UMOJA Webinar Series – Luto y Pérdida: Understanding loss and grief in the Latinx Community | August 28, 2-3:30 pm

Join MCEDSV (Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence) as we honor the voices of our communities and come together to grieve, console, support and listen to the stories and journeys of this pandemic.

MCEDSV with UMOJA proudly presents:

Luto y Pérdida: Understanding loss and grief in the Latinx Community

August 28, 2020 2:00-3:30 pm (EST)

Dalia Vadovinos                                                            Ana Lisa Alvarez
Youth Organizer and Trauma Clinician                    Youth Outreach Worker & Survivor Project Coordinator
LA VIDA/CHASS                                                          LA VIDA/CHASS

During this meeting, we will explore how culture plays a role in the coping and healing process of grief and loss in Latinx survivors. This discussion will take a closer look at loss not only related to the death of loved ones, but other forms of hardship.

LA VIDA Partnership is a community program of CHASS Center (Community Health and Social Services) a federally qualified health center. LA VIDA provides culturally specific prevention and intervention programming in the southwest Detroit community. The services offered include: Culturally and linguistically appropriate short term counseling and safety planning, holistic legal advocacy services for survivors, financial stability education for clients, individual counseling for children who have witnessed violence or been victims of abuse, prevention services for youth, community outreach, and support group in Spanish for women, called Amigas.

There is no cost for this important conversation. You may register here:

https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/BIUvRGWiWkt1cVzPdU4-Mw

The acronym UMOJA is, “Uniting and Mobilizing Opportunities for Justice and Access.” UMOJA which means unity, is an anti-oppression group within MCEDSV. UMOJA, recognizes that race and ethnicity continue to be a worthy and necessary grounding to eliminating barriers in the movement to end domestic and sexual violence, in addition, our umoja/unity is open to those who experience oppression in multiple intersections of their identity.

This project is supported by Crime Victim Assistance Grant Award 2016-VA-GX-0021 awarded to the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence by the Division of Victim Services, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The grant award comes from the Federal Crime Victims Fund, established by the Victims of Crime Act of 1984.

The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication/program exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Justice or the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.