Salus: A Welcome Series

Watch the Maryland Safe Futures Collaborative’s for a four-part webinar series welcoming you to the Salus community and diving into what it means to form a collective impact and the lessons learned along the way.

What is Collective Impact?

During this on-demand webinar, you’ll hear from Molly Knipe, Executive Director of YWCA of Anne Arundel County about:

    • What is a Collective Impact model and how YWCA, Mid-Shore Council on Family Violence, TurnAround, Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County and House of Ruth Maryland have partnered to collaborate, share resources and develop continuum of care models to identify and promote best practices
    • What prompted the project and the selection and role of YWCA as the backbone
    • What Safe Futures Maryland is looking to accomplish and how you can get involved
    • What Salus means and how you can access shared resources, concept papers and other materials from the Prevention, Response and Empowerment Centers

The Conceptualization of the Response Center

This webinar introduces the concept of the Response Center, led by TurnAround, Inc. Led by TurnAround, the Response Center’s mission is to provide crisis response once violence has occurred. The Response Center offers resources and best practices about successful models for shelter care. Topics include how to offer an effective front door for victims and first responders, how to support victims in crisis and strategies to ensure victims receive warm handoffs to safe house shelters or specialty care facilities.

During the webinar, you’ll learn how the Response Center has created programs to help:

    • Standardize best practices for client-centered crisis response
    • Explore and innovate 24/7 crisis response models
    • Improve warm handoffs through system-wide collaboration
    • Develop a common measurement framework for crisis response programs
    • Partner with organizations and services providers to apply the lessons learned from the response model to meet the needs of communities like yours

The Conceptualization of the Prevention Center


October 27, 2021 from 3:00-4:30 PM

Discover how the Maryland Safe Futures Collaborative has come together and the work it is doing to improve the processes and coordination of services to address intimate partner violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.

This webinar introduces the concept of the Prevention Center, led by the Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County. The Prevention Center’s mission is to stop violence before it begins by providing insights on early intervention programs designed to intercept or de-escalate violence and build the capacity of individuals and families to regulate their emotions and behaviors without violence.

During the webinar, you’ll learn how the Prevention Center:

    • Addresses root causes and works to establish increased resources and easier access to foundational needs like housing, education, employment and healthcare
    • Forms effective community partnerships to increase access points for engagement and broaden the range of services beyond crisis
    • Helps organizations and service providers apply the lessons learned from the prevention model to meet the needs of communities like yours

The Conceptualization of the Empowerment Center

Discover how the Maryland Safe Futures Collaborative has come together and the work it is doing to improve the processes and coordination of services to address intimate partner violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.

This webinar introduces the concept of the Empowerment Center, led by the Mid-Shore Council on Family Violence. The mission of the Empowerment Center is to offer best practices on post-crisis services that support and empower survivors on their journey to improve self-sufficiency and break the cycle of violence in families. The Empowerment Center shares frameworks of how you can achieve these models in your communities.

During this webinar, you’ll learn:

    • Best practices in aftercare that initiate once a victim is stabilized and serve to improve self-sufficiency and break the cycle of violence
    • How to leverage information gathered through client feedback and focus groups to shape the programs and services you offer
    • Ways to develop strategic partnerships with community organizations and meet the diverse needs of victims in your communities despite limited resources
    • How to create an empowerment program that meets the flexible and evolving needs of victims and the funding required to support these efforts

Salus is a network designed to build connection and collaboration between everyone working to promote peace and support the health and safety of communities. Salus is a program created by Maryland Safe Futures Collaborative.

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