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We are W.O.M.A.N., Inc., a San Francisco-based nonprofit that has been serving the city and larger Bay Area since 1978. W.O.M.A.N., Inc. supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value-rich networks designed to address intersections of violence. These conversations will cover topics across levels of practice -- from nonprofit leadership to working with survivors to exploring our collective healing work.

Please consider helping us sustain this work at womaninc.org/donate!

The W.O.M.A.N., Inc. Podcast WOMAN, Inc.

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We are W.O.M.A.N., Inc., a San Francisco-based nonprofit that has been serving the city and larger Bay Area since 1978. W.O.M.A.N., Inc. supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value-rich networks designed to address intersections of violence. These conversations will cover topics across levels of practice -- from nonprofit leadership to working with survivors to exploring our collective healing work.

Please consider helping us sustain this work at womaninc.org/donate!

    SF Healing Roots Collaborative Series P3: Economic Justice as it relates to DV

    SF Healing Roots Collaborative Series P3: Economic Justice as it relates to DV

    This is the 3rd episode of our six-part SF Healing Roots Collaborative Series. It features a discussion on economic justice and some of the major financial obstacles that stand in the way of ending domestic violence. This episode features Destini Davis of Young Community Developers and Rachel West of In Defense of Prostitute Women's Safety Project, and Kali Shebi of San Francisco Department on the Status of Women.



    Destini Davis Destini Davis, AMFT is the Clinical Coordinator at Young Community Developers. She has been engaged in mental health work in the community for almost 10 years. Destini currently works with groups and individuals engaged in job readiness training. In addition, Destini created and facilitates a healthy relationships group for YCD participants.



    Kalkidan (Kali) Shebi is the Economic Security Program Manager for the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. Kali also has over 7 years of experience working in the international development space advocating for girls’ and women’s rights, particularly advancing women's economic empowerment. Kali currently serves on the YWCA's (Berkeley/Oakland chapter) Board of Directors supporting the Policy & Programs committee and the Y’s mission of empowering marginalized women and ending racism in the community. Kali's lifelong advocacy for gender equity and economic justice is rooted in her vision to one day have a world where all girls and women, especially those often left behind, can live a life of freedom and prosperity. 

    • 38 min
    SF Healing Roots Collaborative Series P2: Major Obstacles to Ending Domestic Violence

    SF Healing Roots Collaborative Series P2: Major Obstacles to Ending Domestic Violence

    This is the 2nd episode of our six-part SF Healing Roots Collaborative Series. It features a discussion on some of the major obstacles that stand in the way of ending domestic violence. This episode features Laura Jiménez of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, Destini Davis of Young Community Developers, Rachel West of In Defense of Prostitute Women's Safety Project, and Cameron Lucas of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women.



    Laura Jiménez has served as the Executive Director at CLRJ since 2011 and brings to this work the passion and commitment of close to 30 years of activism in the Reproductive Justice movement. She was raised in Santa Barbara, California, and since then, has made her way across the country and back. Along the way, she worked with the National Latina Health Organization in Oakland, California where she led a girls' mentorship program and initiated a collaboration between the organization and UC Berkeley to offer a class entitled, “Redefining Latina Health: Body, Mind and Spirit”, as well as the serving as the Development Officer with the Dominican Women’s Development Center in Washington Heights, New York. Laura was a part of the birth and growth of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 1998 to 2011, becoming the Deputy Coordinator in 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia. During her time with SisterSong, she co-coordinated two national conferences and established the Latina Encuentro – a gathering of Latina leaders in the Southeastern Region which had as a goal relationship building and leadership development of Latinas across the South. The birth of her two daughters brought home the issue of reproductive justice, encouraged her interest in the area of birthing work, and recommitted her to the healing of women of color. Laura is an innate healer, mother, and seer. She is a daughter of the ocean and a holder of hands and hearts.



    Rachel West is the Program Director of the In Defense of Prostitute Women's Safety Project (IDPWS) in San Francisco, which raises awareness and educates the public about violence against sex workers. IDPWS campaigns for city and state policies, which prioritizes protection over criminalization of sex workers, and for all women’s safety. She is also with the US PROStitutes Collective (US PROS), one of the collaborating groups in IDPWS. US PROS advocates for decriminalization and resources so no one is forced into prostitution through poverty.



    Destini Davis Destini Davis, AMFT is the Clinical Coordinator at Young Community Developers. She has been engaged in mental health work in the community for almost 10 years. Destini currently works with groups and individuals engaged in job readiness training. In addition, Destini created and facilitates a healthy relationships group for YCD participants.



    Cameron Lucas is the Executive Management Assistant for the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. Cameron is passionate about the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in the provision of governmental services and ensuring that government truly works inclusively and equitably for everyone.

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    SF Healing Roots Collaborative Series P1: LGBTQIA+ Communities and DV

    SF Healing Roots Collaborative Series P1: LGBTQIA+ Communities and DV

    This is the 1st episode of our six-part SF Healing Roots Collaborative Series. It features a discussion with Nicole Santamaria, El/La’s first intersex Executive Director of trans experience, and Pablo Espinoza, Co-Executive Director at Community United Against Violence (CUAV.)



    Nicole Santamaria, El/La’s first intersex Executive Director of trans experience, has led the shift in our organizational culture toward a trauma-informed, holistic approach. Her leadership is rooted in 28 years of experience working with survivors of violence (including HIV+ cis and trans women, LGBT women, indigenous communities and people with disabilities in the U.S., Latin America & the Caribbean) as well as her training as an art therapist. She has worked successfully to provide more visibility for El/La and the TransLatina community through her involvement in various partnerships, as well as her position as a city advisory commissioner in the LGBTQI+ Advisory Committee of the City and County of San Francisco. She has also worked with staff and consultants to create a strategic plan to increase El/La’s capacity and set the organization on a track for sustainable growth.  



    Learn more about CUAV and El/La Para TransLatinas by visiting their websites

     https://www.cuav.org/ 

    https://ellaparatranslatinas.org/

    Our SF Healing Roots collaborative includes representatives from YCD, SF Department On the Status of Women and W.O.M.A.N., Inc.

    • 52 min
    SF Healing Roots Collaborative: upcoming podcast series announcement!

    SF Healing Roots Collaborative: upcoming podcast series announcement!

    We are excited to be presenting a 6 episode podcast series with local nonprofits and city partners. The series is slated to start in June 2023. Together, we will explore the topic of domestic violence and discuss its true costs across our city's communities. We'll also lift up what is being done to intervene and prevent domestic violence here in SF. Please listen to our introduction episode & learn a little more about what's to come! This series is due in part to funding from the Blue Shield of California Foundation.

    • 6 min
    San Francisco HEALING ROOTS: reflections on the collaboration and our future together

    San Francisco HEALING ROOTS: reflections on the collaboration and our future together

    You probably remember Pamela Tate, Co-Executive Director at Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence and Destini Davis, AMFT, Clinical Coordinator at Youth Community Developers from past podcast episodes. In THIS episode, they are joined by Cameron Lucas, Grants and Policy Associate at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women and Jill Zawisza, Co-Director at W.O.M.A.N., Inc. to discuss the Healing Roots collaborative. Though this particular project is sunsetting, the group takes a moment to reflect on the past few years, and what the future holds for DV prevention, intervention and the group. 

    Learn more about DOSW and our organizations via the links below:

    San Francisco Department on the Status of Women

    Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence

    Youth Community Developers

    W.O.M.A.N., Inc. (Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent)

    • 35 min
    Transformative Justice and Transformative Practices at WOMAN Inc.

    Transformative Justice and Transformative Practices at WOMAN Inc.

    Wondering how NOT to lean into criminal legal systems as a response to DV?…listen to this episode as staff flesh out what that means at WOMAN Inc, where we are at in that process and some overarching reflections on TJ!

    • 43 min

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