Building Advocacy Relationships with Resistive and Reluctant Caregivers

This session will guide advocates to dive deeper into the relationships that they have with social services and law enforcement alongside the families they serve in the advocacy role. We will discuss the implications and intersectionality of “non-compliant” caregivers throughout a criminal case and/or child maltreatment investigation. The training will share the advocacy perspective rooted in the work of Ellen Pence and the Advocacy Learning Center, bridging grassroots work of domestic violence to the child advocacy center field. Participants will learn how to better advocate for caregivers labeled as non-compliant, resistive, or reluctant.