Enhancing the Capacity of Tribal Advocates Through Training & Support

Transform your Skills with Culturally Focused Training

for Tribal Advocates!

Our training is designed specifically for Tribal Advocates, offering interactive and skill-based learning experiences. Whether you're just starting out or looking to advance your expertise, our culturally focused curriculum ensures relevance and respect for the unique needs of your community.

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FROM ATTENDEES

“The hands on learning helped me to absorb the information better.” - DATI participant, 2025

COMMENTS

FROM ATTENDEES

"This was one of the best trainings I have attended. Things moved along well and we got to hear from a lot of different people." - DATI Participant, 2024

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FROM PAST ATTENDEES

"Red Wind trainings are always informative. The presenters are open to all input and they give the information like it really is without sugar coating it. " - SATI Participant, 2025

COMMENTS

FROM PAST ATTENDEES

"We cried, we laughed, we visited. The knowledge provided gave me more insight and tools to add to my work ethic as an advocate.. " - DATI Participant, Shingle Springs, 2026

COMMENTS

FROM PAST ATTENDEES

"Your program inspires me. Knowing how to grow not only as an advocate but as a strong woman as well, thank you for preparing me for my future. SATI Participant, 2026

Empower Your Advocacy

with Culturally Focused Training!

Our training series is designed for Tribal Advocates, offering interactive, skill-based sessions that cater to both beginners and advanced practitioners. Whether you're just starting out or looking to enhance your expertise, we've got you covered.

Culturally Relevant Learning

We understand the unique challenges faced by Tribal Advocates. Our culturally-focused training ensures that you receive education tailored to your community's context, empowering you to advocate effectively and authentically.

Engagement That Makes a Difference

With our hands-on approach, you'll not only learn theory but also practice skills in real-world scenarios. This interactive format ensures that you leave each Institute confident and ready to make an impact.

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We Are Advocates

We walk with our ancestors

We think and act intentionally about what we are doing

We ensure that the voices of those we advocate for are

being heard

Our work is Medicine!

2026 Fall Training

Dates: September 21-24, 2026

Location: Antlers Wyndham Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Registration: $700 per person

Join us for a 3.5-day, in-person training designed for tribal advocates, service providers, and community partners working with Native elders. The Elder Abuse Tribal Advocate Institute centers Indigenous knowledge and community strengths while building practical skills to prevent, identify, and respond to abuse in later life.

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What you’ll gain

A grounding in the traditional role of elders in tribal communities and the impact of historical trauma on today’s realities.
A clear understanding of what abuse in later life looks like, including types of harm, power and control dynamics, and safety-centered advocate practice.
Tools for navigating barriers to reporting, supporting decision-making in later life, and planning for elder accessibility across physical, emotional, and cognitive needs.
Strategies to care for yourself and your teams through vicarious trauma and culturally rooted healing.
Practical approaches for cross-system collaboration, alternatives to justice system responses, and community education and outreach.
Familiarity with elder-specific resources and how to connect elders with the help they want.

Training flow

Day 1: Prevalence in Indian Country, defining abuse in later life, power and control, advocate practice, vicarious trauma and self-care, and culture for healing.
Day 2: Language and generational communication, barriers and challenges to reporting, accessibility planning, and Elder-specific resources.
Day 3: Systemic barriers and institutional challenges, local response mapping, justice system response, and relationship-building across systems, guided by elders’ voices.
Day 4: Community education and outreach strategies to reach and support elders.

Dates: October 5-9, 2026

Location: Antlers Wyndham Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Registration: $1000 per person

The CARE Program Development Institute is a five-day, training designed to help tribal programs build, strengthen, and sustain survivor-centered services. Grounded in guiding tribal values and informed by survivor voices, the Institute blends reflection, skills practice, and practical tools to support safety, healing, and lasting community impact.

Building our Core Program Foundation
Transformational Change and Empowerment Work
Program Leadership
Managing Conflict and Other Hard Things
Working with Guardrails: Core Policies and Protocols
Program Implementation

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What participants will gain

Shared foundation: Align on core values, ethics, and love languages that shape advocate practice and program culture.
Survivor-guided practice: Explore formal and informal pathways for responding to harm, centering survivor choice and dignity.
Core program design: Define crisis response, safety strategies, and recovery supports; map resources and close service gaps.
Roles and leadership: Clarify advocate scope, boundaries, and team capacity; grow leadership skills for carrying the work forward.
Policies and protocols: Build clear guardrails for program obligations, compliance, and consistent service delivery.
Workforce wellbeing: Recognize vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue; embed sustainable self- and team-care.
Systems change and evaluation: Plan structural, relational, and transformational change; measure outcomes and tell your story.

How the Institute works 

Across five days, participants move from values and vision to concrete implementation:

Days 1–2: Establish a shared foundation in values, ethics, and survivor guidance; define core components and responsibilities; set program intentions.
Day 3: Strengthen leadership, clarify roles, build staff capacity, and practice conflict management.
Day 4: Translate values into policies, protocols, and obligations; integrate self-care; plan for systems change.
Day 5: Evaluate what works, communicate impact, and finalize implementation steps.

Dates: November 9-13, 2026

Location: Antlers Wyndham Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Registration: $1000 per person

SATI is a five-day immersive training designed for advocates, community leaders, and service providers who support Native survivors of sexual violence. Grounded in Indigenous knowledge and community-centered practice, the institute builds core advocacy skills while honoring cultural strengths, lived experience, and collective healing.

Foundations of Advocacy
Understanding Trauma
Supporting Sexual Assault Survivors
Inclusion and Self-Awareness
Systems, Response, and Justice

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What Participants will Gain

By the end of the institute, participants will be able to:

Articulate the historical and contemporary contexts shaping sexual violence against Native people.
Provide trauma-informed, culturally grounded advocacy across crisis, short-term, and ongoing support.
Perform safety planning that reflect survivor choice and cultural values.
Recognize advocate bias and implement strategies for self-reflection and accountability.
Navigate confidentiality, victim rights, and remedies in tribal and non-tribal systems.
Understand the forensic exam process.
Practice individual, organizational, and collective self-care to prevent burnout and sustain advocacy.
Apply transformative and tribal justice approaches that prioritize survivor healing and community safety.

Training Flow

Each day blends interactive learning, practice, and reflection. Sessions open with grounding, build core knowledge and skills, and close in circle to integrate learning, honor voice, and strengthen relationships.

Day 1: Foundations and Context

Day 2: Trauma, Safety, and Myth-Busting

Day 3: Inclusion, Bias, and Healing

Day 4: Systems, Forensic Response, and Crisis Work

Day 5: Voice, Rights, and Leadership

2027 Winter/Spring Training

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Dates: January 12-15, 2027

Location: Antlers Wyndham Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Registration: $700 per person

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This four-day institute prepares participants to design and lead training that does more than transfer information — training that helps people name their own reality, analyze it, and act on it. Grounded in the popular education tradition that correlates with Navajo teaching methods, the institute treats teaching as an act lsovereignty and the trainer as a facilitator of collective inquiry rather than an expert delivering content.

Who it's for

Organizers, educators, and staff who train others — whether you are new to facilitation or have been leading trainings for years and want to sharpen your method and reground your practice.

Day 1 — Foundations: ways people learn, the trainer as teacher, the role of the facilitator, training principles, and learning to question

Day 2 — Analysis: storytelling, teaching methods from survey through options for change, and extended practice with codes and tools for analyzing a problem

Day 3 — Craft and endurance: building modules, responding to hostility and resistance, trainer development, and trainer self-care

Day 4 — Integration: using training tools well, and pulling it all together into a training you can actually run

What participants take away

A working understanding of the five basic methods of teaching and how adults actually learn
Skill in problem-posing dialogue and critical questioning as a training method
Practical experience with incorporating the realitiies of survivors, theme selection, codes, and analysis tools
The ability to build training modules and structure a complete session or multi-day agenda
Concrete strategies for facilitating through resistance, discomfort, and conflict
Attention to the trainer's own voice, presence, and sustainability

Dates: February 15-19, 2027

Location: Antlers Wyndham Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Registration: $1000 per person

This comprehensive 40-hour training program is designed to equip domestic violence advocates with the critical skills, cultural knowledge, and practical tools needed to support survivors in Tribal communities. Rooted in traditional Indigenous beliefs and specifically tailored to address the historical context of violence against Native women, the curriculum blends foundational domestic violence education with advanced, community-centered advocacy strategies.

Through a five-day intensive format, participants will explore the complex dynamics of abuse, legal and federal paradigms, tailored support for diverse victim demographics, and methods for fostering both survivor healing and advocate wellness.

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Core Learning Areas

Foundations of Domestic Violence & Cultural Context
- The gendered nature of domestic violence and the historical context of violence against Native women.
- Understanding the Power and Control Wheel, unnatural life forces, and the survival skills victims utilize.
- Integrating traditional beliefs about nature and community into the advocacy framework.
Safety, Crisis Management, and Advocate Response
- Assessing dangerousness, focusing on high-risk factors like strangulation and stalking.
- Developing effective safety plans, initiating advocate responses, and overcoming resistance to safety.
- Navigating 911 calls, confidentiality, and the distinct roles of community-based versus system-based advocates.
Specialized Victim Support
- Understanding the unique needs of diverse survivor populations, including children, teenagers experiencing dating violence, male victims, and elders.
- Navigating mandatory reporting guidelines while maintaining a victim-centered approach.
Justice System Response
- Understanding key federal protections and jurisdictional frameworks, including the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA).
- Assisting survivors with civil protection orders and understanding Full Faith and Credit.
- Partnering effectively with the criminal justice system.
Transformative Justice & Advocate Wellness
- Exploring community-based justice, transformative justice models, and resource mapping to support comprehensive survivor healing.
- Strategies for managing vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue to ensure sustained, healthy advocate leadership.

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Dates: April 20-23, 2027

Location: Antlers Wyndham Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Registration: $800 per person

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This comprehensive four-day training is designed for advocates and professionals supporting families affected by domestic violence in Indian Country. The program provides a deep dive into the impact of domestic violence on children and teens, equipping attendees with the practical skills needed to foster resilience, safety, and healing.

Through a blend of historical context, cultural values, and advocate-focused strategies, participants will learn how to support both the child and the non-offending parent while navigating complex community and systemic partnerships.

The training takes place over four full days. Each day builds upon the previous one, featuring interactive sessions, collaborative advocacy practice, and closing circles to process the day's learning.

Key Learning Objectives & Themes:

Foundations and Cultural Context

The evolution of domestic violence in Indian Country; historical context as it relates to modern advocacy; integrating cultural values and beliefs about children into practice.

Trauma, Impact, and Resiliency

The prevalence and dynamics of domestic violence (power and control); trauma's effect on child development; understanding the offending parent's impact on youth; and identifying protective factors to strengthen recovery and resilience.

Direct Advocacy and Family Support

Strategies for strengthening the crucial bond between the non-offending parent and child; engaging children and youth in their own safety planning; providing emotional and social supports; and navigating age-appropriate conversations with children and teens.

Systems, Schools, and Community Response

Understanding how traumatic events impact learning; providing relevant advocacy within school systems; facilitating student engagement (e.g., Student Advisory Councils); navigating confidentiality, mandated reporting, and child protection; and building coordinated, cross-agency partnerships that prioritize child safety.

Advocate Sustainability

Recognizing and mitigating secondary trauma; the critical importance of self-care and building personal resources for sustainability in domestic violence advocacy.

Registration opening in December

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