A 30-minute interview with Director of Economic Justice & Survival Programs, Lorena Kourousias, about how they developed a culturally-specific economic program for Latinx immigrant survivors.

Chapter Breaks & Highlights!
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2:45: Purpose & Overview: Meet Lorena and learn about Arte Sanando’s Five Phases.
6:15: Bringing a Systems Lens: How Arte Sanando brings a systems-thinking approach to financial education with Latinx survivors, including mapping and strengths-based skill building.
10:30: The Power of Community: How Arte Sanando organizes community markets that get survivors’ resource but also create “communities of possibility.”
14:30: Lessons Learned in Culturally Specific Economic Advocacy: How they evolved from a mainstream financial literacy program to a tailored, and culturally specific program for Latinx, immigrant survivors in NYC.
19:30: Building Partnerships: Strategies to partnership building and lessons learned, including:  investing time up front, ensuring shared values and mutually uplifting of each others' work, and networking.
24:13: Arte Sanando's Approach to Multilevel Advocacy: Linking individual healing to community solidarity to systems change through story-telling.
26:30: Making Time to Reflect: Strategies to reflect on impact, to make changes, and to connect with staff, partners, and survivors.
28:56: What's working? What's Next? From worker coops to shifting language and meaning.

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