Violence Free Colorado

Close to Home Campaign Launch
2015-11-05 07:30 - 09:00 (America/Denver) | History Colorado, 1200 Broadway Street, Denver, CO, United States

Statewide At Home Movie Night
2015-10-25 17:00 - 19:00 | C
Join Violence Free Colorado and other programs around Colorado this Sunday, October 25th, at 5pm for a statewide movie night IN YOUR OWN HOME. That’s right! You can interact with folks from around the state from the comfort of your couch.
Choose a movie, invite some friends, pop some popcorn, and hop on Twitter or FB to share your thoughts! Use #DVAMColorado.
We’ve even got Bingo Cards you can use.‬ In fact, you can play #DVAMColorado BINGO for a chance to win 4 free passes to the Butterfly Pavilion!
Here’s how:
Play ‪#‎DVAMColorado‬ BINGO with Violence Free Colorado and DV advocacy programs across Colorado on October 25th at 5pm during our statewide at home movie night!
Post your completed BINGO card on Twitter or FB using #DVAMColorado and you’ll be entered to win.
Download your BINGO cards here: https://www.violencefreecolorado.org/wp-conte…/uploads/…/09/DVAM-Bingo-Cards.pdf
Check it all out: https://www.violencefreecolorado.org/community-film/#filmideas

Purple Light Nights Kick-Off
2015-10-03 08:00 - 17:00 | Highlands Cork and Coffee, 3701 W. 32nd, Denver, Denver, CO, 80211, United States
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
PURPLE LIGHT NIGHTS
Latina Safehouse
Let a light shine on your porch or business from October 1-31st

Remember those who lost their lives
Support the survivors
Bring hope to those still being abused

“Domestic Violence Has NO Place In Our Community”
Lights available at the Purple Light Nights Kick-Off
The Kick-Off Program will include guest speakers from the community
Featuring Master of Ceremonies Jesse Ogas
Live Music with DJ Danny Valenzuela from KUVO (Latin Soul Nites & Cancion Mexicana)

Denver DVAM Kickoff Event
2015-10-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington St, Denver, CO, 80205, United States

Violence Free Colorado's Brown Bag Series #9: DVAM: Around the State in 60 Minutes
2015-09-16 12:00 - 13:00 | C
Join Violence Free Colorado’s Amy Pohl and members from this year’s DVAM Workgroup to share resources and ideas for engaging your staff, survivors, and communities in domestic violence awareness activities this October. This is an opportunity to hear from Violence Free Colorado and others and to spread the word on what YOU are up to for DVAM: how you’re raising awareness in your communities and any events or activities you have planned.
We’ll also discuss upcoming awareness months in 2016 (National Stalking Awareness Month, TDV Awareness Month, and Child Abuse Prevention Month all are just around the corner) and would love to get your input on the kind of resources you need to be prepared.
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!
Register Here!
For more information, please contact apohl(at)violencefreeco.org

7th Annual Taste of Fall
2015-09-12 17:30 - 21:00 | The Grand Ballroom at the Inn at Silvercreek Granby, CO, 62927 US Highway 40, Granby, 80446, United States
Come enjoy an evening filled with delicious food from our favorite local restaurants along with a fabulous assortment of wines and local beers to try! There will be music by Gary Key and Friends, Amy Pohl from Violence Free Colorado (Violence Free Colorado) as our Keynote speaker and a large silent auction. Come enjoy a fun evening out while supporting the Grand County Advocates and our mission to end domestic and sexual violence here in Grand County, CO.

DVAM Kickoff Event
2015-09-11 08:00 - 17:00 | C

Community Education Series
2015-08-12 08:00 - 12:00 | St. Catejan’s Event Center, Auraria Campus, Denver, CO, United States
Ever wanted to change the world but felt like the challenge was just too great? Many of the online tools that we use in our work and personal, everyday lives can be harnessed to create effective, long-lasting change. Many scoff at the use of online petitions, hashtags, and other new media tools for activism, but if properly used they are invaluable tools for the average citizen and organizations seeking social justice. During the workshop we’ll look at the strengths and weaknesses of several online tools and how to use that information to create a strategy for harnessing social change.
Please bring your own technology (laptop preferable, but tablet and/or smartphone is OK)!
About the Presenter: Wagatwe Wanjuki is an activist and writer who started blogging about feminism and the campus rape culture as a student at Tufts University. Since then, she’s continued to focus her work on using new media to advance social change on such issues as ending campus sexual violence. As a digital strategist she has worked on progressive causes for over five years with various organizations including ColorOfChange, Free Press, and RH Reality Check. She is the founder of F— Yeah Feminists, one of the first and most popular feminist blogs on Tumblr.
$25-50

Violence Free Colorado's Brown Bag Series #8
2015-08-11 12:00 - 13:00 | C
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

Through the Eyes of a Child: Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence
2015-07-27 12:00 - 16:30 | University of Denver, Craig Hall, 2148 S High St, Denver, CO, 80208, United States
This presentation will focus on Domestic Violence through the perspectives of child witnesses. Participants will develop an increased knowledge and awareness of characteristics of a Perpetrator of Domestic violence as seen through their child’s eyes, specifically focusing on traumatic bonds and the impact of interviewing child witnesses of DV. They will understand the developmental and neurological impact on children who experience domestic violence and will learn interventions to assist children exposed to domestic violence, as well as, interventions for perpetrators and non-offending parents.

Cost of event:
General Registration $60 | Alumni, Adjuncts & Field Instructors $45 | Current Students $30

Violence Free Colorado's Brown Bag Series #7
2015-07-14 12:00 - 13:00 | C

Colorado Advocacy in Action Conference
2015-06-15 - 2015-06-17 | Vail Marriott Resort and Spa, 715 West Lionshead Circle, Vail, CO, 81657, United States
The Colorado Advocacy in Action Conference is co-hosted annually by Violence Free Colorado (Violence Free Colorado) and the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CCASA). The Coalitions collaborate on this event in order to provide training and education that is based on best and promising practices for addressing sexual and domestic violence, and to ensure that services for survivors are as consistent and comprehensive as possible. Colorado Advocacy in Action is the only statewide conference specific to domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and dating violence advocacy and is intended for victim service providers as well as affiliated professionals. We hope it also provides an opportunity for advocates in the sexual and domestic violence field to connect with their counterparts and build a collective voice to further our work to end sexual and domestic violence in Colorado.

Pre-Conference Institute: CCR
2015-06-14 11:00 - 17:00 | Vail Marriott Resort and Spa, 715 West Lionshead Circle, Vail, CO, 81657, United States
Whether you have a barely formed interagency team, a Coordinated Community Response (CCR) that is facing hurdles, a domestic violence organization that wants to develop a CCR in your community or a well-established team that wants to further develop skills, this is the pre-conference institute for you. This training will offer core leaders in any CCR/ inter-agency effort — coordinators, advocates, prosecutors, and law enforcement ideas on how to strengthen, expand, and give new direction to their CCR. If you come as a team it can provide an opportunity for you to integrate the information provided to take back to your community with purpose and direction.
This training institute will provide latest research and information on best practices for coordinating criminal justice system responses to battering. Whether you are new or seasoned, you will leave with an understanding of how to build a CCR that can effectively prioritize and implement solutions to better protect victims and their children, hold offenders accountable, and maximize the efficacy of your coordinated community response.
General session topics will include:
The mission, purpose, and function of an effective CCR
Activities for CCRs: Moving from networking to action
Problem solving, practices, and strategies to assure enhanced and consistent responses
Incorporating attention to risk, danger and history into all points of the intervention.
Discipline-specific tracks will address related CCR roles, best practices, and emerging issues, but will also specifically address:
Law enforcement: Realities of domestic violence and their impact on law enforcement response, strategies for reducing homicides of victims and officers, reducing dual arrests and false arrests, evidence-based investigation strategies when responding to domestic violence-related crimes, etc.
Prosecution: Charging, pretrial release, plea negotiation, preparing for trial, trial, sentencing, enforcement, influencing work prior to a prosecutor’s involvement that “makes or breaks” the case, and working with battered women’s advocates
CCR coordinators and advocates: Tools and skills for enhancing your interagency responses to battering, strategic use of research, statistics, and data to inform interagency discussions and accountability, anticipating resistance and strategizing to prevent/overcome obstacles, strategic use of “the table”

Violence Free Colorado's Brown Bag Discussion #6: Batterer Typologies
2015-06-09 12:00 - 13:00 | C
There is an urgent need to intervene with people who use abusive behaviors with their intimate partners given the tremendous emotional, physical, and financial harm which results from their actions. Efforts by professionals to better understand, identify, and intervene with these men are appropriate, timely, and important. Research that typologizes batterers (domestic violence offenders) was introduced in the late 1970’s by a few pioneering researchers and has continued to evolve. While the efficacy of a sub-type classification approach to batterer intervention continues to be debated, its popularity is on the rise. Join us for a discussion with national and state experts to talk about recently emerged qualitative subtyping of batterers, addresses concerns that have been raised about the methodology relative to its application in Colorado’s domestic violence offender management, victim advocacy, and victim services, and get recommendations for those doing the work in the field.
Register!

The Mask You Live In Film Screening
2015-05-28 06:30 - 21:30 | Turnhalle at Tivoli, 900 Auraria Pkwy, Denver, CO, 80217, United States

Violence Free Colorado's Brown Bag Series #5: CCR
2015-05-12 12:00 - 13:00 | C
This will be the 5th installment of Violence Free Colorado’s monthly BROWN BAG Teleconference Series! 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!
Whether you already have a multi-agency team, have a team that is struggling, or are thinking about starting one this discussion can help clarify the process a CCR team uses. The CCR team process is a tool used by interdisciplinary groups and domestic violence advocacy organizations to further their common goals of enhancing safety and ensuring accountability when intervening in cases involving intimate partner violence. Its premise is that workers are institutionally organized to do their jobs in particular ways—they are guided to do jobs by the forms, policies, philosophy, and routine work practices of the institution in which they work. When these work practices routinely fail to adequately address the needs of people it is rarely because of the failure of individual practitioners. It is a problem with how their work is organized and coordinated. A CCR team is designed to allow interagency partners discover how problems are produced in the structure of case processing and management. We encourage questions on how utilizing this approach would work for your organization and how you can start the process of initiating a CCR in your community.
Click here to register!

Sexual Assault Summit XIV
2015-04-29 - 2015-05-01 | Hilton Garden Inn, Laramie, WY
The theme for the 2015 Sexual Assault Summit XIV is Start By Believing to promote changing the way we approach sexual assault in our communities and how we support survivors of sexual assault from the beginning.

2015 Safe Shelter Symposium on Domestic Violence: Understanding and Addressing its Impact on Children
2015-04-23 08:30 - 17:00 | Plaza Convention Center, 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd, Longmont, CO, 80501, United States
Day 2
With a focus on children, this 2-day event will bring together multidisciplinary national and regional experts presenting in the fields of therapeutic interventions, cultural and developmental considerations, and judicial and legal systems. Register now at www.safesheltersymposium.org.

2015 Safe Shelter Symposium on Domestic Violence: Understanding and Addressing its Impact on Children
2015-04-22 08:30 - 19:00 | Plaza Convention Center, 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd, Longmont, CO, 80501, United States
With a focus on children, this 2-day event will bring together multidisciplinary national and regional experts presenting in the fields of therapeutic interventions, cultural and developmental considerations, and judicial and legal systems. Register now at www.safesheltersymposium.org.

Violence Free Colorado's Brown Bag Series #4
2015-04-14 12:00 - 13:00 | C
Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse as a Confidential Community-based Advocate
While confidentiality is part and parcel for community-based advocacy, what does that mean around mandated reporting? What about when working with adolescents? What about providing advocacy for children? Is there a difference between sexual assault and domestic violence?
What can seem cut and dry, can lead to question after question. Advocates usually have the best answers concerning safety and well-being based on the experience of survivors and their children.
Join us as we take a look at best practices around Mandated Reporting Policies and Procedures, and remind ourselves of the varying factors concerning ages, and kinds of services and engagement provided.
Bring your questions and examples. Violence Free Colorado will bring sample policies, connections to best-practice and current standings on the issues involved. Register Now!
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 Kristiana Huitron: khuitron(at)violencefreeco.org

5th Annual Mardi Gras Charity Ball
2015-03-20 18:00 - 2015-03-21 00:00 | Adams State University Plachy Hall Field House, 208 Edgemont Blvd., Alamosa, CO, 81101, United States
Join us for the most highly anticipated event of the year! This year’s event will be the BIGGEST and BEST yet, featuring acrobatic performances, artistry, Cajun food and cocktails, a live auction and DJ!
Purchase your ticket now – they’re going fast! Doors open at 6:00p.m.

Individual tickets $50
Tables $350 (8 seats) – Enter Promo Code TABLE8 and enter your 7 guests’ names.
Student Discount (Enter Promo Code STUDENT. *Must be 18 or older to attend.)
Sponsorships still available! – Contact Asha at as**@*******sa.net or 719.589.2465.

All event proceeds benefit local child and adult victims of domestic and sexual violence.
Event info. and ticket purchase: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=49yspdoab&oeidk=a07eab6uzx019175f8e

Violence Free Colorado's Virtual LEAD Event
2015-03-17 21:18 | C

Violence Free Colorado's Virtual LEAD Event
2015-03-17 11:30 - 13:00 | C
Violence Free Colorado announces our virtual Legislative Education and Advocacy Day!
Violence Free Colorado is pleased to announce our virtual Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) webinar! Please plan to join Lydia Waligorski, Public Policy Director, on Tuesday, March 17th from 11:30-1PM. Participation in the LEAD webinar will equip you with information on current proposed legislation to advocate effectively in support or opposition of bills that impact that impact survivors with your state legislators, advancing our collective work on domestic violence for the benefit of survivors, future generations, and your programs.
Please register for 2015 Virtual LEAD Event at:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2382638763493434369
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

NEW THIS YEAR: To encourage discussion and participation, Violence Free Colorado invites you to organize a LEAD Watch Party in your office!
Violence Free Colorado will buy lunch for the first five Violence Free Colorado membership organizations who register three or more people for a LEAD Watch Party! Each participant MUST register individually. Participants do NOT need to be program staff. Feel free to invite board members, volunteers, and other community members to participate with you!

Brown Bag Series #3: Advocate Initiated Response
2015-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | C
Advocacy Initiated Response (AIR):
Although many of our member domestic violence programs are already utilizing this approach, many are just now looking at how an advocacy initiated approach can increase safety and services for domestic violence victims. Understanding that at the first sign of conflict in the home, the immediate involvement of community based advocates can be crucial to preventing future injury creates a shift in how that initial victim contact occurs. Please join us for this discussion. We encourage questions on how this approach changes organizational structure, how AIR would work for your organization, and how you might start initiating an advocacy initiated response in your organization.
This will be the 3rd installment of Violence Free Colorado’s monthly BROWN BAG Teleconference Series! 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 Jacque Morse: jmorse(at)violencefreeco.org

Vagina Monologues, Denver
2015-02-28 21:00 - 23:00, 2015-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver

Vagina Monologues, Denver
2015-02-25 19:00 - 21:00 | The Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver, CO, 80205, United States

Adolescent Development & The Brain Webinar
2015-02-19 19:00 - 20:15 | C
Sometimes it’s easier to understand our youth when we know what their brains are doing. Come learn the basics of the brain and adolescent development so you can be more informed about how their decisions are being made.
To register for the webinar, please visit: http://www.safesheltertera.org/webinars/

1 Billion Rising Revolution
2015-02-14 12:45 - 15:00 | C
1 in 3 women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. That’s ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. Every February, we rise – in hundreds of countries across the world – to show our local communities and the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face. We rise through dance to express joy and community and and celebrate the fact that we have not been defeated by this violence. We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness – one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable.
This year we are rising for REVOLUTION. Join us!
Saturday February 14th, 2015! We will be starting at the 16th St. Mall for a freestyle drum circle, and flashmob of Debbie Allen’s Break the Chain Choreography. All drummers and dancers are welcome here! Meet on the 16th St Mall at Glenarm, near the H&M to drum and dance at 12:45pm, our music will come on over the Denver Pavilions sounds system, when you hear it, jump in for the dance!! We will then be marching to the Capitol for a Rally featuring speakers, poets, non-profit and sponsor tables with a plethora of information and resources, we will close with another round of dancing to a few songs, and come together again with The Break the Chain choreography!
Renowned local poet and activist LadySpeech Sankofa will once again grace the stage.
Local nonprofits whose mission directly or indirectly supports raising awareness of and ending violence against women are invited to table and speak briefly at the event. Please contact Beth Leyba at on********************@***il.com or Erin Prince at za************@***il.com, if you are interested.

Teen Dating Violence 101 Webinar
2015-02-12 19:00 - 20:15 | C
This webinar will cover the basics of dating abuse and domestic violence so you can begin to recognize the signs that a youth may be in an abusive relationship.
To register for the webinar, please visit: http://www.safesheltertera.org/webinars/
