Resilience and Trauma: How Community Advocates Do Their Work

• In Event: 40821 - Community and Urban Sociology Section Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 minute): Table 1. Community Response to Collective Harm

Abstract

The goal of this project is to look at the experiences and motivations of people working in Community Advocacy positions. This piece will focus on people working in Domestic Violence prevention and intervention. This paper explores what motivates people to work in these emotionally trying environments even in the face of a political climate that is unsupportive. In addition, this paper illuminates the personal and professional struggles that people in this field face.

Author

• Maserati Swanagan Hamilton, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque