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When Love Hurts: Protecting Black Mothers
2025-10-03 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Nevada CARES: Domestic Violence Awareness Month
2025-10-02 17:00 - 20:00
✨ 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

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

Webinar: Breaking the Trauma Bond
2025-10-01 16:00 - 17:00
About this event

Health • Mental health

Toxic relationships can leave deep wounds, but healing begins with clarity and support. In this weekly session, Marcela Lima will guide you through the psychology of trauma bonds, emotional recovery, and the process of rebuilding self-trust. Together, we’ll explore topics like spotting subtle manipulation, setting boundaries that stick, and breaking unhealthy cycles once and for all. Each session offers a safe space to share, reflect, and leave with tools you can put into practice immediately. Whether you’re still untangling yourself from toxic dynamics or focused on creating your next chapter, this space is here to help you step into clarity, empowerment, and freedom.
Session Goals & Outcomes:
✅ Recognize toxic patterns and red flags early.
✅ Learn practical tools to break trauma bonds, set boundaries, and rebuild self-trust.
✅ Find empowerment through shared stories and leave each session feeling stronger and more supported.
🎤 Speaker Bio: Marcela Lima — Trauma-Informed Relationship Coach & DV Advocate
Marcela Lima is a trauma-informed relationship coach and domestic violence advocate who has helped hundreds of people break free from toxic relationships and reclaim their sense of self. Through her coaching, social media platforms, and speaking engagements, she combines practical tools with deep empathy to support survivors in rebuilding confidence, setting healthy boundaries, and creating lives they’re excited to live.

SCRIPT: Stop the Stigma
2025-09-30 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-29 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.

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

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

Varsha
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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

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.

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

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

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

National Day of Action June 5th
2025-06-05
🗓️ SAVE THE DATE – June 5 is our national #DayOfAction to demand federal funding for sexual assault and domestic violence services.
Mark Your Calendar. Tell Your Community. Raise Your Voice.
Lives are on the line. Programs are closing. Congress must act.
Join us and raise your voice: survivors and communities are counting on it. #FundSafetyNow #ProtectVictims #SavetheDate

How To Contact Your Members of Congress

Who is your Member of Congress?
You can find your Senator at https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact and your Representative at https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house?ZIP=.
Call their office
To contact your Senators and Representative by phone, call the US Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to these offices, or find their phone numbers on their websites.
Email their staff directly
If possible, we recommend this method of contacting your Member’s office, as it allows you to build a relationship with the staffer who is working on our issues for the Member of Congress and share your concerns directly with them. See here for a staff contact list. We suggest emailing their women’s issues staff, their judiciary staff, their legislative directors, and their appropriations staff.
Email through their website
To contact your Senators and Representatives by email, go to their website and click on the ‘contact us’ link.
Call and Email Scripts

While the call and email scripts below were drafted for victim service providers, they can also be used by individuals who are passionate about supporting victims and survivors but may not represent a program. Just take out the language in brackets!
House and Senate Call Script:
I’m calling from [XXXX program in] XXX town/state to urge Rep./Sen.XXX to take immediate action to protect and support increased federal funding to serve victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. Federal grants from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Centers for Disease and Control (CDC) are essential to our program.
Right now we’re facing major problems with delays, grant terminations across the field, programmatic restructuring, loss of staff, delayed posting of NOFOs, and lack of communication that are causing serious uncertainty and alarm. We need reliable, stable, and timely federal funding to continue to provide safety, support and services and people experiencing violence.Please ask Rep./Sen. XXX to commit to protecting this critical funding and investing in lifesaving resources.
House and Senate Email Script:
I’m am writing to urge Rep./Sen. XXX to help us maintain our FY25 federal funding and fight for increased FY26 federal funding so that we can maintain services to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. [I work at XXX program in XXX town/state serving victims in (list of) counties. Our program provides an essential public safety response to violent crime in our community.]
I’m writing to urge Rep./Sen. XXX to fight for funding to support grant programs from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women and Office for Victims of Crime and the HHS Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services and the CDC Division of Violence Prevention which are essential for our program to serve victims. Recent grant terminations, delays, programmatic restructuring, loss of staff, delayed postings of NOFOs, and lack of communication are causing grave insecurity and alarm. If our program [loses funding/has to reduce services/is terminated], we could have to lay off staff and turn victims and survivors away from services they desperately need.
To combat domestic violence and sexual assault effectively and directly serve victims, we need our grants to be reliable, stable, and timely. Please ask Rep./Sen. XXX to protect these grants, push for immediate restoration of rescinded funds, and ensure robust investments in FY26. Victims and survivors, their families, and their communities depend on it.

RED ROBIN FUNDRAISER TO BENEFIT NCEDSV
2025-05-24

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

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

NevadaCARES Events
2025-04-30 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-24 15:00 - 17:30
UNR SAAM Calandar_

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

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

Denim & Diamonds - Signs Of Hope
2025-04-30 10:00 - 12:00

D.V.I's Events!
2025-04-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-25 11:00 - 17:00
saam 2025 calendar pdf

Denim Day Workshops
2025-04-29 11:00 - 12:30

Consent Carnival
2025-04-24 19:30 - 23:00, 2025-04-24 15:00 - 17:30
