Topic Areas
This toolkit is organized around four main topic areas:
Participant Needs
This section has resources for gathering participant perspectives and feedback to inform programming and decision making.
Program Outcomes
This section has resources for thinking about ideal program outcomes and easy ways to measure them, which can be helpful for demonstrating program success.
Community Partnerships
This section has resources for identifying additional organizations and resources in your community that can support your program and participants and provides materials for initiating partnerships.
Staff Training
This section has resources to support training staff about basic principles of economic empowerment.
Each topic area has (1) a self-assessment to help program leaders and staff understand their program’s strengths and areas for growth, and (2) a number of resources that can support organizations around that topic such as fact sheets, discussion guides, directories of additional resources, and more.
Not sure where to get started?
Start with an assessment!
Self-Assessment: Understanding Participants’ Needs and Goals
This tool is for organization and/or program leaders administering economic empowerment programs and program staff who provide direct services. It may be useful in both crisis intervention and longer-term services.
Self-Assessment: Staff Training and Support
This tool is for organization and/or program leaders administering economic empowerment programs and program staff who provide direct services. It may be useful in both crisis intervention and longer-term services.
Self-Assessment Tool: Self-assessment Worksheet
This worksheet is designed to help create a graphic illustration of your program’s activities and intended effects. It documents how your program is supposed to work and guides you through the steps to develop this model. This model can be used as a starting point to help guide planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Self-Assessment Tool: Building Collaborations with Community-Based Partners
Building Partnerships and Collaborations with Workforce and Education Systems. The self-assessment tool will assist victim service agencies in identifying potential community partners.
