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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:  

  • 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.   

 

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:  

  • Increase understanding of the types and effects of domestic violence within the LGBTQ+ community.  

  • Increase understanding of additional barriers the LGBTQ+ community face while experiencing domestic violence and seeking services.  

  • 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:  

  • 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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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:  

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

  • Identify unhealthy and healthy dating relationship behaviors 

  • Explore additional barriers and their solutions to LGBTQ+ dating relationships 

  • Discuss and plan how to respond to violence in LGBTQ+ dating relationships as an ally 

Contact Branches 
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Branches Domestic Violence Shelter 
P.O. Box 403 
Huntington, WV 25708 

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Email: info@branchesdvs.org

Phone: 304-529-2382

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Meals on a Mission has been a huge success in 2024 with our incredible community donating 440 meals to survivors of domestic violence. 

 

For this reason, we've decided to make Meals on a Mission, a year-round opportunity.  Now--you can choose from our Putnam or Cabell County Meal Train calendars to schedule your meal donation! 

 

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