Training Tools

Provides tips, tools and exercises to guide the development of a Community Action Team in your neighborhood, city, faith-based group, school or place of employment. Designed primarily for use by domestic violence and public health organizations.

This curriculum covers topics such as recognizing, responding to, and investigating elder sexual assault. The training is interactive, and case studies based on real crimes are used to give the officers practice in applying the information they learn.

The goal of this initiative is to prepare sacred community leaders, including clergy and lay leaders, to respond to domestic violence within the context of their sacred traditions.

The Bar Association Toolkit was developed to assist state, county, city, and local bar associations in hosting events and panel discussions regarding human trafficking as a means to raise public awareness. It contains information on the myths of human trafficking, a guide for choosing potential speakers, questions for the speakers, glossary of terms and other resources. The toolkit should be used with the film: "Voices for Victims: Lawyers Against Human Trafficking" [07:42].

This online program helps to build skills and offers tools to any individual that wishes to help children experiencing domestic violence on their path to healing and thriving.

ATASK’s teen dating violence for Asian youth curriculum encourages teens from Asian/Asian American communities to think about stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination and its correlation with domestic violence. For a copy of the curriculum, please contact the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence at 617-338-2350.

This discussion explores your organization’s mission and how it is supported by the work you do.

Safe spaces is a free, online training designed to help individuals working with children and youth recognize and respond to signs of trauma and stress.

This webpage has multiple interactive quizzes that teens can take to learn about their own relationships, a friend’s relationship, or to test their knowledge on dating violence. Click on the “Relationship Quizzes” tab to access them.

The prevalence of traumatic stress in the lives of families experiencing homelessness is extraordinarily high. This comprehensive toolkit was developed for use by homeless shelters and housing providers, although the material can be highly useful for domestic violence advocates.

This resource includes an interactive, multimedia learning module and discussion guide introducing practitioners to the science of early childhood development, toxic stress, executive function, resilience, and mental health.

This online toolkit provides training materials and other resources to educate officers about the dynamics and impact of officer-involved domestic violence and human trafficking.