Training Requests

Dynamics of DV 101

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This training is designed to educate the community and raise awareness about domestic violence including common DV behaviors and all services Branches provides.  

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Learning Objectives:  

• Participants will leave the training with a basic understanding of the tactics and behaviors that abusers may use to maintain power and control in a relationship 

• Participants will explore why a victim may choose not to leave an abusive relationship or to pacify an abuser  

• Participants will learn healthy interventions and advocacy techniques with safety and dignity as top proprieties for victims  

• Participants will gain a basic understanding of what services are available in their community for victims of domestic violence  

 

Intersections of Domestic Violence & Substance Use Disorder

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This training examines the co-occurring experience of domestic violence and substance use disorder and best practices for advocacy.   

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Learning Objectives:  

• Participants will establish a baseline understanding about substance use as a diagnosis and develop critical thinking skills for examining systemic attitudes about substance use as a moral implication.  

• Participants will define “intersectionality” and examine the unique challenges faced by those experiencing both Domestic Violence and Substance Use Disorder.  

• Participants will explore the concept of stigma and be able to identify how it creates and maintains barriers to safety.  

• Participants will understand the practice of safety planning and develop strategies for how to engage with survivors about their options. 

 

Understanding Domestic Violence & Poverty: A Strengths-Based Approach

This training takes a strengths-based approach to understanding and providing advocacy to domestic violence victims working within the constraints of poverty.   

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Learning Objectives:  

• Participants will become familiar with the benefits of a working from a strengths-based approach.  

• Participants will be able to recognize and understand the “hidden rules” of class as they work with victims.  

• Participants will become familiar with specific domestic violence situations that are influenced by an experience of poverty and strategize effective ways to respond to them.   ​

 

Employ & Empower

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This training is designed for employers, local businesses, and HR departments to navigate employees that may be experiencing domestic violence and the overall impact of domestic violence in the workplace.    

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Learning Objectives:  

• Increase understanding of the types and effects of domestic violence affecting employees and colleagues. 

• Learn methods of creating a safer and more survivor-friendly working environment.  

 

Human Trafficking 101

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This training provides critical information on understanding and responding to human trafficking in our community.    

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Learning Objectives:  

• Understand the difference between human trafficking and smuggling 

• Increase understanding of myths and misconceptions related to human trafficking 

• Increase knowledge of how to help someone experiencing human trafficking  

 

Men & Domestic Violence

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This training provides information on how men experience, respond to, and report domestic violence.  It focuses on eliminating stigma, and clearing misconceptions associated with domestic violence and men.

 

Learning Objectives:  

• Increase understanding of how men experience and respond to domestic violence 

• Identify barriers to men seeking services for domestic violence 

• Provide expert insight from mental health, law enforcement, legal advocacy and service provider perspectives.   

 

Love Shouldn’t Hurt: Healthy Relationships & Teens

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This training is designed to provide information to teens and young adults regarding healthy relationships, body safety, and the consent continuum.     

Learning Objectives:  

• Create and nourish a safe place where we can discuss dating relationships 

• Identify unhealthy and healthy dating relationship behaviors 

• Identify safe ways to seek help when experiencing an unhealthy relationship  

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