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Understanding important concepts like privacy and confidentiality can be challenging as victim service providers navigate survivors’ safety, particularly as they collaborate with community partners. Moreover, it is a professional obligation to protect privacy and confidentiality. In this Back to Basics video, participants will learn why confidentiality is an essential component of trauma-informed response and some key concepts and practices around confidentiality.

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Maintaining a sustainability orientation in victim service agencies is key to keeping programs and services operating over the long term and preserving agencies’ ability to fulfill their missions. In this Back to Basics video, participants will learn important financial and programmatic factors that support successful program sustainability.

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The victim service field is challenging, often making it difficult to focus on the bigger picture. To ensure survivors receive quality services and to promote the retention of valued staff, it is vital to focus on trauma-informed supervision. In this Back to Basics video, participants learn why providing and receiving trauma-informed supervision are important in daily victim services practice. The video will also provide an overview of key concepts and practices around trauma-informed supervision.

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Victims’ rights must be incorporated when developing and implementing system- and community-based efforts that impact survivors. It is critical for victim service providers to know and understand federal and state victims’ rights policies so they can advocate for survivors effectively. In this Back to Basics video, participants will learn how to locate victims’ rights statutes in state, territory, and federal law, and how ensuring victims’ rights can be empowering and trauma-reducing for victims.