Name: Dating After Abuse - Community Training
Start: 2024-10-22T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-22T14:30:00-04:00
Location: 45 Willard Ave

Join us during DVAM to learn about how folks can learn to navigate safe and fulfilling relationships after experiencing trauma and abuse.
About this Event

Dating after relationship violence or sexual abuse can be scary. But don't worry, Sojourner House is here to help survivors navigate these experiences. Learn about green and red flags and how to begin trusting oneself again. Everyone deserves safe and healthy relationships.

Folks over the age of 18 of all identities and walks of life are encouraged to attend.

Objectives:

Participants will learn the general dynamics that can be present in domestic violence relationships
Participants will discuss the difficulty in navigating new interpersonal relationships, including discussions of green and red flags and related issues with identifying them
Participants will learn from a strengths based perspective how to identify healing measures, to include self worth and empowerment, to better prepare for the complicated nature of dating after a violent relationship

Workshop will be led by:

Linzi Rae Matta, LICSW (she/her) began her career in victim’s services at URI as a Peer Advocate working with Violence Prevention and Advocacy Services in 2007, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Music History and Literature with a Minor in Women's Studies in 2010. After volunteering for a local domestic violence agency in 2012, she then worked to obtain her Master of Social Work degree from Rhode Island College, and graduated in the class of 2017. She has been a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker since 2019. Linzi has developed an expertise in providing trauma focused treatment modalities to survivors of interpersonal and systems-induced trauma, with a particular focus on addressing the healing needs of those who have survived physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse. Linzi has worked for Sojourner House as their Clinical Director since April 2022, which has expanded her experience in supporting LGBTQ+ survivors of trauma, clinical consultation and supervision, training facilitation, policy development, program operations, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and what better way to fight abuse than to teach the community ways to address the violence we see? Sojourner House has been working to support and empower survivors since 1976. Through a 24 hour hotline, clinical support, housing and more, Sojourner House aims to end domestic and sexual abuse and human trafficking.