VAWnet Event Calendar

Join the Bridges to Better team to expand your knowledge on the ways legal protections and social supports can create meaningful pathways to keep families out of child welfare and children out of foster care.

During this webinar, Dr. Jennifer E. Storey will utilize a case example to navigate participants through a discussion of factors that increase vulnerability for abuse amongst the older population, as well as factors that increase an individual’s potential to cause harm against older adults.

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.