Elevate | Uplift
Elevate | Uplift
A Collaboration in Changing Practices and Supporting Healing
Elevate|Uplift is an equal partnership of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition, The National Organization of Asian Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, and the Resource Sharing Project supported by the Office on Violence Against Women.
Elevate|Uplift is built on the foundation of lessons learned from the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative, a multi-year national project that helped community-based organizations strengthen services for survivors of sexual violence. Elevate | Uplift deepens and broadens that work by offering survivor-serving organizations the opportunity to explore these lessons learned with us.
Elevate|Uplift acknowledges that the sexual violence field has historically centered some survivors and not others and challenges organizations to expand their vision to the entire of spectrum of survivors of sexual violence.
Elevate|Uplift engages with organizations to change their practices and understanding of healing and offers a variety of learning opportunities to address
- Empowering leadership
- Knowledge of sexual violence across the lifespan and throughout the healing journey
- Organizational identity
- Racism and other forms of oppression
Elevate | Uplift
Guiding Principles
Elevate | Uplift will guide our work based on the following principles:
- We acknowledge that sexual violence and anti-racism work is not easy, but is essential. We are collectively committed to doing this work with deep integrity and we maintain grounding in our guiding principles. We believe that processes are as meaningful as outcomes and recognize that working in partnership leads to good advocacy work. We stand committed to each other and ourselves.
- As a people of many people, connected by the threads of our values, we will continue to do the work needed to grow, explore, and learn from one another. We will do this work rooted in love—connecting our threads of truth and respect, being accountable to having each other’s backs, and with the bravery to call each other out and call each other in, in times of need.