Academic Programs in Victim Services/Victimology
Link to the Joint Center on Violence and Victim Studies Higher Education resources. Here they list schools with academic concentrations in victim services and/or victimology.
"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. "
Canadian School of Peacebuilding
The Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), an institute of Canadian Mennonite University, offers a selection of 5-day courses each June. Courses can be taken for professional or personal development or for academic credit. The CSOP is a learning community of diverse peacebuilders who come together to learn, network and engage in peacebuilding. Some examples of courses include:
INTERPERSONAL MEDIATION IN YOUR COMMUNITY: FRAMEWORKS, SKILLS AND PRESENCE
NONVIOLENT ACTION STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
BOTTOM-UP TRANSFORMATION: EXPERIENCES AND PRACTICES OF GRASSROOTS PEACEBUILDING FROM INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS
Child Abuse and Neglect: Intervention and Prevention (SW 3402)
Spring 2001, University of Minnesota. This interdisciplinary liberal arts course is a comprehensive study of child maltreatment and family violence today. It is intended to offer the undergraduate student a wide breadth of understanding regarding the prevalence, scope, dynamics and contemporary response and preventive strategies for individual, familial and community analysis. The course is structured to examine child abuse within an ecological perspective and a risk/resilience framework. It will focus on developing strategies likely to support healthy children, families, and communities. This should be considered a beginning study for students interested in working with children, their families, and the policies that impact them. Course content is particularly relevant to students in the fields of sociology, education, child psychology, early childhood education, public health, public policy, and other related areas.
Child Abuse Prevention II: Program Development, Evaluation and Advocacy (SW 5482)
Spring, 2002, Univeristy of Minnesota. This course is the second of a two-course sequence on prevention of child abuse and neglect. It is designed to build upon the research and theory foundation provided in the prerequisite course (SW 5481). Using an ecological systems framework and theory of resilience, the course covers issues and strategies in child abuse and neglect prevention/early-intervention program design and implementation, program evaluation, and systems advocacy. As part of the course, students are expected to develop theory and research-based intervention proposals and plan advocacy efforts.
Child Abuse Prevention II: Program Development, Evaluation and Advocacy (SW 5482)
Spring 2001, University of Minnesota. This course is the second of a two-course sequence on the prevention of child abuse and neglect, and is designed to build upon the research and theory foundation provided in the prerequisite CAPS Course (SW 5481). Using an ecological systems framework and theory of resilience, the course covers issues and strategies in child abuse and neglect prevention/early-intervention program design and implementation, program evaluation, and systems advocacy. As part of the course, students are expected to develop theory and research-based intervention proposals and plan systems advocacy efforts.
Child Abuse Prevention Studies
The CAPS program is an interdisciplinary, graduate-level certificate program housed at the University of Minnesota. CAPS students receive certificates in child abuse prevention that prepare them for working directly with children or as advocates for children, their families, and their communities.
Addresses the maltreatment of children through direct clinical services, professional training, and research. Their website offers a publications, abstracts of ongoing research, and information for caregivers, and more. Includes online courses.
Conflict Research Consortium provides a comprehensive gateway to information on more constructive approaches to difficult conflicts. Includes information on training programs, a calendar of events, weblinks to other resources, and an online course, Conflict Management and Social Systems, that can be taken for University credit.
CONNECT Youth is dedicated to empowering young men and women who have been exposed to, or experienced violence, with tools that encourage healing and enable them to become active community members and positive support systems for each other.
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CONNECT Youth
Many young and teenage victims and survivors of family violence feel powerless. They often suffer in silence because they lack a support system within the community that provides understanding and nurturing. CONNECT Youth is dedicated to empowering them with tools that encourage healing and enable them to become active community members and positive support systems for each other.
CONNECT Youth consists of two youth-based groups: Girls Empowerment and Transitioning into Men.
Cultural and Legal Issues (SW 5483)
Fall 2001, University of Minnesota. This course is a comprehensive, systemic examination of the legal and cultural issues involving child abuse and neglect. The course considers current legal and judicial policies to protect children from violence and abuse and the legal system's potential to prevent this widespread phenomenon. The course also focuses on the child protection system and the judicial system's effect on families of color.
Family Violence and the Practice of Public Health
Last modified January 18, 2002. Taught at Boston University School of Medicine.
Helping Children Who Witness Domestic Violence: A Guide for Parents (Instructor's Manual)
This curriculum comes in two parts that are downloadable as Microsoft Word documents:
Instructor Manual and Student Manual. Although this curriculum is posted on the MINCAVA webite, it is copyrighted and requires the author's permission prior to use. This 12-session curriculum is designed to be used with either mothers who are survivors of Domestic Violence or fathers who are batterers (these mothers and fathers should never be together). The sessions focus on the impact of Domestic Violence on children and ways parents can help as well as on positive parenting skills. Contact:
Meg Crager
e-mail: megcrager@comcast.netor lily.anderson@kingcounty.gov
Phone: 206-296-7841
Helping Children Who Witness Domestic Violence: A Guide for Parents (Student Workbook)
This curriculum comes in two parts that are downloadable as Microsoft Word documents:
Instructor Manual and Student Manual. Although this curriculum is posted on the MINCAVA webite, it is copyrighted and requires the author's permission prior to use. This 12-session curriculum is designed to be used with either mothers who are survivors of Domestic Violence or fathers who are batterers (these mothers and fathers should never be together). The sessions focus on the impact of Domestic Violence on children and ways parents can help as well as on positive parenting skills. Contact:
Meg Crager
e-mail: megcrager@comcast.netor lily.anderson@kingcounty.gov
Phone: 206-296-7841
Meg Crager
e-mail: megcrager@comcast.netor
lily.anderson@kingcounty.gov
Phone: 206-296-7841
This resource provides extensive materials and resources for in-person judicial and multidisciplinary education. On this website you will find three curricula, each containing multiple modules:
1. Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: Adjudicating This Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence Cases
2.The Challenges of Adult Victim Sexual Assault Cases
3. The Challenges of Adult Victim Sexual Assault Cases
Institute for Family Violence Studies, Florida State University School of Social Work
The Institute strives to contribute to effective responses to the devastation caused by family violence. This is done by conducting research that increases the knowledge base about interventions that work, providing technical assistance and training for service providers and advocates, and serving as a resource for professionals as well as the general public seeking information.
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.
Joint Center on Violence and Victim Studies
The Joint Center on Violence and Victim Studies applies rigorous, evidence-based approaches to addressing all forms of violence and victimization at individual, societal, and global levels through professional development and consultation, higher education, and research and analysis.
Minnesota Rural Project for Women and Child Safety
A series of documents that provide a curriculum and protocol development information for communities in Minnesota that are beginning to work together to better serve and protect both child and adult victims of family violence.
Nonviolence: From Gandhi to Martin Luther King
An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense. Comprised of 26 lectures
Patterns of Injury in Non-Accidental Childhood Fatalities
The International Association of Forensic Nurses has an Online Continuing Education Center (OCEC) that provides approved online courses for nurses. This one focuses on patterns of injury in non-accidental childhood fatalities.
A page of various syllabi maintained by Robin Crews at the University of Colorado - Boulder that contains links to syllabi at Boulder as well as other institutions.
Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS)
PAWSS is a multidisciplinary educational endeavor of the Five College Consortium of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This site provides information of interest to students and faculty in peace studies and related fields. Includes an email list so readers can stay updated on PAWSS related events and news in the Pioneer Valley or around the world.
Peace Studies Resource Institute
Provides information on UWM's Peace Studies certificate program, links to other peace action networks, and an online newsletter.
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. "
Risk Assessment and Interviewing (SW 5484)
Winter 2002, University of Minnesota. This is the fourth and final course in the Child Abuse Prevention Graduate Level II Certificate Program. The focus of the course will be on building skills in child maltreatment risk/resilience assessment and best practice forensic and clinical interviewing methods. The philosophy of the course is based on ecological theory and the notion that we will miss important opportunities for change if we only focus our attention on assessing risk of child maltreatment without similarly assessing capacity or protective factors and processes. This is a "hands on" learning course requiring active participation.
Sociology of Rape: Sociology 4925 UMD
This course will explore the social phenomenon of rape. We will challenge traditional patriarchal beliefs, and question current feminist thinking to try and find the most complete understanding of sexual assault. The course concentrates on the sociology of rape, therefore, we will explore the causes of rape, theories trying to explain rape, the fear of rape which leads to social control, delve into what research statistics can and cannot tell us, look at rape law reform as well as legal processing of rape cases, peek at the presentation of rape in different forms of media (predominately film and video), and tiptoe through various contentious issues surrounding rape, including the current emerging debate in what is often the gray area in interpreting sexual conduct, the debate over date rape and the current uproar over evolution theory.
Special Topics, Childhood Exposure To Adult Domestic Violence: Issues and Interventions (SW 5810)
This course is designed to introduce students to current theory, research, and interventions regarding childhood exposure to adult domestic violence. Special attention will be given to the effects of violence exposure on children and multi-level interventions aimed at helping children cope with and heal from the domestic violence exposure.
SW3703 Syllabus: Gender Violence in Global Perspective
This course examines gender violence in its multiple forms from a global perspective. It focuses on introducing students to the history of violence against women, current theories and research on the causes of violence in intimate relationships. Past and current responses, and interventions and prevention models to address this worldwide problem will be discussed. Understanding the multiple, global approaches for addressing gender violence will provide you the knowledge to describe culturally specific and competent interventions and prevention strategies.
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 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!
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 Use of Technology to Stalk
This course is a self-paced, interactive online training that is designed to increase the ability of criminal justice professionals and victim service providers to recognize how stalkers use technology and, ultimately, enhance their ability to work with victims of stalking.
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 and Addressing Vicarious Trauma
This resource is a self guided course to help humanitarian workers understand and recognize the process and symptoms of vicarious trauma. By the end of the module, participants will be able to define vicarious trauma and recognize its signs and symptoms, as well multiple strategies for protection and self-care.
VetoViolence - Violence Education Tools Online
Violence Education Tools Online (VETO), is an evolving resource for the growing number of Americans committed to stopping violence before it begins. You will find information on:
Violence Against Native Women Online Course
A 10-week course covering tribal, state, and federal laws and regulations impacting the lives and safety of Native women. Course will cover the crimes of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Violence Against Women on the Internet (Online Learning Modules)
This learning module is part of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Berkman Online Lectures & Discussions (BOLD). Throughout the five modules, participants will explore the various ways in which violence against women is facilitated through the use of the Internet, as well as ways in which the Internet may be used as a site of resistance to such violence.
Disseminates information, provides technical support, and implements violence prevention trainings for youth and adults.
Violence Prevention: Theory, Research & Application
Winter 1999. Taught at the University of Minnesota.