leadership

Hello!

My name is Gina Battani, MPA, BSN, RN.

For nearly two decades working as a registered nurse, I have led with advocacy and servant leadership. Iowa Foundation for Resilient Communities values respect for people, inspires community engagement, speaks to lived experience, and empowers social change.

A passion for gender equality, human connection, and positive change is how I adapt and persevere in the face of adversity. Iowa Resilient Communities honors the daily grind, the grit, and the grace it takes to RISE Beautiful™.

After navigating Iowa’s criminal justice system as a victim of sexual assault and domestic abuse assault, I discovered my call to action; to organize, develop, and implement solutions to building safer gender-equitable, and inclusive spaces free of gender-based violence., drive social action, and foster greater community resilience.

community engagement

Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Abuse

Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault

Iowa Coalition for Collective Change

NAACP Legal Redress Committee

National Alliance on Mental Illness

Iowa Department of Public Health

Disability Rights of Iowa

Civil and Human Rights Commission

Our How

Our Collaboration

Our Goals

Improve awareness of the full impact gender violence has on survivors and communities.

Develop partnerships that promote collaboration and strengthen trust among survivors and the community.

Solicit feedback from survivors and the community’s perspective on the strengths, challenges, and gaps when it comes to the needs of survivors, familie

Improve awareness of the full impact gender violence has on survivors and communities.

Develop partnerships that promote collaboration and strengthen trust among survivors and the community.

Solicit feedback from survivors and the community’s perspective on the strengths, challenges, and gaps when it comes to the needs of survivors, families, and the community.

Apply research from community assessments to develop policy and implement strategies that foster greater community resilience.

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Our Goals

Our Collaboration

Our Goals

State law will close the marital rape loophole and include psychological abuse to the definition of domestic abuse, and increase funding for community organizations.

Communities will feel seen and heard through our actions that are aimed to address the full impact of gender violence.

Agencies will adopt a comprehensive policy with clear a

State law will close the marital rape loophole and include psychological abuse to the definition of domestic abuse, and increase funding for community organizations.

Communities will feel seen and heard through our actions that are aimed to address the full impact of gender violence.

Agencies will adopt a comprehensive policy with clear and comprehensive procedures for trauma-informed, victim-centered, and multidisciplinary response.

Law enforcement response to intimate partner violence consistently applied will be:

Equitable

Effective

Professional

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Our Collaboration

STAKEHOLDERS

Organizations or individuals in the community who are responsible for joining together to foster effective prevention of and intervention in gender violence and/or responsible for housing and caring for incarcerated women with a history of intimate partner violence.

AGENCIES

Including, but not limited to police departments, sher

STAKEHOLDERS

AGENCIES

Including, but not limited to police departments, sheriffs’ offices, campus police and security, tribal police, state police, and correctional facilities.

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OUR VISION

We believe we have neglected to see the full impact gender violence & intimate partner violence has on our community. We need survivors of abuse to feel that we care about them and acknowledge what happened to them is wrong and our prevention strategies & polices are here to protect them and our community is here to support them. We need to acknowledge the connection between human dignity & humiliation and how this leads to gender violence.

OUR VALUES

OUR VISION

Values:

RESPECT for people.

INSPIRE community engagement. SPEAK lived experiences to enact social change.

EMPOWER individuals & marginalized communities to rise.

OUR WHY

OUR VISION

OUR WHY

We believe in policy, prevention & community engagement to address the full impact gender violence has on individuals, families, and our communities.