Training Requests
Branches provides a number of community education and awareness trainings covering a wide variety of issues and intersecting experiences with domestic violence. Anyone that would like to request a training for their organization or group can contact the Director of Development, Sara Blevins blevins@branchesdvs.org at any time and your request will be processed. Please include the type of training you're requesting and the dates and times you'd like to have an advocate present.
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Don't forget to frequently check our social media for upcoming open to the community training opportunities which we offer both virtually and in-person throughout the year.
Trainings Directory
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:
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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
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Participants will explore why a victim may choose not to leave an abusive relationship or to pacify an abuser
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Participants will learn healthy interventions and advocacy techniques with safety and dignity as top proprieties for victims
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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:
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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.
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Participants will define “intersectionality” and examine the unique challenges faced by those experiencing both Domestic Violence and Substance Use Disorder.
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Participants will explore the concept of stigma and be able to identify how it creates and maintains barriers to safety.
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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:
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Participants will become familiar with the benefits of a working from a strengths-based approach.
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Participants will be able to recognize and understand the “hidden rules” of class as they work with victims.
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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.
Allyship & Advocacy: Intersections of Domestic Violence and the LGBTQ+ Community
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This training provides methods and techniques to help create safer service provider environments for people in the LGBTQ+ community and to address additional barriers those experiencing domestic violence in the LGBTQ+ community might experience.
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Learning Objectives:
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Increase understanding of the types and effects of domestic violence within the LGBTQ+ community.
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Increase understanding of additional barriers the LGBTQ+ community face while experiencing domestic violence and seeking services.
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Increase understanding of methods and techniques in creating safer, more inclusive environments and services for victims in the LGBTQ+ community.
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:
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Increase understanding of the types and effects of domestic violence affecting employees and colleagues.
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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:
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Understand the difference between human trafficking and smuggling
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Increase understanding of myths and misconceptions related to human trafficking
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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.
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Increase understanding of how men experience and respond to domestic violence
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Identify barriers to men seeking services for domestic violence
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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.
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Create and nourish a safe place where we can discuss dating relationships
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Identify unhealthy and healthy dating relationship behaviors
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Identify safe ways to seek help when experiencing an unhealthy relationship
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Love Shouldn’t Hurt: Healthy Relationships & LGBTQ+ 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 within the LGBTQ+ community.
Learning Objectives:
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Create and nourish a safe place where we can discuss dating relationships
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Identify unhealthy and healthy dating relationship behaviors
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Explore additional barriers and their solutions to LGBTQ+ dating relationships
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Discuss and plan how to respond to violence in LGBTQ+ dating relationships as an ally