Training Tools

This guide for law enforcement provides guidance on the enforcement of protection orders pursuant to the full faith and credit provision of the Violence Against Women Act, which requires law enforcement officers to enforce valid orders across the boundaries of states, tribes, and territories.

This online course teaches key concepts of primary prevention, the public health approach, and the social-ecological model.

This manual addresses the dynamics of domestic violence in immigrant families; ways to create agency-wide cultural competency training programs; multicultural approaches to shelter protocol development; recruiting and hiring multicultural staff; foreign language needs and helpful interviewing techniques for client intake sessions and meetings; ways to do outreach and collaboration with immigrant communities; and, descriptions of model programs.

This fact sheet provides a concise overview of secondary traumatic stress and its potential impact on child-serving professionals. It also outlines options for assessment, prevention, and interventions relevant to secondary stress, and describes the elements necessary for transforming child-serving organizations and agencies into systems that also support worker resiliency.

This manual provides a listing of activities and exercises designed to be used by advocates and educators working with children and youth to prevent violence and foster healthy relationships. Manual includes descriptions of the activities, as well as information about the age level of the target audience, objective of the activity, required training materials, and time needed to complete the activity.

This web resource provides teaching and learning modules the promote positive body image and the impact of the media on beauty and gender stereotypes.

This resource sheet includes information on transgender-specific resources, service impacts on trans/SOFFA clients, trans/SOFFA specific power and control tactics, and a list of specific articles available on the web.

This website provides resources for educations to promote diversity, equity, and justice. It provides lesson place, conversation starters, and other supports for teachers to promote media literacy and social activism.

This toolkit for trainers and advocates, provides key information, exercises and resources. The materials facilitate ways to better equip domestic violence program staff to recognize, understand and respond more effectively to the specific needs of those living with TBI as a result of domestic violence.

Using the familiar and concrete framework of woman-defined advocacy, the Guide explains advocates’ important role in safety planning when victims are in contact with current or former partners.

This toolkit includes information and resources related to understanding primary prevention, developing prevention programming in individual communities, and implementing a statewide primary prevention plan.

This curriculum provides training, tools, and resources to help home visitation staff address the complex and sometimes uncomfortable issue of domestic violence. When it comes to promoting health and safety outcomes for women and children impacted by domestic violence, there is a methodology to effective assessment, primary prevention, and anticipatory guidance messaging during home visits. These tools have been designed to facilitate safety planning and supported referrals to domestic violence programs.