VAWnet Event Calendar

This unique training will focus on the intersection of technology and domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Participants will explore some of the ways technology is still evolving, including in our own use as agencies, as well as other intersections of technology and intimate partner violence.

The 2024 NIWRC Specialty Institute will offer presentations addressing the complex intersections of IPV with substance use, trauma, and mental health challenges that survivors experience. IPV increases survivors’ risks of suicidality, substance use disorders, depression, PTSD, and other mental health impacts.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence's Storytelling Institute is a free live two-day, virtual training set to take place on August 14 and August 15, 12:00pm – 4:00pm (ET). This will be an amazing opportunity for individuals who seek to move their target audiences from facts and numbers to taking action, utilizing storytelling as a tool for social transformation. This interactive training will provide participants with a digital companion guide, along with strategies and frameworks to identify storytelling goals, build a story bank, develop storytellers within your organization and nurture a sustainable culture of powerful storytelling.

The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) proudly invites you to their National Summit: Growing from Our Roots. The summit will focus on four key areas: uplifting voices, building capacity, engaging allies, and advocating for policies and practices.

“Walls keep everybody out. Boundaries teach people where the door is.” This discussion will focus on the importance of boundaries as a fundamental tool for building healthy and productive relationships with clients, colleagues, and partners. Panelists will explore how to uncover your boundaries, tools for communicating your boundaries, the reasons we sometimes struggle with enforcing our boundaries, and how our boundaries change and evolve over time.

This Fireside session from the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center will share how Tribes and Tribal organizations can develop their sustainable responses, including responding to challenges to best meet the needs of survivors and Tribal communities by pooling together different federal funds and maximizing impact.