Current Work Plan

2025 Work Plan Activities

• Develop pilot of restorative justice responses for people affected by domestic and sexual violence.

• Improve coordination and effectiveness of community responses for and prevention of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People and their families.

• Utilize case reviews, audits, and case consultations to identify strengths and areas for improvement to community responses in sexual assault and intimate partner violence cases.

• Enhance understanding of and responses for criminalized survivors through providing professional training and developing a road map for survivors.

• Collaborate with Whatcom County courts and aligned professionals to improve access to justice for survivors in civil and family law cases, focusing particularly on language access and disability access.

• Develop a healthcare screening and response project to identify and connect survivors with community support, doing research, developing tools, and identifying partners.

• Collaborate with workplaces, faith communities, schools, and media to provide training and tools for responding to domestic violence and sexual assault in ways that support survivors.

• Provide local data, tools, training, guidance, and subject matter expertise for systems and stakeholders to increase knowledge, influence decision making, and improve prevention and responses. 

• Use public health framework to broaden understanding of the dynamics and effects of sexual and domestic violence, and community responsibility for addressing collectively.

• Participate in and support aligned efforts throughout Whatcom County, to ensure needs of survivors are considered and addressed in conjunction with other public health issues.

• Host engaging Commission meetings to provide education and implement meaningful action for systems change.