At CSVANW, we are examining how tribal (community-based) adults learn so that we can better develop our training curriculums and programs to be more responsive to the needs of our communities. We are working to foster responsible, respectful, tribal-centered domestic violence and sexual assault trainings built off of community-based values, experiences, and culturally-based processes… all of which include cultivating collective understandings, practices, protocols, insights and the many relationships we have with not only our families, communities, tribes, and Pueblos… but also the relationships we have with the land, water, and our connections to tradition and culture.
The following calendar displays CSVANW 2017-18 training and event opportunities. These dates have been selected to avoid conflicts with other major events conducted by sister organizations and tribal communities, i.e. Pueblo feast days, tribal holidays, NCAI events, NIWRC trainings, etc. These trainings are made possible by funding from the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, Grant #2017-IW-AX-0015 and the State of New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department Grant #16-690-18897.
- 9:00 amAdvanced Sexual Violence Advocacy Training: Holistic Approaches to Improve Services and Advocacy for Native Survivors
- 2:00 pmCo-Conspirators: Imagining a Future Together
- CSVANW Member Meeting
Hospital Services Corporation
7471 Pan American Freeway NE
Calendar Quick Glance Summary
Join us this month for Community Conversations Book Club at Red Planet Books and Comics.
In December, CSVANW is reading, “Heart Berries” by Terese Marie Mailhot.
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father―an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist―who was murdered under mysterious ... More
Join us this month for Community Conversations Book Club at Red Planet Books and Comics.
In January, CSVANW is reading, “Rain Is Not My Indian Name” by Cynthia Leitich Smith.
It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again—at least through the lens of her camera.
Hired by her town newspaper to photograph the campers, Rain soon finds that she has to decide how involved she wants to become in Indian Camp. Does she want to keep a professional distance from the intertribal community she belongs to? And just how willing ... More
