Prevention Trainings: 

• Identifying practical ways to implement evidence-based or evidence-informed prevention strategies; and
• Learning how to engage new partners to build your organization’s capacity to provide on-going education to adolescents about promoting healthy relationships and preventing sexual violence

Collaboration to Protect Victims, Children and Communities from DV Abusers’ Access to Firearms in Nevada

• As a result of this webinar, participants will be better able to identify the dangerousness posed by domestic violence perpetrators to their intimate partners as a result to access to firearms, including from Nevada statistics.  The presenter will describe the legal authority in Nevada to address firearms in domestic violence protection orders, and participants will learn how to actively participate in efforts to develop more effective policies, practices, and forms to prevent people prohibited from possessing firearms as a result of protection orders.
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Hanging Out or Hooking Up

• Webinar addressing adolescent relationship abuse and the promotion of healthy relationships

NCEDSV School Training Series

• 3-part webinar series to preventing sexual harassment, violence and misconduct in middle and high schools

Prevention is Not a 4-Letter Word: Conversations About Ending Sexual Violence

• 3-part webinar series to increase participant’s knowledge on primary prevention

Beyond Labels – NCEDSV partners with SAFE to offer a three-part training series to support advocates who work with clients with co-occurring issues

• 3-part webinar series to increase participant knowledge on working with populations facing additional needs

Community Specific: identifying best practices in serving survivors in your community.

Topical Training Series 2023: Pride Month

• Join expert trainers in a four-week virtual series to expand your knowledge on working with LGBTQIA+ community members.

Supporting Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities who are Struggling in Abusive Relationships

• This presentation will give attendees a basic understanding of disabilities and how adolescents and young adults with developmental disabilities are targeted for abuse. Intervention and prevention strategies will be discussed to ensure that survivors with developmental disabilities are receiving survivor-centered, trauma-informed assistance from domestic and sexual violence advocacy programs. Staff from disability service organizations will receive a basic understanding of relationship abuse effecting people with developmental disabilities, its warning signs and risk factors, strategies on how to help survivors and how to offer appropriate referrals to community-based domestic and sexual violence advocacy programs. The presentation is open to domestic and sexual violence advocates, staff working with disability service organizations, educators, and parents with adolescents who have developmental disabilities. This is an introductory level presentation.

Advocacy for LGBTQIA+ Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence – VANN

• This training covers a basic overview of LGBTQIA+ terminology and history, as well as the prevalence of IPV in the LGBTQIA+ community, and gives practical tips on conducting outreach.  It will also give tips on shelter inclusivity and integration, and how to move an agency away from heteronormative practices.

Economic Justice

Deepening Our Economic Justice Work

This recorded webinar featuring Kim Pentico from the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), will be exploring different aspects of economic justice as prevention work. This webinar will explore macro versus micro economic justice work, provide a better understanding of the history and current economic justice policy, and examine how to look internally at your own economic justice challenges.

Economic Justice Forum Series

The Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence (NCEDSV) is hosting a virtual five-part forum series, focusing on economic justice as a tool for sexual violence prevention in Nevada. Each forum will explore a specific economic justice priority, and will feature panelists with expertise in these areas.

The Allstate Foundation Moving Ahead Curriculum

Financial planning and management is a life-long process – and your journey to gain control of your financial future can start here. This online curriculum is designed for domestic violence survivors and can help provide the guidance and tools you need to make important financial decisions and work toward gaining long-term financial security.

Vicarious Trauma with Dr. Rebecca Campbell

• In this webinar, Dr. Rebecca Campbell will explain the effect of vicarious trauma on the brain, including how the body and brain respond to trauma, and how it affects those in professions with high levels of vicarious trauma.Dr. Rebecca Campbell is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. She holds a Ph.D. in community psychology with a concentration in statistics, also from Michigan State University. For the past 25 years, she has been conducting community-based research on violence against women and children, with an emphasis on sexual assault. Dr. Campbell’s research examines how contact with the legal and medical systems affects adult, adolescent, and pediatric victims’ psychological and physical health. Most recently, she was the lead researcher for the National Institute of Justice-funded Detroit Sexual Assault Kit Action Research Project, which was a four-year multidisciplinary study of Detroit’s untested rape kits. Dr. Campbell also conducts training for law enforcement and multidisciplinary practitioners in civilian, military, and campus community settings on the neurobiology of trauma. In 2015, Dr. Campbell received the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, Vision 21 Crime Victims Research Award.

This training is supported by the Nevada State Department of Health and Human Services from the Administration for Children and Families, Family Violence Prevention and Services Act through 2201NVFTC6. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Division nor the State of Nevada.