Creatures of the Night: Changing After-Hours Staffing
This month’s Good Jobs blog post is by Emilie McLarnan, Assistant Director at Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse. After-hours crisis response is a crucial service we provide to the…
News
Women Under The Gun: How Gun Violence Affects Women And 4 Policy Solutions To Better Protect Them
Women Under the Gun: How gun violence affects women and 4 policy solutions to better protect them A new report from the Center for American Progress points to gaps in…
Survey Says!?…
Did you know that WSCADV administered a Wages & Benefits Survey in 2011? I know, I know. Many of you have already seen it. But I often hear from folks…
Negotiation: A Magical Solution?
This month’s Good Jobs blog post is by Megan Dorwin, an MSW student at the University of Washington and an intern at WSCADV. I recently attended an event for social…
New Findings From The National Intimate Partner And Sexual Violence Survey
New findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey The CDC has released new analysis of the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS). The NISVS…
Hiking the Minimum Wage (and Living To Tell About It)
This month’s post is written by a staff member at a local DV/SA agency who wishes to remain anonymous. My goal in writing is to urge us to critically…
Self Care
Self-care. It’s a term that has been tossed around a lot in the 13 years I’ve been working in the DV movement, and I’m sure for the decades previous as…
Our Business
So, this post has been making it’s way around my Facebook circle, so I read it. It’s an open letter by an executive director of a small non profit to…
Intimate Partner Violence Fast Facts
From the CNN website is a roundup of background information and stats on domestic violence: Domestic (Intimate Partner) Violence Fast Facts
Creating Time for Supervision
This week’s post brought to you by guest blogger Sarah Foley, Associate Director of Counseling and Outreach at the YWCA Alternatives to Domestic Violence Program in Spokane, WA. There is never enough…