In November, WWAV hosted its first volunteer training since Hurricane Katrina, welcoming a boisterous group of potential volunteers to our temporary office space in the Art Egg building on Broad Street. Potential volunteers had an opportunity to hear about the current work WWAV has been doing, and to find out ways they can apply their […]
Tune into The 504 to hear Deon Haywood talks about how WWAV is fighting the social ills that contribute to HIV/ AIDS spreading amongst women and communities of color.
After the 2012 aggravated arson attack on our offices, we lost more than our home and sense of safety in the city we love; we also lost all the tangible memorabilia of our more than twenty years of work. In the wake of this attack, WWAV sustained our rebuilding process by making new memories – […]
This Fall, WWAV announced that we will be launching a new program on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking for African American women and LBTQ women in New Orleans, with the support of the Office on Violence Against Women. We are now THRILLED to introduce you to the program coordinator, Ms. Ashley M. Bernal, MA. […]
On November 15th, WWAV hosted our our first Overdose Prevention and Naloxone training with Dr. Catherine Jones. And this is just the beginning of our work together! Catherine Jones, MD, was born and raised in New Orleans. She came to medicine after a decade of community organizing, harm reduction, and racial justice work in New Orleans and […]