You are invited to OAESV's 6th Annual Shine the Light to End Sexual Violence! This signature fundraising event celebrates the work that OAESV and our partners across Ohio do together toward realizing our shared vision of a Ohio free from sexual violence. This year, we invite you to embrace your voice by supporting our work to support survivors and prevent sexual violence!

If you are a Spanish-speaking advocate, we urge you to consider completing this survey from Arte Sana:

OAESV is excited to host these community dialogues to learn about best practices when responding to under-resourced communities. Participants will receive a $50 Visa gift card for participating in the two-hour dialogues, which will take place on Zoom.

If you are a part of the communities identified, please register by clicking the corresponding flyer.

It's true--we're having a Fall Advocacy Day! The COVID-19 pandemic has increased barriers for sexual violence and child sexual abuse survivors needing critical recovery resources. Federal funding cuts announced in the past couple of weeks will cut rape crisis budgets by 25%. We need our lawmakers’ support now more than ever.

To that end, OAESV is broadcasting a live Advocacy Day to End Sexual Violence on Thursday, September 17 from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM. To align with safety protocols, two OAESV staff will broadcast from the Statehouse Atrium, with lawmakers and service providers speaking one-at-a-time, most speaking with us virtually. And we invite you to watch our event live, which will be broadcast on Facebook!

Are you an advocate or other staff at a rape crisis program? Please consider scheduling a virtual meeting with your lawmakers during the week of our event (September 9/14 to 9/18), even if you just talked to them in April. They need to know how urgent your needs are, especially your funding needs. On September 4th from 1-2:30pm, you can also join OAESV for a walk through of our Advocacy Day to End Sexual Violence and a tutorial on scheduling and conducting meetings with the lawmakers from your (or your program's) district. Click here to register for this webinar that will help you prepare for your legislator meetings.

This webinar will explore the rates of and risk factors for sexual violence experienced by adults who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. Indicators of whether a person has an intellectual disability and abuse will be discussed. We will also discuss how to talk to an individual you suspect has an IDD about their experience and what they need.

You will receive a link to join after you submit your registration.

Questions? Email training@oaesv.org

Join us for two days of continuing education on Civil Protection Orders (DVCPO, CSSOOP, and JCPO). Day 1 will provide education on filing an order, ex parte hearings, motions, full hearing(s), findings, and appeals. Day 2 will focus on practice skills with an emphasis on working with survivors of trauma. These two days will focus on legal practice but is open to advocates. Pending approval of up to 12 hours of CLEs or Social Work CEUs.

If you have accessibility needs, such as an ASL interpreter, please try to register before September 9, 2020. If you register after this date, fulfillment of the needs is unfortunately not guaranteed, although we will of course attempt to fulfill it.

Help support our work. At OAESV we provide many services, including training for advocates and preventionists, technical assistance for local programs, systems advocacy, public policy work, and much more.

This project was supported by Grant No. OAESV 2019-SW-AX-0020 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice , to the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Justice.