JOB DESCRIPTION    Title: Marketing and Events Coordinator  Position Status: Non-exempt, Part-time (20 hrs./week)  Reports to: Director of Development    POSITION SUMMARY  The Marketing and Events Coordinator supports the Development Director in all of Our VOICE’s funding initiatives. This individual is responsible for all agency marketing (including social media, lite graphic design, periodic website updates, and monthly e-newsletter) and all agency fundraising events.   &nb ..read more

Asheville Sex Worker Outreach Project: What is it? The Asheville Sex Worker Outreach Project (ASWOP) is a community coalition that stands for the rights and health of sex workers by facilitating the needs of this population through connecting them to services and support. This coalition includes a variety of community partners that come into contact Read more... The post Asheville Sex Worker Outreach Project appeared first on Our VOICE ..read more

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  Free and confidential SoulCollage® workshop for helping professionals May 5, 2017 12:20-2:30 pm: Buncombe County Family Justice Center 35 Woodfin St., Asheville, NC 28801 OurVoice offers regular free SoulCollage® workshop to survivors  of sexual violence. But this workshop is geared toward the helping professionals who support our community. Participants will learn to use collage Read more... The post SoulCollage for helping professionals appeared first on Our VOICE ..read more

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      Free & confidential workshops for survivors of sexual violence and their support people Access and empower your creative self. Protector archetypes an arts-based support group for female survivors of sexual violence During this 4-week SoulCollage® group, we will work with the archetypes of protector, nurturer, and wise one. Each participant will create Read more... The post Our VOICE now offers SoulCollage groups! appeared first on Our VOICE ..read more

Online dating is becoming a normal part of daily life for many Americans. Statistics say that 1 in 5 new dating relationships begin online. One UK study also reported that sexual assault through online dating sites increased 600% in just 5 years, from 2009 – 2014. After an Our Voice client reported a sexual assault Read more... The post Dating Sites and Sexual Assault appeared first on Our VOICE ..read more

For many people in Buncombe County, transportation is a major barrier to accessing social services and getting daily tasks done, like getting to and from work.  For almost two-thirds (63 percent) of all people who utilize the ‘Asheville Redefines Transit’ (ART) bus system, this is their only option for transportation.  Most of these people (60 Read more... The post Getting Moving: Our VOICE Partners with Wheels4Hope appeared first on Our VOICE ..read more

“That’s just a myth.” Oh really. Just a myth? Just a myth? How many times have I heard those words used to dismiss an idea, opinion, story or concern? I’m not going to actually answer that. But I am going to take a slightly closer look at how rape myths influence attitudes toward sexual violence. Read more... The post Good girls and bad girls: Looking more closely at one rape myth appeared first on Our VOICE ..read more