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

Whether you have a barely formed interagency team, a Coordinated Community Response (CCR) that is facing hurdles, a domestic violence organization that wants to develop a CCR in your community or a well-established team that wants to further develop skills, this is the pre-conference institute for you. This training will offer core leaders in any CCR/ inter-agency effort — coordinators, advocates, prosecutors, and law enforcement ideas on how to strengthen, expand, and give new direction… Continue Reading Pre-Conference Institute: CCR

The Colorado Advocacy in Action Conference is co-hosted annually by Violence Free Colorado (Violence Free Colorado) and the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CCASA). The Coalitions collaborate on this event in order to provide training and education that is based on best and promising practices for addressing sexual and domestic violence, and to ensure that services for survivors are as consistent and comprehensive as possible. Colorado Advocacy in Action is the only statewide conference specific… Continue Reading Colorado Advocacy in Action Conference

More info on this month's topic to come! 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!  We hope you’ll join us! For more information, please contact Beth Collins: ecollins(at)violencefreeco.org

This presentation will focus on Domestic Violence through the perspectives of child witnesses. Participants will develop an increased knowledge and awareness of characteristics of a Perpetrator of Domestic violence as seen through their child's eyes, specifically focusing on traumatic bonds and the impact of interviewing child witnesses of DV. They will understand the developmental and neurological impact on children who experience domestic violence and will learn interventions to assist children exposed to domestic violence, as… Continue Reading Through the Eyes of a Child: Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence

More info on this month's topic to come! 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!  We hope you’ll join us! For more information, please contact Beth Collins: ecollins(at)violencefreeco.org

Ever wanted to change the world but felt like the challenge was just too great? Many of the online tools that we use in our work and personal, everyday lives can be harnessed to create effective, long-lasting change. Many scoff at the use of online petitions, hashtags, and other new media tools for activism, but if properly used they are invaluable tools for the average citizen and organizations seeking social justice. During the workshop we’ll… Continue Reading Community Education Series