AVA Meetings/Summaries

Austin Peer to Peer Meeting – Febrary 2017

AVA held a Peer-to-Peer meeting in February in Austin.   A lot of information was covered,  many great conversations were had, and valuable lessons were learned from one another on how to accomplish the day-to-day work of meeting STOP program mandates.  A little time was also taken to discuss how the influx of VOCA funds has […]

AVA/OVW Conference Call Summary – January 2017

Summary of Monthly Conference Call between AVA& OVW Date: Monday, January 9, 2017 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time    OVW Staff: OVW Associate Director Amy Loder, STOP Program Managers Kim Galvin, Latonya Eaddy, Omar Mohammed, and Kevin Sweeney AVA Board Members: Michelle Bynum, MaryEllen Garcia, Bill Schaefer and Diana Fleming AVA Executive Director: Dorene […]

AVA/OVW Conference Call Summary – December 2016

Summary of Monthly Conference Call between AVA & OVW Date: Monday, December 5, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time     OVW Staff: OVW Associate Director Amy Loder, STOP Program Managers Kim Galvin and Omar Mohammed, Marnie Shiels, OVW Legal AVA Board Members: Michelle Bynum, MaryEllen Garcia and Cecilia Miller AVA Executive Director: Dorene […]

AVA/OVW Conference Call Summary – November 2016

Summary of Monthly Conference Call between AVA & OVW Date: Monday, November 7, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time     OVW Staff: OVW Associate Director Amy Loder, STOP Program Managers Latonya Eaddy, Kim Galvin and Omar Mohammed AVA Board Members: Michelle Bynum, MaryEllen Garcia and Cecilia Miller AVA Executive Director: Dorene Whitworth   […]

AVA/OVW Conference Call Summary – September 2016

Summary of Monthly Conference Call between AVA & OVW Date: Monday, September 12, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time     OVW Staff: Program Manager Kim Galvan AVA Board Members: Michelle Bynum, Julia Fuller-Wilson and Cecilia Miller AVA Executive Director: Dorene Whitworth   SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS   Amy Loder, Associate Director, as well as […]

Philadelphia Peer-to-Peer Meeting, October 2016

AVA held the second in a series of peer-to-peer meetings in Philadelphia on October 5th. This meeting was attended by 15 administrators and staff from 11 states. We covered quite a lot of information from reporting mandates, implementation planning, working with subgrantee programs and PREA to funding strategies and managing returned monies, among other things. […]

AVA/OVW Conference Call Summary – June 2016

Summary of Monthly Conference Call between AVA& OVW Date: Monday, June 13, 2016 Time: 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time    OVW Staff: Associate Director Amy Loder and Program Managers Kim Galvan and Omar Mohammad AVA Board Members: MaryEllen Garcia, Debbie Rollo, Julia Fuller-Wilson, Cecilia Miller AVA Executive Director: Dorene Whitworth     SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS […]

AVA/OVW Conference Call Summary – May 2016

Summary of Monthly Conference Call between AVA& OVW Date: Monday, May 9, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time   OVW Staff: Associate Director Amy Loder AVA Board Members: MaryEllen Garcia, Bill Schaefer, Michelle Bynum, Debbie Rollo, Julia Fuller-Wilson, Diana Fleming AVA Executive Director: Dorene Whitworth   SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS This meeting offered an opportunity […]

AVA/OVW Conference Call Summary – February 2016

Summary of Monthly Conference Call between AVA& OVW Date: Monday, February 1, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time    OVW Staff: Associate Directors Michelle Brickley and Program Manager Omar Mohammad AVA Board Members: Michelle Bynum, Debbie Tanaka, Julia Fuller-Wilson AVA Exec. Dir.: Dorene Whitworth     TOPICS DISCUSSED:   Joint STOP Administrators and Coalition […]