July 2023 Update

What's Happening...



• The ACADV staff got train the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration's Driver Services team this week in Little Rock on Serving Survivors within the Address Confidentiality Program. To learn more about this program click the link.

• Our Community Response Facilitator, Brandy Dailey, attended the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Justices Conference.

• ACADV's Executive Director, Beth Sanders, provided Domestic Violence Training for the Pulaski County Multidisciplinary Team.



• We will be hosting our annual Director's Conference August 9th - August 11th in Hot Springs. We look forward to connecting with our shelter member executive directors!

• ACADV's Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Trainer, Ashley Walker, provided 4 law enforcement trainings that included multiple agencies and 6 different departments. If you are interested in one of these FREE trainings contact awalker@domesticpeace.com.

• We need volunteers to helps us paint t-shirts for the 2022 Clothesline Project honoring the lives lost due to domestic violence. VOLUNTEER

• ACADV's Director of Development, Michelle Harper, provided fundraising and development workshops for 5 of our domestic violence shelter members, Wynne, Blytheville, Benton and Heber Springs, covering 8 counties as apart of our shelter support.

• ACADV's Program Coordinator, Sativa Carpenter, provided Client Centered Services training and board training to two of our shelter members covering 4 counties.

• We offer corporate training on domestic violence and safety in the workplace. Contact mharper@domesticpeace.com if you would like to schedule a free corporate training.

• Hosting (FREE) lunch and learn Zooms on the 3rd Wednesdays of each month from 11:30am to 1pm CST for service providers of Domestic Violence Intervention Programs (DVIP) otherwise known as Batterers Intervention Programs (BIP). Register Here

• We are offering internships to support ACADV with awareness projects, with research, provide office assistance, member communication, donor management and help develop new marketing initiatives. Email mharper@domesticpeace.com for more info.

VOLUNTEER

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

The Clothesline Project is a visual display of t-shirts hung on a clothesline displayed across Arkansas to raise awareness of the deadly reality that is domestic violence. Each t-shirt is hand painted to each individual domestic violence murder victim in the state of Arkansas. There are approximately 45-50 murders yearly and each one has a t-shirt on the clothesline that needs to be made. Volunteers would be hand painting t-shirts to go on the clothesline for the 2022 murder victims. You don't need to be an artist just an advocate for victims that aren't here to tell their story.

Contact Ashley Walker, awalker@domesticpeace.com, if you can help.

**The 2022 numbers are not completely populated at this time.

Help us continue to help victims of domestic violence and provide comprehensive training and support for shelter services across Arkansas.