Workshops
A full agenda will be available soon. Meanwhile, check out the workshops by clicking each track below.
Click here for Shelter Practices & Sustainability Workshops
Click here for Building Partnerships To Sustain and Enhance Services Workshops
Click here for Addressing Barriers and Creating Access Workshops
Click here for International & Cross-Border Issues Workshops
Click here for Empowering and Supporting Advocates, Activists, and Allies Workshops
Click here for Economics of Our Movement Workshops
Shelter Practices & Sustainability Workshops
Shelters and programs are integral to providing safety and help for survivors, their families, and the community. To meet survivors' needs, shelters and programs work to continually develop inclusive and effective services, policies, and practices. Sustainability includes creating healthy organizations and structures that are financially sustainable and promote the program’s values, support the work, and ensure inclusive, welcoming, and supportive environments for survivors, staff and volunteers.
Building Partnerships To Sustain and Enhance Services Workshops
Providing safety, services, and help to survivors often requires partnerships with communities, government, and civil society. This track will focus on developing relationships and sustaining partnerships with local, regional, national, and international partners from private and public sectors, including financial partnerships, to create and maintain critical services for survivors. Sessions will present information on promising and proven practices to engage and sustain partnerships and effective strategies to develop collaborative relationships among stakeholders.
Addressing Barriers and Creating Access Workshops
In every community across the globe, there are populations and groups who experience increased barriers when accessing services. These barriers may arise for a variety of reasons, including poverty, geography, culture, language, discrimination, and a lack of economic resources. Shelters may be responding to additional challenges if they work in conflict zones, provide services in the aftermath of natural disasters, or address other issues such as HIV/AIDS.
International & Cross-Border Issues Workshops
Every day women cross nation-state lines (willingly and unwillingly) as emigrants, laborers, trafficked victims, mail-order brides, or refugees. Some victims leave to escape violence, many are subjected to violence while in transit, and others experience violence while living in countries where they have little or no legal rights. Often, advocates must work with local, national, and international governments and with advocates from other countries to provide the services victims need.
Empowering and Supporting Advocates, Activists, and Allies Workshops
The passion and expertise of advocates, activists, and allies are vital components for shelters to successfully meet the needs of survivors. Supporting and empowering advocates is crucial to the sustainability of shelters and the movement. In fact, providing safety and services to victims and helping to create communities of nonviolence are impossible without advocates, activists, and allies leading the movement.
The Economics of Our Movement Workshops
The conference spotlight highlights the issue of economic empowerment and justice for women and girls within the context of violence against women. One of the greatest obstacles to escaping an abusive partner is economics. Much work needs to be done to address gaps in financial literacy programs and asset-building for survivors of domestic violence.
