Want to support survivors this Domestic Violence Awareness Month? Join us on Sunday, October 29th at Barry's Dupont Circle at 11:45am! Tickets are limited and must be purchased in advance. Register here.

Barry's workout classes consist of cardio and strength training.

Worried that you are not in shape or that you're a beginner? Don’t worry! Barry's welcomes beginners and meets a lot of them every day! Barry's does not have a “beginner’s class.” Barry’s classes are created for you to challenge yourself — you can set your own level of speed and choose the heaviness of your weight, depending on your experience. See more about Barry's classes here. 

Join Network for Victim Recovery of DC on Saturday, September 23 from 3:30-5 pm at Petworth Neighborhood Library as we discuss how to talk about consent, grief, and loss with children. Caregivers, parents, guardians, and other adults welcome.

This event is free and open to the public. Please secure your spot by getting a free ticket here.

Donations are welcome and can be accepted while registering.

API DVRP is thrilled to work with Kaifa from Plants and Blooms ReImagined, to bring you an in-person horticulture therapy-based healing space on Thursday, September 21, 6-8pm EST @DVRP's office. Register here.

About the workshop: A healing space sharing in engaged and guided flower arranging as a vehicle for mindfulness, affirmation and celebration re: the power of choice; self- and collective care; creative self-expression; beauty and joy! Foundational to the experience will be the creation of a safe, sacred space for heart connections and shared discussion. All will leave with their vast creations. 

About the Kaifa: Kaifa Anderson-Hall, founder and CEO of Plants and Blooms ReImagined, has a combined 45+ years as a long-standing Washington, DC social service, non-profit and horticulture professional. Plants and Blooms ReImagined was born in response to Kaifa’s recognition of the need for more accessible nature-based connections for vulnerable and under-resourced communities’ most challenged in accessing gardens and outdoor natural spaces and the significant benefits derived from them. Kaifa is a staunch advocate and recognized leader in advancing the practice and application of horticultural therapy (the intentional use of nature/plant-based connections and experiences to achieve enhanced well-being), receiving the American Horticultural Society’s 2018 Horticultural Therapy Award.

 Kaifa and the work of Plants and Blooms ReImagined have been featured in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/watch-them-blossom-at-n-street-village-homeless-women-create-floral-art/2019/11/12/ffed9314-04a2-11ea-ac12-3325d49eacaa_story.html), the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/opinion/second-life-flowers.html) and Rewire (https://www.rewire.org/arranging-flowers-anxious-times/ ). She is also one of the featured women of color in Bloom Imprint’s Black Flora publication. 

To celebrate 28 years of service in the DMV and in honor of DVAM, DVRP is partnering with Doonya and Dholi Ram for a Bollywood dance workout!

Tickets to join in person at the Festival Center are only $28 dollars--highlighting DVRP's 28th anniversary. If you missed last year's Bollywood workout with Doonya and Dholi Ram, it was a joyful and fun hour of music and sweat.
Even if you can't be with us in D.C. purchasing a ticket will support a spot for one of our clients to attend! All proceeds and additional donations go directly toward our direct services work in the DMV.
Learn more about Doonya and Dholi Ram here.

From 5-9pm come to Dacha Beer Garden in Shaw to purchase a wristband that gives you extended access to their happy hour.

1600 7th ST NW, Washington DC

*all proceeds will go to NVRDC's work supporting survivors. To learn more about our services, click here.

If you cannot attend please spread the word by sharing to your social media!

Join us for a day of uplifting music, energizing physical movement, powerful performances, resources for short-term and long-term support, and connection to other survivors and those who care for them! In its 7th year, Dancing is My Voice provides forums where survivors can find healing through connection to a supportive community, creative public expression, resources for hope and healing, and strength-building physical movements such as dance.

We are excited to invite you to Dancing Is My Voice: Honoring and encouraging those healing from interpersonal violence along with those who support them and the general community. https://dancingismyvoice.com/ 

 Please let us know if you’d like to table (must provide your own table & chairs) and/or provide a dance performance. For questions please contact: teryck@dancingismyvoice.com

Tabling/Vendors:

Service Providers (free) register at:  https://dancingismyvoice.com/service-provider-request-form  

For Profit Vendors register at: https://dancingismyvoice.com/vendor-request-form

Performers:

Performers can request a slot through https://dancingismyvoice.com/performers   This page also has FAQs about the event.

Event: Dancing is My Voice 2023

Date/Time: Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023   9:00am-4:30 (agenda forthcoming)  

Vendor hours: Best tabling times are expected from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm although you are welcome to set up & breakdown at any time during the event.

Location: Lincoln Memorial (in front) & around Reflecting Pool

Cost: This event is free to the public and to non-profit organizations and government agencies. For-profit companies may participate in tabling with sponsorship.

Registration: Attendee registrations are requested through Eventbrite at bit.ly/dimv2023 or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dancing-is-my-voice-2023-tickets-431460860047

Contact: Lisa Francia, Founder  lisa@dancingismyvoice.com  571-332-0578

API DVRP is thrilled to work with shurjo mukhi (they/them), to bring you an in-person arts-based space on Thursday, August 31, 6-8pm EST @DVRP's office. 

About the Workshop: In this workshop, we will use comic making as a tool for grounding, imagination, and play! The intention for this space is mindfulness, fun, creativity, and imperfection.  We will work through different exercises independently and collaboratively, and hopefully leave feeling a bit lighter and more joyous, as well as more in tune with ourselves and others. 

About shurjo mukhi: shurjo mukhi (they/them) is a multimedia artist that hopes to always create and reimagine with community-- to use art as a way to manifest healthy loves and ways of being in real and dream worlds. They enjoy using colors, textures, and a mix of media in both finding and sharing their growing voice. You can follow them on Instagram @gentlesuns & check out their website linked below. 

Register here.

API DVRP is thrilled to be working with Simone Hudson for a Qi Breathwork Cleanse workshop on August 22! Register here.

Description of the space: This breathwork workshop will help strengthen the Lung Qi in preparation for the Fall and Winter. The intention of this space is to help cultivate strong Lung Qi, and maximize our rest hygiene practices in order to promote deep internal cleansing and boosting of the immune system to ward off any sickness leading into the Fall and Winter months.

About Simone: My journey to healing started with a curiosity sparked by grandfather's herbal tea cabinet. This curiosity led me to begin the study of how our bodies are naturally designed to support a life of optimum care. I learned to become an Acupuncturist at Maryland University of Integrative Health in 2007. Since leaving school, I have practiced community and private acupuncture throughout Maryland. With my education, over 10 years of experience and the patient's co-commitment to their own personal healing journey I have successfully treated a myriad of conditions like anxiety, chronic fatigue, insomnia, low back pain and poor digestion. Nonetheless, my primary focus is in prenatal and postpartum women's health. After Acupuncture treatments come to a close, I especially enjoy seeing patients leave the room more rested, renewed and relaxed. When I am not practicing Acupuncture, I like feeling the morning dew drops falling, hearing the birds sing, watching the sun rise while the moon waxes and wanes in the starry night sky.

Registrations for the SAVRAA Sexual Assault Counselor Training are still open.  Join us in this transformative experience! The last day of training will be an in-person event held at a location in the heart of DC. Lunch will be provided. More information will be shared with registrants. 

This training is funded by OVSJG and has been designed for all folx seeking to become qualified sexual assault counselors under the Sexual Assault Victims' Rights Amendment Act of 2019 (SAVRAA).

Save the dates for the live sexual assault counselor training webinars. September 2023: 8th,15th,22nd, and 29th. Register here. 
If you require any additional information, please email savraa@nvrdc.org

Please join The Person Center and Legal Aid DA for a free webinar led by June Lee the Director of the Immigrant's Rights Legal Services Project (IRLSP) and Wendy Cheng, Staff Attorney of the IRLSP.

This free webinar will offer participants the opportunity to learn about family law and immigration law and how that affects survivors from immigrant communities, including documented, undocumented, and refugee/asylee survivors. In this webinar, our featured speakers will cover new and standing public benefits available to survivors and community members, relative to new laws and eligibility requirement changes. Register here.

This webinar will also include a Q&A section at the end to offer participants the chance to ask follow-ups or questions on your experiences.

NVRDC is hosting a free and virtual webinar on Wednesday, May 31 from 12-1 pm EST. The webinar is open to the DC community as well as nonprofit, government, and law firm staff.

Register for the Zoom webinar here: bit.ly/resources-dc-elders

NVRDC is hosting a fundraising event on Saturday, May 20 from 12-5 pm at Williams & Connolly LLP to support survivors in the District called Swap for Survivors.

Folks can donate their high-end and like-new clothing, accessories, and more to swap out for new items to add to their closet! Enjoy drinks and hors d'oeuvres while you shop and socialize with others. Folks get the chance to win door prizes, bid on luxury auction items, and more. 

Buy tickets, find more information about when/where to drop off donation items, preview our auction items, and more on our Givebutter page here.