Mar 6, 2020
Karen Gonzalez is the Founder and Executive Director of Helping Hands Resource Center, which provides services to survivors of domestic violence, including humanitarian basic services, a children’s program, parenting education, violence prevention programs, and custom workshops tailored to the specific needs of the Helping Hands client community. A survivor herself, Karen began her own Echo Training in 2014. She is an Echo-certified Trauma Informed Parent Educator and Domestic Violence Advocate. When we spoke she shared her journey from arrival with her children at a domestic violence shelter, to her own first steps toward healing, to the joyful life she lives now in service to other survivors. I’m so proud to know Karen and to call her a friend, and I hope you find joy and inspiration in hearing her story.
This episode was recorded for the Echo Training 2020 Conference And Still We Rise: Survivors Becoming Empowered, on March 11th and 12th at The California Endowment Center for Healthy Communities in downtown Los Angeles.
Listeners who hear this before March 11, 2020 can learn more and register to attend the conference at the Echo Training website, at echotraining.org.
Hi-res photos and bios for all Echo 2020 speakers, facilitators, and presenters can be found here: https://www.echotraining.org/conf2020-bios-2/
***WARNING***
This podcast contains graphic conversations about trauma, rape, and
sexual violence.