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Module 3: Business Planning for Survivors Video Presentation

Module 3 of the Empowering Survivor Entrepreneurs initiative developed by Ladies Empowered with Resources focuses on trauma-informed business planning strategies for survivors exploring entrepreneurship and economic empowerment.

This training helps providers, advocates, coaches, and support professionals understand how trauma may influence planning, decision-making, risk assessment, confidence, consistency, organization, future visioning, and goal development within entrepreneurship settings.

Participants explore how traditional business planning models may unintentionally overwhelm or discourage survivors when emotional safety, flexibility, and lived experiences are not considered. The module introduces survivor-centered approaches that help individuals move from survival-based thinking toward sustainable planning, ownership, and long-term empowerment.

Topics include goal setting, business vision development, identifying strengths and barriers, pacing entrepreneurship growth, adapting business plans during periods of instability, financial considerations, resource mapping, and creating supportive entrepreneurship environments.

Through practical examples, case studies, reflective exercises, worksheets, and implementation tools, participants learn how to guide survivors through business planning in ways that support confidence, emotional regulation, self-determination, and sustainable business development.

This training is designed for transitional housing providers, victim service organizations, entrepreneurship coaches, workforce development professionals, community advocates, faith-based organizations, case managers, social service agencies, and multidisciplinary professionals supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, human trafficking, economic abuse, and other traumatic experiences.

Materials may be used for educational and implementation support purposes.

Module 2: Understanding Trauma Responses in Entrepreneurship Video Presentation

Module 2 of the Empowering Survivor Entrepreneurs initiative developed by Ladies Empowered with Resources focuses on recognizing and understanding trauma responses within entrepreneurship and economic empowerment environments.

This training helps providers, advocates, coaches, and support professionals identify how trauma may influence business participation, emotional regulation, communication patterns, trust, self-worth, motivation, burnout, fear of visibility, perfectionism, avoidance, financial behaviors, and decision-making.

Participants explore common trauma responses including fight, flight, freeze, fawn, hypervigilance, shutdown, and survival-based coping behaviors that may appear during entrepreneurship development. The module also introduces strategies for creating emotionally safer entrepreneurship spaces that reduce re-traumatization and increase engagement, empowerment, flexibility, and long-term sustainability.

Through practical examples, reflective exercises, implementation tools, and survivor-centered approaches, participants gain a deeper understanding of how trauma-informed entrepreneurship support can strengthen survivor engagement and organizational responsiveness.

This training is designed for transitional housing providers, victim service professionals, community advocates, entrepreneurship coaches, workforce development staff, faith-based organizations, social service agencies, and multidisciplinary professionals supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, human trafficking, economic abuse, and other traumatic experiences.

Materials may be used for educational and implementation support purposes.

Module 1: Foundations of Trauma-Informed Entrepreneurship Video Presentation

Module 1 serves as the introductory training within the Empowering Survivor Entrepreneurs initiative developed by Ladies Empowered with Resources (LEWR). This module explores the intersection of trauma-informed care and entrepreneurship education, helping providers understand how trauma can influence entrepreneurial journeys, business engagement, self-confidence, emotional regulation, and long-term sustainability.

The training introduces foundational trauma-informed principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, cultural responsiveness, and survivor-centered engagement within entrepreneurship settings.

Participants are guided through practical examples, reflective activities, and implementation strategies designed to help organizations create safer and more supportive entrepreneurship environments for survivors.

This module is intended for transitional housing providers, victim service organizations, workforce development professionals, entrepreneurship coaches, advocates, case managers, faith-based organizations, and multidisciplinary professionals supporting survivors of trauma, domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, or economic abuse.

Materials may be used for educational and implementation support purposes.

This webinar recording elevates why housing is a priority area for survivors of sexual assault, discusses key findings from a series of listening sessions hosted by the National Sexual Assault Housing Collaborative, and shares recommendations to better address the housing needs of survivors of sexual assault.

El acceso a WiFi se ha vuelto tan común que muchos lugares públicos cuentan con redes y puntos de acceso a los que usted puede conectarse. Pero, simplemente el hecho de que una red está disponible no significa que sea segura. La información a continuación les proporcionará a usted, y a los/las sobrevivientes a quienes atiende, las herramientas necesarias para mantenerse a salvo mientras utilizan cualquier red de WiFi.

WiFi access has become so commonplace that many public places have networks and hotspots that you can connect to. But just because a network is available doesn’t mean it is secure. The information below will provide you, and the survivors you serve, with the tools needed to stay safe while using any WiFi network.

Recognizing the need for a separate and concerted effort to address these unique housing challenges, particularly for survivors of sexual assault whose experiences occur(ed) outside the context of domestic violence, the National Sexual Assault Housing Collaborative developed this toolkit for:
– sexual assault service providers to build a foundational knowledge around housing and equip advocates to meet survivors housing needs throughout their lifespan, and
– housing professionals, including transitional housing service providers, to elevate the unique housing challenges experienced by sexual assault survivors and improve housing outcomes for survivors.

It is comprised of downloadable resources designed to encourage organizations to explore current housing service provision through a sexual assault lens. From knowledge building around sexual assault survivors housing challenges and funding that can be used to support this work to tools that promote future housing strategy, this toolkit serves as one component of an organization’s journey to meet sexual assault survivors housing needs. It does not serve as a substitute for cross-training opportunities or connection with local, state, or national experts.

This resource provides a guide and a template to support the hiring process and job description development for the ESPOC Project Coordinator.

This document gives a broad overview of the training and technical assistance to be provided to the Electronic Service Protection Order Court (ESPOC) Pilot Project sites.