Coalition Ending Gender-Based Violence

TJ Cohort | Session 6 | Closing
2026-11-18 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Our intention is to continue building practices and systems that prevent gender-based violence, and go upstream to find our solutions! We’ll spend some time building relationships in a low pressure, but impact focused environment where we practice the liberation we want to see – norms of care and consideration in our relationships and systems. Our central question in this cohort is – what does Justice for survivors and those we’ve lost look like?

We look forward to answering that question with you!

WHO: This meeting is open to prevention educators, community organizers, your preventionist aunties, and other providers from adjacent systems interested in this intersection.

Registration Required..Accommodations: ASL interpreters available upon request.WHY: Not every survivor can be served well by “main stream” systems. We want to ensure that our analysis and practices account for criminalized survivors, immigrant survivors, trafficking survivors, disabled survivors, sex workers, and other populations often underserved or intentionally disenfranchised. It’s beyond time that we look at the limitations of carceral feminism, and invest in community-based strategies that prevent harm instead of over-resourcing response.

WHAT: Once a month we’ll gather to learn how we can plug in to work that addresses root causes of gender based violence in our communities. We’ll talk about what harm looks like in community and systems and practices and conditions we want to build…

“The existing criminal justice model poses two main questions in the face of social harm: Who did it? How can we punish them? (And increasingly, how can we make money from it?). Creating safe and healthy communities requires a different set of questions: Who was harmed? How can we facilitate healing? How can we prevent such harm in the future?”–S. Lamble

Building Changes' Diversion Training Day 1
2026-12-03 09:30 - 15:30 | Virtually via Zoom
Required training to access King County’s Centralized Diversion Funds. Please Note: both days are required; the first day is virtual and the second day is in person.

In this hands-on practice guided by experienced Coaches, participants will build their skills in facilitating Diversion/housing problem-solving conversations, a trauma-informed, person-centered approach focused on immediate resolution to a housing crisis. Diversion offers flexible, light-touch services that may be coupled with minimal financial assistance that results in a temporary or permanent housing arrangement outside of the homeless system.

This training is intensive, intended for folks newly getting introduced to Diversion or needing an in-depth refresher. Although it is via Zoom, active participation will be expected!

All participants who complete the training will be certified to access King County’s Centralized Diversion Funds.

Future Diversion training offerings and Learning Circle registrations will be available here in coming months: https://buildingchanges.org/help-build-change/get-trained-on-diversion/

Questions can be directed to dimitri.groce@buildingchanges.org

Building Changes' Diversion Training Day 2
2026-12-04 09:30 - 15:30 | Pacific Tower, 1200 12th Ave. S, Seattle, Washington, 98144
