Supporting Survivors of DV Using a Trauma-Informed Framework
Description
This training meets the CYFD trauma-responsive training requirement.
This 6-hour interactive training (spread out over 2 half days) provides a foundational understanding of how trauma can present itself in domestic violence programs and introduces a framework for looking at services through a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and survivor centered lens. Participants will learn ways to integrate this framework into practice using a trauma-informed/trauma-responsive approach to services. Some key concepts for mitigating the impact of trauma at both the organizational, advocacy, and individual levels are also explored. Participants are able to reflect on how secondary trauma may be showing up in their work and are given some concrete tools for transforming those responses.
Facilitators
Shana Aldahl is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and recently returned to the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence to serve as a Program Support Specialist. In her previous role at the Coalition, Shana managed various projects aimed at increasing accessibility and building capacity within domestic violence programs across New Mexico, including the Children’s Capacity Building Project and the Companion Animal Rescue Effort. Shana has worked in the field of domestic violence for over 15 years in various capacities to include managing a domestic violence shelter in Santa Fe, providing crisis intervention and counseling services to survivors of domestic violence, and providing trainings, supervision, and support to a variety of professionals. Shana has also served as an Adjunct Instructor for the Facundo Valdez School of Social Work at New Mexico Highlands University. Shana is dedicated to ending domestic violence and believes that all creatures, even the fury ones, deserve a life free from violence.
Ida Aguirre was born in El Paso, TX but raised in Sunland Park, NM. She moved to Las Cruces, NM as a teenager where she graduated from Las Cruces High…GO BULLDAWGS! After taking some time off of college, she returned in 2007, and graduated from NMSU in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and 2 minors (Spanish and Security Technology). She started working at La Casa in 2005. While at La Casa, she worked as a receptionist, intake worker for Batterers Intervention Program (BIP), BIP facilitator, Assistant Shelter Manager, and also some case management. She was also at DASO (Dona Ana Sheriff’s Office) for close to 10 years and eventually was rehired back at La Casa part-time as a BIP Facilitator. She did BIP groups for 9 total years and in 2021, she was offered a job as Support Services Assistant Director, at La Casa, Inc. which led to her leaving DASO. She was asked to join the Family Peace Initiative Family out of Topeka, Kansas as a co-facilitator for their BIP groups in October of 2020 and still continues to do groups, one of which was the first Spanish group the organization offered. She was also contracted with NMCADV as one of the Core Advocacy Trainers but as of May 16, 2022, she officially became a full-time staff member with NMCADV as Program Support Specialist!
She is a mother of 3 GREAT kids and have been in a relationship with her childhood sweetheart for over 9 years. She also loves to dance and play volleyball, draw, paint, photography, and spend time with friends.