CILO Victim Services Program - PBC

10/21/2025

10/16/2025

10/02/2025

09/27/2025

🧠 Free Online Courses for Safety, Awareness & Empowerment 💻Victim Service Center is offering FREE online trainings through Canvas by Instructure!

Whether you're a student, educator, or community member, these self-paced courses will help you:

✔️ Build healthy relationships
✔️ Recognize red flags
✔️ Prevent violence
✔️ Support others safely

🔹 Current courses include:

• Foundations of Healthy Relationships
• Be the Hero: Active Bystander Intervention
• Stalking and Cyberstalking
• Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention for Students

👉 Start learning today: www.victimservicecenter.org/canvas-courses



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09/23/2025

The Department of Justice is finalizing a process by which people prohibited from having guns under federal law can apply to have their firearm access restored. The proposed process includes some safeguards to prevent people who pose an ongoing danger of domestic violence from having their firearm access restored, but some important improvements would strengthen the final version.

During this webinar, you will learn the very basics of the federal rulemaking process, learn about the proposed rule to restore firearms to federally prohibited people, and learn how to easily submit a comment to the Department of Justice offering solutions to strengthen the safeguards in order to protect victims and survivors of domestic violence.

Sign up here: https://secure.everyaction.com/m7St8-ZFwUy1JzVieYzcjg2

09/18/2025

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09/04/2025

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09/01/2025

We want our kids to be able to trust their feelings, to be able to assert themselves, to be able to set boundaries around their bodies, especially when it comes to touch.

Here’s the thing: these skills don’t suddenly appear later in life, they’re built in early childhood.

If you want your child to say, “No, I’m not comfortable with that” years from now, they need practice saying it today.

Adults may push back: “What? No hug?” or “Come on, just sit on my lap!” Deep breath. That’s ok. It’s not your child’s job to make others happy - especially at the cost of their own comfort. And it’s not your job to please those adults either.

This is tough cycle-breaking work. And you’re tough enough to do it.

So when the criticism comes, picture me by your side whispering: “You’re safe. This isn’t an emergency. You don’t have anything to prove. You’re the right parent for your kid and you know what you’re doing.”

Let’s help our kids build self-trust today, so they can assert themselves when they’re older.