Prevention + Education
Praxis Community
Praxis Community connects education and action through our public seminars and talks as well as customized training for healthcare, human services, criminal justice and workplace communities.
Seminars
Safe Haven regularly hosts a variety of seminars for the public focused on both foundational and current issues in our mission to prevent and end relationship abuse and human trafficking.
Healthcare
Safe Haven regularly works with Healthcare providers across an array of settings to provide training and tools to screen, assess and respond to domestic violence and human trafficking.
Human + social services
We provide practical action training that helps equip various sectors with the knowledge and skills to support those impacted by domestic violence and human trafficking.
Workplace
Relationship abuse Takes Work away from businesses through loss of productivity. 66% of the mass shootings at workplaces and other sites are connected to relationship abuse. Designing productive and safe work environments for all employees Takes Work and Safe Haven is ready to help.
Seminars
Safe Haven regularly hosts a variety of seminars for the public focused on both foundational and current issues in our mission to prevent and end relationship abuse and human trafficking.
Domestic Violence and Anti-Trafficking Seminar
Approximately every 3 months, Safe Haven facilitates its Domestic Violence and Anti-Trafficking Seminar – a foundational training that is open to the public. This training is well-suited for community members that might occasionally work with victims/survivors of domestic violence and/or human trafficking, or for anyone interested in learning more about Safe Haven’s work in the community.
During this 3-hour seminar, participants will explore an array of topics including:
- Overview of Safe Haven’s programs, eligibility and referral process
- Definitions of domestic violence and human trafficking
- The intersection of domestic violence and human trafficking
- Risk factors and indicators of relationship abuse and human trafficking
- Characteristics of abusers and traffickers
- A brief overview of human trafficking typologies
- Basics of the neurobiology of trauma
- Strategies and steps for providing support to adolescent and adult victims/survivors
Safe Haven’s seminars use an array of teaching methods and incorporate opportunities for participants to reflect and apply the content they are learning through discussion and activities.
Upcoming Domestic Violence and Anti-Trafficking Seminars:
Human Trafficking Seminar
Human Trafficking Seminar is a 2-hour training offered at Safe Haven’s office. It offers an in-depth look at human trafficking, including definitions and an overview of sex trafficking and labor trafficking. This training will examine the many different typologies of human trafficking, including trends and the landscape of human trafficking in West Michigan. Participants will learn about the impact human trafficking has on adult and minor victims, risk factors and vulnerabilities of trafficking, as well as strategies and tactics used by traffickers.
Upon completion of the training, participants will be able to:
- Report a nuanced understanding of sex and labor trafficking
- Identify risk factors for trafficking
- Define different typologies of human trafficking
- Identify indicators of trafficking for adult and minor victims
- Identify steps they can take to support someone experiencing trafficking
- Report a greater understanding of the human trafficking supportive services offered by Safe Haven
Upcoming Human Trafficking Seminars:
Healthcare
Safe Haven regularly works with Healthcare providers across an array of settings to provide training and tools to screen, assess and respond to domestic violence and human trafficking. In addition to offering trainings, Safe Haven, in partnership with healthcare providers, developed the Healthcare Professional’s Guide to Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking–a tool that help equip professionals with the tools to identify and respond appropriately to violence.
For more information on trainings for your organization or our Healthcare Professional’s Guide to Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking please email the Prevention team at prevention@shmgr.org.
Human Service, Social Service, and Criminal Justice
Safe Haven provides practical action training that helps equip social workers, case managers, law enforcement, peer support specialists, and beyond with the knowledge and skills to support individuals impacted by domestic violence and human trafficking. We love working with organizations to help create more confident and competent teams to address domestic violence and human trafficking. Whether it is helping you develop better screening tools, reviewing violence prevention and response polices, strengthening your existing protocols or a wide variety of trainings, we want to hear from you! Reach out to start the conversation at prevention@shmgr.org.
Our Prevention & Education Team actively engages with the community by training businesses, agencies, and organizations in Grand Rapids and the surrounding communities on how to identify, address and support domestic violence, sexual violence and/or Human Trafficking within their workplace.
- Social Service Agencies
- Child Welfare Agencies
- Adoption Agencies
- Foster Care Agencies
- Wrap Around Programs
- Emergency Departments
- Primary Care Provider Offices
- Physicians Offices
- Dentist Offices
- Domestic violence 101
- Domestic violence screening
- How to support domestic violence clients
- How to increase clients protective factors
- How to conduct positive referrals
Recognizing Domestic Abuse in the Workplace.
How could relationship abuse and harm take work away from businesses in West Michigan? Based on the research, here’s what Safe Haven Ministries would project for companies that partner with us:
- Byrne Electric in Rockford has 350 employees, Over the course of their lifetimes, roughly 84 of them will experience relationship abuse (CDC, 2016).
- Windquest Group in Grand Rapids has 57 employees; roughly 13 of them will experience stalking over the course of their lifetime (SPARC, 2021)
- Hastings Mutual in Hastings has 500 employees; roughly 107 of them will experience a sexual assault over their lifetime (NSAC, 2023)
Not only does violence have a significant impact on an employee, it also affects employee morale, absenteeism, work performance and potentially impacts your bottom line – this is everyone’s business and your business has an opportunity to better serve your employees with a safer and more supportive work environment.