VAWnet Event Calendar

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of intervention. Part one of this series looked at how to handle misinformation and audience resistance in real time. In part two, we’ll focus on what you can do before and after those moments. We’ll cover setting up a team-teaching agreement, including when to step in for each other, how to leverage each other's strengths, and how to establish clear communication norms. We’ll also look at the difference between reacting and responding, and how to build the muscle memory needed to stay grounded in the moment.

Every day, you pour time, heart, and energy into helping others. This webinar gives you permission to turn that same care inward. You’ll learn practical financial tools and habits that help you feel steady, prepared, and more in control of your future, even when the work around you is demanding and unpredictable.

We are often called upon to engage in challenging conversation with clients, staff, partners, and funders. These conversations stretch our skills in crisis response, negotiation, empathy, strategizing, and improvisation. They can make us feel anxious, stressed, resentful, and even burned out. This workshop will help reframe difficult confrontations into brave conversations, offering tools to support your work and ample time for conversation and practice.

Get ready to bring your passion for advocacy to NOVA52 in 2026! NOVA’s 52nd Annual Training Event is your chance to learn, connect, and recharge alongside advocates from across the country.

This unique training will focus on the intersection of technology and domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. We 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. We’ll look at understanding and accessing technology abuse, safety planning, intimate image abuse, stalkerware, online data, and technology facilitated advocacy.

The National Sexual Assault Conference® (NSAC) brings together over 2,000 advocates committed to ending sexual abuse, assault, and harassment. This annual event is filled with opportunities to advance learning, develop skills, share information, build relationships, and increase our capacity to assert the dignity of all people. Together at NSAC, we build strong partnerships and strategies that strengthen our work to end sexual violence. Respect Together will host NSAC 2026 in Washington, D.C., August 19-21, 2026.