“When intimate partner violence drives maternal morbidity and mortality, survivor leadership isn’t optional; it’s essential. We help clinics, coalitions, and public agencies move from awareness to coordinated, trauma‑informed practice.” - Cassandra Aho

“What I needed most was for someone to listen, and believe that I could stay safe without leaving everything behind.”

— Survivor, birthing parent, community advocate

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Purpose‑Built Support for Organizations & Coalitions

We work alongside pregnant and birthing survivors, and the teams who serve them, to translate values into practice. Using survivor‑led, trauma‑informed strategies of the STARS Model, we help communities replace fragmentation with warm handoffs, privacy‑protective documentation, and clear, consent‑forward conversations.

Our stance is simple: autonomy and dignity are essential to safety. We support leaders and cross‑disciplinary partners to build coordination without coercion or surveillance so survivors can engage on their own terms.

Training and Workshops

Trauma‑informed, survivor‑centered training that helps clinical and community teams respond with presence and respect—reducing bias, avoiding coercion, and supporting survivor choice in real encounters.

Align everyday practice with survivor‑centered care

Systems Consultation

Support for Coordinated Community Response (CCR), leadership alignment, and protocol refinement—building warm handoffs, documentation guardrails, and shared language across partner organizations.

Resources and Tools

Survivor‑authored guides, frameworks, evidence-informed practical tools, scripts, workflow cues, and agreements that protect privacy and autonomy while improving access to care.

All services are grounded in the S.T.A.R.S. Framework, a survivor‑centered, trauma‑informed, advocacy‑focused, response‑coordinated, and data‑synchronous model that strengthens help‑seeking, reduces re-victimization, and expands equitable access to care.

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Survivor-Led Change | Systems consultation & training grounded in the S.T.A.R.S. Framework. We are not a direct crisis service.

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More resources: LGBT National Help Center, Ujima - The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community (resources & TA), NIWAP - National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (legal & benefits resources).

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