Past Events › Regional Victim Assistance Training
Events List Navigation
August 2019
Transformando A Una Cultura De Consentir: Conversaciones Para La Comunicad Sobre Violencia Sexual
In-person
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Con tasas altas de abuso sexual y dicusiones sobre en las noticas, nuestra comunidades neceistan un sitio seguro para discutir y avanzar. Unirá SARC en collboración con Oregon Humanities, para un sries de 3 conversaciones examinando los raices de violencia sexual y las maneras para prevenirlo. Sesión 1 (8/12) hablará sobre violencia sexual y como nosotros vemos y dónde pensamos que lo violencia originarse. Sesión 2 (8/19) hablará sobre los elementos de sano y dañino de las relaciones romanticas y…
Moving Toward a Culture of Consent: Community Conversations Examining Sexual Violence
In-person
Regional Victim Assistance Training
With high rates of sexual assault and discussion of it in the forefront of the news, our communities need a safe space to discuss it and move forward. Join SARC, in partnership with Oregon Humanities, for a three part conversation series examining the root causes of sexual violence and ways we can prevent it. Session one (8/12) will talk about how we see sexual violence happening and where we think it might be coming from. Session two (8/19) we will…
Building Sustainable Partnerships between Human Trafficking Services and Workforce Development Programs
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
Webinar Description: Partnerships between organizations serving human trafficking survivors and workforce development programs can improve survivors’ access to a range of high-quality education and employment opportunities. This webinar will focus overcoming common challenges when building cross-sector collaborations between victim service providers and workforce development programs to help foster a strong foundation that mutually benefits collaborating agencies and survivors of human trafficking. Presenters include: Restore NYC, New York University and Osaka University, and Futures Without Violence This webinar is part of a PEOST project supported by Grant…
September 2019
Abuse in Later Life
In-person
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Join us as we come together with national experts on abuse in later life. This training uses actual case examples to facilitate discussion among professionals to enhance the current response to elder abuse victims. • Recognize what individuals and organizations can do to intervene in elder abuse cases. • Promote the understanding of agency roles and authority in responding to elder abuse matters. • Identify barriers within and between systems that impair or impede effective collaboration in elder abuse cases. • Support…
Tribal Protection Orders
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
This webinar will review best practices for drafting tribal protection orders to meet the needs of victims, invoke the Full Faith and Credit requirements of VAWA 2013, explore enforcement issues and review some of the promising strategies for enforcement of protection orders in outside jurisdictions.
Where Privacy, Safety and Technology Intersect: What You Need to Know to Serve Victims
In-person
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Oregon Advanced State Victim Assistance Academy Description National Crime Victim Law Institute is excited to announce that registration is now open for the Advanced Victim Assistance Academy: Where Privacy, Safety and Technology Intersect: What You Need to Know to Serve Victims. The training will be held in the Tilikum Room at the Portland Legal Building in Portland, Oregon, on September 19, 2019, 9am-4:30pm Toby Shulruff, a Senior Technology Safety Specialist at the National Network to End Domestic Violence’s Safety Net Project will…
2019 Core DV/SA Advocacy Training
In-person
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Featuring an ensemble cast of highly-experienced instructors, this week-long training is designed to fulfill the state training requirements for domestic and sexual violence victim advocates. Registration will open in mid-June.
Trauma & Brain Science: Why Can’t I Think My Way Out of This?
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
This webinar will address how trauma responses, protective during traumatic experience, change our brain function and physiology in ways that are not subject to our voluntary control. It will explain how those changes can result in negative impacts to our functioning, thinking, relationships and work if they are not addressed. Skills for addressing trauma responses will be presented.
What We Know About the Polyvictimization of Youth
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
This webinar will focus on poly-victims, the subgroup of youth that endure the highest burden of victimization. We will cover how it has been studied, how often it occurs, what we know about its adverse effects and what we can do to respond to the needs of this highly victimized group of children.
Reimagining Gender for a World Without Violence: Art and Storytelling Led by Black Organizers
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
Art that exemplifies a positive counter-story to the lived reality of violence has the power to ignite conversations, connections, and visions of a liberated world without violence. This is especially powerful for communities who, due to historical and contemporary oppression, experience the highest rates of violence and are silenced or ignored in the mainstream movement to end violence. Join the Resonance Network and PreventConnect on this web conference to learn how Black organizers with the Wakanda Dream Lab have used…