HEALING TO ACTION NFP

Healing to Action’s (HTA) mission is to end gender-based violence (GBV), which includes domestic violence, sexual violence, psychological abuse, and other forms of violence based on a person’s gender, by building the leadership and collective power of the communities most impacted--immigrant, Black and brown, low-wage, low-income, disability, and LGBTQ survivors. HTA’s innovative model builds power within these marginalized communities and transforms the narrative of survivors from “victims” to critical leaders in the movement to end GBV. To achieve our mission, HTA: -Develops survivors’ leadership through our Healing Generations program, from which a powerful base of 30 survivor-leaders have graduated. -Supports dynamic grassroots campaigns to end GBV, developed and led by survivor-leaders. One example is SexEd Works, which addresses disparities in Chicago students’ access to comprehensive sex ed as a root cause of GBV. -Builds organizations’ capacity to mobilize survivor-led solutions through training & technical assistance. HTA has helped over two dozen organizations build their capacity to organize against GBV.