Join the Texas Violence Injury Prevention Research Center and Dr. Leila Wood, UTHealth Professor & VIPR Director of Research, for an insightful discussion on the impact of digital hotlines for survivors […]
Join law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, health care providers, judges, faith leaders, educators, researchers, and others at the next EVAWI conference in Anaheim, California, highlighting promising practices and emerging issues to […]
Data is power. At the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice, they believe that data should be transparent, actionable, and grounded in the lived realities of survivors. In this interactive […]
The National Academies announced that the congressionally mandated Committee on Sexual Assault at Sea will hold a public information gathering session on Perspectives on the Statement of Task: Victim Advocates […]
The National Crime Victim Law Institute’s Crime Victim Law Conference is the premier national conference on rights enforcement in the country. Professionals serving victims gather to learn, share best practices, […]
In this session from Activating Change, presenters will explore the complex and often overlooked intersection of violence, trauma, and brain injury. They will also highlight pioneering research in Ohio that examines the connection between brain injury and domestic violence. Finally, they'll introduce CARE, a trauma-informed, brain injury-aware framework designed to improve awareness, accommodations, and accessibility. […]
The Joyce Foundation invites you to join the fifth webinar in the series focused on firearms research commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This webinar will cover new research on hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs), in which medical staff and trusted community messengers offer patients immediate support and tools for preventing future […]
This webinar from RTI will feature content from a research project supported by Arnold Ventures. Speakers will discuss key reasons impacting the decision-making of victims and witnesses of severe community violence about whether to participate in the criminal legal system, and the programs and practices currently in place in police departments and prosecutors’ offices to […]
A movement to treat domestic violence as a public safety issue rather than a private family matter spawned a wave of reform, culminating in the Violence Against Women Act in the 1994 federal Crime Bill. Mandatory arrest policies, in particular, have been widely adopted over the past several decades. However, research suggests these laws may […]
Extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), also known as red flag laws, are a newer approach to combatting gun violence that already are showing promise in achieving this end. Join the Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions for this webinar diving deeper into ERPOs and lessons learned from efforts […]
NOVA’s 51st Annual Training Event will VIRTUAL this year. This event provides the victim assistance community of advocates, crisis responders, and other allied professionals with an opportunity to connect and […]
The 2025 Women Are Sacred (WAS) Conference will take place July 29–31, 2025, at the Baird Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. One of the nation’s most inspiring and impactful gatherings, the […]
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