Organizations & Institutions

When Institutions Understand Better, They Can Respond Better.

Bring an evidence-informed understanding of coercive control, financial coercion, and institutional response into your organization, professional community, or research.

Bring the Work Into Your Organization

You Made a Way works with organizations, professionals, researchers, and communities to strengthen understanding of coercive control, particularly when it becomes financial, and the systems and institutional responses that shape what happens next.

Our work draws on research, survivor experiences, and engagement with professionals and experts across disciplines to help translate what we know into stronger professional practice, policy, and institutional response.

Whether you are looking to educate professionals, bring these issues into an important conversation, or collaborate on research, we welcome opportunities to work together.

Ways to Work With Us

Professional Training

Bring evidence-informed education and training to your organization or professional community.

Training can be tailored to the needs and audience of your organization and may explore coercive control, financial coercion, institutional response, family court, and the cascading consequences that can follow when abuse becomes financial.

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Speaking Engagements

Bring these issues into conferences, panels, professional events, community conversations, and other important forums.

Speaking engagements can be tailored to the audience and setting, bringing research, survivor experiences, and a systems perspective to conversations about coercive control, financial harm, and institutional response.

Research Partnerships

Collaborate with You Made a Way on research that can deepen understanding and help strengthen policy and professional practice.

We welcome opportunities to work with researchers, universities, organizations, and other partners on projects related to coercive control, financial coercion, family court and other institutional responses, and the short- and long-term consequences for survivors.

Grounded in Research.
Informed by Experience.
Focused on Response.

Our work examines not only what coercive control looks like, but what happens when survivors encounter the institutions and systems that can shape their ability to leave, rebuild, and achieve long-term financial stability.

By bringing together research, survivor experiences, and perspectives from professionals and experts across disciplines, we work to advance an evidence-informed approach that can be translated into stronger policy and professional practice.

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Bring This Work to Your Organization

Every organization, audience, and project is different. Tell us what you're interested in bringing to your organization or community, who you're hoping to reach, and what you would like to accomplish. We'll be in touch to explore whether there may be a good fit.

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