Who Are Advocates? A Deep Dive into our RAW Survey Data Short Reports
June 27, 2025, Mariam Hashimi
Learning about Advocates and their experiences… Over the course of 2024, RAFT’s Outreach and Engagement Manager, Mariam Hashimi, compiled and analyzed 482 responses to our Roadmap to Advocate ...
RAFT’s Journey: Embracing Diversity and Innovating for the Future
June 19, 2025, Joy Ingram
RAFT’s mission is “to cultivate human-centered workspaces through foundational wellness practices, resources, and training…” To do this, we first try to be an example of the positive workplace ...
Build a More Positive Workplace: 6 Ways to Create an Appreciative Mindset
June 10, 2025, Jeremie Miller
An appreciative mindset is an approach to thinking and problem-solving that encourages you to focus on positive experiences, strengths, opportunities, and potential – rather than dwelling on negative ...
Balancing Wellness: When Self-Care Becomes Self-Sabotage
May 30, 2025, Sophie Strachan
Often when we bring up self-care in our Building Blocks for Advocate Wellness Workshops, we are met with a variety of responses. Some are good, some are uncertain, ...
Overcome Shame: Harness Critical Awareness for Healing and Self-Empathy
May 20, 2025, Sophie Strachan
At some point in our lives, we have all faced feelings of shame. Whether it was because of a school bully, because we disappointed our parents, or because ...
How to Embrace the Right Kind of Failure in Your Organization
May 16, 2025, Jeremie Miller
As a team RAFT embraces the right kind of failures by using our #1 core vale: Fail. Learn. Grow. This is a process we follow when something goes ...
Cafe Chaos: Where Trauma is the Special of the Day Every Day
May 13, 2025, Joy Ingram
*CONTENT WARNING: this blog discusses multiple forms of trauma including childhood, adult, and vicarious trauma, gun violence, and domestic violence. As advocates we are programmed to help others. ...
Open Forum Summary: Presidential Executive Orders
April 15, 2025, Sophie Strachan
We want to thank the 40 advocates that attended the Open Forum. We are so grateful for your insight, and hearing from you helps us better understand how ...
What it Means to be an Advocate and a Survivor
April 8, 2025, Sophie Strachan
As unfortunate as it is, it is not uncommon to be a survivor of violence in the USA. It’s no different for advocates working in the SV/DV field. ...
7 Tools to Improve Connection and Community in Your Organization
March 31, 2025, Jeremie Miller
Since the re-election of Donald Tr*mp in November 2024, gender-based violence advocates have felt a growing heaviness. Now, three months into 2025, that weight has only intensified, and ...