The Domestic Violence Resource Clinic offers legal advice about protection orders, custody, child support, and related issues. Service providers will also be there to assist with connecting survivors to housing, counseling, and public benefits.
Service providers include: My Sister's Place, Ayuda, La Clinica Del Pueblo, Mary's Center, DASH
Community Family Life Services will be holding a safe sex and testing party February 7, 2020. Through our Early Intervention Services, CFLS targets justice involved women through a continuum of women's reentry programming. Our goal is to reach as many as possible, teach all who will listen, test everyone in need, link to services that will guide, and keep clients connected to care. This event will be a Valentine’s and HIV Education Brunch, so grab your significant other, friend, or family member and join us to Spread the Love!
Join fellow DC residents at forums to share your values, priorities, and ideas with the Bowser Administration as the FY2021 budget is developed.
If you would like to request reasonable accommodations, please contact (202) 442-8150 or [email protected].
Join fellow DC residents at forums to share your values, priorities, and ideas with the Bowser Administration as the FY2021 budget is developed.
If you would like to request reasonable accommodations, please contact (202) 442-8150 or [email protected].
Join fellow DC residents at forums to share your values, priorities, and ideas with the Bowser Administration as the FY2021 budget is developed.
If you would like to request reasonable accommodations, please contact (202) 442-8150 or [email protected].
For human trafficking awareness month, join members of the dc human trafficking task force for:
A Premier Screening of the internationally reviewed graphic novel series, LIGHTS.
Q&A with graphic novelists, survivors, allies, and advocates surviving human trafficking in the nation’s capital region.
Purchase survivor made products and view survivor created art that will be on display.
Teachers, social workers, parents, concerned community members and youth
Please join the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence and The Person Center (TPC) for an advanced training on providing culturally specific and relevant services to African immigrant survivors of domestic violence in DC. This event will discuss the safety needs and considerations of African immigrant survivors, and will provide advocates with tools and best practices for working with African survivors in their programs and community.
Please join the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP) for an advanced training on providing culturally specific and relevant services to Asian and Pacific Islander survivors of domestic violence in DC. This event will discuss the safety needs and considerations of A/PI survivors, and will provide advocates with tools and best practices for working with A/PI survivors in their programs and community.
Please join the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence and DAWN for an advanced training on providing extensive care to ensure Deaf survivors’ safety . This event will discuss the safety needs and considerations of Deaf survivors of domestic violence (both in and out of a shelter context), and will provide advocates with tools for working with Deaf survivors in their programs and community. The 3-hour workshop will be led by Imonie Gwaltney, and is designed for advocates and service providers working to empower survivors and their families in DC.
Open to female identified individuals 18 years or older who have experienced sexual trauma as a child or adult. This 10/9 week group draws from research on writing for healing, as well as the Somatic Experiencing approach. The weekly sessions combine guided writing exercises with meditation, art, and
