New Directors' Series 2024: Provisioning the Boat
2024-06-10 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Training Center, 1413 W. Main St., Richmond, VA, 23220
A successful voyage requires just the right number of resources to get you to your destination—including all the tools you will need, and functioning systems to keep things afloat in all kinds of weather. A few of the specific topics we will be covering include planning, matching resources to goals, managing those resources, automation, and redundancy. Leave with some new tools that will ease the burden of provisioning the boat.

State and Local Partners Meeting
2024-06-13 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-08-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual- Zoom
These quarterly gatherings of advocates, preventionists, sexual and domestic violence agency administrators, state funders and other partners serving survivors of violence are opportunities for connection and collaboration on the local, regional, and state level. The State and Local Partners Meetings are a unique opportunity for agencies to share their expertise and experiences from the front lines with funding partners who would like to learn more about emerging trends, needs, and celebrations among our communities.

Red Flag Campaign Relaunch!
2024-06-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual- Zoom
It has been over a decade since we launched www.theredflagcampaign.org/ to help college students shift cultural norms around dating violence. In the intervening years, hundreds of campuses across the nation have implemented the Red Flag Campaign. Since first introducing the campaign, the way young people speak about and understand dating violence has changed, so we have updated the Red Flag Campaign materials to reflect their experiences today. We are excited to announce that we have updated the digital Campus Planning Guide to include more information about bystander intervention as a strategy for violence prevention, microaggressions as a form of dating violence, and why healthy sexuality is a key concept of violence prevention. There is also new turnkey artwork for social media posts and updated printable handouts about effective bystander intervention strategies.
If you are unfamiliar with the campaign, the Red Flag Campaign is a bystander intervention program that educates college students about sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking by highlighting the red flags that students may see in a friend’s relationship. The campaign includes a digital guide for implementation, miniature red flags, and printed posters featuring active bystander responses to warning signs for emotional abuse, stalking, microaggressions, and other controlling and isolating behaviors. In 2023, we launched two poster series (Series C and D), which include language around interrupting microaggressions and promoting joyful sexuality; you can click this link to compare and explore each series.
Join us on Thursday, June 13th from 12:30pm to 1:30pm EDT to learn more about the new Red Flag Campaign materials including ideas for implementation and best practices around prevention programming.

Harm and Accountability Toolkit Webinar
2024-06-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual- Zoom

VAdata Training and Virtual Office Hours
2024-06-25 15:00 - 16:30, 2024-07-30 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-08-27 15:00 - 16:30, 2024-09-17 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Zoom

Statewide Advocates' Meeting
2024-06-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual- Zoom
The Statewide Hotline/Crisis Response Team offers this space as an ongoing opportunity for folx working on the front lines and on the hotlines providing direct services and support! This is a space with opportunities to meet other advocates across VA, learn more about the Statewide Hotline and Project for Empowerment of Survivors (PES) and to share trends, highlights, events, regional updates, etc.

Economic Justice Summit
2024-06-27 09:00 - 16:30 | Hampton University, McGrew Conference Center, 24 Indian Rd, Hampton, VA, 23669, United States

Emergence Project
2024-06-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual- Zoom

Trauma Informed Lawyering
2024-07-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual- Zoom
In this training, we’ll discuss trauma and its impact on survivors and attorneys as well as explore how to respond to clients using a trauma-informed approach.
The event is CLE pending. We’re hoping that training lawyers to be trauma-informed in their approach will lead to improved services for survivors. Lawyers will also gain an increased understanding of trauma and its impact on individuals and themselves.

People of Color Caucus
2024-07-09 15:30 - 17:00 | Virtual
The People of Color Caucus was formed to create a space where folks of color can come together to be in community and foster connections and have connections on how to amplify each other’s voices. Caucuses are for Action Alliance members only.

DO YOU Facilitator Training
2024-07-23 10:00 - 2024-07-24 16:00 | Training Center, 1413 W. Main St., Richmond, VA, 23220
DO YOU: Building Youth Resilience Through Creative Expression is a primary prevention strategy to address teen dating violence, sexual harassment, and bullying. DO YOU addresses youth violence by confronting root causes and enhancing protective factors (building resilience) to promote positive development and healthy relationships for young people ages 13-16 years old.
This training is designed for adult facilitators and teen mentors/peer facilitators who are interested in implementing the DO YOU program in their communities. Participants will learn about the history and development of the program, engage in experiential and art-based activities, and receive facilitation tools for implementing the DO YOU program. Participants will receive the DO YOU UnCurriculum (program facilitation guide), 21 zines, tools for evaluation, and ongoing technical assistance to support program implementation.

Director's Virtual Meet-Up
2024-08-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual- Zoom
The Statewide Hotline/Crisis Response Team would like to offer this space as an ongoing opportunity to increase partnership, learn more about the needs at agencies, have a place to share and learn more about Statewide Hotline operations, and to provide the space for folx to discuss challenges, highlights, regional updates, trends, etc.

Statewide Advocates' Meeting
2024-08-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual- Zoom
The Statewide Hotline/Crisis Response Team would like to offer this space as an ongoing opportunity for folx working on the front lines and on the hotlines providing direct services and support! This is a space with opportunities to meet other advocates across VA, learn more about the Statewide Hotline and Project for Empowerment of Survivors (PES) and to share trends, highlights, events, regional updates, etc.

I Emerge: Wellness Coaching/Individual TA
2024-09-01 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-01 09:00 - 17:00 | Virtual- Zoom
For Whom: Advocates and leaders in the field of sexual and domestic violence advocacy, intervention, and prevention
Why: Dedicated time and space to fit your schedule, as well as your wellness-related intentions and barriers. This 45-minute one-on-one coaching supports your exploration of how to be connected, well, and whole in this work – from the inside-out.
Click the link to schedule your monthly coaching session.

We Emerge: Coaching Session
2024-09-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual- Zoom
What: A.W.E. Group Sessions (Advocate Wellness Experiences)
Why: Advocate Wellness Experience Sessions are:
● Time to HONOR the INNER experience of advocates
● Space to BE with those who get it
● Guidance to RE-CENTER…
● So can we show up to this work whole, and WELL.
Drop into these monthly sessions to prioritize taking time to check in with ourselves and each other. Explore wellness topics and skills that you can bring into your own wellness practice and into your work supporting survivors.
Sessions will be held on the first Wednesday of September, November, and December at 10am. Join one or all of the sessions.

New Directors' Series 2024: It's All About the Crew
2024-09-09 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
The boat is not going anywhere without a willing and competent crew! Let’s talk about recruiting, training and promoting your agency crew. Learn about the elements of creating a trauma-informed workplace. Leave with a newfound appreciation for your role in valuing and supporting your crew.
Note: We will try to accommodate last minute language translation requests, but we typically need two weeks to secure interpretation services.

Advocacy Core Training for Trainers
2024-09-17 09:00 - 2024-09-18 17:00 | Training Center, 1413 W. Main St., Richmond, VA, 23220
This two-day intensive training is designed for trainers, managers, or coordinators who are responsible for training new staff and volunteers in community based sexual and domestic violence organizations. This training covers briefly the basics of trauma informed advocacy, crisis intervention, risk analysis and safety planning, resource access and the role of sexual and domestic violence advocates. This training also provides participants with teaching techniques and skill building exercises that are designed to build trauma responsive healing centered advocacy skills.

Principles of Primary Prevention
2024-09-19 09:00 - 15:00 | Training Center, 1413 W. Main St., Richmond, VA, 23220
Primary prevention programs are focused on reducing or eliminating the first-time perpetration of sexual violence and intimate partner violence (SV/IPV). This means figuring out what factors make some people more at-risk to perpetrate SV/IPV, and changing or interrupting those factors. This training delves into the key concepts underlying this innovative work, highlights promising practices from the field, and includes an overview of Virginia’s Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence & Intimate Partner Violence used by sexual and domestic violence agencies throughout Virginia and across the country.

Emerging Together: Wholeness as Wellness - Building Healing-Centered Capacity for Us
2024-09-25 10:00 - 15:00 | Church of Our Savior Episcopal, 1165 Rio Rd E, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22901, United States
What: Wholeness as Wellness: Building Healing-Centered Capacity for Us
For whom: Advocates and leaders in the field of sexual and domestic violence advocacy, intervention, and prevention (*preferably, participants have joined a recent AWE Group Session and/or a Wellness Coaching session to layer learning/doing)
Why: Join us to begin to build a new way of being in our work – an intentional and critical paradigm shift in the movement from reacting to the crisis of burnout to anticipating and building healing-centered capacity to prevent it. Together, we will unpack the reality of the impact of this work and explore practices that support us in recentering our own wellness and wholeness in this work. This will be a reflective, interactive, experiential, and joy-filled session meant to foster mutual aid connections and ready us with insight and practices to get back to work whole and well.

Exploring Organizational Wellness
2024-09-26 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual- Zoom
What: Let’s begin to imagine robust strategies and practices for sustained wellness, connection and power.
For whom: Advocates, preventionists, outreach staff, and agency leadership are all invited to participate. Sexual and domestic violence programs seeking to bring about organizational change will benefit from identifying a diverse team to participate in attending as many sessions as possible.
Why: Promote wellness, resilience, and sustainability within SDVAs and in your community partnerships through building practices that focus on connection, resilience, trauma stewardship, and hope.

Director's Virtual Meet-up
2024-10-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual- Zoom
The Statewide Hotline/Crisis Response Team would like to offer this space as an ongoing opportunity to increase partnership, learn more about the needs at agencies, have a place to share and learn more about Statewide Hotline operations, and to provide the space for folx to discuss challenges, highlights, regional updates, trends, etc. We look forward to seeing you all every other month in 2024 (February, April, June, August, October and December) on the 1st Wednesday from 2-3p!
Note: We will try to accommodate last minute language translation requests but we typically need two weeks to secure interpretation services.

Virginia Restoryation Report: What lessons did the data teach?
2024-10-03 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual- Zoom
Stories reveal, help us process, and reflect. Story circles have been part of our collective human experience across communities, cultures, and generations. The process of storytelling and the practice of bearing witness to one another’s stories is one of the most intuitive, most powerful, and most ancient medicines we have.

Virginia was one of 25 states and territories across the U.S. to participate in Restoryation, a national storytelling project and needs assessment among professionals working in the movement to end sexual and domestic violence. The primary goals of Restoryation were to employ storytelling to:

Pause and reflect on the impact of the previous 3 years on ourselves and our work.

Provide an opportunity for connection and healing through sharing our experiences and bearing witness to each other’s stories.

Name what is needed to create a thriving workforce and movement going forward.

Join us for a brief webinar to learn more about the data that came out of the Restoryation story circles held February-May 2023, and the Action Alliance’s next steps based on the lessons we learned.

Joyful Sexuality
2024-10-08 09:30 - 16:00 | Training Center, 1413 W. Main St., Richmond, VA, 23220
In this interactive and engaging training, advocates and prevention staff will gain a more holistic understanding of joyful sexuality and its relevance to our work in the movement to end sexual and domestic violence. Participants will be introduced to the six components of sexuality: sensuality, intimacy, sexual orientation and gender identity, sexual and reproductive health, sexual behaviors and practices, and power and agency. Participants will identify and explore the many ways that a joyful sexuality lens can be applied to prevention and advocacy work in sexual and domestic violence agencies. Participants will leave this training with an action plan to integrate joyful sexuality and reproductive justice into their work.

People of Color Caucus
2024-10-08 15:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
The People of Color Caucus was formed to create a space where folks of color can come together to be in community and foster connections and have connections on how to amplify each others voices. Caucuses are for Action Alliance members only.
In 2024, we have a lot of opportunities to meet and we hope to see you for one of them.
Note: We will try to accommodate last minute language translation requests but we typically need two weeks to secure interpretation services.

Violence Prevention in Action ECHO
2024-10-16 10:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
Join our Violence Prevention in Action ECHO program to build your prevention network, connect over challenging cases, and stay on top of best practices in sexual and intimate partner violence primary prevention!
Project ECHO is an international, evidence-based model for training and peer-to-peer learning, originally developed at the University of New Mexico for use by doctors and other medical providers. We’ve used the model since 2019 to cultivate a thriving community of preventionists from Sexual and Domestic Violence Agencies across the Commonwealth.
For more information about our use of the ECHO model or the structure of the session, please visit: https://bit.ly/VPAecho.
