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SUMMARY:Webinar: Personal Safety in Practice: Navigating Risk, Racism, an
 d Violence in Frontline Work
DESCRIPTION:-- Webinar Description: --\n\nFrontline and outreach workers 
 regularly navigate complex and unpredictable environments where personal
  safety is shaped not only by immediate physical risks, but also by syst
 emic factors such as racism, misogyny, and other forms of structural vio
 lence. This workshop offers a practical, grounded approach to understand
 ing and responding to these realities in day-to-day work. Participants w
 ill build skills in recognizing early warning signs, assessing risk in d
 ynamic situations, and implementing preventative safety strategies that 
 are both effective and contextually responsive. The session also creates
  space to examine how identity and power impact safety, and how workers 
 can make informed decisions that prioritize both personal well-being and
  ethical, client-centred care. Through real-world scenarios and applied 
 strategies, this training equips participants with tools to enhance situ
 ational awareness, set boundaries, de-escalate potential conflict, and n
 avigate challenging interactions with greater confidence.\n\n-- Instruct
 or: Meenakshi Mannoe --\n\nInstructor Bio: Meenakshi lives on the unce
 ded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh 
 (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, in Vancouver, B.
 C. She has served as a staff trainer and campaigner at Pivot Legal Socie
 ty, and has worked frontline as an outreach and social worker for over 2
 0 years.
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