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National Prevention Town Hall

From 2020-2025, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence hosted a National Prevention Town Hall in collaboration with regional partners across the United States. These annual events are opportunities to build community, highlight what is emerging across regions, share promising practices, and leverage survivors’ and community voices and experiences to foster transformation in our prevention work.

Open to community leaders, survivors, storytellers, advocates, and activists across the country, the Town Hall was a space for critical conversations and meaningful relationship building across sectors and social justice movements.

The Town Hall explored ways to move towards collective liberation, with Black survivors and advocates at the center.

  • In 2020, the Midwest focused on the integration of anti-racism work, intervention, and prevention into one mission.
  • In 2021, the Southern region focused on survivor-centered prevention and transforming our agencies to center racial justice.
  • In 2022, the Pacific Coast explored how our work is connected to and impacted by our current social and political reality, and what part each of us plays actualizing collective liberation.
  • In 2023, the Northeast engaged participants in conversations around critical issues impacting Black women, youth, and gender expansive individuals, towards building solidarity across movements.
  • For 2024, the Mountain Region uplifted programs that center historically marginalized peoples through reconnection, restoration, and re-indigenizing.
  • For 2025, the final Town Hall brought together all regions across the United States to explore the possibilities for sustaining and advancing prevention through collaboration.

Each event resource listing includes recommendations and calls to action, session recordings and related materials, and reflections and key takeaways.

Let’s keep the conversation going! We invite you to join a community of change makers in exploring, growing and learning together.

Midwest 2020: Advancing Our Collective Liberation
On September 14, 2020, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, hosted our first ever National Prevention Town Hall, highlighting innovative social change efforts in the East North Central Region of the United States.

The event brought together community leaders, survivors, storytellers, advocates, and activists to pivot our intimate partner violence prevention work in response to the inequities that COVID has laid bare.

“This was an amazing town hall and I have never been more energized and motivated to be apart of this movement. I loved that you all highlighted the importance of inclusion and intersectionality in this work… We cannot remain silent on the inequities that eventually touch us all… The resilience, beauty, and intelligence shown throughout this town hall was so uplifting!” - Town Hall Participant

South 2021: No Survivor Justice Without Racial Justice
The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Southern region of the United States, held our second virtual Prevention Town Hall on October 28 and 29, 2021. This event was an opportunity to dig deeply into the theme for Domestic Violence Awareness Month: No Survivor Justice Without Racial Justice across 2 days:

Day 1: Survivor-Centered Prevention
Day 2: Transforming Our Agencies to Center Racial Justice

This event explored prevention strategies that center survivors who are most marginalized, uplifted grassroots and community-based organizing, honored the leadership of survivors and advocates who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and promoted real transformative change that centers racial justice in our agencies.
Pacific Coast 2022: Prevention is Radical
The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Pacific Coast region of the United States, held our third virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 14 and 15, 2022. This event was an opportunity to dig deeply into the theme Prevention is Radical across 2 days.

This event uplifted innovative prevention approaches in the Pacific Coast region of the United states that are community-driven, rooted in cultural strengths, and focused on relationship building. Together, participants explored how our work is connected to and impacted by our current social and political reality, and what part each of us plays actualizing collective liberation.

“Trust Black women. Trust Black people. We have been showing you the way for centuries in anti-violence, and on the issue of social justice and practice, we haven’t been wrong." - Michelle Osbourne

Northeast 2023: Solidarity Across Movements
The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Northeast region of the United States, held our fourth virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 13 and 14, 2023. This event was an opportunity to uplift innovative prevention approaches that build solidarity across movements to disrupt systems of violence that disproportionately harm Black women and gender expansive individuals.

This two-day event explored ways to support Black survivors as leaders in our movement and build meaningful partnerships with Black-led movements and organizations. Presenters engaged participants in conversations around critical issues impacting Black women, youth, and gender expansive individuals including reproductive justice and housing as a basic human need and right.
Mountain Region 2024: "We Are Each Other's Harvest"
The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Mountain region of the United States, held our fifth virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 24 and 25, 2024.

What does prevention look like when rooted in community and culture, outside of systems? This space offered a virtual gallery tour of innovative change-making projects, collectives, and approaches that fuel us all forward.

Presenters explored creative, sustainable approaches for advancing social change in the face of uncertainty. Across all aspects of our movement work – from housing rights to survivor healing to restorative justice – each of us plays a critical part in creating the world we wish to live into together. In the words of Gwendolyn Brooks, “We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”

"'Courageously loving myself’ are you kidding – I will think about this beautiful phrase everyday. Also I take away lots of pivotal programs and strategies other community members implement for further inspiration within community." - Town Hall Participant

2025: Collaboration is the Way Forward
For 2025, the final Town Hall brought together all regions across the United States to explore the possibilities for sustaining and advancing prevention through collaboration.