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This train-the-trainer is a dynamic virtual opportunity designed to prepare participants to intentionally facilitate the curriculum while learning more about the framework surrounding the content and our own approach to youth engagement at A Call to Men. Through interactive learning, guided reflection, and practical application moments, participants will begin building the confidence and skills needed to lead meaningful conversations with young people about healthy masculinity, respectful relationships, consent, accountability, and violence prevention.

Rural communities are often discussed in terms of the barriers they face, including limited resources, workforce shortages, and geographic isolation. Yet across the country, rural practitioners are developing creative, community-driven approaches that build on local strengths, trusted relationships, and deep community connections to improve health and well-being.

Shelter and interim housing programs play essential roles in keeping people safe and helping people connect to permanent housing. Communities and providers have long needed clear and consistent expectations and guidance for the design and operations of such programs.

Grief is a universal human experience, and no two people grieve in the same way. It cannot be rushed, fixed, or “talked away,” but there are meaningful, trauma-informed ways we can support those who are experiencing loss. This session explores best practices for showing up with compassion, creating emotional safety, and walking alongside clients through significant loss while honoring their pace, story, and resilience. The Grief M.E.N.T.O.R. Method is a trauma-informed, relationship-centered approach for supporting individuals through loss without trying to fix or rush their healing.

The new National Standards for Shelter and Interim Housing Programs, developed by the Reimagining Interim Housing project, were deeply informed by people with lived expertise, program staff, system leaders, and others. The Standards are designed to apply across diverse communities, populations, and program models, and can be adapted to reflect local circumstances while preserving core commitments to safety, dignity, fair treatment, and helping people secure permanent housing.

Gender-based violence touches every part of our lives: our homes, our jobs, our schools, our health, and now our phones and screens. No single system or sector can end it alone. That is the idea at the heart of BWJP's MOSAIC Initiative, which advances a whole-of-society approach built on seven keystones: prevention; survivor health and well-being; housing and economic security; legal and alternative justice responses; online safety; emergency preparedness; and research and data.