This panel will cover: -Myths and realities of Initimate Partner Violence -How to support a loved one/friend experiencing Intitmate Partner Violence -What we can do to prevent violence in our communities  

A Casino Night benefiting DVSAS sponsored by SQHS Boys Wrestling! Join us for a fabulous night of casino games, dinner, music, raffles and prizes while supporting a great cause. Squalicum High School Boys Wrestling would like to raise awareness and help fund these efforts through this fun event. Please join us! Tickets: https://sqhscasinonight.bpt.me/ 

Join us on Thursday, January 30, and take part as Bayou on Bay and DVSAS host a fundraiser for the heroic work the organization does. Bayou will donate 15% of all sales that day directly to DVSAS. Come down for all-ages happy hour 3-6 and 10-close, mojitos, fried chicken and pint night, or all of the above to show your support and help us fund their crucial ongoing work for local survivors.

During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prison forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. All Our Trials explores the work of these activists who placed criminalized women, and the multiple violences they confronted, at the heart of their organizing. Drawing on extensive archival research, Emily Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of movements for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation. In…

In 1999, Colorado mother Jessica Gonzales experiences every parent’s worst nightmare when her three young daughters are killed after being abducted by their father in violation of a restraining order. Devastated, Jessica files a lawsuit against the police, claiming they did not adequately enforce her restraining order despite her repeated calls for help that night. Determined to make sure her daughters did not die in vain, Jessica pursues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and an…