American systems are perpetuating inequities and trauma. “In New York, we have mothers who are reporting, and the term we use is that they are then double abused — they are abused by their partners, and then they are abused by the system which is supposed to help them,” said David Shalleck-Klein, executive director and founder of the Family Justice Law Center in New York. “It’s paternalistic and based on generalized stereotyping and biases against survivors of domestic violence. We say to them, ‘You allowed yourself to be abused, so we can’t trust you.’” Systems have far-reaching impacts on wellbeing, which begs the question: what can they do — and do differently — to better serve survivors?
The Full Frame Initiative
Non-profit Organizations
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We're building a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing
About us
The Full Frame Initiative is a social change nonprofit working toward a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing—the needs and experiences essential for health and hope. We partner with a growing cohort of pioneering public systems, communities and nonprofits across the country to fundamentally transform the structures and beliefs that perpetuate poverty, violence and oppression. We are bold, mission-focused, creative and committed learners and are willing to use our passion, humor and hope to fuel change. We’re working toward one goal: a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing. That’s our North Star. We don’t all have a fair shot at wellbeing because racism, sexism, homophobia and additional otherings are baked into our systems and our country. This creates fast tracks to wellbeing for some and dramatically reduces access for others. The system is rigged and the solution isn’t to create more programs for people harmed by these same unfair systems. The solution is to reimagine these systems to make our country fairer and more equitable for everyone. That means ensuring that the places where we work, live, play and pray tap into people’s universal drive for wellbeing, instead of undermining wellbeing for some and enabling it for others. That’s what we do. Every day, the Full Frame Initiative is: - Challenging the narratives that drive us apart and hold problems in place - Reimagining our country’s most complex and inequitable systems - Supporting institutions in shifting toward wellbeing, equity and transformation - Fostering unlikely alliances that spark movement – not programs - Uplifting what’s possible so access to wellbeing becomes the norm - And more
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External link for The Full Frame Initiative
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Greenfield, MA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2007
- Specialties
- Full Frame Approach, Social Justice, Community-based Interventions, Human Service Programs, and Systems Change
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308 Main St.
Suite 2A
Greenfield, MA 01301, US
Employees at The Full Frame Initiative
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Jessica Lee
Generating resources for systems change
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Gary Anderson
Producing Artistic Director at Plowshares Theatre Company
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Sandra Ambrozy
Fellow - Civil Legal Justice - Urban Institute and Full Frame Initiative
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Sean Goode
🔴 TED Speaker| Community Servant| Mindset Coach| Consultant| Choose Yourself| Right Here-Right Now
Updates
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In 2014, we worked with survivors across California to ask an overlooked question: how do survivors define success? What we found challenged many basic assumptions of the domestic violence field, and highlighted important opportunities to strengthen systems’ response across the state and nationwide. This #WellbeingWednesday, we're sharing a new case study from a partnership between FFI and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that brought together domestic violence practitioners across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to support the full experience of survivors. The case study highlights how these agencies are leveraging wellbeing to align domestic violence services with survivors' vision of success. By centering wellbeing and partnering with survivors, our partners are moving toward co-creating change in the lives of survivors as well as in the system itself.
Domestic violence agencies partner to reimagine survivor success
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Every October, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Domestic Violence Awareness Project coordinate a theme for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This year's theme, "Heal, Hold & Center," aligns with FFI's philosophy that we are all hardwired for wellbeing, but racism, sexism and other inequities baked into our systems mean that we don't all have the same access to wellbeing. Learn more about this year's framing: “For DVAM and beyond, the Domestic Violence Awareness Project calls on us to Heal, Hold & Center survivors, especially those navigating anti-Blackness and other systems of oppression. We know there is no survivor justice without racial justice. We must work together to embrace the many cultural ways we can heal from violence and oppression, hold space for survivors, and center those most marginalized in all of our efforts to end domestic violence.”
How can I center healing justice for survivors in my DVAM efforts?
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The #DVCounts survey is instrumental in raising awareness about domestic violence and the important work of advocates. The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)'s DV Counts survey tells the story behind the statistics: of survivors who reached out, and of the advocates who were there to support them. Learn more: NNEDV.org/DVCounts
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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and this #WellbeingWednesday we're highlighting the NO MORE Foundation's State Voting Guide for Survivors. Voting impacts every aspect of our wellbeing and domestic violence survivors face significant barriers. The guide provides information to help survivors and their loved ones navigate the voting process safely. There is also state-specific information on programs and voting options that can help protect survivors' privacy when voting. The NO MORE Foundation is comprised of the largest coalition of nonprofits, corporations, government agencies, media, schools, and individuals addressing domestic and sexual violence. Learn more about the guide and their other resources by visiting their website.
Hidden Barriers: Domestic Violence and Obstacles to Voting
nomore.org
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Thank you to everyone who attended our Climate Week NYC session on Wellbeing Through Climate Adaptation! It was a joy and a privilege to share the floor with such an illustrious group of co-presenters. Stay tuned for updates on the connections between climate and wellbeing as this area of FFI's work develops. Many thanks to our co-presenters: Jainey Bavishi with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Janelle Kellman, Esq. (She/Her) from the The Center for Sea Rise Solutions, Juan Camilo Osorio Botero from the Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, Walter Rodríguez Meyer, PLA from Local Office Landscape and Urban Design and FFI Senior Fellow john Shapiro!
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The Full Frame Initiative reposted this
I'm sitting with a post I'd intended for last weekend, but watching #HurricaneHelene's impact on lives (human and otherwise), the floods in Tibet and throughout the globe and more-- just in the last few days-- reminds me how perverse it is to just celebrate #ClimateWeekNYC, when the reason so many of us gathered there is because we need to act. Now. And we don't have to do it in a way that pits us against nature-- the only way we're going to make sustainable change is by working with what should be apparent to all of us: we are part of nature. Our continuing to "other" nature is the core of our challenge. Even #naturebasedsolutions that treat nature as something to be harnessed to help humans (vs. a way of working with, not against, nature) need to be reexamined. Clearly, there's growing recognition of this. Last Tuesday, I was delighted to share how consideration of the #wellbeing of people and the #wellbeing of planet are interconnected. introducing #Wellbeing Through Climate Adaptation with Walter Rodríguez Meyer, PLA, john Shapiro, Jainey Bavishi, Janelle Kellman, Esq. (She/Her), and Juan Camilo Osario. Recording available soon. In the meantime, thanks to City Club of New York, Pratt Institute, The Center for Sea Rise Solutions and of course The Full Frame Initiative for sponsoring this event. And let's all do something today that shifts us towards our connection with #nature.
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Racism and othering are embedded into our systems – and our homelessness response system is no different. Kudos to agencies in Arizona who are analyzing how the questions that are asked on intake forms are resulting in racial disparities in housing. They hope to end this trend by asking better questions and taking a approach that is more aligned with wellbeing.
When Homelessness Intake Forms Lead to Racial Disparities in Housing
nextcity.org
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Government assistance programs such as EBT (sometimes known as food stamps) often come with significant administrative burdens and tradeoffs for people accessing these benefits. This #WellbeingWednesday, we're highlighting Code for America's work toward building a human-centered food assistance program. Using automation and trust, the Summer EBT program reduced barriers by automatically issuing benefits to families with children. The project also included an easy-to-use, online self-service portal so families could access information about their benefits without needing to reach out to agency staff.
Building on Summer EBT's Promise for Human-Centered Food Assistance — Code for America
codeforamerica.org
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Learn more about our Founder & CEO, Katya Fels Smyth, her big picture thinking and the science-backed wellbeing framework that underlies our work on the Purist blog.
Katya Fels Smyth’s Big Picture Thinking - The Purist
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