Coalition Events & Trainings
On this list you will find in-person trainings, webinars, and meetings hosted by the Coalition. If you wish to submit an event for the list, or have questions about an existing training, please click here. As a perk of the Coalition membership, we encourage our member programs to request customized trainings and technical assistance as needed. You can complete your request using the button below.
Please note that registration opens on a rolling basis, roughly two months prior to each training.
2022 Training Dates
June 1, 2022
Culture, Community, and Adolescent Mental Health
Even in the face of widespread acknowledgement, mental health remains a heavily discredited facet of the human experience. Several factors impact mental health care as well as its onset including race and ethnicity, culture and community, wealth and poverty, and age. Minority children are at a high risk of receiving inadequate mental health services which in turns decreases the chances of success in many areas of life such as school, friendships, and even self-esteem. This presentation seeks explore the mental health disparities amongst minority adolescents and its effect on the quality of life children deserve.
Sielo Coleman
VOCA-TA Specialist
Bio: Sielo Coleman is humbled to be the VOCA-TA Program Specialist at the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence where she focuses on serving underserved populations. As a firm believer in equal rights for all, she is additionally devoted to sexual assault awareness and literacy advocacy. Her passions include adult tutoring, sexual assault advocacy, and eagerly learning all she can about the diverse cultures around the world.
June 5-10, 2022
Senator Tommy Burks Victim Assistance Academy
The Senator Tommy Burks Victim Assistance Academy is a project of the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. The Academy is a comprehensive basic level training designed for victim service providers. The goal of the Academy is to improve services to crime victims by enhancing the knowledge and skills of victim advocates. This 40 hour in-person Tennessee-specific training is modeled after the National Victim Assistance Academy.
Interested in attending? Please access the application to the right and email to mbatista@tncoalition.org by March 30th. A limited number of attendees will be accepted. All acceptance guidelines are included in the application.
June 23 – 24, 2022
Batterer’s Intervention Programs Annual Training
Join us for an interactive learning experience centering on facilitation best practices. Throughout this two-day 8-hour training participants will learn and frameworks specific to facilitation best practices, current trends in the field, opportunities for facilitating programming with specific populations, instructional strategies for problems that can arise in an educational setting, ethical issues, and emphasis on skill building and practical integration of comprehensive facilitation principles into the participants’ current and future work. This training will include discussion, group work, practical application, and individual activities. The training is designed to be highly interactive with reliance upon participants as co-facilitators in discussion and learning.
Date: Thursday, June 23rd – Friday, June 24th, 2022
Time: Thursday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm CST and Friday, 9:00am – 1:00pm CST
Location: 2 International Plaza Dr., Nashville TN 37217; Executive Conference Room, 1st Floor
June 29, 2022
Transformative Justice 102
Description coming soon!
July 27, 2022
Connected & Informed: TN Coalition Training and Education Projects
Description coming soon!
August 10, 2022
Working with Refugee & Immigrant Survivors
Description coming soon!
August 31, 2022
Radical Hope: Imagining a Transformed Future
Description coming soon!
September 19-20, 2022
20th Annual Conference, “Radical Reimagining: Innovative Practices for Safer Communities”
Join us as we explore emerging trends and promising practices for a future free of domestic and sexual violence in the lives of Tennesseans. This two-day in-person conference will hold sessions for both new and experienced domestic and sexual violence advocates and allied professionals including law enforcement, prosecutors, sexual assault nurse examiners, university staff, and activists in the field of violence prevention. We can’t wait to expand our knowledge, deepen our connections, and improve our practice alongside so many allied professionals in the field.
Location:
Embassy Suites by Hilton Nashville South Cool Springs
820 Crescent Centre Drive, Franklin, TN 37067
October 5, 2022
Emerging Issues in Domestic Violence
Description coming soon!
November 9, 2022
Trauma Informed Supervision
Description coming soon!
Ongoing Trainings
Ongoing
Online 40 hour training: Tommy Burks Victim Assistance Academy
The Senator Tommy Burks Victim Assistance Academy is a project of the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. The Academy is a comprehensive basic level training designed for victim service providers. The goal of the Academy is to improve services to crime victims by enhancing the knowledge and skills of victim advocates. This on-demand 40 hour virtual Tennessee-specific training is modeled after the National Victim Assistance Academy.
Ongoing
Inclusivity Committee Monthly Lunch & Learns
The Inclusivity Committee is an active group serving underserved populations across the state of Tennessee. Comprising of members from East, Middle, and West Tennessee who serve marginalized groups of people–such as elderly victims, LGBTQ+ victims, immigrant and refugee victims, Black American victims, and victims living with disabilities (as well as many others).
The Committee holds monthly Lunch & Learns focused on ways to go above diversity and actively pursue inclusion. Click on the registration link to view all upcoming and archived Lunch & Learns!
Training Archive
You can access an archived selection of our past webinars through YouTube anytime by clicking the icon below.
Board Meetings 2022
February 18 | April 1 | August 19 | December 9
Domestic Violence State Coordinating Council Meetings 2022
March 4 | June 3 | September 9 | December 2
Executive Director Roundtable Meetings 2022
February 24 | April 7 | August 18 | November 17
Reach us 8am-5pm Monday through Thursday at our phone number: 615-386-9406
24-hour State-Wide Domestic Violence Hotline- 1-800-356-6767
This project is funded under an agreement with the State of Tennessee, Finance and Administration, Office of Criminal Justice Programs. The opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations contained within this website are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the State of Tennessee.