Training Tools

This manual suggests strategies for organizing, how to work together as a group, how to ensure that the group stays together, how to start an agency to provide culturally specific services, and how to negotiate and improve the system.

This guide provides suggestions for class activities that increase awareness of teen dating violence.

This web seminar discusses strategies for working with men and boys to prevent intimate partner violence.

This manual is a resource for victim advocates/service providers that discusses adolescent development, the unique impact of victimization on teens, and strategies for assessing local teen victimization, creating effective outreach activities, making service environments teen-friendly, and interacting with teens in helpful and productive ways. The guide also includes guidance on parent and family involvement and mandatory reporting.

This presentation reviews Deaf culture and language, domestic violence in the Deaf community, the rights of the Deaf and ADA accommodations, and ways to better meet the safety and communication needs of Deaf survivors seeking services.

This manual emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary Elder Abuse Fatality Review Team (EA-FRT), discusses various issues and challenges that EA-FRT may face, and presents suggestions for addressing these challenges.

This tool kit includes data on low-wage workers, fact sheets on work and child poverty, reports on public perceptions of poor people and the economy, suggested messages, descriptions of framing, and a guide for journalists on how to talk about low-wage work.

The goal of this technical assistance manual is to allow sexual violence advocates/counselors to become adept in dealing with elder clients as needed. Advocates can peruse this guide to learn the basics of effectively working with elder clients or utilize it in a crisis situation

A five-session curriculum designed for grades 6-8 for use by communities from all streams of Judaism. Focusing on the tools needed to build healthy relationships and to prevent dating violence, the course explores issues related to self-esteem, gender roles, healthy friendships and dating relationships, as well as offering strategies for helping those who are involved in abusive relationships.

This document is a trainer’s module on skills development. Sections included in this module are Understanding Crisis, The Helping Relationship, Effective Communication, Problem Solving, Crisis Intervention, Safety Planning, and Goal Planning.

This resource highlights those interventions that are specific to this population.

This school-based domestic violence prevention curriculum teaches students to recognize and prevent teen relationship abuse. Lesson plans include a variety of exercises. Parent workshop information and school staff development materials are also included.