Black faith leadership has played a central role in encouraging, empowering, and informing Black communities throughout the pandemic. Now we have a vaccine. What is our faith requiring of us in this moment?
Watch this candid conversation about faith and medicine in this ever-evolving COVID moment.
WATCH NOW | FPWA commemorated Women’s History Month with a series of virtual conversations with three of the highest-ranking leaders in NYC government. With so much at stake as we come out of COVID, FPWA members, nonprofit and faith partners, and community members heard from women leaders in the Adams Administration about their leadership journeys, their visions for the city, and the plans that are underway to ensure a fair recovery for all New Yorkers.
While the height of the pandemic may be behind us, human services organizations continue to experience the impact of Covid-19. This three-part series aims to address some of the most common concerns that faith-based and community-based organizations are facing two years in; ensuring financial stability, leading, and managing through change, and avoiding employee burnout. Watch this three part series for tips, strategies, and an honest conversation around these challenging issues.
Join us this Fall for our 6 Foundational Trainings
Nonprofit and faith-based organizations play an integral role in supporting the needs of individuals and communities. Often, these needs stem from generational, interpersonal, systemic, and/or community trauma. To support organizations in addressing both the root causes and manifestations of trauma, FPWA offers a core set of capacity-building trainings, rooted in trauma-informed practices.
These free foundational trainings are available year-to-year and are open to both FPWA member and non-member organizations. The trainings are specifically designed to be relevant and applicable to staff at all levels and any type of role within a nonprofit or faith-based organization.
On January 11, 2023, FPWA hosted a virtual event with and State Senator Persaud and Assemblymember Rosenthal to push for changes to New York’s cash assistance programs.
At the event, FPWA shared and discussed their newest investigative report, Caught in the Gaps. FPWA also previewed their forthcoming advocacy efforts for 2023, which will include working with a statewide coalition to urge officials to adopt an array of solutions to improve cash assistance. Find out more at fpwa.org
Although everyone experiences stress, there is a point in which prolonged exposure to adversity can cross into trauma. Interpersonal violence, racism, systemic oppression, and/or persistent community neglect can lead to toxic stress and be experienced as traumatic. They can have severe and long-lasting negative effects on individuals and communities. This training breaks down the definition, prevalence and impact of toxic stress and trauma.
All human services organizations, regardless of their primary mission – legal services, foster care, elder care, mental health services, housing – can benefit from a trauma-informed approach. Many of the strategies and actions are free and can be effectively used by everyone at your organization.
During this training, learn what trauma-informed service delivery actually “looks like,” and walk away with specific strategies for “what you can do” and “what you can say” when working with individuals who have experienced trauma.
Every fall, FPWA highlights and addresses different sections of our “Trauma-Responsive Organization Checklist.” During this session, we will focus on Safety and Crisis Management.
In partnership with Vibrant Emotional Health, we will explore trauma-informed strategies and actions for crisis de-escalation that will ensure safer interactions between human services staff and participants. Attendees will have the opportunity to practice using the CAPE Model for crisis intervention with real-world examples.
Workplace stress has a negative effect on productivity and morale. Vibrant’s Staying in Balance workshop will help participants gain valuable skills and techniques for stress reduction and burnout prevention. The training also provides supervisors and other leaders with a long-range approach to addressing workplace stress.
We spend a third of our life at work and yet workplace relationships are the most neglected. Research shows that investing in our relationships at work increases an overall sense of well-being, belonging, and improves teamwork. All of these are important elements to prevent burnout, especially in the human services sector, where workers are constantly exposed to others' experiences of trauma and adversity. So why do we neglect these workplace relationships? In some cases, it's because the pace of the outcomes driven workplaces only leaves time for transactional interactions between peers. In this workshop, we’ll identify some of the barriers to creating inclusive culture. Case studies from Create Forward’s work in cultivating Thriving Cultures will offer practical strategies for strengthening community, connection, and belonging at work.
Registration is required.
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Landmark Report Finds Nearly Two-Thirds of New Yorkers Classified as Low and Middle Income Can’t Make Ends Meet and Urges City and State to be Guided by Mandated Measure of True Cost of Living Based in Dignity and Economic Security
The interactive open data dashboard helps you visualize and track the city budget, with a specific focus on the critical human services funding we rely on.
Don’t forget to also check out our new analysis
FPWA has recently been receiving claims from members of the public emailing and calling our offices that individuals posing as FPWA agents have contacted them claiming that in order for the recipient to claim grant monies from FPWA they must first send the agent personal information, a cell phone number, gift card codes or money.
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Further, FPWA does not make grants directly to individuals. FPWA works with its member agency partners and other reputable community-based organizations to direct support to families and individuals in our community.
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