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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
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