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Members of the California Commercial Sexual Exploitation Action Team Advisory
Board, the National Center for Youth Law and The Voices and Faces Project at the close of our
day-long Voices and Faces training in Oakland, CA. |
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Our Stories, Our Power, Our Moment: The Voices and Faces Project brings its
newest narrative training to the California Commercial Sexual Exploitation Action Team Advisory
Board. |
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Our mission at The Voices and Faces Project — which in the coming months will be rebranded, reimagined and expanded as Center for Story & Witness — is to create a community in which those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence or other human rights violations have the tools that they need to use their personal narratives to create lasting political change.
This is one of the reasons The Voices and Faces Project is excited to be partnering with the Oakland-based National Center for Youth Law — one of the nation's preeminent social justice organizations dedicated to transforming government agencies and public systems. As part of this alliance we recently brought Our Stories, Our Power, Our Moment — a four-part training on using survivor narratives to educate the public on a human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation — to the California Commercial Sexual Exploitation Action Team Advisory Board. This coalition of statewide anti-trafficking leaders and lived experience experts is leading the charge in addressing exploitation in their region.
We were honored to be in community with the coalition and our allies at the National Center for Youth Law, and celebrate each of these inspired and inspiring survivor-leaders during Human Trafficking Awareness month!
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Find out more about the California Commercial Sexual Exploitation Action Team Advisory Board. |
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About Our Stories, Our Power, Our Moment: Bring The Voices and Faces Project's newest narrative and storytelling training to your community. |
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During Our Stories, Our Power, Our Moment — a four-part, day long training — workshop participants will explore how survivor narratives are driving the movement to end gender-based violence; consider how language, word choice and strategic storytelling can break through partisan and ideological barriers during our politically polarized era; consider ways to find power in their pain while exploring the role advocacy can play in "post traumatic growth"; and develop a personal action plan for using narrative to create social change in their communities, and personal transformation in their lives.
Our Stories, Our Power, Our Moment is an ideal program for survivor leaders, advocates, educators and allies seeking to think in new ways about the power and purpose of storytelling in social movements. To bring our newest workshop to your community, email kali@voicesandfaces.org.
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The Ugly Truth: The Voices and Faces Project's award-winning public
service anti-trafficking campaign. |
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The Ugly Truth is a multi-media anti-trafficking campaign created by the in-house team
at The Voices and Faces Project in partnership with Kinetic Media, one of the world's largest global media agencies. This multi-media advertising campaign — featuring print, radio, outdoor ads and billboards, video and interactive digital content — has run in seven US cities, been recognized by the European Union as one of the most effective gender-justice campaigns globally, and contributed to changed policies in Illinois, CA,
and and at the federal level. The Ugly Truth also generated a measurable increase in calls to the national anti-trafficking hotline.
Created through a two-year listening tour, during which our Voices and Faces Project team organized a series of roundtables with survivors of the sex trade, The Ugly Truth grew out of a simple belief: that until the public understands the economic and social conditions that drive people into the sex trade — and the reality of what they will encounter there — we as a society will lack the community consensus or public will to end sexual exploitation.
Find out more about The Ugly Truth and bring our public education campaign to your
community. The Ugly Truth.
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CREATING CHANGE:
Testimony & Strategic Storytelling
A workshop for educators, advocates and service providers
Friday, March 24, 2023
9am - 2pm
Center for Justice & Reconciliation
SAN DIEGO, CA
Email janet@voicesandfaces.org for more information.
OUR STORIES ARE OUR POWER:
Using Testimony & Narrative to Create Social & Political Change
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
End Violence Against Women International Conference
CHICAGO, IL
THE STORIES WE TELL:
A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of
gender based violence
Q1, 2023
Sojourner Peace Center
MILWAUKEE, WI
WE TELL STORIES:
A literary conversation between memoirist Hannah Sward and
Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream
Q2, 2023
VIRTUAL
YOU DON'T OWN ME:
Survivor-centric strategies for ending human trafficking and
commercial sexual exploitation
Simmons Center for Global Chicago
hosted by World Without Exploitation and The Voices and Faces Project
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Our stories are our power.
At The Voices and Faces Project we’re using them to create change. |
The Voices and Faces Project is an award-winning non-profit storytelling initiative created to bring the names, faces, and testimonies of survivors of gender-based violence to the attention of the public. Through our educational and advocacy trainings, survivor story archive and signature program, The Stories We Tell — an immersive, two-day testimonial writing workshop for those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence or other human rights violations — we seek to change minds, hearts, and public policies through the power of personal testimony. The Voices and Faces Project has been named one of America's Best Charities by the board of Independent Charities of America, and is a registered 501c3 organization.
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