We are so excited to launch our 2020 Conference! While we wish we could all be together in person, we're so glad to have the chance to come together virtually. We chose this year's theme, On Purpose, before COVID altered everything about our work but it couldn't feel more timely. More than ever, we are…
Are you a brand new advocate? This training is for you! Advocacy for Rookies is a two-day online webinar for brand-new advocates, with facilitators Heather Wehr and Jake Fawcett. Whether you volunteer or are paid, you work in a shelter or a community office, you do system-based advocacy or community organizing for prevention, if you…
You do not need an advanced degree to help prevent violence! Join us for a virtual training (webinar), where you will learn how to educate student athletes about healthy relationships and consent. For the first time, this is a free opportunity open to any coach, athletic director, team mentor, or advocate in Washington State who…
Our next MoneyTalk happens on August 12 from 10:00am to 12:00pm. This quarter we will be talking about what economic justice has to do with DV/SA prevention. Spoiler alert—it’s a lot! Join us to learn more about violence prevention, and how focusing on money and economics can help us address root causes, shift culture, build…
Join WSCADV staff to connect, check-in, and breathe with your people across the state. We’ll be offering a lunch check-in call every other Monday starting June 1 through the end of July. Hop on the zoom meeting to connect with friends and colleagues from across the state, breathe together, and take some time to chat…
Join WSCADV staff to connect, check-in, and breathe with your people across the state. We’ll be offering a lunch check-in call every other Monday starting June 1 through the end of July. Hop on the zoom meeting to connect with friends and colleagues from across the state, breathe together, and take some time to chat…
The Refuse To Abuse® 5K is an annual 5K fun run/walk at T-Mobile Park. For the health and safety of all involved, this event will be VIRTUAL this year. Participants will walk, jog, or run a 5K (3.1 miles) on your own, wherever it is safe to do so (e.g., in your neighborhood, on a…
Join WSCADV staff to connect, check-in, and breathe with your people across the state. We’ll be offering a lunch check-in call every other Monday starting June 1 through the end of July. Hop on the zoom meeting to connect with friends and colleagues from across the state, breathe together, and take some time to chat…
Join us for a two-part webinar series for advocates on options for immigrant survivors of violence with legal staff from the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project! Attendees are expected to attend both webinars, but only need to register once at the link below. Part 1: June 23, 10am-1pm A brief overview of the U.S. Immigration System…
As staff and supervisors of domestic violence programs, we all have experience working with trauma. However, COVID-19 has introduced a new type of global trauma that not only impacts the survivors we work with but is impacting all of us in new and challenging ways, some of which we might not even realize yet. We…
WSCADV has been implementing DV Housing First for 10 years! There have been many lessons learned along the way, with changes and improvements to each component. We’re updating our toolkit with lessons learned and survivor informed approaches. Come and join us for this series and bring your toughest questions and challenges for the conversations to…
WSCADV has been implementing DV Housing First for 10 years! There have been many lessons learned along the way, with changes and improvements to each component. We’re updating our toolkit with lessons learned and survivor informed approaches. Come and join us for this series and bring your toughest questions and challenges for the conversations to…
Join WSCADV staff to connect, check-in, and breathe with your people across the state. We’ll be offering a lunch check-in call every other Monday starting June 1 through the end of July. Hop on the zoom meeting to connect with friends and colleagues from across the state, breathe together, and take some time to chat…
WSCADV has been implementing DV Housing First for 10 years! There have been many lessons learned along the way, with changes and improvements to each component. We’re updating our toolkit with lessons learned and survivor informed approaches. Come and join us for this series and bring your toughest questions and challenges for the conversations to…
WSCADV has been implementing DV Housing First for 10 years! There have been many lessons learned along the way, with changes and improvements to each component. We’re updating our toolkit with lessons learned and survivor informed approaches. Come and join us for this series and bring your toughest questions and challenges for the conversations to…
Calling all new (and new-ish) directors! If you are a brand-new, kind of new, or still-feeling-new E.D. or program director, you are invited to the WSCADV New Directors Orientation. This is your opportunity to connect with peers in a supportive environment, ask questions, and gain insights and practical resources to support your day-to-day work. New…
Join us for Within Our Reach: Meeting The Challenges of Anti-Oppression Practice In Our Work – And Beyond, a webinar presented by Michelle Osbourne. This webinar is designed to deepen the work that you are already doing acknowledge the existence of racism and oppression in America shift the paradigm of oppression provide skills necessary to…
Join WSCADV staff to connect, check-in, and breathe with your people across the state. We’ll be offering a lunch check-in call every other Monday starting June 1 through the end of July. Hop on the zoom meeting to connect with friends and colleagues from across the state, breathe together, and take some time to chat…
Please join us for a special training with Jill Davies designed specifically for seasoned advocates. Victim-defined advocacy is a practice that requires constant learning and is done best in community. Jill will take us beyond the basics and help us tackle the questions at the heart of advocacy that embrace the complexity of survivors’ lives.…
This meeting is intended for DV directors and shelter managers (or others who make major organizational decisions). WSCADV will share guidance for DV programs as the Governor dials down (and probably, back up) the COVID-19 stay-home executive orders. WSCADV will also soon share out guidance with membership as a whole; this meeting is just the…