4 Ways Your Physical Space Can Support Your Emotional Wellness
May 3, 2021, RAFT Team
You’ve probably spent more time at home this past year than ever before. You’re rethinking your space, learning what’s really important to you in the place you live, ...
5 Ways to Practice Consent in Everyday Life
April 19, 2021, RAFT Team
In recent years, consent has become a hot topic. In fact, most colleges dedicate an entire page on their website to clearly outline what is and what isn’t ...
How to Make Self-Care Become a Mindset Rather Than a To-Do List
April 5, 2021, RAFT Team
Raise your hand if you’re tired. Give a wave if you feel guilty for not doing enough each week. As an advocate, your job is hard. Covid has ...
Why You Need to Put the SCFA Conference On Your Calendar ASAP
March 15, 2021, RAFT Team
The burnout and compassion fatigue experienced by domestic violence and sexual violence advocates is taxing — mentally, physically, and psychologically. We need to give them all the support ...
5 Ways Feminine Leadership Qualities Win the Day
March 1, 2021, RAFT Team
Men and women generally approach things differently. They lead differently, too. In a Wharton University Executive Education Program called, Women in Leadership: Legacies, Opportunities, and Challenges,” program director ...
7 Ways to Optimize Your Time and Impact
February 22, 2021, RAFT Team
These days it’s difficult to focus on the task at hand. You have message alerts on our phones, email alerts on our laptops, news to check, twitter to ...
3 Advocate Mindset Shifts to Help You Avoid Burnout
February 8, 2021, RAFT Team
As an advocate, you know you’re doing important work. Necessary work. But during these pandemic days, compassion fatigue and burnout are lurking at the door and you’re probably ...
Failing, Learning & Growing
January 25, 2021, Jeremie Miller
To Support ALL Advocates FAIL(ING) At RAFT, we are Failing Learning & Growing all the time! It is a value statement we vulnerably embrace as we learn to ...
How to Fill Your Cup When You Work with Domestic Violence Survivors
January 25, 2021, RAFT Team
You’ve been on a long hot walk before. Maybe you didn’t anticipate the heat, the length of the walk, or that you’d be gone so long. But I’ll ...
Leadership from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 14, 2021, Jeremie Miller
The human, not the image These days, when we reflect on Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we often think of him as a nonviolent preacher, a dreamer ...