This report is the culmination of the ReStoryation project in Virginia, and features an executive summary and recommendations, data, findings, a timeline of the project, a section on BIPOC participants’… read more “Virginia ReStoryation Report – June 2024”
This brochure provides information and guidance for obtaining, understanding, and tracking a PERK (Physical Evidence Recovery Kit) Exam in the state of Virginia. Included in this resource are sections on… read more “Understanding PERK Exams and Your Options After a Sexual Assault”
Transforming Relationships: A Violence Prevention Toolkit for Peer Educators serves as a tool for young adults and supportive professional staff who want to cultivate safer thriving communities on their college… read more “Transforming Relationships: A Violence Prevention Toolkit for Peer Educators”
Fostering Community Resilience: Virginia’s Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence (2022) assists local communities in creating primary prevention strategies that focus on identifying and dismantling the… read more “Virginia’s Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence”
Recent changes in Virginia code pertaining to firearms, firearm restrictions, surrender of firearms, and new Substantial Risk Orders can substantially impact the lives and safety of survivors of intimate partner… read more “Firearms Restrictions and Protective Orders in Virginia”
People who are surviving intimate partner violence and family violence are likely to have experienced and may continue to experience increased isolation and danger caused by social distancing measures during… read more “Healthcare Workers Screening for SV/IPV”
The YOUTH ARE curriculum was created by the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance’s first Youth Action Council cohort. Created for and by youth, this curriculum aims to support… read more “Youth Are Curriculum”
This workbook was collaboratively created by staff of the Virginia Anti-Violence Project (VAVP) and the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance (Action Alliance) after more than six months of… read more “My Transformative Justice Workbook”
For Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2020, the Action Alliance created resources to highlight the connections between gender-based violence and youth incarceration. With our partners Performing Statistics and RISE for Youth,… read more “Showing Up Together: Connections between Gender-based Violence and Youth Incarceration”
We have a compelling vision for a world where all of us thrive.Violence, harassment, and oppression are all around us, but it doesn’t have to be that way. A… read more “A Graphic Guide to Our Vision, Values, and Strategies”
Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Agencies