Violence against Native women, families, and communities is widespread — and significantly undercounted, because many incidents are never reported. The contributing factors are structural: colonization, racism, discrimination, complex jurisdictional systems, and historical and generational trauma. Harm can happen on reservations, in urban Native communities, or in Native and non-Native settings, and its effects ripple outward across family and community networks. Just as impo

Written by Victoria Ybanez, MPA As you walk on the shore, you look down and see rocks. Small ones, large ones, tiny, tiny ones. They are there but you never see them arrive. Rocks move, it might not be noticeable but they arrived on that shore just as surely as you move. Their journey is long and steady and eventually, they arrive. While your journey may not seem to be going anywhere, you need to stop and think about the journey of the rocks and consider how your movement mig

By Victoria Ybanez, MPA Programs grow out of ideas and if the ideas are strong enough, meaning they are responsive to the community needs, they generally will be forward moving with the right conditions, and the path and pace of the movement can be somewhat predictable. There are factors that influence where a program is at in its life cycle. These include the age of the program, changes and emerging trends within the field of work, the program’s size, its social environment,

Creating a Tribal Coordinated Community Response (TCCR) should be a blending of the Duluth-Model CCR while centering traditional ways of see