Hello Coaches, Athletic Directors, Advocates and Allies! We're excited to be bringing the Winter Sports train the trainer event virtually to expand the reach of our evidence based violence prevention leadership development training to coaches across the State and region. So if you are a coach, know a coach or just are interested in using…
Join us for Money Talks! A webinar series to promote economic justice. Money Talks will take on topics that will help you understand how economics affect survivors of domestic violence and provide a place to convene with other advocates to exchange good ideas. If you’ve got something to say about money and domestic violence, this…
How many times have you responded to a grant NOFO or evaluation question asking you to describe various aspects of your prevention program and gone completely blank? Or tried to boil your prevention work down into a 30 second elevator speech for a funder and had nothing but white noise in the brain? Let's break…
Join us for a training with Samantha Boggs from the Whatcom County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office to dig into how community-based advocates can collaborate with systems-based advocates to best serve survivors. This will include an overview of the steps of a criminal case as well as tips for how to support victim defendants and survivors with…
Advocates and Home Visitors helped us distribute a survey about DV survivors' experiences with Child Protective Services (CPS) and mandatory reporting. We want to report back to you what we learned! We will talk about what survivors told us they needed before, during and after CPS interventions. Guest Speaker; Margaret Hobart, Ph.D. Note: The last…
Are you maintaining a mandated 24-hour helpline with limited resources? Are your advocates working all day and going home with the 24-hour line? Would you like a way to make your advocates' jobs easier and still maintain high quality services? Let a centralized or shared helpline help you! Please join Aja Osita, Executive Director of New…
Instead of an in-person meeting, this meeting will be held via Zoom on June 12th. Questions? Please contact Kevin Lee. Thank you!
Join legal advocates from across the state along with WSCADV's legal advocacy program coordinator Heather Wehrwood. On this connection call we will:
Dozens of advocates, managers and directors have come together over the past two years as part of the Advocacy Learning Community to dig deep into how we do advocacy and what that means for ourselves, our bodies, our relationships and survivors. Join us again this spring as Heather Wehrwood and Deadria Boyland bring together…
Join WSCADV's housing stability coordinator Sarah Kendall and advocates across the state to learn about mobile advocacy and home visiting. Together we'll learn about the benefits of mobile advocacy, best practices, safety planning, and more!
Have you used the Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Law to your advantage in engaging schools for prevention work? Have you been curious about how to effectively engage your communities in sustained prevention efforts? Come join us for a Zoom meeting where we'll discuss prevention and community engagement strategies and how the law can assist us…
Join advocates across the state and WSCADV's housing stability coordinator Sarah Kendall to learn about tools and strategies for housing advocacy and landlord engagement. Together we will dive into ways we can support survivors experiencing housing instability in survivor-driven and trauma-informed approaches. We will also explore the role advocates can take in cultivating landlords as…
Join us for Money Talks! A webinar series to promote economic justice. Money Talks will take on topics that will help you understand how economics affect survivors of domestic violence and provide a place to convene with other advocates to exchange good ideas. If you’ve got something to say about money and domestic violence, this…
Dozens of advocates, managers and directors have come together over the past two years as part of the Advocacy Learning Community to dig deep into how we do advocacy and what that means for ourselves, our bodies, our relationships and survivors. Join us again this spring as Heather Wehrwood and Deadria Boyland bring together…
Join legal advocates from across the state along with WSCADV's legal advocacy program coordinator Heather Wehrwood. On this connection call we will:
Dozens of advocates, managers and directors have come together over the past two years as part of the Advocacy Learning Community to dig deep into how we do advocacy and what that means for ourselves, our bodies, our relationships and survivors. Join us again this spring as Heather Wehrwood and Deadria Boyland bring together…
Teen dating violence prevention starts with youth power! Young people, especially people of color, queer and trans folks, and folks from economically struggling communities know how to lead the way forward and know what their communities need. Youth-led violence prevention forges a path toward liberation for all of us and one of the best things…
A webinar for DV Advocates presented by Kevin Lee (WSCADV) and Tom Atkinson (Division of Child Support). This webinar will cover the basics of how survivors can access child support collection through DCS (the Department of Child Support).
Are you a brand new advocate? This training is for you! Advocacy for Rookies is an in-depth, interactive training for domestic violence advocates, with facilitators Heather Wehr and Sarah Kendall. UPDATE: The training will take place virtually over two days. Whether you volunteer or are paid, you work in a shelter or a community office, you…
Our next MoneyTalk webinar happens on January 10th from 10:00am to 12:00pm. This quarter we will be talking about “Taxes”. Tax season is coming up soon, get yourself up to date on the latest changes that impact survivors, and get yourself prepared! Don’t miss it! Be a part of a knowledgeable and resourceful community.
