You deserve to feel safe.
Throughout the month of February, we will be adding to Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM) to raise our communities knowledge on dating violence and its effects on Native youth in the state of New Mexico. This is to help provide support for young people who are experiencing violence and to encourage our Tribal communities to make a stand against violence alongside our Native youth.
Our goal aligns with our organizational mission which is to advocate for social change to eliminate violence against our Native women and children. To create and advocate for social change, we must first start with acknowledging the violence that happens in our communities and to bring awareness with hopes to decrease the rates of dating violence and sexual violence towards our young people.
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM) is part of a national effort to raise awareness and protect teens from violence which began with Congress declaring the first week in February as national teen dating violence awareness week after the 2005 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. February was later dedicated to teen dating violence awareness and prevention by Congress in 2010.
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3rd Annual New Mexico Human Trafficking Conference
January 10, 2019
ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Our Membership & Outreach Coordinator, Angel, our Sexual Violence Project Coordinator, Alegra, and our Advocate Project Coordinator, Cecelia, attended and tabled at the 3rd Annual New Mexico Human Trafficking Conference. Also, our Sex Trafficking Project Coordinator, Cheyenne, presented on Sex Trafficking in Indian Country with First Nations.
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Freedom Walk New Mexico
January 11, 2019
SANTA FE, NM
CSVANW joined other organizations and agencies as the came together for the Freedom Walk New Mexico in commemoration of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. They gathered the community together to raise awareness and show solidarity for survivors and all people enslaved worldwide.
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT
January 14, 2019
HANADLI COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Our Native Youth Coordinator, Keioshiah, supported the Sexual Assualt Services of Northwest New Mexico as they held workshops for young people, from kindergarten to 6th grade, to talk about healthy boundaries at Hanaadli Community School.
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SPORTS-BASED YOUTH DEVELOPMENT COACHING TRAINING
January 15-16, 2019
SAN ANA PUEBLO, NM
Our Native Youth Project Coordinator, Keioshiah, attended Up2Us Sports's and Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation's two-day Sports-Based Youth Development coaching training along with other organizations and community partners. The training provided opportunities to strengthen work with Native young in tribal communities.
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CONVERSATION ON SEX TRAFFICKING IN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES
January 16, 2019
CROWNPOINT, NM
For Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Strengthening Families invited CSVANW Sex Trafficking Project Coordinator to join the conversation with Eastern Navajo Correctional Officers on sex trafficking in our tribal communities, resources and victim services. We thank Strengthening Families for the invitation and hope to return soon.
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COMMUNITY OUTREACH
January 22, 2019
ZUNI, NM
Our Sexual Violence Project Coordinator and our Sex Trafficking Coordinator were invited to Zuni Pueblo to present on rape culture, sexual violence, advocacy and trafficking. The room was full of different folks working with survivors in the community and were so hospitable and amazing! Thank you so much for inviting us into your beautiful community.
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SEXUAL ASSAULT & SEX TRAFFICKING PRESENTATION
January 30, 2019
DULCE, NM
The Sexual Assault Services of Northwest New Mexico and Jicarilla Behavioral Health Services provided a space for our Sex Trafficking Project Coordinator to present and inform the communities about sexual assault and sex trafficking. And thank you for providing a delicious lunch.
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Sierra John - CSVANW Intern
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We are delighted to have Sierra John on board as our CSVANW intern. As our intern, Sierra will aid CSVANW in advocacy work on behalf of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, teen dating violence and stalking in New Mexico’s tribal communities.
Sierra is of the Oneida Nation & Pueblo of Santa Clara, and recently moved to Albuquerque from Columbia Missouri where she attended the University of Missouri and received her Bachelors in Health Sciences and Psychology, and currently in her last semester of her Masters of Social Work program.
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Get to know Sierra more by reading her blog post
HERE.
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Hayley Domingo - Project & Media Assistant
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We are pleased to have Hayley Domingo on board as our Project & Media Assistant.
Hayley is as of The Towering House clan and born for The Red Running into the Water People clan. She gained an Associates in Arts degree for Human Services in December of 2018. Hayley is interested in learning and understanding more about what our Native American women have been going through in our country while working with CSVANW.
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Get to know Hayley more by reading her blog post
HERE.
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You Deserve to Feel Safe: CSVANW Recognizes Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month Throughout February 2019
By Keioshiah Peter, CSVANW Native Youth Coordinator
What is Teen Dating Violence –
Teen dating violence (TDV) is known by many names which includes relationship abuse, intimate partner violence, relationship violence, dating abuse, domestic abuse, and domestic violence. Many times young people and adults are unaware that teens experience dating violence. Native youth are affected by the violence they witness & experience.
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Logically - Love Shouldn't Hurt
By Taejonon Denetclaw
“Hey”
*message seen* 1 hour ago.
“Should I message again? — No, I shouldn’t I don’t wanna seem clingy.”
“Oh hey, sorry, I was at work all day… Do you wanna meet sometime later this week”
“Sure”
“Hey I’ll meet you there at 8 tonight”
“Hey i’m here”
I wait a couple hours, hoping, praying, you’d come
*I head home*
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Social Media and Teen Dating Violence
By Alegra Roybal, CSVANW Sexual Violence Project Coordinator
When we think about the issues facing young people, we have to take them seriously. We cannot say that their issues are silly, immature or dramatic. We know this because issues like teen dating violence are serious and are impacting our communities. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found among victims of contact sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner, nearly 23% of females and 14% of males first experienced some form of violence by that partner before age 18.
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Speaking Truth to Power
By Cecelia Westman, CSVANW Advocate Coordinator
As an advocate who has long been influenced by the work of the women around me, I was very happy at the outcomes of this recent election and I was reminded of an early social justice activist that was doing this work long before it was called social justice, but instead civil rights. Her name was Elizabeth Peratrovich (Tlingit) and in 1945, 14 years before Alaska became a state, she advocated on behalf of Alaska Native People to the then territorial government to address Human Rights abuses in the territory leading to the Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945 to be signed into law, the first bill of its kind in the country.
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Eye on New Mexico: Crisis of missing, murdered Native women
- KOB 1/27/19
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- In this week's edition of Eye on New Mexico, Colton Shone discussed the crisis of murdered and missing Native American women.
According to a report by the Urban Indian Health Institute, 78 Native American women have been reported missing in New Mexico since 1956.
Cheyenne Antonio, a sex trafficking project coordinator for the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, joined Shone to discuss the crisis.
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Senators reintroduce bill to protect Native American women, finish work started by defeated colleague
- ABC News 1/28/19
It's an effort that their former colleague Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., began, but which was derailed virtually single-handedly by a retiring House Republican, former House Judiciary Chairman Robert Goodlatte, R-Va.
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THANK YOU
TO OUR CHANGE MAKERS
January 2019 DONORS
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Keith Pryor
Usa Backonja
Tonya Jones
Philadelphia Women's Giving Sphere
Samantha Apgar
Jessica McCarthey
Katie Aymar
UNH Native American Cultural Assoc.
Lisa Dunbar
Katherine Paul
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GIVING BACK: CSVANW RECEIVES CHARITABLE ONGOING DONATION
PHOENIX, AZ
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We are excited to announce that, Phoenix-based company
JP Digs & Co
. will be donating 10% of all of their sales to CSVANW!
JP Digs & Co.
specializes in desert lifestyle and rustic custom designs for home goods, garden and life in the Phoenix area. We are very humbled to be a part of their charitable giving program.
"For the year 2018, a portion of the proceeds from the sales of items sold on this website and our public events will go to support this remarkable organization. You can be assured each time you shop with J
P Digs & Co
., you too will be doing your part to stop violence against Native American women and we cannot thank you enough."
JP Digs & Co.
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FEB 26, 2019
Community Conversations Book Club Meeting
Red Planet Books and Comics
1002 Park Ave SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Open to Community !
Upcoming Readings:
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FEB 29, 2019
Sex Trafficking in Tribal Communities Presentation
Towaoc Community Center
496 Sunset
Towaoc, Colorado 81321
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#HealthyNativeLoveis Photo Contest
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FEB 22, 2019
19th Creating Cultural Harmony Conference
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FEB 11, 2019
Mammogram Screening Event
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FEB 15, 2019
Domestic Violence Prevention Awareness & Fashion Show
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FEB 15, 2019
Valentine's Day Dinner & Dance
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FEB 21, 2019
Nazlini Community Resource Fair
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MARCH 23, 2019
Fresh Seeds Vol. 3
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APRIL 4, 2019
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Round Table
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APRIL 13, 2019
Silence No More 5k & 1 Mile Walk/Run
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FEB 19, 2019
A
dvocacy Café: Session 2
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CSVANW Board of Directors
CHARLENE TSOODLE-MARCUS
Executive Director
PeaceKeepers of ENIPC
Board Chair
DAN LUCERO
Assistant Controller
Pueblo De San Ildefonso
Board Treasurer
COLEEN WIDELL
Foundation Administrator
Williamson's Survivors Justice Initiative
Board Secretary
KENA CHAVEZ
Advocate Coordinator
Tewa Women United
Board Member
THERESA ORTIZ
Program Manager
Santa Ana Social Services
Board Member
JOANNIE ROMERO
President
Corn Pollen Consulting
Board Member
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CSVANW Team
DELEANA OTHERBULL
Executive Director
KIM BENALLY
Training & Education Manager
ANGEL CHARLEY
Membership & Outreach Coordinator
ALEGRA ROYBAL
Sexual Violence Project Coordinator
CHEYENNE ANTONIO
Project Coordinator-
Trafficking
KEIOSHIAH PETER
Native Youth Coordinator
CECELIA WESTMAN
Advocate Coordinator
CURTISON BADONIE
Media & Communications Coordinator
HAYLEY DOMINGO
Project and Media Assistant
LATONYA WILLIAMS
Office Coordinator
SIERRA JOHN
CSVANW Intern
NATASHA ESPANA
PULAKOS
Bookkeeper and Accounting
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