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Brochure: Planning For Your Safety
How to plan for your safety whether currently living together or apart from an abusive partner.
English and Spanish versions.
Published by Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance.
Quarter-fold brochure (legal-sized paper).
Order materials at the Action Alliance.
Budgeting: A Guide for Small Nonprofit Organizations
Budgeting: A Guide for Small Nonprofit Organizations is provided by the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. This 8-page document provides an overview of the budget development process, including the role of the budget committee, setting budget priorities and realities, preparation timeline, how to use the budget as a management tool. Great resource for new directors and financial managers!
Building Consentful Tech zine
(as originally posted on GutsMagazine.ca on 2/22/2018)
Our data can be so many things: our locations and travel times tracked by Uber, our search and browsing histories on Google, and the words we use frequently in our Facebook posts. Building Consentful Tech prompts tech creators, such as app and platform developers, to reflect on how they can give users more agency and information on how (and whether) they share their personal data.
Building Healthy Futures - Prevention education flyers
The Building Healthy Futures Fund (BHFF) was created to establish a statewide revenue source for local Sexual & Domestic Violence Agencies to implement evidence-informed prevention programming to disrupt the root causes of sexual and intimate partner violence.
These educational flyers were created to assist and support parents and other caring adults in young people's lives with approaching conversations about consent, sexuality, and gender expression and identity. Discussions about these topics are critical to a young person's healthy relationships, identity development, and lifelong well-being. Establishing a safer space to talk through what can be tough topics can open the door for them to ask a trusted adult about more difficult situations such as harm and abuse. We encourage you to explore the resources shared on each flyer or contact us at the Action Alliance if you would like to learn more!
If you would like to support the Building Healthy Futures Fund you can purchase a Peace Begins at Home license plate, Virginia’s only license plate to help fund prevention of sexual and domestic violence, here: bit.ly/peacebeginsathome.
Building Healthy Relationships Across Virginia
The Teen Dating Violence Prevention Facilitator’s Guide began its “life” in February 1996. The project benefited greatly when Cindy Katona agreed to lead the working committee. With her dedication, enthusiasm and remarkable creativity, Cindy inspired an amazing number of people to do an incredible amount of work. She also recruited vast numbers of volunteers from the Winchester area as ad-hoc members of the committee to field test and refine the curriculum. The First Edition of the guide, titled “Virginia Responds: Teens Building Violence-Free Relationships,” was published by VADV in early 1997, and was welcomed by a diverse range of professionals working with teens.
The year 2004 marked the official beginning of VSDVAA and a greater focus on primary prevention work. It was in this environment that dating violence prevention work with
teens became a priority, and VSDVAA took on the formidable task of revamping the Teen Dating Violence Prevention Facilitator’s Guide. Drawing upon the expertise and
enthusiasm of members of VTDVP Taskforce, VSDVAA staff member Brad Perry was able to obtain invaluable feedback about how the First Edition of the guide was being
used and how a subsequent edition should be modified in order to maximize functionality. Dozens of meetings and countless work hours later, a new, more streamlined
guide began to take shape with a greater focus on activities.
