Leadership. It can make or break an organization. The SADI project found that while many leadership styles can be impactful, stable and empowering leadership is the most effective. On today’s episode, we are talking with Val Williams, Executive Director at Hope Shores Alliance, about her time with the SADI project and what leadership looks like behind the scenes.

Supporting and advocating for survivors of sexual violence can lead to vicarious or secondary trauma. Throughout the SADI project, all six SADI sites realized staff members were not only experiencing secondary trauma but that their organizations were not adequately supporting them. In this podcast episode, we are chatting with Erica Blackwood, the SADI Specialist at NCCASA. Get ready as we dive deep into this next SADI lesson: sustainable sexual assault services require explicit and agency-wide support.

What is organizational identity? Well, during the course of the SADI project, SADI sites realized they weren’t all that clear on what that meant.

This brings us to our next key SADI lesson: To be truly effective, programs must have a clear organizational identity as a provider of services for survivors of sexual violence. On today’s episode, we are chatting with Taylor Teichman, Youth Development Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness (ECYEH) initiative and a former technical assistance provider for the SADI project.