VAWnet Event Calendar

This training series is for anyone who works directly with clients impacted by domestic violence. You’ll gain the knowledge and tools needed to bring this trauma-informed, survivor-centered curriculum to your clients and help them build long-term economic security. After the training, you will have access to all curriculum materials. Once you've been trained to deliver this program, you'll get access to all the materials. The Life$avings curriculum, available in English and Spanish, consists of:

What does prevention look like when rooted in community and culture, outside of systems? As we continue to navigate the impact from COVID and the many related shifts we’ve experienced in the past years, our values have transformed and so must our strategies. The 5th annual National Prevention Town Hall will feature anti-violence prevention approaches in the Mountain region of the United States.

Stalking is a prevalent, dangerous and often misunderstood crime that often results in lethal violence. The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) reports that about 1 in 6 women and 1 in 17 men have been stalked at some point in their lives, many of these as minors. Stalking is also a high risk indicator in domestic violence cases. And yet, taken without context, many individual incidents of stalking are made up of perfectly legal actions.

Today, we are working harder than ever to live into the power and possibility of using the System of Care (SOC) approach to transform the lives of children and families in our communities. We are being called to solve an increasingly complex set of challenges that cannot be solved without strengthening fragile community partnerships, realigning our partners’ goals, and smart stewarding of resources that must stretch to meet an ever increasing need for mental health services and supports.

The webinar will be hosted by the Forced Marriage Initiative at the Tahirih Justice Center. For over a decade, The Forced Marriage Initiative (FMI) at the Tahirih Justice Center has been a leader in raising awareness of forced marriage in the United States and the movement to end it. The FMI is the only organization in the U.S. recognized as a training and technical assistance provider by the Office on Violence Against Women on the issue of forced marriage.  

Abusers are often experts at manipulating peers, at presenting a charismatic facade that hides the abuse they may perpetrate against their victims on a regular basis. Often, serious and tragic incidents of domestic violence are portrayed in the media as anomalies, wherein an otherwise 'lovely person' just 'snapped'. Entertainment can still be seen portraying control, jealousy, and abuse as romance. The ways society speaks about domestic violence leaves victims at risk, hampers prevention efforts, and removed responsibility from perpetrators.