Vera House Basics
This Vera House statement describes the future the organization is working toward: “A world free of violence and abuse."
What is the Vera House vision?
According to Day 1, all client information is confidential unless there is written permission, a court subpoena that cannot be quashed, or a safety-related exception.
What is Vera House confidentiality policy?
This was defined as any action that hurts, humiliates, causes fear, or forces another person to do something against their will.
What is abuse?
Day 2 teaches that in harassment situations, this matters more than intention.
What is impact?
This was defined as the response to a deeply distressing event that overwhelms someone’s ability to cope and diminishes their sense of self.
What is trauma?
These are three major Vera House service areas named in the Day 1 training: clinical, advocacy, shelter and education
What are Vera House core services?
These are the three major exceptions named in the training
What is suspected child abuse or neglect, intent to harm self, and intent to harm others?
This Day 2 concept was taught with the acronym FRIES: freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, and specific.
What is consent?
These workplace conditions were named as factors that support sexual harassment.
What are power disparities, isolated workspaces, weak leadership response, and harmful norms?
confusion or fragmented memory, hypervigilance, irritability, shutdown, changing decisions quickly, or difficulty identifying needs.
What are signs of trauma?
someone who represents the agency, its values, mission, and can communicate this to others
What does it mean to be an ambassador?
If a client begins disclosing possible child abuse or neglect, staff should explain this role before continuing and gathering needed information.
What is being a mandated reporter?
Without support or intervention, the continuum of intimate partner violence says the violence usually does this.
What is get worse or escalate?
This phrase describes harassment by someone who may not be your supervisor or coworker but still affects the workplace environment.
What is third-party harassment?
The four Rs teach that a trauma-informed approach
realizes trauma, recognizes signs, responds by integrating knowledge, and resist retraumatization
This activity helped participants reflect on overlapping identities and how they shape lived experience, power, privilege, and oppression.
What is the Power Flower activity?
This term was defined as an unearned advantage based on identity, often invisible to the person who has it.
What is privilege?
Fear, shame, guilt, concern about children and family, economic issues, and community response were all listed as these.
What are barriers to safety or barriers to reporting/change?
The spectrum of sexual misconduct at work depends on these three context clues.
What is situation, relationship history, and tone of delivery or non-verbal actions?
Intergenerational Trauma is...
when people who have experienced or witnessed trauma have not had an opportunity to heal from that trauma and it is transferred to the next generation and can also be transferred to subsequent generations
Vera House 24/7 hotline number
(315) 468-3260
This Day 1 concept warns against helping in order to feel good about yourself, crossing boundaries, or centering yourself over the client.
What is saviorism?
This tool explains abuse through tactics like intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, using children, economic abuse, and minimizing or blaming.
What is the Power and Control Wheel?
Between FY 2018 and FY 2021, this percentage of sexual harassment charges in the EEOC data was filed by women.
What is 78.2 percent?
Compassion Fatigue is....
The emotional and physical exhaustion that results from caring for others, especially those experiencing trauma, pain, or suffering.