Advocates to the Front! 2024 WSCADV Conference

This workshop will focus on building narrative power in rural Washington to address gender-based violence and intersecting issues of economic justice, racial justice, and reproductive justice. Participants will learn to weave narrative strategies into campaign and initiative work, integrating community organizing and strategic communications. The session will include interactive exercises to help programs develop, distribute, and organize narrative change across key issues. Participants will also build connections across programs to use narrative change as a shared project.

Primary prevention initiatives are a critical component in the movement to end gender-based violence, but it can be challenging to juggle with many competing priorities and other contract requirements. This workshop will explore options for how and why to allocate resources towards prevention work, communication strategies to share the beneficial impacts of prevention initiatives with funders, donors, and community partners, and encouragement for managers, directors, and other leaders to "take the leap" in supporting prevention work to greater heights.