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.
Join legal advocates from across the state along with WSCADV's legal advocacy program coordinator Heather Wehrwood. On this connection call we will:
Join us on October 30th. As we wrap up Domestic Violence Action Month (DVAM), WSCADV is providing this webinar to help you as advocates and social change agents learn how we can raise up an army of inspired storytellers to empower survivors, as well as change the culture that supports the destructive conditions of coercion…
Join us for MoneyTalks! A webinar series to promote economic justice. MoneyTalks takes on topics that will help you understand how economics affect survivors of domestic violence, and provides a place to convene with other advocates to exchange good ideas. If you’ve got something to say about money and domestic violence, this is the place for…
Survivors rely on essential resources like Medicaid (AppleHealth) for the health and well-being of themselves and their children. Upcoming changes in Medicaid mean that survivor households may lose their coverage if they don’t take action now. And, we’ve got important health care updates about accessing free contraception (and more) and pregnancy medical services -- including undocumented people. Andrea…
