Training Tools

This newsletter focuses exclusively on issues related to violence in LGBTIQ communities. Articles include information on interrupting problematic language, addressing the needs of trans survivors, and SANE protocol.

This evidence-based program helps teens recognize the difference between caring, supportive relationships and controlling, manipulative, or abusive relationships. It is during the critical pre-teen and teen years that young people begin to learn the skills needed to create and foster positive relationships. With Safe Dates, young people are given the tools needed to build these skills.

This guide contains ten quick tips for service providers working for trans inclusion.

This toolkit for service providers is a teaching tool and guide for understanding how trauma from domestic violence impacts children and how best to serve these children's needs. Although it was designed for use by shelter-based and other domestic violence direct service providers in North Carolina, it has broad applicability.

Sexual violence in later life is a form of elder abuse. This guide thoroughly investigates the complexity of the topic and includes information on signs and symptoms, special issues facing older victims, and primary prevention techniques.

This manual offers guidance to trainers who are conducting workshops for religious leaders and women leaders of faith on gender-based violence and HIV. It offers resources and approaches to use in training to raise awareness and to motivate action planning to address gender-based violence and HIV issues.

This special report highlights the compelling stories of Westbrook resident Dot Jarmin, Al Wagner, and Olivia Spallholz, all victims of elder abuse or financial exploitation. The program explores some of the innovative work being done by police officers in Maine to combat elder abuse.

Although primary prevention is at the root of the movement to end sexual violence, community-based agencies are challenged to find practical resources around program development and evaluation. Developing programs with evaluation in mind will enable prevention educators to build upon strengths and improve programs to achieve desired results. Through evaluation, sexual violence prevention educators will be able to show what they have always trusted: that their programs do make a positive difference.

This training contains activities, talking points, and other tools for trainers.

Materials from the webinar held on July 28 and 29, 2009 include the PowerPoint presentation and questions and answers from the presenter.

These recommendations for best practices for serving LGBT homeless youth include three sections. The first section consists of steps individuals who have regular direct contact with youth can take to improve experiences of LGBT youth in accessing services. The second section provides information on steps to improve agency-wide culture and effectiveness in serving LGBT youth. The third section outlines specific steps for administrators and youth workers to improve experiences of youth in residential settings such as emergency shelters and longer term transitional living.

This webinar highlights findings from the ground-breaking Meeting Survivors' Needs study. Presenters include: MaryLouise Kelley, Director of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program Dr. Eleanor Lyon from the University of Connecticut The Policy Team at the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)