Bridging Troubled Waters Training
Family support workers serve as a Bridge for families, helping them get Over Troubled Waters to the other side. Workers have their own personal and professional challenges, and sometimes they get in the way. We can fix that. Understanding how those challenges affect their relationships with the families they serve is essential. Our effectiveness depends […]
Microaggressions and Implicit Bias
Even the most committed professionals carry implicit biases—automatic assumptions shaped by culture and experience. When unexamined, these biases can influence how we interpret clients’ stories, assess credibility, and build trust. This interactive workshop explores how biases form, how they operate beneath awareness, and how they show up in advocacy practice. Participants will examine microaggressions—subtle, often […]
Labor Trafficking 102
An intermediate-level training that looks more closely at how exploitation develops and why workers may face challenges when seeking support.
More than Words: The Emotional Maltreatment of Children
This presentation will discuss the specific threats of physical, psychological, and emotional harm for children living in a home where partner abuse/domestic violence occurs. Common misconceptions will be addressed, including the idea that a child can be too young to be affected by abuse in the home, physically observable signs of injury are an appropriate […]
Eating Disorders Beyond Food
Trauma, Autism, and What Behaviors May Be Communicating Eating disorders are often reduced to food and weight, but the behaviors themselves can communicate much deeper struggles related to trauma, control, sensory needs, dissociation, and survival. For many individuals, especially those with histories of abuse or neurodivergence, eating disorder behaviors may serve important protective functions. This […]
Trauma-Informed MDT Practice: From Outcry to Conclusion
Trauma-informed practice is not limited to the first response or the forensic interview. It includes how the MDT communicates, coordinates, prepares families, shares information, and follows through across the life of a case. This workshop helps teams look at trauma-informed practice as a system behavior, not just an individual skill.
How Mary Lost Her Lamb: Rethinking Child Sexual Abuse Prevention in Early Childhood
This workshop explores the overlooked and unspoken realities of child sexual abuse in early childhood. This includes child-on-child sexual abuse, grooming in early childhood, misconceptions about risk and innocence, and the challenges of identifying sexual abuse in young children. Participants will examine their own biases in sexual abuse, sexuality education, and sexual abuse prevention. This […]
