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Join us for a volunteer orientation to learn about AVDA’s programs, services and volunteer needs. All volunteers must attend a volunteer orientation before beginning to volunteer with AVDA. Orientations are held virtually via Zoom for the time being as AVDA has suspended all in-person volunteer opportunities indefinitely. All orientations are one hour and conducted by AVDA’s Senior Development Associate Tess Gee and Director of Development Lauren Summerville. All attendees must first complete AVDA’s volunteer application form and have a clear background check (provided by AVDA) before attending the orientation. Please reach out to Tess Gee at tessg@avda-tx.org for the application and background check and to register to attend an orientation. We hope you will join us!

Co-sponsored by AVDA, Daya and the Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, the Interfaith Advisory Council will present a free, virtual Interfaith Domestic Violence Training for faith leaders from across Greater Houston. As first responders to abuse survivors, faith leaders need the necessary tools to keep families safe in our community. This seminar will help faith leaders recognize and respond to domestic abuse. Keynote Speaker Suzanne Holsomback, Texas Council on Family Violence’s leadership development manager, will discuss intimate partner violence intervention from a theological perspective. She will explore the sacred responsibility of faith communities to foster healthy families and examine marriage as a covenant that is broken by the abuser, not the victim.

Please join us for this our virtual An Evening of Remembrance, Caring, and Hope, a virtual vigil to honor domestic violence victims, survivors and families, coordinated by the Interfaith Advisory Committee and sponsored by AVDA, Daya, and Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. In recognition of Houston’s religious diversity, tolerance, and acceptance, faith leaders from most of Houston’s major religions (the Baha’i Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism) are taking part in An Evening of Remembrance, Caring, and Hope. They will read the names of those who lost their lives to domestic violence in 2021 with Rev Harry B-Happy Bartholomew providing Gong Blessings. That evening Houston City Hall will be lit in purple, the color for domestic violence awareness symbolizing survival, courage, and peace.

Join us for a volunteer orientation to learn about AVDA’s programs, services and volunteer needs. All volunteers must attend a volunteer orientation before beginning to volunteer with AVDA. Orientations are held virtually via Zoom for the time being as AVDA has suspended all in-person volunteer opportunities indefinitely. All orientations are one hour and conducted by AVDA’s Senior Development Associate Tess Gee and Director of Development Lauren Summerville. All attendees must first complete AVDA’s volunteer application form and have a clear background check (provided by AVDA) before attending the orientation. Please reach out to Tess Gee at tessg@avda-tx.org for the application and background check and to register to attend an orientation. We hope you will join us!

Join us for a volunteer orientation to learn about AVDA’s programs, services and volunteer needs. All volunteers must attend a volunteer orientation before beginning to volunteer with AVDA. Orientations are held virtually via Zoom for the time being as AVDA has suspended all in-person volunteer opportunities indefinitely. All orientations are one hour and conducted by AVDA’s Senior Development Associate Tess Gee and Director of Development Lauren Summerville. All attendees must first complete AVDA’s volunteer application form and have a clear background check (provided by AVDA) before attending the orientation. Please reach out to Tess Gee at tessg@avda-tx.org for the application and background check and to register to attend an orientation. We hope you will join us!