Red Wind is highly experienced in developing and providing a range of training options. Issue areas include domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness, affordable housing, economic justice and many more.We have over 15 years of experience designing and providing training. We've worked with small groups of 8-10 people upward to groups larger than 100. Red Wind's consultant pool enables us to bring together highly experienced people who are skilled in working throughout the range of challenges that trainers experience while working with different groups of practitioners and community members.
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Advocacy
Advocacy is the center of our work. Advocates play one of the most important roles in work to end violence against women and yet there is often little targeted attention to training advocates to explore and define their operating philosophy, discuss advocacy and how it is different from social services, or how advocates take a leadership role in working with systems practitioners. One key piece that seems to be missing is a deep understanding of what it means to be an "advocate."Red Wind can provide training tailored to meet your needs, to provide training to your staff, your community or your region.
• Developing advocacy responses through shelter, transitional housing, crisis intervention or community responses• Core philosophies for providing advocacy for victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
• Developing and facilitating women's groups for DV victims
Criminal Justice Systems Responses
Developing effective responses that enhance the safety of victims of domestic violence and sexual assault is not a simple task. Multiple systems converge in this work each with their own priorities. While we can agree that everyone wants victims to be safe, the different priorities have different impacts on victims. Victims of domestic violence may not "cooperate" with prosecution for many reasons that can not be readily seen as wanting the violence to stop. Law Enforcement may become frustrated because a victim of DV may continue to stay in a relationship and at the point when Law Enforcement is reaching their highest levels of frustration may be the very time when the violence and risks are escalating to their highest levels as well.Sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes. Criminal Justice systems practitioners may believe that the ideal response is within the CJS while victims are in need of care and support to minimize the trauma in their lives.
- Designing and implementing your CCR or SART
- Advocate role in your CCR or SART
- Working across multidisciplinary teams and protecting victim's privacy and confidentiality
Development
Navigating the maze of areas that need attention as you embark on development of your organization. Red Wind can design a training to address a range of areas:
- Developing programs and organizations
- Long range planning, strategic planning
- Visioning, designing mission/vision for your program or organization
- Designing and implementing shelters and transitional housing (from the ground up including property and program)
- Designing and implementing supervised visitation centers
Training for Trainers
Red Wind has developed a training for domestic violence and sexual assault "trainers". Many people come into their role as trainers by default of their job duties. Red Wind's Training for Trainers will help build the capacity and effectiveness of your training skills.
Methods of Teaching and Assessing Yourself as a Teacher
- Teaching methods engaging multiple learners
- What it means to be a teacher
- The teacher-student relationship
- Problem posing and critical thinking
- Theories of DV
- Challenges of utilizing misplaced theories in developing DV responses
- Dispelling the myths around men’s use of violence
- Sexual assault in Indian Country
- Systems and community responses for victims of sexual assault
Structuring Your Training
- Building a good training team
- Avoiding fragmentation
- Being flexible working with diverse populations/practitioners
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