A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse and Neglect: The Foundation for Practice
Written for new child protective services (CPS) caseworkers, professionals working with children and families, other professionals and concerned community members, this manual addresses the definition, scope, causes, and consequences of child abuse and neglect. It presents an overview of prevention efforts and the child protection process from identification and reporting through investigation and assessment to service provision and case closure.
OCDV and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene developed a training and reference guide for healthcare providers as part of a campaign to reduce cultural, linguistic and systemic barriers preventing domestic violence victims, particularly immigrant women and women of color, from reporting abuse to their healthcare providers.
A National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations (pdf)
This protocol was developed with the input of national, local, and tribal experts throughout the country, including law enforcement representatives, prosecutors, advocates, medical personnel, forensic scientists and others, as a guide for criminal justice and health care practitioners who respond to victims of sexual assault. The protocol is intended to assist jurisdictions in developing a response that is sensitive to victims of sexual assault and promotes offender accountability.
"The Advocacy Learning Center is a 2-year experiential course created to examine the vision, identify the principles and knowledge, and practice the skills and qualities that make advocacy a powerful force in the movement to end violence against women. Ongoing skill practice is built in so participants can transform new learning directly into real-world advocacy. "
The Blueprint for Safety, originally developed and implemented in Saint Paul, MN, is a prototype that can be used by any community hoping to link its criminal justice agencies together in a coherent, philosophically sound domestic violence intervention model.
Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children
This is an online learning module comprised of 4 lessons, complete with quizes and brief assignments. The 4 topics include: Introduction to Bonding and Attachment, Frequently Asked Questions, Factors Affecting Bonding and Attachment, and What Can I Do to Help?
Many men who have been violent have contact with their children. Positive involvement by a father figure is important to children’s development. Yet, until now, few tools have been available to help fathers who have perpetrated family violence relate to their children in positive ways.
Breaking the Cycle, Fathering After Violence: Curriculum Guidelines and Tools for Batterer Intervention Programs offers information, exercises and more to help batterer intervention programs begin these essential conversations.
Breaking the Silence: A Training Manual for Activists, Advocates, and Latina Organizers (pdf)
"A guide for domestic violence service providers, activists, counselors and others focused on advancing the rights of battered immigrant women. Based on the FVPF's successful pilot project, the manual provides essential details on how to start organizing and maintaining a group of activists and counselors. This guide is also available in Spanish."
Breaking the Silence: A Training Manual for Activists, Advocates, and Latina Organizers (Spanish) (pdf)
"The first ever guide for domestic violence service providers, activists, counselors and others focused on advancing the rights of battered immigrant women. Based on the FVPF's successful pilot project, the manual provides essential details on how to start organizing and maintaining a group of activists and counselors. This guide is also available in English."
Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence: Outreach to Underserved Communities (pdf)
This curriculum is designed to help domestic violence programs reach out to underserved communities in order to address the issues of diversity and of the limited access to quality services for battered women from those communities. Its appendices include handouts and worksheets for participants and overheads and readings for trainers. It is structured as a two day training and is designed for a program rather than individuals.
Center on Domestic Violence at the University of Colorado, Denver
The Program on Domestic Violence (PDV) from the Center on Domestic Violence exists to create transformative leaders for today’s domestic violence movement through a broad array of academic offerings. See website for a full list of academic program offerings.
Collaborating for Woman and Child Safety
This training curriculum, designed for multidisciplinary teams, is intended to enhance practice and policy when domestic violence and child maltreatment co-occur.
Community Engagement Curriculum Guide (pdf)
This training curriculum is based on a report from the API Institute on Domestic Violence titled "The Community Engagement Continuum: Outreach, Mobilization, Organizing and Accountability to Address Violence Against Women in Asian & Pacific Islander Communities".
Community Policing to Prevent Violence Against Women
This document is a training manual provided by PERF to advocates, police, social service providers, and other violence-against-women professionals. It is a resource guide for community-policing approaches to reducing and preventing violence-against-women.
Connect: Supporting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
This training concerns caring for children exposed to domestic violence and is intended to help trainers of resource families (foster parents and kinship care givers). The training includes a curriculum, power point, mini magazines and optional trainings videos.
The materials contained in this manual are designed for use in a variety of settings, from medical grand rounds to Parent-Teacher Association meetings, and are geared toward a broad range of audiences, including other health care professionals, students of the health professions, and adult and youth members of the community. These materials are not intended to substitute for expert knowledge or in-depth training.
Core Competencies: The Unique Skills of Advocacy
The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape’s (PCAR’s) Advocacy Skills Training is a one-day
skill building training for advocates. The design and content of this training are the direct
result of statewide and national focus groups held to: 1) identify skills advocates must
possess to effectively advocate for the needs of sexual assault survivors and 2) identify
training topics necessary to build these skills. During the course of this training,
participants will learn how to identify key players, use critical thinking skills and
construct a convincing argument to accomplish their goal to advocate for an individual
or group.
This training was designed for advocates at community-based sexual assault crisis
centers.
Dating Matters: Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention
This 60-minute, interactive training is designed to help educators, youth-serving organizations, and others working with teens understand the risk factors and warning signs associated with teen dating violence. Also highlights the importance of promoting healthy relationships.
Developmental Repair: A Training Manual (pdf)
Washburn Center for Children has recently completed a training manual on Developmental Repair – the treatment framework that has been developed and implemented in their Day Treatment Program under the clinical leadership of Anne Gearity PhD, LICSW. It is an intensive treatment model for working with young children who have experienced complex trauma and present with aggressive and disruptive symptoms.
DVERT Training CD and Lesson Plan
Video clips and lesson plan from the DVERT Training CD, a video-rich program that provides a clear and succinct overview of the principles and practices the DVERT collaboration follows in combating domestic violence.
Employee Training on Addressing Sexual Harassment (word)
This module is intended to train in identifying the various forms of sexual harassment, encouraging employees to report it, and discussing options for addressing sexual harassment in the workplace.
Engaging Boys and Men in Gender Transformation: The Group Education Manual (pdf)
"This manual offers trainers an array of participatory experiential exercises to reach men (and their partners), exploring gender socialization and its impact on HIV prevention and care. Piloted in Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania, the manual is designed to assist trainers in developing curricula to work with men and boys on gender, HIV and AIDS issues."
Engaging Bystanders in Sexual Violence Prevention Online Workshop
This online workshop reviews the concept of bystander intervention and the factors that lead people to act. The materials will cover who bystanders are and some circumstances that would motivate people to get involved in preventing sexual violence. The online workshop includes relevant research, concepts, tools, resources, and training activities.
EVAW International On-Line Training Institute
The institute provides opportunities for interested professionals to expand their knowledge of cutting edge developments in the criminal justice and community response to sexual assault, with particular emphasis on those crimes committed by someone who is known to the victim. Participants can work through training modules to learn and review new information and then apply this newly acquired knowledge in realistic and interactive scenarios, as well as assessment methods such as quizzes, tests, and case studies.
Eyewitness Evidence: A Trainer's Manual for Law Enforcement (pdf)
This NIJ Special Report assists law enforcement trainers with creating and instructing courses on eyewitness evidence, particularly interviewing witnesses and conducting lineups. It provides instructors with sample lesson plans, explanations grounded in research, and multimedia presentations that supplement key points in the training curriculum.
Family Violence Nursing Curriculum
While nurses must be able to respond skillfully to victims of all types of violence, responding to victims of family violence requires sensitivity rooted in understanding how it differs from other types of violence. The content of this curriculum, which grew out of the 1999 American Association of Colleges of Nursing competencies, was developed in response to those findings to provide Minnesota nursing faculty essential curricular information to develop student competence in preventing, assessing, and responding to family violence across the lifespan.
Family Violence Online Tutorials - Institute for Family Violence Studies, Florida State University
These online tutorials from Florida State University's Institute for Family Violence Studies provide case examples, self-quizzes, and case studies with which you can test your knowledge on topics around domestic violence.
Fantastic Fathers: An Experiential, Education and Support Group for Dads
The Fantastic Fathers series was created for men who have used abuse in their relationships to engage and motivate them to participate in the process of change by taking responsibility for their behaviors and to provide a reparative framework in the healing process between children and their fathers.
Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A Training Manual
"This training manual was produced under a UNFPA/UNIFEM strategic partnership aimed at developing a coordinated approach for effective technical assistance to gender-responsive budgeting (GRB)."
Global Violence Prevention is an interactive case study about family violence. The site's purpose is to teach individuals in service provision fields to respond effectively to victims and perpetrators by guiding users through an online case study about a family experiencing violence. This site can be used by individuals or groups of students in a classroom setting. The case helps users learn how to respond to the members of the family and work effectively with other professionals in meeting their needs.
Global War and Violence: Implications for US Social Workers
The Center for Victims of Torture has published a curriculum for social work instructors who want to prepare their students to work with torture survivors and war-traumatized refugees.
Healing the Hate: A National Hate Crime Prevention Curriculum (pdf)
Originally designed to be used in classroom settings, these materials have also proven useful in a variety of other venues: working with youth who commit hate crimes, working with schools experiencing specific bias crime problems, in after-school programs, and in teacher training settings.
Healthy Moms, Happy Babies: A Train the Trainers Curriculum was created to support state agencies and home visitation programs in developing a core competency strategy and to ensure that all home visitors have training and resources to help women and children living in homes with domestic violence. The curriculum provides training, tools, and resources to help home visitation staff address the complex and sometimes uncomfortable issue of domestic violence.
Healthy Relationships: A Violence-Prevention Curriculum
A comprehensive curriculum to prevent violence against women for students in seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. Helping students to analyze the culture of violence that condones abusive behavior is the first step towards empowering them to create the violence-free culture of tomorrow.
Honor Our Voices is an online learning module that presents information on child exposure to domestic violence by engaging participants with the voices and stories of children who have experienced domestic violence firsthand. The purpose of this learning module is to create a multi-pronged response to increase the awareness and sensitivity of shelter advocates and other social service providers to the needs of children and suggest promising ways of enhancing services for children exposed to domestic violence.
Human Trafficking Awareness Training
Basic online training on human trafficking from the Department of Homeland Security. By the end of the training participants will be able to define human trafficking, differentiate between human trafficking and human smuggling, recognize populations vulnerable to human trafficking, and recognize indicators of human trafficking. For more information, visit the training homepage HERE
Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence
This special collection highlights the common experiences of immigrant women who are in abusive relationships, the legal protections and public benefits available, and practices and suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of services provided to immigrant women.
Improving Judicial Response to Sexual Harassment in the Courtroom (word)
This module is intended for judges, court personnel, and other legal professionals to strategize about improving the judicial response to sexual harassment in the courtroom and in their profession generally.
"This Trainer's Manual was developed to help health care providers and domestic violence advocates meet the challenge of training clinicians and other staff within the busy clinic or hospital setting. The Manual provides step-by-step instructions for teaching each section of the Resource Manual including the basics of domestic violence, clinical skills, legal issues, community resources, and role play scenarios. It also includes a special module on cultural diversity."
In Their Shoes: Teens and Dating Violence
A training kit for teachers, counselors, youth group leaders, law enforcement, parents, or anyone who works or interacts with teens. Real life scenarios include sexting, pregnancy, homophobia and stalking.
International Association of Forensic Nurses Online Continuing Education (OCEC)
The Online Continuing Education Center (OCEC) delivers quality forensic nursing continuing education. Discounted rates for online continuing education as well as free CEU content are available to registered members.
Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: a curriculum for Batterer Intervention Program Facilitators (pdf)
From the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety, this curriculum was created with the goal of providing batterer intervention program facilitators with a wider variety of options with which to engage clients. Includes six topic areas with corresponding activities and handouts.
Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: Adjudicating this Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence
A free web training and resource. This website provides current interdisciplinary research from law, medicine and the social sciences that is applicable to judicial decision-making and case management.
Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy: A Guide for Clinicians Screenshow
This screen show is designed as a training tool for clinicians to increase understanding of the important role they can play in identifying, preventing, and reducing intimate partner violence. The screen show also emphasizes the critical window of opportunity that prenatal care provides for the screening and referral of pregnant women.
Investigating Strangulation and Stalking (pdf)
Available for free for licensed Minnesota Police Officers and Advocates. In this course you will learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of strangulation, learn to ask the right questions, and learn to collect the evidence you need to make victims safer and hold batterers accountable. You’ll also learn the ins and outs of the ever-changing techniques stalkers use against their victims.
Investigating Strangulation Online Training
This free, thirty-minute online strangulation course enhances an officer's ability to respond to calls involving strangulation. The course explains the dangers of strangulation, identifies the various signs and symptoms of strangulation, and identifies and implements actions to help strangulation victims. Following the video, viewers can take a test and receive a Certificate of Completion for passing the course.
Irene's Journey: Examining the Issues of Domestic Violence in Later Life
Irene's Journey: Examining the Issues of Domestic Violence in Later Life (October 2005) is an interactive case study which guides users through a real-life situation of elder abuse. Irene's journey presents a story of domestic violence in later life and a series of questions that require taking the perspectives of professionals, family members and friends. Users are presented with effective ways to respond to victims and perpetrators and are linked to current research and programmatic resources as well. This case study is designed for use by advocates/professionals in training settings, students in a classroom, or individuals.
Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma
An online resource for professionals and families seeking to learn more about child traumatic stress. CEU's are also provided for free to professionals taking any of their online courses.
For help click on "FAQ's" in the top left hand side of the screen.
"Lessons from Literature is an innovative program that enlists English teachers from across the country to use the books and material they’re already teaching to facilitate discussion and build awareness about physical, verbal and sexual abuse."
Marital Rape: Online Learning Tool
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.
This site hosts 11 easy-to-present modules and resources for in-person training on cases involving adult victims of sexual assault. These materials provide information and valuable resources that will be useful to judges and individuals from a broad range of disciplines. The objective is to educate on the difficult issues that arise in criminal and civil cases involving sexual assault and intimate partner violence.
Visitors must sign in, but registration and all downloads are free and open to all.
Men in the Movement to End Violence Against Women: Training and Education
"This collection highlights several training tools and background information for use in promoting men's involvement in the movement to end violence against women. Also included are educational materials to support the teaching of non-violence to boys and young men. It is one in a series of three special collections focusing on the domestic violence prevention and education efforts of men. "
Mobilizing Religious Communities to Respond to Gender-based Violence and HIV: A Training Manual (pdf)
The first in a series of two manuals aimed at raising awareness and educating religious leaders and communities about gender-based violence. The training manual equips religious communities with tools to deepen their awareness and understanding of gender-based violence and its link to HIV and proposes faith-based activities on the subject.
Nursing Response to Elder Mistreatment Curriculum
A free training curriculum for educators on the nursing response to elder mistreatment and includes 12 modules with instructor materials, participant materials and PowerPoint presentations.
Online Domestic Violence Training Program
Nine online training units intended to teach social workers a basic knowledge of domestic violence. Each unit is followed by a quiz with ten multiple choice questions.
CEU's available upon completion of the final quiz with a score of %100 and a $20 fee.
Online Learning Tools on Violence Against Women
"This collection provides a sampling of available Online Learning Tools with subject matter related to violence against women prevention and intervention. The resources listed here can be used for the purposes of staff development (by individuals), or as tools for trainers (in groups).Many of the tools in this list offer Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) to fulfill licensure requirements for professionals in certain disciplines."
Peace and Non-Violence Curriculum: Education for Peaceful Living
This workbook, designed for first through sixth graders, discusses peace as far more than a personal calm in mind and body. Peace is peoples rather than a social and monetary hierarchy; cooperation rather than competition; sharing food and world resources; equality between the sexes; and self-mastery and self-understanding rather than control or power over others This workbook offers suggestions for teaching youths about peace. For more information, see Peace and Non-Violence Curriculum: Social Studies for Grade 12, also by Cecil Ramnaraine.
Peace and Non-Violence Curriculum: Social Studies for Grade 7-12
This curriculum can be adapted for grades 7-12. This guide helps educators implement the methods and means whereby peace can be practiced in the classroom. The author believes that peace must be openly espoused and taught to our students. We cannot depend on subliminal, incidental learning or the hidden curriculum. Peace must be actively pursued by both teachers and students in all parts of the educational system.
Police Response to Crimes of Sexual Assault: A Training Curriculum (Second Edition)
This training manual addresses police procedures for responding to sexual assault (specifically in Connecticut) including handling initial response, victim interviews, evidence gathering, and building a case for court. It can be adapted to any state.
PreventConnect.org Catalog of Archived Web Conferences
Listen to past web conferences offered by PreventConnect.org. Included in most of the archives are slides from the presentation, the audio recording, and the audio transcript.
Recognizing Child Abuse Curriculum
A training curriculum of interest to mandatory reporters of child abuse which describes the legal framework for reporting child abuse, and gives concrete advice about deciding to report and the reporting process.
Recognizing, Assessing, and Responding to Victims and Perpetrators in the Health Care Setting
"This web-based course on domestic violence (DV) addresses practical issues faced by health care providers in clinical settings. The course includes vignettes which illustrate assessment strategies to use with victims and with perpetrators of DV. "
Respect WORKS!: A Comprehensive Teen Dating Violence Prevention Model Podcast
In this podcast, Prevent Connect‘s David Lee interviews Marjorie Gilberg from Break the Cycle and Sue Thomas from Hazelden Foundation. They discuss “Respect WORKS!,” the new four-part comprehensive model for teen dating violence prevention.
Four elements:
-Teen Dating Violence policies with Model School Policy Toolkit
-Educate youth with the curriculum Safe Dates
-Reinforce the learning with the DVD [Ending Violence]
-Activate youth leadership with Speak. Act. Change
SANE Dialogues: Focus Group on the Use of nPEP in SANE Programs
The International Association of Forensic Nurses has an Online Continuing Education Center (OCEC) that provides approved online courses for nurses. This specific course focuses on sexual assault nurse examiner programs.
Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Curriculum
The curriculum was specifically developed to reduce the incidence of adolescent sexual assault through risk-reduction educational strategies. It is a powerful tool to assist school personnel, police, and community agency staff in their efforts to implement high-quality educational programs. The curriculum includes lessons for high school and middle school aged youth and can be used in either school or non-school settings.
Sexual Assault – Forensic and Clinical Management
A Virtual Practicum based on the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations. This tool is for forensic examiners, trainers, students, and other medical professionals who care for victims of sexual assault. Continuing education credits are also available to interested professionals.
Silence Hurts: Alcohol Abuse and Violence Against Women
This Web-based course is for professionals. Social workers, physicians, nurses, counselors, and health educators can learn detailed information about alcohol abuse and several forms of violence against women. The course describes these "hidden problems" and identifies risk factors, screening and assessment tools, prevention and intervention strategies, tools for clients, and legal issues.
Step-Up: A Curriculum for Teens Who Are Violent at Home
The Step-Up curriculum is designed for counselors who facilitate groups with teens who have been violent towards a parent or family member. The curriculum uses a cognitive behavioral approach to help teens stop the use of violent and abusive behaviors and teaches nonviolent, respectful ways of communicating and resolving conflict with family members. The curriculum also includes materials for a parent group where parents learn how to respond to violence in the home, get support from other parents and gain new skills for parenting teenagers. The curriculum is designed to include parents at the beginning of each group session and then separate into a parent group and teen group or stay together for the session to work on learning a skill together. The curriculum assumes the teens have been arrested with a domestic violence charge and are court mandated to attend a counseling program.
Stewards of Children: Child Sexual Abuse Awareness and Education Training
Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children is a 2.5-hour workshop designed to educate adults on how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to the reality of child sexual abuse. Stewards of Children emphasizes child safety as an adult’s responsibility. Trainings are open to the public and of specific interest among parents, youth sports organizations/coaches/camp counselors, youth service organizations, teachers/school personnel and faith centers. Each participant will be inspired to take personal responsibility in preventing this epidemic. Stewards of Children facilitates discussion about the incidence and consequences of abuse, and presents information about child protection policies and reporting mandates and supplies each participant with a Stewards of Children workbook and 7 Steps to Protecting Children resource guide. Continuing education hours for professionals in various fields can also be obtained.
MN authorized trainers are Maggie Carney, RN, BSN and Leah Mickschl, RN, BSN - Contact Maggie to arrange a training at 651-220-6804 or Maggie.carney@childrensmn.org
This curriculum focuses on the investigation of nonstranger sexual assaults and emphasizes investigative tools and techniques for cases in which a consent, rather than identity, defense is raised. These training materials include 12 content modules, 12 trainer's curriculum units, classroom overheads, and supplemental materials that include sample affidavits and search warrants.
Supporting Crime Victims With Disabilities Curriculum
This resource is a full curriculum to carry out a 3-day training designed for victim service providers, advocates for people with disabilities, self-advocates, and allied professionals. Using case studies and small group discussions, participants of the training will examine the prevalence of crime against people with disabilities, perceptions of the criminal justice system, tenets of the disabilities movement, and the impact of disabilities on daily life. Through collaborative activities participants will identify ways the various agencies, organizations, and systems can work together to better serve crime victims with disabilities.
The material has been peer reviewed and pilot tested.
Also available in Spanish
Surviving Childhood: An Introduction to the Impact of Trauma
This is an online learning module with 4 learning course topics. These include: Introduction to Childhood Trauma, The Psychology and Physiology of Trauma, After the Trauma - The Costs of Coping, and Finding Resources & Getting Involved.
"This free advanced domestic violence curriculum outlines safely preparing for and managing effective meetings, engaging parents around domestic violence issues, assessing the impact of children’s exposure to domestic violence, and making decisions and plans to increase safety for children and battered mothers."
The ABCs of Bullying: Addressing, Blocking, and Curbing School Aggression
This online course examines the causes and effects of bullying, prevention techniques and programs, screening, treatment options, and legal/ethical issues surrounding bullying.
The Amazing Human Brain and Human Development
This is an online learning module comprised of 6 lessons. The topics addressed include: Beginning with the Human Brain; Brain Organization & Function; The Brain's Buildling Blocks; Communication & Defense; Plasticity, Memory, & Cortical Modulation in the Brain; and Resources
The Classroom: A One Act Children's Peace Opera
"The Classroom: A Children's Peace Opera" is an extraordinary, one-act opera that teaches children about diversity, tolerance and coexistence. The opera follows children from two opposing groups through a typical school day. Suitable for performance at the elementary or middle school level, "The Classroom" has a tuneful score which offers a wonderful introduction to opera for young students!
This is 4 lesson online learning module. The course content topics include: Introduction to Secondary Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders and Secondary Trauma, Self-Care Strategies for Combating Secondary Trauma, and Finding Resources & Getting Involved
The Danger Assessment is a tool that was developed to help determine the level of danger an abused woman has of being killed by her intimate partner. There are two parts to the tool: a calendar and a 20-item scoring instrument. The original danger assessment is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French (Canadian).
The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Child Victimization
This tutorial covers the disasterous effects witnessing domestic violence can have on the lives of children. The tutorial is comprised of four sections and offers a certificate of completion at the end.
The National Child Protection Training Center
Located on the campus of Winona State University, this center focuses on training child protection professionals to be better prepared to recognize and report the abuse of a child through education, training, awareness, prevention, advocacy and the pursuit of justice.
Dr. Campbell brings together research on the neurobiology of trauma and the criminal justice response to sexual assault. She explains the underlying neurobiology of traumatic events, its emotional and physical manifestation, and how these processes can impact the investigation and prosecution of sexual assaults. Real-world, practical implications are examined for first responders, such as law enforcement, nurses, prosecutors, and advocates.
Power to Change is a new European resource to help victims of domestic violence. It is a practical guide to running support groups and self-help groups with victims and survivors of domestic violence.
The Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum
The Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum is intended to assist fathers in more effectively fulfilling their roles as parents, partners, and workers. The 20 sessions deal with issues such as male-female relationships, fathers as providers, managing conflict and anger (on and off the job), and race and racism.
The curriculum materials are contained in 21 files in PDF format, each containing the material for one session of the curriculum
Training Curriculum on Sexual Violence Against Asian and Pacific Islander Women (pdf)
"Designed to reduce compartmentalized services, explore how advocate discomfort inhibits victim disclosure and address abuses experienced by immigrants and refugees in their home countries and in conflict zones."
Trauma-Informed Care for Victims of Intimate Partner Sexual Assault
Witness Justice has launched a new discussion forum which is hosted by expert Sally Laskey, Associate Director of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. This forum shares material adapted from the forth coming National Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Toolkit and explores the provision of trauma-informed care to survivors of intimate partner sexual assault with specific attention to the role of multidisciplinary teams.
Understanding Evidence: Evidence Based Decision Making
This is a free, online resource to help you use evidence based decision-making as you think about ways to prevent violence in your community. The training offers practitioners and others working to prevent violence with the knowledge and resources for using evidence in their decision-making processes.
Understanding Sex Offenders: An Introductory Curriculum
This curriculum provides information and materials (lecture content, presentation slides, and references) designed to equip knowledgeable trainers to plan and deliver an introductory training on understanding sex offenders.
Understanding the Effects of Domestic Violence: A Trainer's Manual for Early Childhood Educators (pdf)
This manual is designed to provide a “user friendly” tool that contains training modules for Early Childhood Educators on the effects of early childhood exposure to domestic violence.
Victim-Oriented Multidisciplinary Responses to Statutory Rape Training
This training guide contains practical suggestions to increase the reporting of statutory rapes, to improve investigations and prosecutions of statutory rapes, to improve treatment of statutory rape victims and offenders, and to develop sound sentencing practices to guide judges in statutory rape cases.
Violence Against Women: Curriculum for Empowerment (pdf)
A resident's workbook detailing the curriculum for working with women who have experienced domestic violence. Strategies for self-empowerment are outlined.
This manual is designed as a training tool for community workers and activists to promote the knowledge, skills, and attitudes
needed to engage men in VAW prevention. It aims to increase knowledge about VAW,explore the causes and consequences of VAW, and promote skills in effective approaches and strategies for engaging men in VAW prevention.
Also available in Arabic
Women's Justice Center of the Pace University School of Law
A training, resource and direct legal services center that develops strategies with community partners for recognizing and eradicating abuse.
Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
This tool kit has been designed to help groups and individuals learn about and undertake work with men and boys for violence prevention. It provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources as well as community-building tools.
Workplace Violence Prevention: A Guide (pdf)
This document addresses what exactly workplace violence is, what the triggers are, warning signs of potential offenders, as well as the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees and how to prevent this serious issue. Additionally, suggestions for how to appropriately respond to workplace violence incidents are outlined.
Yaari Dosti: Young Men Redefine Masculinity (pdf)
"This training manual is a tool for those aiming to promote gender equity and address masculinity as a strategy for the prevention of HIV infection. The Manual is based on operations research that was undertaken in Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh to develop educational activities targeted to young men."