May 2021
Educational Series Session I – Understanding and working with child survivors experiencing historic trauma
This session will cover a cultural perspective and healing-informed approach to responding to children and youth who have had experiences of and exposure to trauma, violence, grief and loss. The session will use the historical impact of trauma on the healing process as experienced by Native/Indigenous people, specifically Lakota people, to illustrate more generally the significance of cultural context on trauma and on healing. This approach includes engaging individuals, families and communities toward healing from trauma by treating one another…
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Volunteer Training
Agency Overview History of the Movement DV101
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DV 101 PTSD/Battered Women/Lasting Effects
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Child Abuse & Mandatory Reporting Working with Victims with Disabilities Violence - Impact on Children Safe Shelter's Children's Program Men in the Movement
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Working with the LGTBQ+ Community Working with Marginalized Communities
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Safe Shelter's Emergency Shelter Program The Intersections of Sexual Assault and DV
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Safe Shelter's Legal Program Safety Planning Teen Dating Abuse Safe Shelter's Teen Program In Her Shoes activity
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Victim's Rights Relationship Abuse Impact on Teens
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Vicarious Trauma
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Educational Series Session II – Body-based memory of trauma and therapeutic strategies to support the regulation and resilience of child survivors
More than two-thirds of youth in the US have experienced one traumatic event during childhood. Children who witness and experience violence in their home may develop ways of coping that allows them to survive and function day to day. Their coping may result in extreme behavioral and emotional dysregulation (oppositional behavior, limit testing, yelling, aggression, overactive silliness, withdrawal, self-isolation, “spacing out”, shutting down/numbing). As children grow, these defenses may actually become counterproductive and eventually interfere with the capacity to live,…
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