The National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC) is excited to bring you the virtual 38th International Symposium on Child Abuse scheduled for March 21-24, 2022. Symposium will continue to provide the state-of-the art training you need to continue to provide services to children and to fight child abuse. We are working to add more workshops and provide an even better digital […]
From End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI): Our annual conferences focus on sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking, human trafficking and elder abuse. We consistently bring together law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, victim advocates, judges, parole and probation officers, rape crisis workers, health care professionals, faith community members, educators, researchers and others in this three-day conference […]
Every day the lives of older adults are profoundly and negatively impacted in both the criminal and civil justice systems based on mistaken assumptions and inadequate assessments of their capacity to make decisions for themselves. In order to raise greater awareness of these issues and improve how elder justice professionals approach these issues, the Department […]
A muchas organizaciones de violencia doméstica, la pandemia les ha llevado a cambiar la forma en que se ofrecen algunos servicios de apoyo. Es decir, hoy en día muchos servicios de apoyo son ofrecidos virtualmente, adaptándose así a la pandemia y a las restricciones con respecto a encuentros presenciales. Los grupos de apoyo son una […]
The UNC School of Social Work invites the public to participate in its inaugural Social Work Legacy Speakers Series: Promoting Child Maltreatment Prevention and Advancing Equity. The Legacy Speakers Series will bring together individuals committed to strengthening the lives of children and families and addressing challenges and gaps in our current service systems. The goals […]
SPACE stands for Sexual Assault Prevention And Community Equity. The toolkit provides campuses a new approach to sexual violence prevention – one grounded in a broad commitment to equity. Campuses can use it as part of institutional redesign & sexual assault prevention. Join us for a webinar on April 26th at 2:30EST for an overview. […]
From the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention: Research helps to expand our knowledge base of violence and prevention, and it is needed to create better informed and more effective practices. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a valued approach in public health because of its alignment with health and racial equity, because it centers the voices […]
Futures Without Violence is holding a webinar to share more about the issue brief Lessons Learned About Survivor-Centered Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Pediatric Healthcare Providers. This brief focuses on best practices and innovative strategies that pediatric healthcare providers and pediatricians can implement to form stronger support networks for survivors of violence and […]
The National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center's second National Town Hall on Mass Violence will focus on readiness. Participants will be able to: Identify the traditional and non-traditional professionals who are involved in responding to MVIs, and their respective roles and responsibilities. Identify the structures and collaborative strategies needed for effective, survivor-centered MVI readiness and […]
This event is another in the series, Bridges: A Connect Call for Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Addressing Gender-Based Violence. The theme for this call is Accounting for our communities: Strategies and solutions for disaggregated AAPI data. These bi-monthly community connect calls are intended to be a space for AANHPI advocates, community members, and […]
During this free event on May 20th, we will showcase gun violence research being done by our leadership team, GVRC post-doctoral and doctoral students, community partners, and researchers we have funded this year. This conference is not looking to engage with simply an academic audience. Instead, we'd like this to be a truly community-engaged event, with […]
Dissociation is a common tool the brain uses to cope from traumas such as sexual violence. Every sexual assault advocate has supported a survivor who dissociates, whether they know it or not. Join part one of this four part panel discussion to learn more about what dissociation is, how it impacts the lives of survivors, […]
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