Stalking survivors are the experts on what it’s like to be stalked — and what responders can do to help. This webinar features a panel of stalking survivors and activists who will discuss their own experiences. They will reflect on what was helpful, challenges they encountered, and how victim service providers and criminal justice responders […]

Multidisciplinary teams are invited to participate in a Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Institute (HT Collaborative Responses Institute). Date:  March 12-14, 2025 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  The Institute will focus on improving collaborative responses to address the needs of domestic violence and sexual assault survivors who have also […]

Ujima, The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, is hosting listening sessions for our project, Domestic Violence Fatality Review Teams: Ensuring Culturally Specific Responses. This project aims to establish and enhance domestic violence fatality review teams’ cultural responsiveness and community engagement. We are conducting these listening sessions to gather valuable insights […]

Calling all prosecutors and allied professionals! Connect with AEquitas Attorney Advisors and your peers on the third Thursday of every month to examine prosecution strategies, emerging issues, promising practices, and more. Join us on January 16, 2025, to discuss the Investigation and Prosecution of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence. The conversation will focus on 1) the challenges […]

Our 2-hour core trainings are great for youth service providers looking to provide essential training to their staff on providing culturally responsive and specific support to LGBTQ+ youth survivors, learning best practices, and providing tangible skills building. This training covers: – Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE) 101 – Barriers to Care – […]

Join Futures Without Violence’s Workplaces Respond and the Stalking Prevention Awareness and Resource Center (SPARC) for a national webinar on how employers, attorneys, and advocates can learn to identify stalking behaviors, gain understanding about the impacts of stalking on survivors and on the workplace, and how employers can better support survivors of stalking.  ASL and […]

Ujima, The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, is hosting listening sessions for our project, Domestic Violence Fatality Review Teams: Ensuring Culturally Specific Responses. This project aims to establish and enhance domestic violence fatality review teams’ cultural responsiveness and community engagement. We are conducting these listening sessions to gather valuable insights […]

Stalking is criminal, traumatic, dangerous and often misunderstood. This webinar provides an introduction to the crime of stalking, focusing on the definition, prevalence, dynamics, behaviors, and intersections with other victimizations (including intimate partner violence). This recurring webinar is offered periodically to provide foundational knowledge on the crime of stalking.

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) affects many women and girls in diverse communities across the United States, yet it remains a hidden practice. Despite ongoing initiatives to address FGM/C, progress is hindered by misunderstandings and limited public awareness, which can hamper efforts to provide social services to survivors of FGM/C and work towards prevention of this […]

Futures Without Violence’s Supporting Organizational Sustainability Institute (SOS Institute), invites executive directors of domestic and sexual violence organizations to participate in the Professional Leadership & Advancement Network (PLAN) Cohort. PLAN is a virtual seven-week course and ongoing cohort to support executive directors in their role to effectively manage, lead, and strengthen their organization’s infrastructure and […]

Survivors of domestic and sexual violence who have also experienced trafficking (DV, SA, HT) often struggle to navigate and connect to safe and affordable mental health services. Survivors face a shortage of clinicians, high healthcare costs, and limited mental health services. Mental health providers have a limited understanding of the complexities of trauma from DV, […]