Welcome!

Avalon Institute provides education to increase sexual assault awareness, improve survivors’ experiences, and enhance the abilities of service providers to offer survivor-centered care.

About Avalon Healing Center:

Avalon is a non-profit, 501(c)3, comprehensive organization that provides compassionate and trauma-informed care to survivors of sexual assault. Avalon Healing Center's mission is to inspire healing and empowerment for those affected by sexual violence through free and immediate comprehensive services; promote public awareness; and advance social change.

At Avalon Healing Center, we believe that education is a foundational and transformative tool for eradicating sexual violence and enhancing the quality of care for sexual assault survivors.

Through the Avalon Institute e-learning platform, we are dedicated to expanding educational opportunities for service providers and community members who engage with sexual assault survivors. Trainings focus on increasing skill sets and empathy, resulting in improved survivor-centered and culturally competent care for all who are impacted by sexual violence. Now everyone, from our local community to those across the globe, can access both free and at-cost education and training opportunities from our skilled staff, survivors, and other community experts.

Avalon Institute’s library of training opportunities include topics such as Human Trafficking, Advocacy for Survivors of Sexual Assault, Sexual Assault and the Criminal Justice System, Neurobiology of Trauma, and Trauma Informed Care.

What community members are saying about Avalon Institute:

“Education is paramount in comprehensive services and fair treatment of survivors. Thank you for offering this needed service”

“So many of us are uninformed about the nuances of sexual assault, survivorship, trafficking, racism, etc. As a whole, more education should be provided at every level, and the earlier we expose people the better.”