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…
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 -…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Refuse To Abuse® Game Day for Domestic Violence Prevention The Refuse To Abuse® game day will be a time and place for friends, family, baseball fans, survivors of abuse, survivor advocates, and anyone who wants to make a difference to: enjoy a Mariners game together, Get inspired to take action, and be a part of…
Instead of an in-person meeting, this meeting will be held via Zoom on June 12th. Questions? Please contact Kevin Lee. Thank you!
Join us this June for a training on all things queer and trans domestic violence. We will dive into the underlying dynamics of abuse in community, how to best support survivors in your agency and how to strengthen peer support networks. We will also take a deeper dive into the specific experiences of transgender survivors…
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 us in Yakima on May 16th for our Peer Learning Community Gathering! FYI - Your time for participation and associated expenses with attending this event are eligible under your DSHS Domestic Violence Primary Prevention (DVPP) contract - see registration page for details Hi fellow Preventionists!!Please join us for this day long gathering where we…
Greetings!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 Sarah Kendall. The training will take place May 15th & 16th in Ellensburg. Whether you volunteer or are paid, you work in a shelter or a community office,…
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!
Come together with other legal advocates for a day of training, connection and resources at this year's Statewide Legal Advocate Gathering! Registration is free and lunch will be provided. The gathering is specifically for advocates providing legal advocacy to survivors at programs in WA.
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…
