Training Tools
The materials displayed here include curricula, online learning modules, recorded webinars and web conferences, videos, podcasts, and other tools that can help to enhance understanding of and capacity to prevent and address gender based violence. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Curricula, online learning modules, recorded webinars and web conferences, videos, podcasts, and other tools. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
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Belly Breathe
Publisher(s): “Feeling like a monster? Colbie Caillat and Common recommend a calming breath.” This video walks children through “belly breathing” as a technique to cope with anger or anxiety.
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- NRCDV Publications
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Advocate-Defined Peer Supervision
Publisher(s):This exercise provides an opportunity for advocates to define and practice peer supervision.
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Did You Know Your Relationship Affects Your Health? A Train the Trainers Curriculum on Addressing IPV, Reproductive and Sexual Coercion
Publisher(s): This curriculum focuses on the crucial role of the health care provider in identifying and addressing IPV, reproductive coercion, and sexual coercion, providing training, tools, and resources to help health care providers address these complex and sometimes uncomfortable issues.
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ARC Reflections Training Program
Publisher(s):This resource, ARC Reflections, was developed by the Casey Foundation which is a nine-session program that child welfare agencies can use to train foster parents to better care for children who have had traumatic experiences
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Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth
Publisher(s):TGNC youth often face severe discrimination and harassment in schools. This resource addresses problems ranging from lack of gender-neutral bathrooms to confidentiality, with specific recommendations for addressing each problem in a school setting.
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Making the Connection: Intimate Partner Violence and Public Health
Publisher(s):This document provides an introduction to basic prevention concepts by exploring the public health approach, two classification systems, a planning tool used to develop more comprehensive initiatives, and the importance of understanding terminology. It addresses the topics of women's health, mental health and substance abuse, family planning, STIs and HIV, perinatal programs, breastfeeding, child and adolescent health, and injury and violence prevention.
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Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) Resources
Publisher(s):This page from the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises features key resources to help you learn more about the MISP and how to successfully implement it, including a learning module, quick reference guide, and advocacy sheet.
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Improving the Health Sector Response to Gender Based Violence: A Resource Manual for Health Care Professionals in Developing Countries
Publisher(s):This manual presents lessons learned from a regional initiative to increase organizational capacity to respond to gender-based violence. The manual offers tools for responding to violence against women and discusses challenges and debates about how health sector should respond to VAW in developing countries.
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Shelter Support Project
Publisher(s):The Shelter Support Project is a supportive resource for people making day-to-day decisions about the management and operation of domestic violence shelter programs. Shelter management resources including articles and model protocols are provided.
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Is Your "T" Written in Disappearing Ink? A Checklist for Transgender Inclusion
Publisher(s):This checklist is a first step for agencies to use while evaluating whether their polices and practices are inclusive to transgender people.
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Walk in Our Shoes: Working with Older Survivors of Abuse
Publisher(s):The purpose of these videos is to encourage critical thinking and conversation about direct services and outreach designed to meet the unique needs of victims of abuse in later life. Since each community has its own strengths and challenges, a variety of diverse viewpoints are offered to assist in determining what will work in your community.
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- NRCDV Publications
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Marital Rape
This 30 minute online learning tool is adapted from the Applied Research Paper, Marital Rape: New research and directions by Raquel Kennedy Bergen. Participants will learn the definition, risk factors, and effects of marital rape and will be able to identify potential intervention strategies.









