Join AVA: Working Together to Make Things Better!
Help Transform the Health of Those Affected by Violence and Adversity
AVA is building a bold, national movement to transform community health and social services for girls, women, and gender-diverse people across the lifespan.
Join over 500 members who are already working with AVA to create a real, lasting impact. Be part of an innovative, evidence-based effort to promote equity, wellness, and resilience for those affected by violence and adversity. Gain free access to AVA’s Online Training Platform and connect with a growing network of national and international collaborators.
What membership is right for you?
LEARNER
Choose this membership if you are:
- An undergraduate student
- Frontline Staff
- Anyone concerned about reducing gender-based violence
- Learn from specialized courses in the AVA Online program that focuses on topics related to the AVA Objectives and Guiding Principles. This carefully selected and curated curriculum will grow over time.
- Access repository of other Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Health Research Training Platform in the RISE repository of courses.
- Offer your feedback on the curriculum and AVA website via Contact Us.
- Request new AVA curriculum content via Contact Us
Gain Access to:
SCHOLAR
Choose this membership if you are:
- A graduate student
- A postdoctoral fellow
- Train to transform population (community) health and social services, specifically to improve the health of girls and women exposed to ACEs and violence by being a mentee in the AVA Triadic Mentorship Program. Applications required.
- Get paid by AVA to be an intern at your Community Partner Mentor’s agency (from your triadic mentorship) to foster comfort and capacity for Implementation Science via experiential community training experiences in the Community Agency Internship program. These valuable field placement experiences could be connected to, but would not comprise, thesis/ dissertation research. Applications required.
- Train and engage in strategic planning, management, evaluation for health and social service transformation focused on girls and women affected by ACEs, especially violence in AVA’s Strategy Development, Management and Evaluation program.
- Learn from specialized courses in the AVA Online program that focuses on topics related to the AVA Objectives and Guiding Principles and aligns with your learning and career goals.
- Access repository of other Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Health Research Training Platform in the AVA Online RISE repository of courses.
- Offer your feedback on the curriculum and AVA website via Contact Us.
- Request new AVA curriculum content via Contact Us.
Gain Access to:
- AVA Members List
- Meeting Minutes
- Recorded Videos:
- Strategic Planning
- Working Group materials/sign up links
- Community Partner Agency Links
*Please note that this membership requires approval before account is fully created
PARTNER
Choose this membership if you are:
- A community partner
- An academic partner
- Partner with an AVA Academic Partner in the AVA Triadic Mentorship Program, to mentor the next generation of scholars to undertake community-based research with a focus on gender- and sex-based analysis that is evidence-based, to improve the lives of girls’, women, and gender-diverse people exposed to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and violence, and the social services that provide them services. Applications required.
- Host an AVA-paid intern (likely the scholar from your triadic mentorship) for 10-20 hours/week to take part in a variety of agency programs and services, including supporting service delivery, program innovation, evaluation and other activities relevant to their individualized learning plans, research career goals and agency-defined priorities in the Community Agency Internship program. Applications required.
- Train and engage in strategic planning, management, evaluation for health and social service transformation focused on girls and women affected by ACEs, especially violence in AVA’s Strategy Development, Management and Evaluation program.
- Learn from specialized courses in the AVA Online program that focuses on topics related to the AVA Objectives and Guiding Principles and aligns with your learning and career goals.
- Access repository of other Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Health Research Training Platform in the AVA Online RISE repository of courses.
- Offer your feedback on the curriculum and AVA website via Contact Us.
- Request new AVA curriculum content via Contact Us.
- Partner with an AVA Community Agency Partner in the AVA Triadic Mentorship Program, to mentor the next generation of scholars to undertake community-based research with a focus on gender- and sex-based analysis that is evidence-based, to improve the lives of girls’, women, and gender-diverse people exposed to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and violence, and the social services that provide them services. Applications required.
- Participate/assist in delivery of the various AVA training programs and become future leaders in achieving AVA’s objective through the Early Career Researcher (ECR) Teaching Release Applications required.
- Train and engage in strategic planning, management, evaluation for health and social service transformation focused on girls and women affected by ACEs, especially violence in AVA’s Strategy Development, Management and Evaluation program.
- Learn from specialized courses in the AVA Online program that focuses on topics related to the AVA Objectives and Guiding Principles and aligns with your learning and career goals.
- Access repository of other Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Health Research Training Platform in the AVA Online RISE repository of courses.
- Offer your feedback on the curriculum and AVA website via Contact Us.
- Request new AVA curriculum content via Contact Us.
Gain Access to:
- AVA Members List
- Meeting Minutes
- Recorded Videos:
- Strategic Planning
- Working Group materials/sign up links
- Community Partner Agency Links
*Please note that this membership requires approval before account is fully created
If you are still not sure which membership is right for you, please contact us!
