PROGRAMS
Fostering Resiliency Services and Programs
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Parent Pathways
Classes
For parents and caregivers guiding their child through trauma, working toward reunification after running away, or parents of youth in foster care or of youth who have involvement in the juvenile justice system.
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VIBES Youth Program
Our Youth Program (VIBES) is for young people who have experienced trauma. While working 1 on 1 with our team receiving direct support, youth find their Voice in developing a sense of Belonging, Expressing their needs, and defining Safe people and places.
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Homeless & Runaway Youth Intervention
This program focuses on early intervention and support for homeless and runaway youth, focusing on collaboration with both youth and their families. Our goal is to enhance understanding and minimize the risk of system involvement, fostering safer and more stable environments.
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Training & Technical Assistance
Our grant-funded TTA program enables us to provide 16 hours of custom-tailored Training and Technical Assistance to other agencies and organizations looking to expand or implement services and screening related to trafficking. Contact us to learn more about this service.
ABOUT
All About the Fostering Resiliency Initiative
The Fostering Resiliency Programming was developed by AJR Executive Director and CoFounder, Savannah Sanders. Savannah built this Initiative over the course of her 15+ years working in the space of Trafficking Prevention.
Based on her own lived experience with trafficking in Phoenix, AZ, and the experiences growing up in rural communities that increased her susceptibility to trafficking and exploitation, she identified many gaps in service that plague rural areas and small towns.
After conducting many community needs assessments, and meeting with many local stakeholders in rural communities in Arizona, AJR was able to implement Savannah's Fostering Resiliency Initiative and Programs, and apply for OVC grant funding to expand implementation even further, to Yavapai County as a whole.
We are privileged and excited to offer Fostering Resiliency Programming to the Verde Valley, and surrounding areas in Yavapai County, and look forward to continued work with the many organizations we are partnered with, and refer to/from. If you or your organization are interested in any of the Programs and/or Trainings we offer, please reach out to us!
Savannah Sanders
Developer of Fostering Resiliency
APPROACH
Healing Community One Relationship at a Time
At the core of Fostering Resiliency is the belief that if trauma happens in a community, so too should healing. That's why FR is based on a public health model, to address and prevent trafficking and exploitation on all levels of the community: Individual, Community Service Providers, and within family units.
OUR STAFF
Survivor-led, Survivor-Centered
AJR Executive Director, Developer of Fostering Resiliency
Savannah Sanders
AJR Director of Programs
Amy Johnson
Prevention Specialist VIBES
Nell Faust
REACH (Resiliency Education and Advocacy for Community Health) is the community education piece of our Fostering Resiliency Initiative. Each month, AJR will offer an online webinar focusing on a different component of trafficking prevention in rural communities, as well as on a more broad scale.
We are able to offer these classes at no cost to your staff or organization, as part of our OVC grant-funded expansion. Our monthly Fostering Resiliency REACH webinars are intended for direct service providers and community stakeholders whose work has a probability of bringing them in contact with individuals who have experienced or are at increased risk of experiencing exploitation.
Each monthly class is offered in 2 separate time slots, one on Tuesday, and one on Thursday, to help accommodate schedules. The same material will be covered in each class, and you may jump in at any point during the year!
These webinars will break down and explore the unique vulnerabilities of individuals in small towns and rural areas, and how those vulnerabilities and risks may be mitigated through community, and transformational relationships.
To assist with our grant-required tracking, we do ask that you register each month to attend. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
The meeting link will pop up after your registration, but it will also be emailed to you the day prior to your selected time slot.
You may download the current module's email friendly flyer below, if you wish to distribute it intra-organizationally, or to another agency or organization that may benefit from these monthly webinars.
Monthly Online REACH Training Registration: CLICK/TAP HERE