I spend so much of my time talking about various online events for continuing education that I sometimes forget 1.) that some people still have money to actually go to trainings and conferences; and 2.) that there's really no substitute for the networking and collegial interaction that goes on at trainings and conferences. For those of you looking at spending some budget funds on live events, March and April are traditionally packed with good stuff, and this year's no exception, no matter what region you're in:

• Conference on Crimes Against Women*, March 8-10, Dallas, TX
• SAFE TA Regional Training, March 9-10, Albuquerque, NM
• OH Attorney General DFSA Training, March 18th (Cambridge, OH) & March 19th (Delaware, OH) email mariellen.aranda@ohioattorneygeneral.gov for registration information
• Male Survivor International Conference, March 18-21, New York City
• Identifying and Responding to Elder Abuse, March 23-24, Jacksonville, FL
• Compassion Fatigue/Vicarious Trauma, April 7-8, Pittsburgh, PA
• EVAW, April 19-21, Atlanta, GA
• Wyoming Sexual Assault Summit*, April 20-22, Laramie, WY
• Statewide SART Conference, April 21-23, Salem, OR
• Illuminating Sexual Violence*, April 22-23, Mandan, ND (see p. 7)
• International Family Justice Center Alliance Annual Conference, April 27-29, San Antonio, Tx (there will be some good sessions on strangulation and injury documentation)

(Events with an * denote ones where I'll be speaking)

There are plenty of others not listed here. For complete listings of all that's happening in our world, check out the Events Calendars at NSVRC and IAFN.

Just a reminder that we still have a handful of spots available for the leadership and management workshop we will be doing at IAFN in Atlanta this year. The workshop will be all day on Saturday, Oct. 24th. If you have any interest in attending, please register soon. Among the topics we will be covering:

• Budgeting
• Recruitment and retention
• Staff evaluation
• Succession planning and leadership development

The session will be a hands on workshop, using a case file and working in small groups. It should be a fantastic day, but we are almost full!.

Hope to see you there!

If you were unable to attend NSAC last week, or just didn't get to my session, and would like a copy of the slides, you can find them here. To print them out, simply click on the More tab on the upper left corner of the slides and in the drop down menu, you'll see an option to print.

I'd like to give a quick plug for our session at IAFN this year. For those of you attending, we will be doing an all day workshop (PDF) on Saturday, Oct. 24th on program management and leadership development. The workshop will use a mock clinical program case file (given to people in advance) to tackle common issues that develop in the course of running a program. Using a highly interactive small-group approach (facilitated by a faculty person at each table), we will work through problems such as prioritizing in a crisis; budgeting; recruitment/retention; staff evaluation; and strategic planning and benchmarking.

The workshop is being capped at 45 participants, so register soon (it's listed as Code 60 under NSVRC Leadership). It should be a fantastic day. And feel free to contact me if you have any questions.