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Housing Webinar

SAVE THE DATE!More details and final date/event times will be posted as we get closer to the event.

Domestic Violence Advocacy Days

Join us in Olympia, WA for WSCADV's Domestic Violence Advocacy Days at the State Capitol, where advocates and survivors will come together to engage with lawmakers on issues that truly matter! This is a crucial moment because we’re making a BIG budget ask to our legislators this year, and we need your voices to make…

Advocacy for Rookies – Online

SAVE THE DATE! More details and final date/event times will be posted as we get closer to the event. February 4: 9:00 am - 2:00 pmFebruary 5: 9:00 am - 2:00 pmFebruary 6: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Shelter and Housing Advocacy Webinar

Join us for our upcoming webinar on shelter and housing advocacy practices! Megan Rabbitt from Reloshare will be joining in to introduce Safe Stays and The Grove, two cutting-edge ReloShare platforms transforming how agencies support their communities.  With live demos, we'll explore:  We will also spend time together discussing common challenges in shelter and housing…

Rally for Victims

The Vera Project, Seattle Center 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, Washington, United States

Survivors could face huge delays or even lose access to vital support services because of massive cuts in federal funding. It's time for state leaders to step up and lock in a permanent funding solution for victim services — before it's too late! We're sounding the alarm and asking YOU to join us on December…

Prevention Peer Learning and Community Building Webinar

Hey Preventionists! It's time to gather again and connect around the ideas that animate our passion for this work and dive into the substance of it. The world is a crazy place right now and doing social change work is often complex and long-term if we're doing it well. Let's come together and discuss some…

Legal Advocate Connection Call

Join legal advocates from across the state and WSCADV's legal advocacy program coordinator Heather Wehrwood for the Legal Advocate Connection Call series! On calls we will:

Team Up WA: Winter Sports Train the Trainer Virtual Meeting

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…

Financial Management Training

Ledgestone Hotel Yakima 107 N. Fair Avenue, Yakima, Washington, United States

UPDATED LOCATION! Ledgestone Hotel Yakima Are you the director of a program and/or the accountant or finance director? This training is for you! Please join us for a conversation with our guest speaker, Sherrie Tinoco, who will be discussing Financial Management as it applies to our field. Financial Management is the strategic planning and organizing…

Money Talks – Housing

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…

Unpacking the Toolbox of Prevention: Strategies for Community Level Prevention Work

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…

Advocacy for Rookies

Lacey Community Center 6729 Pacific Avenue SE, Lacey, WA, United States

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 Blanca McCreary-Ortega and Heather Wehrwood. Whether you volunteer or are paid, if you work in a shelter or a community office, do system-based advocacy or community organizing for prevention -…

Collaborating to Support Survivors: Systems and Community Advocates Working Together

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 to the Front! 2024 WSCADV Conference

Yakima Convention Center 10 N 8th St, Yakima, WA, United States

Calling all hotline advocates, legal advocates, shelter advocates, bilingual advocates, prevention advocates, directors, and all those who support domestic violence survivors! We are so excited to invite you to our annual conference, September 23-24 in Yakima, WA! Join us as we journey through the roots of our movement, envision our path ahead, and explore the heart of our work: supporting…

DV Survivors’ Experiences with Child Protective Services

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…

Team Up Washington @ Lumen Field

Lumen Field 800 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, Washington, United States

Coaching a Fall sports team in 2024? Join us for Team Up Washington Fall Sports Training, courtesy of the Seattle Seahawks! This free train-the-trainer event is for high school coaches and mentors who want to empower student athletes to prevent hazing, sexual assault and dating violence through a strength-based leadership development approach. OSPI will award…

DV Hopeline and Shared 24/7 DV/SA Helplines – Informational Meeting

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…