September 2025 Call for Presenters is Officially Closed!
CONFERENCE THEME:
Resilience, Safety, & Change
Comprehensive and effective DV response requires a balance of hope, accountability, and evidence-based intervention. This year’s conference will explore how fostering hope can serve as a powerful tool for healing and resilience. When integrated with structured intervention and programming, hope can contribute to preventing and ending IPV. We will explore the science of hope as a tool for building resilience in survivors and professionals, also highlighting Strength at Home, the intervention program demonstrated to prevent and end IPV through randomized controlled trials.
This conference will bring together service providers, law enforcement, AP&P, child welfare professionals, mental health professionals, and advocates, to explore trauma-informed approaches, system collaboration, and strategies to support both victims and those who use violence, and whole family approaches to those impacted by violence. Attendees will gain insights into:
How hope functions as a protective factor in overcoming adversity, burnout, and trauma.
How Strength at Home’s trauma-informed model promotes offender accountability and prevents future harm.
How to improve system coordination for more effective domestic violence responses.
WORKSHOP CONTENT:
Presentations may focus on a variety of issues that pertain to the theme of the conference and which demonstrate a link to the overall topics as outlined above through promising prevention/intervention strategies.
Your presentation should clearly articulate your application to SAMHSA’s six key principles fundamental to a trauma-informed approach; Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment (Voice & Choice), and Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues. How this is identified in your presentation will determine the presentation being given a trauma-informed designation.
WORKSHOP DELIVERY CHOICES:
All workshop sessions will be 90 minutes in length, if you have a skills-based topic and would like two back-to-back 90-minute sessions (total of 180 minutes) please select this on the proposal form.
We highly encourage you to employ a presentation format that engages your colleagues in discussion and learning. For example 60 min lecture 30 min dialogue. Workshops may follow one of the following formats, or you may submit a proposal with an alternative format.
Facilitated Content: Presenters act as content leaders, presenting short segments of content and then leading engaging activities, group discussions, and participant reflections on how to apply their new knowledge to practice.
Panel Discussion: Includes two to three presenters who represent multiple institutions and/or perspectives on the same issue. Presenters create an engaging moderated discussion with dialogue, storytelling, case studies, and lessons learned to help participants apply concepts.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline to submit a proposal: April 30th, 2025 EOD
Decisions made by: May 2nd, 2025
Conference dates: September 4th & 5th, 2025
Submission Questions
Successful submissions will have innovative topics with presentations focused on creating interactive learning environments. During the submission process you will be asked to prepare the following:
Session title
Abstract, a summary of your presentation containing the primary learning objective (1,600 character limit)
Your presentation’s top three learning objectives
Short biography for each speaker involved in a presentation
Please select the dates and times where you are available to present
Workshop Selection Process
Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the Conference planning committee and other experts in the field. The committee will give priority to proposals that:
Have a clearly stated purpose and learning objectives.
Provide participants with strategies, information, and lessons learned that can be applied.
Must be interactive, apply adult learning strategies, and engage audience members.
Workshop applicants will receive an email notifying the status of their proposal by May 9th, 2025
Workshop Requirements and Policies
Presenters are requested to provide a copy of any PowerPoint slides by Aug 15th. These will be uploaded to the DV conference website along with any other materials a presenter wishes the audience to have. If it is not the regular practice of a presenter to disseminate such material, this can be discussed with the conference organizers.
Presenters will be required to complete registration to receive 100% entry to the conference. In the event that multiple speakers are presenting the same session, each additional speaker will be eligible to attend with a discount. *The code will be given when the abstract is completed & approved.
If you have any questions about the above please contact dvsconference@udvc.org