Colorado Anti-Violence Program

What's New

Transgender Day of Remembrance

The Transgender Day of Remembrance and Celebration of Life (followed by a reception), co-sponsored by 
the Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Keshet and One-Colorado will be held on

Sunday, November 20,2011
Jefferson Unitarian Church
14350 W. 32nd Avenue
Golden, CO 80401 

Each year, the Transgender Day of Remembrance is held worldwide to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. For more information and history, check out http://www.transgenderdor.org/

Working Effectively With The LGBTQ Community & Creating Change Within Your Organization

 FREE TRAINING!

September 13, 2011

9:30am-5:30pm

Located in Grand Junction - exact location to be announced

Click here for training flyer

Calling all service providers working with survivors of violence and 

providing other direct services to the broader community!

• Gain skills & tools to effectively work with LGBTQ survivors of violence.

• Translate knowledge and skills into ACTION!

• Gain skills to build allies within and outside of your organization to support systemic change.

•  Learn & practice strategies for raising awareness, creating buy-in, and instituting policy changes.

• Create a personalized action plan to identify changes to increase your organization's LGBTQ inclusivity.

Facilitated by Crystal Middlestadt, Director of Training and Education at CAVP

Co-sponsored by Latimer House and Western Equality

REGISTER NOW! SPACE IS LIMITED.

Download the registration form here or

contact Crystal at 303-839-5204 or crystal@coavp.org

Exploring Creative Ways to Build Wellness and Health

 CAVP was proud to host the 2011 National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs' Annual Regional Training Academy on May 7th in Denver. The day included workshops on transformative justice and healing justice as well as regional meet ups.  Workshops included: Safety Lab: What's the Deal with Shame? conducted by Community United Against Violence, San Francisco and Healing & Health Justice: Collective Wellness & Safety Strategies conducted by Kindred Southern Healing Collective Co-Coordinator Cara Page
 

Check out the poster for Branching Seedz!

Available by donation -- email to request

Community Map for Branching Seeds of Resistance

Branching Seeds of Resistance is a youth-led project of the Colorado Anti Violence Program. We work to end sexual violence within and against LGBTQQ youth communities in Colorado. Our fight for liberation requires us to dig deep and find the root causes of violence. Our tactics for preventing violence include youth-led community organizing, art and media, outreach and education, and participatory action research. As we resist and organize to uproot violence, we are also resilient seeking to heal as individuals and as a community.

This map is a tool for us to identify the formal and informal resources that exist in our community, highlight events, organizations, incidents of violence that are largely ignored by mainstream media.

Stay Connected to CAVP

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CAVP's Mission

Since 1986 the Colorado Anti-Violence Program has been dedicated to eliminating violence within and against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities in Colorado, and providing the highest quality services to survivors.

CAVP's Vision

The Colorado Anti-Violence Program envisions a Colorado where Transgender, Gender non-conforming, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer people have the power to determine the conditions of their lives, are valued for who they are, take responsibility for each other's safety, and live their lives free from violence.

We seek to live in a society where all sexualities, gender expressions, and gender identities are embraced and celebrated as valuable identities that make our communities vibrant. CAVP aspires to create a culture of liberation where people are inspired to heal the wounds of injustice and end the cycles that continue them.
 
We approach our work from a deepplace of love, with grace and humility, and theknowledge that we do not have all the answers we seek both individually and collectively.  While our analysis is rooted in LGBTQ identities, we see ourselves as participants in broader struggles of liberation.
 
Within CAVP we come into community with each other under an LGBTQ umbrella; however, we each have our own unique experiences, histories, identities, privileges, and oppressions. We bring our whole selves to the work, respecting and honoring each other's differences.
 
A Colorado where gender, sexuality, and identity are no longer policed, medicalized, criminalized, and repressed with internalized, interpersonal, and systemic violence, is not only necessary but possible. People are their own experts and must be free to have complete self determination.

CAVP seeks to address violence on a community-based level, not relying on police and prisons, rather developing our own processes that maintain the humanity of survivors, victims and those that cause harm. Community-based accountability builds networks of safety and support, commits to the ongoing development of all members of the community and works to create a process for people to account for their actions and transform their behavior. We understand that in order to end violence we must continuously work to transform the root causes of violence in all forms large and small.
 
We understand that liberation requires the abolition of all forms of oppression and a renewed commitment to the creation and maintenance of strong, healthy, vibrant individuals, communities, and cultures.

Staff and Board 

Learn more about CAVP's staff members and advisory board.

CONTACT US

office phone
303-839-5204

fax
303-839-5205

24-hour hotline
303-852-5094
1-888-557-4441

e-mail
info@coavp.org

P.O. Box 181085
Denver CO 80218

www.coavp.org