Our final update for 2025

[Published December 2025]

TOWARDS THRIVING:

Your newsletter from

the Idaho Coalition Against

Sexual & Domestic Violence

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A Note for Our Beloved Communities:

We have wrapped up our 2025! Our team will be on Winter Break until Monday, January 5th. When we return to work in 2026, we will recap this year's highlights and reintroduce our staff.

If you need support or information during this time, please consider visiting our Get Help page for more local resources and national teams in our movement: www.IdahoCoalition.org/Get-Help

Housing Resource

Below is an overview of housing protections—it’s a snapshot of the federal requirements that impact our response to gender-based violence (such as domestic violence and sexual abuse) and housing here in Idaho, especially around confidentiality, immigration, and grant compliance.

We encourage you to reference this resource for any survivor-support questions about housing that come your way:

🔗 Check out this housing resource 🔗

Bruises to Boudoir: A Book for and by Survivors

Jana Jimenez is a survivor, a former boudoir photographer, and now a trauma-informed author. Jana has offered us a free PDF copy a survivor memoir and activity book, Bruises to Boudoir. We are welcome to share it with clients, staff, volunteers, interns, or anyone who might find comfort or strength in a survivor’s perspective. This book is a short, trauma-informed peek at surviving childhood abuse, navigating healing, and reclaiming and rebuilding one's life:

🔗 Click here to access this book by Jana Jimenez 🔗

The Safety Net Survivor's Guide to AI

Technology is evolving quickly, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming part of more and more everyday experiences. While AI does have the potential to save time and expand access to resources, these same tools can also introduce serious safety, privacy, and trust risks, especially for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, technology-facilitated abuse, and other forms of trauma. The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) shares more info:

🔗 Read this blog post about using AI by NNEDV 🔗

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