The Good Lives Model (GLM) has become a popular approach to the treatment of people who sexually abuse; however, substantial variation has been observed in its practical application. This four-hour online training focuses on how programs and therapists can best integrate the GLM into treatment...
Description Join us in our mission to end society's tolerance of domestic violence and social injustice at our second annual virtual (Re)Claiming Our Love: Social Justice & Domestic Violence Conference, hosted by The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence. Participants will advance their understanding of anti-violence and anti-oppression...
NYS-based victim services staff/volunteers/survivors and other folks working with survivors are invited to participate in this peer sharing and learning collaborative focused on expressive arts for trauma informed wellness, preventing and addressing vicarious trauma and sharing vital practices. These informal conversations will be facilitated by...
The Social Security Administration’s program for disabled individuals offers benefits to those who cannot work for health reasons. The CLE will provide an overview of the disability program, including medical and financial requirements. We will discuss how to effectively represent clients who have experienced trauma...
Join RAFT (Resilience for Advocates through Foundational Training) for their next support call for advocates. The goal of this monthly call is to provide a space for domestic violence/sexual assault advocates to share concerns, share resources and best practices, and as a place to listen and...
THERAPISTS: Is your therapy hetero-centering or queer normalizing? Join Keely Helmick LPC, CST @queer_therapist_pdx and Jessica Broderick LMFT in a conversation to learn about the history of gender and sexuality in the counseling field; differentiate between gender, sex, and sexuality; and begin to identify biases to...
Parenting with consent values is easier said than done. It's time to learn how to overcome the barriers to parenting with bodily autonomy. What does it mean for a child to know, “your body is yours”? How do you ensure that your child really internalizes this...
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center, in partnership with an advisory group, made up of organizations working at local, state, and national levels to support Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American and Pacific Islander survivors of sexual violence, has released Sexual Violence in Disasters, an updated...
Communities, including school communities, play an important role in shaping the mental wellbeing and safety of young people. As a new semester starts and the COVID-19 pandemic continues, mental health and violence prevention practitioners are finding ways to address shared risk and protective factors in a...
This skills-based workshop will explore a framework for intervening in sibling sexual abuse that focuses on promoting accountability, communication, and reparation through a joint therapy process, introduced early in treatment and which involves both the sibling who abused and the sibling victim. Three stages of therapeutic...