VAWnet Event Calendar

Join Praxis for an insightful webinar on how advocacy programs can increase access to forensic exams and medical care for rural survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. This session features Jen Pierce-Weeks, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, who will explore innovative advocacy strategies, collaborative partnerships, and survivor-driven solutions that are improving access and outcomes for survivors in underserved rural communities.

Maurice Mitchell's seminal article "Building Resilient Organizations"—co-published in 2022 by NPQ, The Forge, and Convergence—held up a mirror to the challenging internal management and culture of progressive organizations and offered pointed guidance about what people working at these organizations could do to shift toward resilience and joy. It has been read and referenced by thousands of leaders, consultants, and funders in the three-plus years since.

Hosted by the Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED), Space to Speak is a monthly, virtual practice space designe

The work to support survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, teen dating violence, and stalking exacts a high cost on advocates. Engaging in a variety of intentional creative practices can help advocates learn new skills to support survivors and prevent advocate burnout.

Join policymakers, technologists, advocates, researchers, investors, survivors, and lived-experience experts for a global convening on how technology can be designed, deployed, and governed to prevent violence, support survivors, and protect vulnerable communities.

Creating systems of community care within our organizations when government safety nets are dismantled. While many nonprofits have struggled with collaboration, decision-making, and burnout during this extended period of crisis, mutual aid networks have been operating differently—often with fewer resources, no formal hierarchy, and deeper community accountability.