Abuse, Trauma & Violence Prevention

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AASAS Training - Courses For Those Working with Survivors of Sexual Violence and the Violence Prevention Sector

 July 9, 2024

Designed for counselors, therapists, and other mental health practitioners who are new to working with survivors of sexual violence, or who may be already working with survivors and would like to more deeply inform their counselling practice.

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UofC Podcast: Approaches for Working with Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

 May 16, 2024

Listen to UCalgary FSW professor Dr. Angelique Jenney and PhD candidate and sessional instructor Olivia Cullen

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A Conversation with Dr. Bruce Perry About Trauma

 May 16, 2024

In this podcast from Creating a Family, Dr. Bruce Perry answers your questions about how trauma impacts adoptive, foster, and kinship kids and families.

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Engaging Caregivers of Teens to Prevent Teen Dating Violence (Shift)

 May 13, 2024

Over the past three years Shift has focused on engaging parents/primary caregivers as a primary prevention strategy to prevent teen dating violence.

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Video Overview InBrief: The Science of Neglect (Harvard University)

 May 10, 2024

This edition of the InBrief series explains why significant deprivation is so harmful in the earliest years of life and why effective interventions are likely to pay significant dividends in better long-term outcomes in learning, health, and parenting of the next generation.

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Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) Trauma-Informed Training

 May 3, 2024

Hull Services provides training/education in trauma-informed practice for frontline staff, caregivers, schools, agencies, and community partners. It is an approach that integrates core principles of neurodevelopment and traumatology to inform work with children, families and the communities in which they live.

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CDC Connecting the Dots - Understanding Risk and Protective Factors

 May 2, 2024

This tool makes it easy to connect the dots between multiple types of violence and the risk and protective factors they share at each level of the social-ecological model (SEM).

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Trauma-Informed Care Toolkit for Homelessness Youth Service Providers

 May 1, 2024

Trauma-informed programs can help mitigate adverse outcomes for youth and young adults. All systems that serve youth who have experienced homelessness must understand the basic principles of trauma to serve youth appropriately.

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FREE Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Downloadable Lessons & Activities

 April 10, 2024

These lessons, designed by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection are for use with students in kindergarten to Grade 8.

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