORATION
INNOVATION
