Acknowledgements
The toolkit was developed by RTI International and Futures Without Violence in collaboration with experts with professional and personal experience with economic empowerment programming for survivors. Iterations of the toolkit were tested with multiple economic empowerment programs to collect feedback on its utility, practicability, and relevance. The toolkit authors would like to thank our working group collaborators who lent their time and expertise to make this toolkit possible:
Barbie Brashear
Executive Director
Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council
Sandra Diaz
Director of Impact and Evaluation
Restore
Sharon Lim
Director of Survivor Programming
FreeFrom
Kim Pentico,
Senior Director of the Economic Justice Program
National Network to End Domestic Violence
Kiesha Preston
Director of Advocacy
First Person Perspective
Authors:
Rebecca Pfeffer, Samantha Charm, Shani Bacy, Lauren Mangum (RTI International)
Carolyne Ouya, Mary Beth Wilkinson, and Ana Van Balen (FUTURES)
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