Prevention + Education
Learn with Us
Safe Haven provides a wide range of community education, training, consultation and technical assistance to professionals and the community at large. Our areas of expertise include domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking.
Because preventing violence takes an entire community
Our trainings and educational opportunities are highly interactive and can be customized to fit the needs of the participants. For the time being, we are able to explore both in-person and virtual trainings.
Trainings
While we are able to customize the scope of a training to meet your needs, some topics we often train on include:
- Understanding domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking
- Coercive control in abusive relationships
- Youth Violence Prevention
- Using an anti-oppression framework to serve victims & survivors
- Risk and protective factors related to violence
- Primary prevention of gender-based violence
- Recognizing and responding to domestic violence and/or sexual violence
- Trauma-informed care
- Gender-based violence and the LGBTQIA+ community
- Characteristics of an abuser
- Faith and domestic violence
- Technological abuse
- Understanding primary aggressor behaviors in abusive relationships
- Supporting victims and survivors
- Reproductive coercion
- Stalking
Consultations
Some areas of consulting expertise include:
- Needs assessment of existing policies addressing forms of violence policy/procedure development and recommendations to enhance organizational response and prevention of gender-based violence
- Development of assessment tools and procedures to increase organizational capacity to recognize and respond to domestic violence, sexual violence, sex trafficking and/or labor trafficking
- Enhancing organizational capacity to serve victims/survivors within faith communities
Domestic Violence Seminar
Every 6-8 weeks, Safe Haven facilitates its Domestic Violence Seminar–a foundational domestic violence 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, or for anyone interested in learning more about domestic abuse and Safe Haven’s work in the community.
During this 3-hour seminar, participants will explore an array of topics including:
- Abusive Behaviors
- Barriers to leaving an abusive relationship
- Personalities and characteristics of abusers
- Violence Prevention
