GCADV Trainings

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GCADV Training and Consultation

GCADV can provide training on the following topics by request, depending on staff availability and the scope of the training. We also offer one-on-one consultations - including recommendations and guidance, resources, information, collaboration, and technical assistance - for individual advocates or domestic violence programs. To request training or consultation, please fill out the form below.

Training Request

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Training and Consultation Focus Areas:

  • Barriers to leaving
  • Confidentiality
  • Crisis calls/crisis intervention
  • Ethics and boundaries
  • Healthcare and domestic violence partnerships*
  • Identity protection and survivor relocation*
  • Legal advocacy 
  • Lethality assessment/danger indicators
  • Navigating challenging situations
  • Conflict resolution
  • Drug/alcohol use or misuse
  • Language access*
  • Mental health
  • Outreach and services to culturally specific communities 
  • Racial justice in the DV movement
  • Safety planning
  • Self-care for the advocate
  • Best Practices When Serving the Black/African American survivors
  • Serving Deaf/hard of hearing survivors
  • Best Practices When Working with LGBTQ+ survivors
  • Best Practices when working with the Trans Survivor 
  • Don’t Knock The Hustle: Exploring the Unique ways a Survivor  from the African/Black  Community can become financially stable
  • What is Gender Identity 
  • Understanding Gender Pronouns 
  • Technology safety and cyberstalking

*Can provide resources and referrals, but not in-depth training

  • Best practices for boards of directors
  • Board governance, compliance, and roles/responsibilities 
  • Board recruitment, retention and development
  • Board ethics
  • Executive director recruitment 
  • COVID-19 response and intervention*
  • Human resources practices
  • Personnel policies
  • Programmatic and administrative policies and procedures

*Can provide resources and referrals, but not in-depth training

  • Program documentation, data retention, data privacy
  • Shelter guidelines/rules
  • Staff supervision practices
  • Trauma-informed office/shelter environments
  • Impact of DV on children and youth
  • Stages of child development
  • Fostering resilience and healing in child and youth survivors
  • Supporting the DV survivor in their relationship with their child/ren
  • Teen dating violence resources*
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and DV*
  • Best practices when reporting child abuse*
  • Building relationships between DV programs and local child welfare agencies*

*Can provide resources and referrals, but not in-depth training

  • Allstate Moving Ahead Series
  • Understanding Financial Abuse
  • Learning Financial Fundamentals
  • Mastering Credit Basics
  • Building Financial Foundations
  • Creating Budgeting Strategies
  • Hiring Best Practices
  • Don’t Knock the Hustle

*Can provide resources and referrals, but not in-depth training