Advocacy Initiated Response (AIR): Although many of our member domestic violence programs are already utilizing this approach, many are just now looking at how an advocacy initiated approach can increase safety and services for domestic violence victims. Understanding that at the first sign of conflict in the home, the immediate involvement of community based advocates can be crucial to preventing future injury creates a shift in how that initial victim contact occurs. Please join us… Continue Reading Brown Bag Series #3: Advocate Initiated Response

Violence Free Colorado announces our virtual Legislative Education and Advocacy Day! Violence Free Colorado is pleased to announce our virtual Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) webinar! Please plan to join Lydia Waligorski, Public Policy Director, on Tuesday, March 17th from 11:30-1PM. Participation in the LEAD webinar will equip you with information on current proposed legislation to advocate effectively in support or opposition of bills that impact that impact survivors with your state legislators, advancing… Continue Reading Violence Free Colorado’s Virtual LEAD Event

Join us for the most highly anticipated event of the year! This year's event will be the BIGGEST and BEST yet, featuring acrobatic performances, artistry, Cajun food and cocktails, a live auction and DJ! Purchase your ticket now - they're going fast! Doors open at 6:00p.m. Individual tickets $50 Tables $350 (8 seats) - Enter Promo Code TABLE8 and enter your 7 guests' names. Student Discount (Enter Promo Code STUDENT. *Must be 18 or older… Continue Reading 5th Annual Mardi Gras Charity Ball

Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse as a Confidential Community-based Advocate While confidentiality is part and parcel for community-based advocacy, what does that mean around mandated reporting? What about when working with adolescents? What about providing advocacy for children? Is there a difference between sexual assault and domestic violence? What can seem cut and dry, can lead to question after question. Advocates usually have the best answers concerning safety and well-being based on the experience of… Continue Reading Violence Free Colorado’s Brown Bag Series #4

With a focus on children, this 2-day event will bring together multidisciplinary national and regional experts presenting in the fields of therapeutic interventions, cultural and developmental considerations, and judicial and legal systems. Register now at www.safesheltersymposium.org.

Day 2 With a focus on children, this 2-day event will bring together multidisciplinary national and regional experts presenting in the fields of therapeutic interventions, cultural and developmental considerations, and judicial and legal systems. Register now at www.safesheltersymposium.org.

The theme for the 2015 Sexual Assault Summit XIV is Start By Believing to promote changing the way we approach sexual assault in our communities and how we support survivors of sexual assault from the beginning.  

This will be the 5th installment of Violence Free Colorado's monthly BROWN BAG Teleconference Series! Each month of 2015, you are invited to join Violence Free Colorado staff and experts from advocacy organizations around the state for a Brown Bag conversation!  Whether you already have a multi-agency team, have a team that is struggling, or are thinking about starting one this discussion can help clarify the process a CCR team uses.  The CCR team process is a… Continue Reading Violence Free Colorado’s Brown Bag Series #5: CCR

There is an urgent need to intervene with people who use abusive behaviors with their intimate partners given the tremendous emotional, physical, and financial harm which results from their actions. Efforts by professionals to better understand, identify, and intervene with these men are appropriate, timely, and important. Research that typologizes batterers (domestic violence offenders) was introduced in the late 1970’s by a few pioneering researchers and has continued to evolve. While the efficacy of a… Continue Reading Violence Free Colorado’s Brown Bag Discussion #6: Batterer Typologies