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EVENTS
Balance Is Key
Our signature events bring survivors into every room—not as guests, but as essential voices and participants. We host two outreach events and two training events each year, designed to equip our community with the knowledge and tools to help safely and effectively.
But we never let the weight of domestic violence define the entire experience. Just as important as learning how to support is the space to laugh together, create side by side, cheer one another on, and simply share joy. These moments of lightness aren't extras—they're essential. They recharge us, rebuild connection, and remind everyone that healing and change can include hope, creativity, and shared humanity.
When we balance the serious with the celebratory, we create stronger communities, deeper bonds, and more sustainable progress.Join us in these spaces where we learn, grow, and lift each other up—because balance truly is key.
Upcoming Events
Survivorship PanelTue, Jul 21Carahsoft
The Red Affair 2026Sat, Sep 26Reston
Dessert Community Team ChallengeAPRIL 2026Leesburg Junction
Annual Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence TrainingDate and time is TBDLocation is TBD
Survivor & Support System Honorees CeremonyDate and time is TBDLocation is TBD
The Experience:
The focus is long-term strengthening:
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Reclaiming the parts of themselves lost during the abuse
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Building the inner and outer tools to stay free
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Creating the kind of sustained support that actually lasts
The Experience
Includes live entertainment, specialty cocktails, dinner with meat stations, casino tables, and opportunities for networking and fundraising. Funds raised empower survivors, produce SNMM’s programs, such as survivor-led training, community outreach, and resources to break the cycle of abuse and tackling the reality that survivors may return to abusers 7–12 times on average.
Here’s how it works:
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Teams of 4 receive a mystery box full of delicious ingredients and compete in two fast-paced, themed dessert rounds. Live judges score creativity, taste, and teamwork while everyone enjoys the fun, the friendly rivalry, and the sweet results.
Training Within
Continued Empathy and Awareness Within: The purpose of the training is to provide an opportunity for both base personnel and community partners to increase their awareness and emphasize the importance of combating trafficking and domestic violence.
Recognizing Strength, Resilience and Support:
Domestic violence is serious—but so is the courage it takes to rise above it.
On this day we pause to honor the incredible strength of survivors who keep moving forward, the resilience they show every single day, and the community support systems, friends, families, advocates, neighbors who stand beside them and help empower others to do the same.
We still have work ahead, but days like this remind us: healing happens in community, hope is real, and no one has to walk alone.