VAWnet Event Calendar

In this webinar, Dr. Kathleen Ferraro will explore the benefits and practicalities of collateral interviews to expand our understanding of the lives of victims and perpetrators in fatality reviews.

This webinar will focus on basic interstate custody and relocation issues for advocates. Presenters will provide participants with an overview of the various federal and state laws that govern interstate custody cases and is designed for advocates who wish to understand how these laws fit together.

This webinar will discuss lessons learned and experiences from the field around ensuring meaningful and effective communication with all survivors, with a special focus on situations that involve multiple language needs, languages of limited diffusion and scarce resources.

Is your program ready to use chat, text, or video to work with survivors? This webinar will look at the benefits and risks of providing services through technology.

The built environment of communal living shelter facilities and the ramifications that come from accommodating those physical structures create barriers to LGBTQ access to services. This webinar will push programs to re-think traditional approaches to communal emergency shelter and offer new concepts for the physical shelter environment as well as emerging best practices for “sheltering."

Advocates’ skills and expertise make them uniquely qualified to lead community efforts to develop effective, empowerment-based responses to risks posed by abusive intimate partners with access to firearms, but their role is too often minimized. This webinar will provide participants with the knowledge, perspective, and skills to garner the necessary public support to make positive, lasting, impactful change.