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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

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233

Keeping it Simple: Promising Practices in Shelter Rule Reduction Shelter rules and guidelines… a topic frequently revisited and yet can seem continuously difficult to manage. As noted in the VAWnet ‘Conflict Resolution Tools for Domestic Violence Shelter Staff’, “Shelter advocates themselves may feel that the lines between structures and rules designed originally to be protective and those that are unnecessarily restrictive have become blurred. Fortunately, an increasing number of domestic violence programs have initiated internal critiques… Continue Reading Violence Free Colorado’s Brown Bag Series #12

Come learn about this innovative approach with us. The lethality assessment protocol (LAP) is a collaborative tool used in domestic violence cases to immediately get the victim in touch with domestic violence victim advocate services and counseling. The immediacy of that contact has been shown to dramatically reduce risk of homicide or serious injury to the victim in the future. The LAP has been in used in Johnson County, KS since 2011 and since then,… Continue Reading Lethality Assessment Protocol Training

Come learn about this innovative approach with us. The lethality assessment protocol (LAP) is a collaborative tool used in domestic violence cases to immediately get the victim in touch with domestic violence victim advocate services and counseling. The immediacy of that contact has been shown to dramatically reduce risk of homicide or serious injury to the victim in the future. The LAP has been in used in Johnson County, KS since 2011 and since then,… Continue Reading Lethality Assessment Protocol Training

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233