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This interactive training is designed for program staff or volunteers in their first year of victim advocacy work. Participants will learn a brief history of our movement and the building blocks and tools of advocacy. Throughout the course, participants will integrate the foundational principles of a Trauma-Informed Approach into all levels of advocacy work. Participants … ›
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 … ›
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 … ›
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 … ›
Extension for Community Health Outcomes or ECHO is a virtual network. Our ECHO will provide professionals with opportunities to learn about supporting survivors of abuse with disabilities and connect with other professionals. Our ECHO will be held once a month on Wednesdays from 12:00-1:30 PM. Certificates of participation and CEUs are available. November 13: Disability … ›
Drop in (virtually) any time between 3:00 and 4:30 to ask us your VAdata related questions.
Sexual and domestic violence agencies across the state use VAdata to track services and manage their grant reporting. For new staff, this means there's a lot to learn about VAdata, how data is captured, and how to use data to tell the story of survivors in your area. For advanced users, there may be more … ›
These interactive 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 forum for agencies to share their expertise and experiences from the … ›
Drop in (virtually) any time between 3:00 and 4:30 to ask us your VAdata related questions.
In 2023, after two years of working with all of you, the Action Alliance released Sustaining the Movement, a 10-Year Plan for Virginia’s Sexual and Domestic Violence Programs. This document is now guiding our work internally, and with legislators, funders, and all of you. The VOCA funding crisis made the value of this road map … ›
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 … ›
The Action Alliance is hosting staff from The Tahirih Justice Center, a national nonprofit organization serving immigrant survivors of violence, to present information on supporting and safety planning with survivors who are immigrants in our current environment.
Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Agencies