Victory Garden Sanctuary
Restore. Renew. Rebirth.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Survivor Leadership who help support the most vulnerable to human trafficking victims, many times need extra care for their own mind, body, soul health. And all Survivor Leaders, no matter what field they operate in, need support, burn out becomes a very real thing. Our retreats offer them the chance to reconnect to themselves. Our camp out business model will provide, safe spaces for victims after rescue & a chance to work 1 on 1 with facilitators to create coping skills immediately after trauma. All of our spaces that are listed as fundraisers for people to come and stay allows us to fundraise for our own entity creating sponsorship funds to host individual victims in a safe space & survivor leaders to experience retreat. Eventually, we want to become an employer or mentor for survivors to create a mechanism for their own livelihood with the business model we are creating.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Freedom Sanctuary
Freedom Sanctuary works with Survivor Leadership by providing opportunities for healing for those working with victims escaping trafficking and cults. Our role is to provide a launch pad for their future by offering a quiet space for contemplation & rest. Along with practical actionable steps to continued therapy and healing modalities, as well as skills & career education as an entrepreneur or in a survivor owned business.
All Time Healing
Workshop: Parts of 'SELF' separate during trauma & that helped us survive. Now we need to unravel that survival mechanism, reconnecting dimensionally.
The trauma you are healing from didn't happen overnight. Healing comes in cycles. You have to be patient with the process.
Knowing that you are taking action steps on the daily towards your goal, will allow you to relax into healing and allow it to happen.
Small easy action steps, added slowly into your life, over time, will help create new stories.
Your mystical/ spiritual Starseed & Empaths purpose/path will UNFOLD as you begin to take action! Action is Magick!
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We provide more than a space for Survivor Leadership. Quiet Retreat Space Nature's Beauty Nutritional Food Sound Healing with Music & Movement Multimodal Therapies Introspective Business Think-Tank Decompressions Education Activation Practice
We provide a way to fund our own enterprises. We want to become a safe space for victims, a business model for survivors to make a living & a retreat space for continued support & healing.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Victory Garden Sanctuary measures success with several key metrics including; attendance of holistic healing practices, personal goals assessments at the beginning of the retreat & their experience after, other metrics such as their personal growth after retreat, their ability & fortitude to continue to work in the HT arena & expand personal modalities they can offer to others.
Our goal is to serve 24 survivors in 2023.
We measure organizational success by the support received both in-kind and donations, volunteer time, and increased capacity to care for those in need.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a fully functioning glamping set up with protocols for all levels of anticipated engagement, insurance, security, volunteers, therapists, and more.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
2017-2018 Housed 7 Second Generation ex-Cult Members
2018 Received IRS Status in April 2018 (EIN: 82-4158233)
2019 Hosted Survivor Business Retreat for 20 Survivor Leaders
2020 Hosted Survivor Business Retreat for 10 Survivor Leaders & Hosted 4 Survivors of Human Trafficking for safe space
2021 Secured Land for Survivor Leadership Retreats
2022 Building our team for the Retreats & fundraising
2023 Launching Blossom 1st Annual Survivor Leadership Retreat serving 11 survivors so far
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Operations
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Victory Garden Sanctuary
Board of directorsas of 05/09/2023
Monique Ana
Victory Garden Sanctuary
Term: 2021 - 2023
Kimberly Tyler
Jodie Albitz
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.