Elaine Walters

Elaine Walters is the founding Executive Director and lead trainer at the Trauma Healing Project, an organization that provides professional and community training, workforce support, and direct healing support for survivors.

Prior to this position, she coordinated the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program for the Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force in Oregon. For the last 30 years, she has been a consultant, trainer, and community organizer working to address and eliminate intimate violence.

She has designed and facilitated workshops and training on many related topics and has provided direct services and support to youth and adults impacted by violence, abuse, and other forms of trauma and oppression.

She is involved in the effort to expand accessible trauma healing and restorative resources and practices and to implement trauma-informed care locally, regionally, and state-wide.