Abby Wattenberg, MSSA, is Co-Director of the Michigan Victim Advocacy Network (MiVAN). In this role, she oversees outreach and evaluation, with a focus on translating research findings into understandable, accessible, and actionable data for community partners. Abby has been the project lead on a training series to bring the expertise of Michigan organizations serving underserved and historically marginalized populations to crime victim advocates statewide. This training series, called “Breaking Barriers,” addresses the challenges faced by survivors and offers advocates strategies for providing culturally-honoring, trauma-informed support.
Abby is also working with the MDHHS-DVS Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Survivors multi-year project. This project represents the first systematic, large scale effort to understand human trafficking in Michigan, with the aim of informing change to improve our collective response to human trafficking survivors.
