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Free 2-Day Trainings in Massachusetts: Supporting Survivor Wellbeing

The Full Frame Initiative is part of Massachusetts’ reform efforts to create a survivor-centered, effective, and efficient response to domestic and sexual violence and homelessness. People who have experienced violence are more than just this experience. They often face other challenges, juggle multiple identities, and have interests and relationships that sustain them. Because they are more than victims of violence, they seek and deserve more than safety.

We are excited to offer a series of FREE 2-day trainings! The trainings will increase attendee’s knowledge of the codified, evidence-informed Five Domains of Wellbeing framework as the cornerstone of supporting victim wellbeing, promoting victims’ social connectedness, sense of mastery (competence and self-power), safety, stability, and meaningful access to relevant resources.

Registration is limited to 25 people. Priority will be given to those from organizations that work with survivors of sexual and domestic violence. These trainings fill up quickly and we’ll likely have a waitlist, so please notify us by June 15th if you are unable to make the training. Please email any questions to Lotus Yu. To register, visit bit.ly/ffifreetraining.

The trainings will increase attendees’ knowledge of the codified, evidence-informed Five Domains of Wellbeing framework as the cornerstone of supporting victim wellbeing, promoting victims’ social connectedness, sense of mastery (competence and self-power), safety, stability, and meaningful access to relevant resources.

Training goals include:

  • Increase understanding of the Five Domains of Wellbeing, as a framework and approach for supporting wellbeing
  • Understand how balancing tradeoffs informs decision-making and change
  • Begin to see how minimizing tradeoffs can support change that lasts
  • Practice identifying assets, challenges, and tradeoffs with a Five Domains of Wellbeing lens, in our own lives and the lives of others, including survivors of sexual and domestic violence

The training will be held at The Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew. Additional information will be provided to registrants by email.

In advance of the training, please review:

  • the video overview of the Five Domains of Wellbeing
  • the Five Domains of Wellbeing Overview
  • the Five Domains of Wellbeing fact sheets

All materials may be found here: https://fullframeinitiative.org/resources/about-the-full-frame-approach-and-five-domains/

This project is supported by the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance through a Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (VOCA) grant from the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

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FFI is Hiring!

The Full Frame Initiative (FFI) is embarking on an exciting expansion and is looking for individuals with a passion for social justice and social change to upend inequities and for FFI’s mission to join our team as Chief Strategy Officer, National Partnerships and Outreach, Director of Strategic Partnership Projects, and Capacity Building Manager! Are you, or do you know someone who is passionate about social justice, social change and FFI’s mission? Apply today and please share these opportunities with your networks! Learn more on the Jobs & Internships page. We look forward to hearing from you!

Spring newsletter: What do our partnerships mean for people and families?

When systems and communities orient around wellbeing, we create possibilities for lasting change for people and families. Our spring newsletter highlights partnerships that are supporting families in sustaining positive change, focusing on wellbeing to increase equity and justice, and bringing a wellbeing orientation directly to the community. Hear from partners about what this change looks like from the inside and what that means for families, meet talented artist and youth ambassador Trey from our community-based collaboration in St. Louis, and see how the FFI team is growing and changing!

Kids Deserve Wellbeing outreach event brought together St. Louis community members to support children and families

More than 120 community residents and leaders from St. Louis nonprofit and public systems gathered together on January 23 for a two-hour Community Education and Outreach Event to learn more about Kids Deserve Wellbeing (KDW). This is a broad-based movement building effort that seeks to make wellbeing—the needs and experiences universally needed in combination for health and hope—the common heartbeat of the systems, formal and an informal, that support child welfare in the St. Louis region. Welcoming remarks were offered by Michael Howard, CEO of the Youthbridge Community Foundation (pictured left with Katya Fels Smyth), the bedrock funder for the initiative. Katya Smyth, Founder and CEO of The Full Frame Initiative, delivered a presentation exploring the pressing need to view kids and families in the full frame of their lives. A panel of community and systems leaders rounded out the program by sharing their excitement about the project and offer the audience a glimpse of what it means to adopt a wellbeing orientation. We offer a warm thank you to our panelists (pictured below): Tim Decker, Director of Missouri’s Children’s Division; Ben Burkemper, St. Louis County Family Court Administrator; Arvell Keithley, a student at St. Louis Community College; Don Pokorney, Regional Administrator for Children’s Division; and Jennifer Brinkmann, President of Alive and Well Communities. This wellbeing movement offers an opportunity to bust through silos, enabling deep collaboration of the various agencies and resources serving kids and families to foster long-term, lasting wellbeing.  Kids Deserve Wellbeing works at the intersection of issues addressed by other initiatives in St. Louis, and it spans the boundaries of government, nonprofits and community, using the Five Domains of Wellbeing as a shared conceptual framework to guide the work.

We invite attendees and their colleagues to join us in our effort to bring a wellbeing orientation to services for kids by attending one of the five free, one-day trainings being offered in the St. Louis region in February and March of 2018.