About – SWIWC

The Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition (SWIWC) is a statewide tribal domestic violence (DV) and sexual assault (SA) coalition serving the Tribes in Arizona. Primarily through training and technical assistance, SWIWC works to increase the capacity of tribal communities to better address and respond to the domestic and sexual violence occurring in their communities. SWIWC also works at a systemic level to increase the safety, justice and healing of any person that has been a victim of domestic and/or sexual violence.SWIWC is funded under a grant from the Office on Violence Against Women, Department of Justice.

SWIWC is funded under a grant from the Office on Violence Against Women, Department of Justice.  Currently, SWIWC has a staff of three, and operates via virtual offices..

 

Who We Are

Meet the Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition (SWIWC) staff, Council of Women, and LGBTQ Advisory Council,  Visit SWIWC to connect with us.  

LGBTQ Advisory Council

Mission Statement: To educate, support, and empower Native communities to increase awareness, safety, understanding, healing, justice, and resources for the LGBTQ community.  For more information and to seek specific LGBTQ training please visit LGBTQ Resources

Training and Technical Assistance

Training and technical assistance is offered statewide. With a variety of topics ranging from domestic and sexual violence, stalking, sex trafficking, teen dating violence and LGBTQ 101.  Faculty and/or staff provides interactive, culturally competent and based on best practices training. For more information please contact our office via Email. 

Resources

Our resources links you to Native victim advocates and programs, including LGBTQ resources. You can also find general information on domestic and sexual violence.  Resources

Become a Member

Membership is for those who wish to support and participate in the movement to end DV/SA violence against women and children and/or who provide services to victims/survivors of DV and/or SA in Arizona’s tribal communities.  Become a Member.

Support Our Work

With limited funding, and to continue our work to end violence against Native women, children and all our relations, we ask for support in donating to our program to continue our focus on training, technical assistance, increasing capacity for justice, safety and accountability, and also developing meaningful partnership and relationships to other organization who support our work. Support Our Work

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This project was supported by Grant No. 2019-IW-AX-0108 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), United States Department of Justice (USDOJ). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author (s) and do not necessarily reflect thethe views of the OVW, USDOJ.
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