The training will provide an overview of the Colorado Victims Rights Amendment (CVA) to include history, crimes covered under the amendment, and the rights afforded to victims of those crimes. The discussion will focus around who is responsible to uphold victims rights and the process if a victim feels their rights have been violated. Click the website link to register.

Topic Coming Soon Brown Bag 2018 Who: You & your co-workers! (Advocates, shelter staff, program and executive directors, volunteers…the list goes on!) What: Expert perspectives on various advocacy issues. When:  From 12pm-1pm on the second Tuesday of each month Where:  From the comfort of your own office! We hope you’ll join us! For more information, please contact Shannon Day

Please register for VINELink Awareness and Education – Search and Register Training Webinar at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1626484849241733891 The Victim Information & Notification Everyday (VINE) service has gone through exciting enhancements in 2017! These enhancements include changes to VINELink, the public web service for VINE. VINELink can be a valuable tool, used to register victims of crime for notifications of changes in offender custody status. Join Appriss Safety Senior Technical Trainer, Karen Adams, for a 90-minute webinar covering the… Continue Reading VINELink awareness and education – search and register training (webinar)

Interpreting is a real profession, with its own code of ethics, protocol and standards, with the purpose to facilitate access to services for individuals that do not speak the language of service. Most think that it is as easy as speaking another language. It’s not. Speaking two or more languages does not make an interpreter, the same way as helping a child with homework does not make a teacher. In this workshop, you will learn… Continue Reading Working with interpreters in victim services

Please register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1829595433968895233 Advocates working on the Housing for Crime Victims Special Project will share lessons they have learned, successes they have experienced, and challenges they have faced in assisting survivors with long-term housing options. In addition, tips on how to utilize VOCA funds for long-term housing, will be shared. The Housing for Crime Victims Special Project focuses on helping survivors increase access to, and retain safe, long-term housing and providing the necessary supports they… Continue Reading Long-term housing with survivors: Successes, challenges, and tips (webinar)

This 3-day session is designed to help participants advance their roles and careers in non-profit sectors. Explore identity, personal strengths, the meaning of community, and the need for intersectionality with a group of women committed to helping others. There will be daily outings to take in Colorado’s beautiful spring scenery. The Spring session is divided into three workshops: Self-empowerment, Target Communities, and Intersectionality of Oppression. They will be led by facilitators who are experienced in nonprofit work and… Continue Reading Visualize into reality

The Fine Line Between Legitimate Support Activities and the Unauthorized Practice of Law We look forward to having E James Wilder, Assistant Regulation Counsel for the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation on Tuesday, May 8th as we talk about what constitutes the unauthorized practice of law in Colorado. We will also discuss what methods the Colorado Supreme Court uses to regulate it. E. James Wilder is Assistant Regulation Counsel for the Colorado Supreme… Continue Reading Brown Bag: Unauthorized Practice of Law

Safe Shelter’s 2018 symposium will offer significant content for educators, advocates, health professionals, business leaders, service providers, the legal and law enforcement sectors and community members. Through multiple sessions and plenaries, attendees will explore the public health impact of partner abuse on individuals, families and communities. Content will include: Social determinants that encourage or prevent inter partner violence; physical and mental health consequences over the lifetime; connections of violence to addiction and mental illness; consequences… Continue Reading Safe Shelter Symposium: The Impact on Individual and Community Health

Join us June 26-28, 2018 at Little America Hotel, Cheyenne Wyoming! What Wyoming's Joint Symposium on Children and Youth Is All About The WY Crimes Against Children Conference and the WY Children's Justice Conference have merged to create one advanced learning opportunity: Wyoming's Joint Symposium on Children and Youth (WyoJSCY).  The Symposium takes a multidisciplinary approach to promoting innovative methods, distinctive approaches, and promising practices in responding to crimes against children and helping children and families heal.   The WyoJSCY Committee invites… Continue Reading Wyoming’s Joint Symposium on Children and Youth