VAWnet Event Calendar

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.

Join Praxis for an insightful webinar on how advocacy programs can strengthen their services for survivors who are agricultural workers. This session features Kimber Nicoletti-Martinez, who will discuss key considerations for survivors in rural and agricultural settings, highlight gaps in access for survivors, and examine the unique challenges facing survivors, advocacy programs, and communities.

Economic (or financial abuse) is a pervasive form of power and control, with research showing that it occurs in 99 percent of domestic violence cases. The outcomes of economic abuse are devastating for survivors, including making legal representation inaccessible, impacting how courts determine what is in the best interest of the parties’ children, and affecting the ability of survivors to comply with court orders and requirements.

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 COVA Conference is amongst the largest victim services conferences in the country, and the only conference of its kind in Colorado. Over the course of 2.5 days, featuring 2 Keynotes and 72 workshops, join us to learn new skills and best practices for the crime victim services field. Workshops cover the following track topics: