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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 … ›
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. … ›
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 … ›
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 … ›
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 … ›
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 … ›
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 … ›
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 … ›
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, … ›
Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Agencies