Training Tools

This toolkit provides guidance to mental health practitioners and agencies on how to respond to subpoenas and other demands to produce client mental health records in ways that will maximize client safety and autonomy.

This Conversation Guide is designed to help you increase emotional safety and improve responsiveness to trauma in your shelter or program.

This toolkit provides guidance to local primary prevention providers on all stages of program evaluation including determining needs, resources, and capacity, stating outcomes and developing a logic model, and collecting, managing, and analyzing evaluation data.

This document provides a summary of the participants, discussion themes, shared resources, and feedback related to the Twitter Town Hall on the use of language and generational accessibility in dating violence prevention efforts.

This online learning module features the diaries of three children in different age groups, sharing their experiences of exposure to domestic violence and offering related best practice themes for shelter advocates and other social service providers. Includes a downloadable guide for practice and a digital library of short audio programs.

This webinar explores questions such as: What is Healthy Marriage and Relationship (MRE) Education anyway? How have MRE programs worked with domestic violence coalitions and community-based domestic violence programs? What tools have been developed that might be helpful to our DV prevention efforts? Where are the opportunities for collaborative healthy relationship work going forward?

This session emphasizes how anti-violence advocates can work in partnership with traditional print and radio outlets to promote our message of anti-violence advocacy.

This toolkit provides ideas for youth activists across the state to educate others about teen dating violence and to take action in their communities and schools. Contents include: You Can Make a Difference Knowledge Is Power Gain Support Spread The Word Hold A Club Meeting Club Activities Contact Your Local Domestic Violence Center

This session focuses on effective use of social media to engage your constituents and get your message of anti-violence out to the community.

This PowerPoint presentation offers an overview of the U-Visa, T-Visa, and VAWA self-petitioning process for survivors of violence who don't have legal immigration status.

The abuse of older adults is a common problem in our society, but rarely discussed. This is particularly challenging because victims/survivors of elder abuse are often an invisible population across cultures, gender, immigration status, etc. In this webinar, presenters discuss the specific and unique needs of Latino victims of elder abuse as this group is especially underrepresented in research and practice. Best approaches for bridging this gap as well as examples of successful collaborations to address this problem are highlighted in this webinar.

This document contains a list of sample questions regarding topics of particular concern, such as coercion, migration, and working conditions, to help with identifying a trafficked/enslaved person.