AVA Meetings/Summaries

On November 13, 2024, six board members and our new Executive Director,  Arlene Vassell,  met for the annual strategic planning meeting in Nashville, TN.   They are from left to right, Mark Hertweck, Laura Quasney, Moriah Pease, Arlene Vassell,  Amy Baynes, Gene Nelson and  Tierra Williams.  

Good morning everyone! Our final AVA Connect Conversation of 2024 will take place November 20th, 2024 at 2:00pm EST.  Our current plan for this call is to keep it as an open-agenda meeting where you can discuss any topic that you are hoping to get feedback from your colleagues about. We are open to discussing any […]

Good afternoon to everyone! Our next AVA Connect Conversation of 2024 will be on August 21, 2024 at 2:00pm EST.  Our current plan for this call is to keep it as an open-agenda meeting where you can discuss any topic that you are hoping to get feedback from your colleagues about. We are open to discussing […]

The following is a brief overview of our conversation on Monday with OVW leadership and OVW Program Managers.  The topics were discussed briefly and the core of what was discussed is outlined below. STOP Progress Reporting AVA Board members provided OVW staff with feedback on how smoothly this process went for Administrators.  Most Board members […]

At the recent Peer to Peer held in Wisconsin on June 11-12, 2024 AVA presented out-going Executive Director Barry Bryant with a plaque and our thanks for his many years of service to AVA. Barry was/is a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan so we also got him a personalized jersey with his name and the number […]

AVA held their ninth Peer-to-Peer meeting in Madison, Wisconsin on June 11-12, 2024. Twenty VAWA Administrators from across the U.S. participated in this resource and information sharing conversation. Peer-to-Peers began in 2016 to allow administrators to create an agenda which they design that includes discussion of topics they are challenged by  – and ways to […]

Good morning/afternoon.   We wanted to reach out to let you know that we are going to reschedule our AVA Annual Meeting.     The new meeting date is now scheduled for June 27th, 2024 at 2:00pm EST.   When we set the original date of June 20th, there was no date yet established for the STOP […]

Good morning VAWA Administrators! Please find attached a “Save the Date” announcement for June 20, 2024.   AVA will hold our annual meeting that afternoon from 2:00-3:30pm EST and we hope that you will be able to join us. It’s an opportunity to learn more about AVA, the services that we offered to administrators last year, […]

Good afternoon! As many of you know, AVA held two Peer-to-Peer (P2P) meetings in 2023.  Our current plan is to hold just one meeting in 2024.  Last year’s meetings were held on the east coast and in the western part of the US, so this year we chose the central US, specifically, Madison, Wisconsin. The Madison airport […]