“Collective care refers to seeing members' well-being-particularly their emotional health-as a shared responsibility of the group rather than the lone task of an individual. It means the group commits to addressing interlocking oppressions and reasons for deteriorating health well-being within the group. It places emphasis on joint accountability with the aim of collective empowerment".
We at Sexual Violence NB (SVNB) see collective care as a critical practice in providing trauma-informed care. Collective care addresses the impacts that exposure to trauma can have on helpers working with traumatized individuals. It sustains helpers in their work and supports the delivery of trauma-informed services. This presentation will define collective care and offer some examples of how we at SVNB have implemented this practice into our work culture.
Presenter:
Jenn Gorham is the Associate Director of Sexual Violence New Brunswick (SVNB) and has been with SVNB for 17 years. She began her career with SVNB training and coordinating the volunteers who staff SVNB’s 24-hour support line as well as working in schools throughout the Anglophone West School District delivering workshops to youth on healthy relationships, consent and coercion. She is a trained Vicarious Trauma and Compassion Fatigue facilitator and has delivered workshops on trauma-informed principles for trauma-exposed workplaces to frontline workers throughout the province. She was the project coordinator for Enhancing Criminal Justice Response to Sexual Violence in New Brunswick, to research, develop, deliver, and evaluate a training initiative for criminal justice professionals on sexual violence. She is currently the project coordinator for Maintain: Strengthening Collective Care, a nationally funded project addressing wellness in trauma-exposed workplaces.
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