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Denim & Diamonds - Signs Of Hope
2025-04-30 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

UNLV Denim Day Installation
2025-04-30 10:00 - 14:00

Denim Day at The Legislature
2025-04-30 11:30 - 13:00

NevadaCARES Events
2025-04-30 12:00 - 14:00
UNR SAAM Calandar_

Denim Day Movie Night - Tahoe Art House
2025-04-30 17:00 - 21:00

ITCN Denim Day Bingo
2025-04-30 17:30 - 19:00

Providing Culturally Grounded Services for Native American Clients: Providing Grounded Services Basics
2025-06-04 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-11 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-18 11:00 - 12:30
Tribal Training flyer

83rd Legislative Session Debrief
2025-06-17 10:00 - 11:30
End of Session Debrief

PROVIDING SEXUALITY EDUCATION FOR YOUTH WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
2025-07-02 10:00 - 14:30, 2025-07-03 10:00 - 14:30
PSE for Youth w Disabilities.IG

Training: Self-Care Healing Circle
2025-07-23 11:00 - 12:00
This virtual Self-Care Healing Circle offers advocates serving Indigenous communities a respectful and supportive space to explore self-care and address vicarious trauma. Grounded in traditional Indigenous practices, the Healing Circle uses a talking piece to foster inclusive, uninterrupted dialogue and mutual learning. Participants are encouraged to bring an object to serve as their virtual talking piece, helping to create a meaningful and culturally rooted experience.

NEDSV Pathways to Prevention Conference
2025-09-09 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-10 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-11 09:00 - 17:00
September 9-11, 2025
Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St Reno, NV 89502
Registration link below.
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Pathways to Prevention

Everyone has their own strengths, both as advocates and as individuals, but how often do we have the conversation about how to use them effectively to make a difference? Working in advocacy involves performing a lot of different roles, and we’re naturally better at some of those than others. This year’s conference will focus in on how to use our skills in the best ways possible, whether you’re a new or seasoned advocate, and wherever your experiences lie. Join us for three days of engaging with your strengths and building your skills, so that we can all find our collective courage together.
12 Continuing Education Credits Available:

Alcohol, Drug, and Gambling Counselors
Community Health Workers
Community Health Workers (CHW)
Continuing Legal Education
Domestic Violence Programs
Doula
Marriage and Family Therapists
Peer Support Specialists
Peer Recovery Support Specialists (PRSS)
Peer Recovery Support Specialist Supervisors (PRSS-S)
Social Work

Conference Plenaries

Marlee Liss

Richard Smith

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Thank you to our Core Conference Sponsors!

This training is supported by the Administration for Children and Families, Family Violence Prevention and Services, Grant No. 2201NVSTC6. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act.

For information on Conference sponsorship opportunities, contact Lorena Canales at lorenac@ncedsv.org

SCRIPT: Stop the Stigma
2025-09-29 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-30 09:00 - 17:00
About this event

Community • Other

2025 Theme
Displacement, Reconnection, and Survival: How Can We Help Each Other?
SCRIPT brings awareness to the complex issues surrounding survivors of violence and trauma while also providing community resources to help heal deep, far-reaching wounds. These resources include leadership from existing programs, individual community intervention volunteers, and entities that aim to build a robust network of people dedicated to stopping violence and trauma. Through this collaboration, we can develop a strong foundation for strategy related to topics centered around constant community change and reform. Collaboration can occur among various segments of our community, including law enforcement, social services, schools, clergy, family, friends, organizational members, and mission-oriented individuals. We are all living together in this quickly shifting society. This year at SCRIPT, our goal is to facilitate an interactive discussion and create a safe space among different sectors of our society regarding the issues we face as a community, and to lead the way in promoting healthy exchanges for action and resolution. We plan to explore this topic by inviting our presenters and community partners to lead conversations on feelings of displacement, reconnection, and survival. Coping strategies and social change applications are highly encouraged. Our goal is to stand as a bridge, offering support, healing, and solidarity in times of disconnection and uncertainty.
We are pleased to offer Continuing Education (CE) credits for a flat fee, approved by the American Psychological Association (APA). These credits may be applicable for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCCs), Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs), and Psychologists in most states.
Please consult your state licensing board to confirm acceptance of these credits. We are not responsible for individual state requirements.
To receive CE credit, participants must attend all sessions in their entirety and complete the required attendance verification and course evaluation.
The flat CE fee covers all eligible sessions offered during the conference. On average, participants can earn between 20 to 30 CE credits over the course of the two-day event.

PCDVI Annual Soup & Salad Fundraiser
2025-10-01 17:00 - 19:00

Nevada CARES: Domestic Violence Awareness Month
2025-10-02 17:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-07 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-14 18:00 - 22:00
✨ Big news! ✨ NevadaCARES is celebrating Domestic Violence Awareness Month all October long with not one, not two, but THREE amazing events! 💜
🔥 S’more Than a Fright
🥯 Bagels & Boundaries
🎬 Movie Night: Twilight Edition
Plus… we’re dropping 3 exclusive stickers you won’t want to miss! 👀✨
Join us as we spread awareness, show support, and create fun spaces for DVAM. 💜 #DVAM #NevadaCARES

Festival Familiar
2025-10-07 17:00 - 19:00 | Kianga Isoke Palacio Park at Doolittle Complex, 1950 North J St.

Resilient Women Wellness Day in Honor Of Domestic Violence Awareness Month
2025-10-26 12:00 - 15:00 | 4343 North Rancho Drive #Ste 228 Las Vegas, NV 89130, 4343 North Rancho Drive, Ste 228, Las Vegas, NV, 89130
Join us for a day of empowerment and self-care to celebrate the strength and resilience of women, in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month!
Resilient Women Wellness Day in Honor Of Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Come join us at Bllack Hair & Shop for a day of empowerment and self-care! This event is dedicated to celebrating the strength of women who have overcome domestic violence. Take part in workshops, yoga sessions, and pampering treatments to nourish your mind, body, and soul. Connect with other resilient women and share your stories in a safe and supportive environment. Let’s stand together and raise awareness during this special month. See you there!

Date and time

Sunday, October 26 · 12 – 3pm PDT

Location

Bllack Hair & Shop
4343 North Rancho Drive #Ste 228 Las Vegas, NV 89130

The Imperfect Victim: How Economic Justice Intersects with Victimization and Risk Factors
2025-12-02 10:00 - 11:30
Training Synopsis:
For the last forty years, criminalization has been the primary response to violence against women in the United States. One serious consequence of the turn to the criminal legal system has been the increasing criminalization of victims of violence. Victims of violence are regularly arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and punished for crimes related to their own victimization. This happens, in part, because the criminal legal system only protects “perfect” victims, who have traditionally been portrayed as meek, passive, and more often women. But most victims of violence are “imperfect” victims in some way—they fail to conform to these victimization stereotypes. The “perfect victim” myth is deeply intertwined with systems of economic inequality: survivors who lack stable housing, reproductive autonomy, living wages, or healthcare access are more likely to be viewed as “imperfect” and thus undeserving of protection. Meanwhile, the criminalization of survival strategies—from sex work to substance use—further marginalizes those whose economic circumstances push them outside the narrow bounds of “respectability.” And in a criminal legal system that only recognizes one victim and one offender, once a victim of violence is labelled an offender or worse, a criminal defendant, their victimization is no longer legible to the system. This training will introduce the idea of imperfect victims, trace how (beginning in childhood) imperfect victims become trapped in the criminal legal system, and suggest policy interventions to prevent the revictimization of imperfect victims.

About the Trainer:

Leigh Goodmark, Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development and Marjorie Cook Professor of LawUniversity of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Leigh Goodmark (she/hers) is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and director of the Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She is the author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (University of California Press 2023); Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (University of California Press 2018) and A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System (New York University 2012). She is the co-editor of The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives (Oxford 2023) and Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide (Oxford 2015). Professor Goodmark’s work on intimate partner violence has appeared in numerous journals, law reviews, and publications, including Violence Against Women, the New York Times, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Gender and the Law, and the Yale Journal on Law and Feminism. From 2003 to 2014, Professor Goodmark was on the faculty at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she served as Director of Clinical Education and Co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism. From 2000 to 2003, Professor Goodmark was the Director of the Children and Domestic Violence Project at the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. Before joining the Center on Children and the Law, Professor Goodmark represented clients in the District of Columbia in custody, visitation, child support, restraining order, and other civil matters. Professor Goodmark is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School.

Coerced Debt in Nevada: Screening, Advocacy, and Survivor Pathways to Relief
2026-01-28 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
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5th Annual Missing And Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Conference
2026-05-03 08:00 - 2026-05-05 17:00 | Elko Convention Center, 700 Moren Way, Elko, NV, 89801, United States
The crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) continues to impact Native communities across the nation. The 5th Annual MMIP Awareness Conference, held May 3–5 at the Elko Convention Center, brings together survivors, advocates, community members, and professionals to honor lives lost, share knowledge, and strengthen collective responses. Click HERE for registration form.

2026-06-30 09:00 - 12:30
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Registration is now open for the Victim Assistance Academy of Nevada (VAAN), a 40-hour, in-person training designed to strengthen the skills and knowledge of those who support victims of crime.
REGISTER NOW: 2026 Victim Assistance Academy of Nevada – Coalition Manager
Since 2014, VAAN has equipped advocates and allied professionals across Nevada with foundational, trauma-informed practices. Originally established by the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services and guided by community partners, this critical training is now led by the Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence (NCEDSV) to ensure it continues to meet the evolving needs of our communities.
VAAN is approved by the National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP), and participants who complete the training are eligible to apply for Credentialed Advocate (CA) status; an important step in advancing your professional development and impact.
Whether you are new to the field or looking to deepen your expertise, VAAN offers a meaningful opportunity to build skills, connect with peers, and strengthen your ability to support survivors.
Spots are limited and fill quickly, secure your place today.
For more information about credentialing, visit: https://trynova.org/credentialing/nacp/
We look forward to learning with you.
