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SUMMARY:Community Meeting: Firearms & Survivor Safety – The Questions We Don't Always Ask
DESCRIPTION:How often are we talking with survivors about firearms? Join HCDVCC for a conversation about firearm risk\, survivor safety\, safe storage\, and opportunities for intervention. Together\, we’ll explore what research\, practice\, and prevention efforts can teach us about navigating these important conversations in a survivor-centered way. \n\n\n\nOrganizations in attendance will also have the opportunity to receive free gun safes\, provided by former council member Abbie Kamin\, to distribute to survivors as appropriate as part of safety planning efforts. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAlicia Nuzzie is Director of the Domestic Violence High Risk Team (DVHRT) Initiative at HCDVCC. With more than 25 years of experience in the domestic violence field\, Alicia has dedicated her career to strengthening services for survivors\, advancing policy change\, and improving community responses to violence. She has developed and managed two DVHRTs and is recognized nationally for her work in intimate partner violence homicide prevention. Under her leadership\, the Harris County DVHRT received the 2022 Purple Ribbon Award for Best Urban Initiative of the Year. \n\n\n\nJulie Marinucci is a Houston native\, CPA\, and volunteer leader with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Since 2016\, she has been a champion of the BE SMART program\, a national initiative that promotes secure firearm storage and encourages practical conversations about gun safety to help prevent injury and death among children and families.
URL:https://www.hcdvcc.org/event/community-meeting-firearms-survivor-safety-the-questions-we-dont-always-ask/
LOCATION:United Way of Greater Houston\, 50 Waugh Street\, Houston\, TX\, United States
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SUMMARY:Making Safety Possible: The Power of Flexible Financial Assistance
DESCRIPTION:Join HCDVCC for updates on the Harris County Domestic Violence Assistance Fund (DVAF)\, an innovative countywide initiative led by HCDVCC since 2023\, and a conversation about how flexible financial assistance helps survivors get safe and stay safe. Through partnerships with 19 grantee agencies across Harris County\, DVAF provides timely\, survivor-centered financial support for urgent safety needs. \n\n\n\nFrom emergency hotel stays\, rent\, childcare\, transportation to safe family or community\, and medical costs to tailored supports such as internet access for virtual counseling\, phone plans\, or pet care\, these flexible dollars help remove barriers that can stand between survivors and safety. \n\n\n\nHear from DVAF grantees who are helping make safety possible for survivors across Harris County by providing timely\, flexible support when it matters most. Together\, we’ll explore how direct financial assistance strengthens safety\, stability\, and long-term healing. \n\n\n\nFeatured Speakers \n\n\n\nLaura Zavala-Membreno\, LPC-S | Director\, Anti-Violence Program\, Montrose CenterLaura leads survivor-centered services for LGBTQ+ survivors of domestic violence\, sexual assault\, trafficking\, and hate violence. A trauma-informed counselor\, advocate\, and educator\, she brings deep expertise in crisis response\, prevention\, and building systems rooted in safety\, dignity\, and healing. \n\n\n\nJoy Green\, J.D. | Executive Director\, Justice for All ImmigrantsJoy is an immigration attorney with nearly 15 years of experience representing survivors of domestic violence and individuals navigating humanitarian immigration cases. As Executive Director of Justice for All Immigrants\, she helps ensure immigrant survivors can access safety\, legal protections\, and pathways forward. \n\n\n\nLisa Longoria Bourgoyne\, M.Ed.\, LPC-S | CEO\, The LandingLisa brings nearly 30 years of experience supporting children\, families\, and survivors of exploitation and trafficking across Houston and Harris County. A respected trauma-informed leader\, she is known for building compassionate systems of care that foster healing\, dignity\, and restoration. \n\n\n\nModerator: Shannon Falk\, MSW | Project Manager\, HCDVCCShannon manages the Domestic Violence Assistance Fund at HCDVCC\, partnering with 19 agencies across Harris County to provide flexible financial assistance to survivors fleeing domestic violence and sexual assault. With over 20 years in social work and deep expertise in coordinated systems response\, Shannon brings both frontline experience and countywide insight into what survivors need to reach safety. \n\n\n\nOpen to service providers\, advocates\, community members\, and anyone interested in strengthening survivor safety in Harris County. No registration required.
URL:https://www.hcdvcc.org/event/making-safety-possible-the-power-of-flexible-financial-assistance/
LOCATION:United Way of Greater Houston\, 50 Waugh Street\, Houston\, TX\, United States
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SUMMARY:Protecting Capacity: Community Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Getting what you need to keep showing up:  \n\n\n\nThis work isn’t easy\, and pretending it is won’t help us get through it. \n\n\n\nAdvocates across helping professions are carrying more than ever in their roles at agencies\, and as the people others turn to as friends\, neighbors\, and family. \n\n\n\nWe invite helpers across our community to invest in themselves in a session on what it actually takes to care for yourself while showing up for others with Thecia Jenkins. \n\n\n\nThecia Jenkins is a human behavior expert specializing in gender-based violence education and prevention. Certified in Emotional Intelligence and Trauma-Informed Practice\, she serves as Director of Training at HCDVCC.
URL:https://www.hcdvcc.org/event/protecting-capacity-community-meeting/
LOCATION:United Way of Greater Houston\, 50 Waugh Street\, Houston\, TX\, United States
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