Casa de Esperanza (domestic violence shelter)

1. What was Casa de Esperanza’s approach for eliminating domestic violence in Latino communities? How did this approach and its organizational identity change? 2. What place did the organization fill within the greater domestic violence movement? 3. How did Casa de Esperanza inform its 2006 Strategic Planning process around increasing its impact on a national scale? Module 2 4. How did Casa bridge its national systems-change work with its local direct services? How did the organization integrate front-line knowledge into its services and national work? 5. What strategies did Casa use to increase its impact on a national level? What leadership skills/organizational assets were needed? 6. What role do professional relationships and networks play in providing avenues for implementation? 7. Why is it important for organizations to engage in policy work? In research work? Module 3 8. What strategies did Casa de Esperanza use to deal with the financial crisis? 9. What approach did its leadership take? 10. How did Casa’s leadership maintain mission-critical but underfunded work on a long-term basis? 11. What leadership skills were needed to lead Casa de Esperanza through its expansion into systems-change work? 12. Note how Casa’s leadership explained the crisis and accomplishments. What did the directors say? What didn’t they say?            

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