HolyElk Lafferty

• Provide confidential, community-based advocacy for victim/survivors of sexual violence and assault.
• Provide direct services and support for victim/survivors during Forensic Exams alongside the SANE nurses.
• We currently respond in-person to 9 hospitals within Hennepin, Scott & Carver Counties but also provide follow up care and services to victim/survivors that receive services outside of those designated hospitals as needed.
• Facilitate and respond to the 24/7 Crisis line on scheduled rotating shifts throughout each week.
• Provide staff back-up for Medical Advocacy and Crisis line on a rotation schedule.
• Provide follow up and support for all survivors with whom there has been phone or in- person contact via case management, continuing care and referrals as necessary.
• Provide 1:1 counseling sessions with survivors. I have been able to increase client retention and manage a steady base of at least 8-10 clients consistently. The clients I work with are in varying stages of their experiences from the time of forensic exams to reporting previous or recent sexual trauma. We work together in these sessions to do emotional processing, identify goals and resources in legal, social, mental health, physical health and emotional health areas, among any other areas they are seeking support in.
• I work closely and consistently with each client to identify options available to them in their pursuit of justice and healing.
• I meet and receive them where they are in their journey and we work together towards what each client determines they want to accomplish.
• Provide support in filing HRO/OFP’s (Harrassment Restraining Orders & Orders For Protection).
• Provide legal advocacy to victim/survivors during court trials, OFP/HRO petition hearings, and/or victim impact statements.
• Facilitate follow up and communication with law enforcement and investigators assigned to criminal cases regarding sexual violence reports.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate and confidential files for all client contacts. I am proficient in the Vela Advocacy Management platform and in ensuring proper documentation of services in the Vela client database..
• I am responsible for and uphold maintaining safe documentation per requirements of protecting client privacy and safety
• Participate in initial training for new volunteer advocates. I facilitate a portion of the 40 hour volunteer training that is specific to educating our volunteers in how to best support the unique needs of the Native American/Indigenous survivor population we serve in our communities. I teach from a perspective of how and where our services intersect with and can have a positive impact in the MMIP epidemic.
• Maintain Victim Service Provider credentials by completing annual professional development requirements.
• Attend all scheduled agency and department meetings.
• Rotating schedule of meeting facilitation and note taking.
• Build and grow connections with similar organizations focused on providing services to survivors in our communities
• I was recently able to coordinate a collaboration between our organization and Noojimo to honor and celebrate survivors through a “Take Back the Night” event. The event was canceled due to extreme weather but the experience of relationship building with the Noojimo advocates was the true reward. We have plans to reschedule the event but have not been able to do so as of yet
• Perform other duties as assigned/or requested.

• Enables patients to stay in their homes by monitoring and recording patient condition, providing support and personal services, and teaching families.
• Monitors patient condition by observing physical and mental condition, intake and output, and exercise.
• Supports patients by providing housekeeping and laundry services, shopping for food and other household requirements, preparing and serving meals and snacks, and running errands.
• Assists patients by providing personal services, such as, bathing, dressing, and grooming.
• Helps patients care for themselves by teaching use of cane or walker, special utensils to eat, special techniques and equipment for personal hygiene.
• Helps family members care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient.
• Advises on nutrition, cleanliness, and housekeeping.
• Records patient information by making entries in the patient journal and notifying nursing supervisor of changing or unusual conditions.
• Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy patient environment by following asepsis standards and procedures, maintaining security precautions, and following prescribed dietary requirements and nutrition standards.
• Protects the home care agency by adhering to professional standards, home care policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements.
• Enhances service reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests, and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

• I was a member of the Mellon Environmental Stewardship Cohort, which is an Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative. Over a period of three years, the IAS established and sustained a network of UMN-system scholars and community partners who focused on:
• Creating collaborative work that centers on culturally informed community engagement and place-based knowledge, which promotes responses to environmental challenges and new learning rooted in the unique local conditions, history, environment, culture, economy, literature and art;
• Developing new curricula that integrate diverse ways of knowing and inclusion of Indigenous research methodologies and concepts of environmental stewardship within the humanities;
• Encouraging Indigenous and other underrepresented students to see themselves included in the academy, demonstrating the value of studying the humanities and arts for their own aspirations;
• Addressing critical environmental challenges facing our local and global communities through collective response at the intersection of place, community, and stewardship.
• By incorporating local community-based participatory research and Indigenous epistemologies, the University of Minnesota is seeking to expand the methods of the humanities and create greater intellectual diversity in the academy. This initiative will amplify efforts to decolonize our university and serve as a national model in the humanities by establishing a systematic approach for integrating Indigenous ways of knowing and research methodologies in humanities scholarship.

• Specializes in:
• Safely operating vehicles, following traffic laws, and adhering to safety protocols.
• Customer service.
• Communicating delivery status, addressing customer inquiries, and maintaining a positive attitude.
• Efficiency.
• Making punctual deliveries, efficiently planning routes, and handling packages under various conditions.
• Organization.
• Loading and unloading packages in numerical order, and ensuring packages are marked with proper addresses and tracking information.
• Technology.
• Using GPS navigation and company smart devices.

• Communications with urban and reservation area tribes and organizations to schedule, promote and coordinate events and trainings.
• Development of culturally relevant initiatives that will uplift, uphold and move our people forward in our healing and progress.roups associated with Native Communities.
• Development of culturally relevant initiatives that will uplift, uphold and move our people forward in our healing and progress
• Leadership development & mentoring.
• Partnership and strategy development with other organizations to achieve common goals within Native communities.
• Our most impactful initiative was called “My Sisters are Warriors”, which uplifted and amplified the voices of Indigenous Women globally and united them across the world in support of and in celebration of each other. We had Ambassadors who represented this initiative and specialized in many different areas of serving their own communities spanning all across Turtle Island to Hawaii and New Zealand. It will always be an initiative that I hold close to my heart.

Makoce Ikikcupi is committed to restoring a land base for Dakota people so that we may begin to bring some of our relatives home, re-establish our spiritual and physical relationship with our homeland, and ensure the ongoing existence of our People. We had purchased a land base in Granite Falls, Mn on which the construction of Earth Lodges began. Our intention with that land base is to build a self-sustainable community for Dakota people to live in, reconnect with their traditional ways of life and to hold educational gatherings for the local Native community to relearn traditional Oceti Sakowin practices, ceremonies and traditions.

After experiencing complications with the construction of the Earth Lodges due to Minnesota State and City construction codes within the city limits, we authored a legislative bill which would create an exemption to the guidelines of city and state building codes for Native folks who are building traditional home structures on their ancestral lands. Due to Covid-19, this bill had been delayed in the legislative process until the next session in January 2020. In the meantime, we had refocused towards designing and implementing the initial stages of the permaculture design which will provide sacred medicines and food sovereignty for the community at the site, which was named Zani Otunwe.

• General store management duties.
• Scheduling.
• Building and implementing Training modules..
• Ensures each station is operating to Tropical Smoothie Café's standards
• Trains and coaches crew members during each shift to ensure brand standards are upheld.
• Uses tools to accomplish goals, manage labor and control inventory using "MyInventory".
• Performs any additional tasks necessary to run the café.

• Oversee medical service activities and personnel.
• Plan and coordinate patient schedules.
• Order medical and office supplies.
• Design and implement office policies and procedures.
• Oversee billing, coding, and collections.
• Schedule appointments.
• Maintain medical records.
• Make deposits.
• Reconcile account information.
• Pay medical office bills.
• Perform phlebotomies on patients for general labs and tests
• Patient relations and education.

• Oversee medical service activities and personnel.
• Plan and coordinate patient schedules.
• Order medical and office supplies.
• Design and implement office policies and procedures.
• Oversee billing, coding, and collections.
• Schedule appointments.
• Maintain medical records.
• Make deposits.
• Reconcile account information.
• Pay medical office bills.
• Perform phlebotomies on patients for general labs and tests.
• Patient relations and education.

"Oil, Fracking and Man Camps: Human Health Along the Pipelines, Loyola University" Chicago Climate Change Conference- Chicago, IL - Panelist
March 2018

A discussion on how climate change and human health intersect through the traumatic physical and psychological events occurring near the ultimate source of global warming: the extractive industry work sites, or "man camps," across the U.S. and Canada. The most shocking of these events is the abuse, disappearance and murder of indigenous women along the pipelines.

2017 Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo; Across Dividing Lines- Oslo, Norway- Panelist
December 2017

Addressing Indigenous peoples rights within the context of social justice and environmental protection. The panel consisted of Grand Chief Edward John - Expert Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues & Hereditary Chief of Tl'azt'en Nation, Aili Keskitalo - President of the Sami Parliament, Elisabeth Gammelsæter - Secretary General of the Norwegian Mineral Industry and Øyvind Ravna - Professor of Law, University of Tromsø.

The keynote speaker was the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Rigoberta Menchú Tum. The 2017 Forum aimed to provide a platform for dialogue and experience sharing for representatives of the Standing Rock resistance on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, US, and the Nussir copper mine conflict in the municipality of Kvalsund, Norway.

• Screen Donors and perform vitals to ensure all requirements for donation are met.
• Perform phlebotomy according to regulations set by MBC and the state of MN.
• Prepare specimens for processing, ensuring all labels are accurate and that the designated procedure is followed.
• Provide excellent donor support and service, meeting MBC company standards.

Jikiden Reiki training focuses on preserving the original teachings of Reiki founder, Usui Sensei, with a direct lineage from the Japanese tradition. It's considered a more authentic form of Reiki compared to westernized variations. Jikiden Reiki training typically involves Shoden (Level 1) and Okuden (Level 2), with Shoden focusing on the basic principles and practices, and Okuden delving into more advanced techniques like distance healing and treating psychological issues.

Shoden (Level 1): Focuses on foundational knowledge, including the five Reiki principles (Gokai), basic hand positions for self-healing and others, and techniques like Byosen (cleansing energy).
Okuden (Level 2): Expands on Shoden, incorporating techniques like distant healing, deeper understanding of Reiki principles, and methods for treating psychological issues.

The Max Meditation system, offered by the Modern Mystery School, combines ancient and modern techniques to enhance meditation practice and self-awareness. It blends yogic traditions with modern psychology and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). The system aims to guide individuals towards inner peace, clarity, and a deeper understanding of themselves and the universe.

• General Store Management duties.
• Hiring, training and scheduling employees.
• Ordering, managing inventory, meeting and upholding franchise store requirements.
• Managing daily sales and finances.

• General Store Management Duties.
• Hiring, training and scheduling employees.
• Creating employee guidelines, ensuring all expectations are followed..
• Managing retail store and cash in the registers at the start and end of each day
• Ordering and monitoring store inventory, plant inventory for the nursery and landscape design department.