HEAL Resources

Pre-program data collection tools

The HEAL Project pre-program tools provide a comprehensive foundation to prepare peer researchers, facilitators, and service providers to deliver the HEAL Program safely, ethically, and effectively. These resources offer the knowledge, skills, and protocols needed to ensure trauma-informed and culturally responsive program delivery. Collectively, they strengthen preparedness, clarify roles, and support meaningful engagement with newcomer women survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.

Learning outcomes

By using the pre-program resources and tools, program teams and service providers will be able to:

Conduct ethics-informed, community-based research and facilitate participant engagement effectively.
Obtain informed consent while protecting participant privacy in all program activities.
Screen participants to ensure safe and appropriate program placement.
Use trauma-informed, culturally responsive approaches to outreach and recruitment.
Apply expressive arts techniques to support emotional expression and healing.
Connect participants to relevant safety, crisis, and social support resources.
Build trust and collaboration between participants, peer researchers, and program teams.