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King County Sexual Assault Resource Center has long specialized in prevention and intervention training for professionals who work with children and teens. This listing of offerings includes continuing education workshops of interest to those who seek to prevent victimization or re‑victimization of children and teens with whom they work.
Please Note: Workshops are not offered on an on going basis. They can be scheduled as specialized training(s) for staff or for individuals. Please contact our Education Department at 425.226.5062 if you would like to set up a training. The fee for each training will vary depending upon the number of individuals going through the training.
For more information about any of our classes, click on the title below:
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Striving for Empowerment: An Educational Support Group Model for Teen Age Girls |
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Acquaintances? Friends? Partners? Discovering Relationship Values and Building Skills A Discussion Group Model for Guys |
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Ending Violence Institute: Addressing Bullying, Harassment, Anti-Gay Violence and Sexual Assault |
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Suicide & Sexual Violence: Information to Intervention |
| Personal Safety: Your Life, Your World |
| Related Risks: Child Abuse, Family Violence, and Chemical Dependency |
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Connecting With Parents: Assessing and Building Family Strengths |
| The Burnout Banquet: A Workshop to Feed the Professional |
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Fostering Community Collaboration: A Field Guide to Social Change |
COURSE DETAILS:
Striving for Empowerment: An Educational Support Group Model for Teen Age Girls
10 clock hours or 1 academic credit
This workshop is designed for teachers, counselors and other group leaders who work with adolescent girls. The workshop provides participants with strategies to help teen girls promote self-esteem, build positive relationship skills and reduce their vulnerability to sexual victimization. Participants will receive a notebook of reproducible activities and information designed to be used in a support group format lasting up to 22 weeks. Overview information about the dynamics and impact of sexual violence as it pertains to teen girls will be included.
Impact and Issues of Victimization
Group Format and Facilitation
Skill Building Exercises
"Every female student in our high school would benefit from being a part of this group.”
--Kristen Bock, Teacher, Highline School District
Acquaintances? Friends? Partners? Discovering Relationship Values and Building Skills
A Discussion Group Model for Guys
10 clock hours or 1 academic credit
This workshop is designed for teachers, counselors and other group leaders who work with adolescent boys. The workshop will focus on relationship building skills, communication, empathy, the risks of sexual victimization as well as potentially victimizing behavior, and providing an opportunity for young men to affirm or form positive relationship values. Each participant will receive a notebook of reproducible activities to use in a discussion group format lasting 14 to 20 weeks.
COURSE AGENDA:
Overview of Sexual Violence (focus on males)
Impact of Abuse and Link to Socialization
Group Format and Facilitation
Skill Building Exercises
Review and Use of Related Media
"This workshop has been a wonderful experience all around, from the materials, the presenter, and the hands-on activities to the relevance and usefulness to the clients I work with. I can't wait to try it out.”
Adam Mintz, Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation, Auburn
Ending Violence Institute: Addressing Bullying, Harassment, Anti-Gay Violence and Sexual Assault
30 clock hours or 3 academic credits
The Ending Violence Institute is a highly interactive quarter-long training that prepares those working with youth to address issues of sexual harassment, biased-based harassment, bullying, anti-gay violence and sexual assault among young people.
Address dynamics and causes of bullying and harassment
Biased-based harassment and anti-gay violence
Strategies for Intervention, Education and Prevention
Prevention education activities
Developing System Awareness and Policy Issues
Legal issues
Investigation procedures
Evaluate the policies and procedures currently in place in their settings.
Collaboration building with youth and adults
Community-wide investment and mobilization around sexual violence
Theoretical model and tools for in engaging students, co-workers and community members in violence prevention and social change.
"This institute prepared me and my school to address the bullying bill head on.”
Suicide & Sexual Violence: Information to Intervention
10 clock hours or 1 academic credit
This new workshop is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the dynamics between sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual violence and suicide. The syllabus will focus on risk factors, warning cues, myths, facts, depression and hopelessness that can lead to suicide. Participants will receive a notebook with resources and information to increase their confidence and competence in intervention and referrals. Participants will have an opportunity to practice intervention skills throughout the workshop.
An Overview of Sexual Violence and Suicide
The Scope of the Problem
Contributing Factors to Suicide and Suicidal Attempts
Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings
Risk Factors and Warning Cues
Impact, Depression and Hopelessness
Intervention and Referrals
Instilling Hope
Community Resources
Self – Care
10 clock hours or 1 academic credit
This workshop is designed to provide the participant with an understanding of personal safety tactics and strategies for work, home and community. The workshop will cover warning signs, communication, boundary setting, safety myths/facts, and Internet safety on day one. During the second day we will focus on how about how to address safety within your own life and within the world where you live and work. Participants will receive a notebook of resources and opportunities to practice safety skills.
An Overview of Safety Myths and Facts
Boundaries: Comfort and Communication
Actions to Reduce Vulnerability to Violence
Risk Factors and Warning Cues
Planning for Safety
Empowering Tactics and Strategies
Internet Safety
Presenting Personal Safety to Youth, Adults and the Community
Community Resources
This workshop is available for academic credit.
Related Risks: Child Abuse, Family Violence, and Chemical Dependency
10 clock hours or 1 academic credit
This workshop is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the dynamics of child abuse & neglect, family violence and chemical dependency. The workshop will focus on indicators of these related risks, mandated reporting & the inter‑relatedness of these issues. An introduction to a broad developmental range of activities and lessons for prevention will be provided.
COURSE AGENDA:
Overview of Child Abuse/Child Sexual Abuse and Family Violence
Overview of Substance Abuse (with a focus on youth)
Related Risks & Connections
Developmental Perspectives on the Impact of Abuse
Indicators of Abuse/Violence
Disclosure and Reporting
Awareness and Prevention Education
Working with Parents
Review of Related Resources
Related Risks meets OSPI certification requirement for continuing certification.
Connecting With Parents: Assessing and Building Family Strengths
10 Clock Hours or 1 academic credit
This workshop is designed
for professionals who work with parents. The workshop provides participants
with tools and strategies to encourage, validate and facilitate parental
participation. Participants will be supplied with a notebook of reproducible
activities that assist the family and the facilitator in assessing needs,
strengths and solutions to concerns. An overview of strength-based theories
will be included.
COURSE AGENDA:
Overview of Strength-Based Theories
Assessing Strengths and Capacity
Developing Teams
Normalization and Problem Definition
Assessing Needs
Building Skills and Action Planning
Planning for a Crisis
Finding the Fit: Therapeutic Task Design
Sharing Stories: What Works
The Burnout Banquet: A Workshop to Feed the Professional
10 clock hours or 1 academic credit
This comprehensive workshop will explore the individual symptoms of burnout, analyze personal, professional and organizational sources of burnout, and culminate with the formation of personal strategies designed to counteract on-the-job disillusionment and stress of professional caregivers. Overall a fun and relaxing opportunity to address professional stress.
Overview of Professional Burnout
Addressing personal levels of burnout and stress
Strategies for assessing personal productivity and career direction
Planning for a future in the field of human services
Creation of personal resource guide for burnout prevention and job retention.
“I had
a great time and learned more about burnout in two days that I ever had in years
of reading on this topic.”
Nancy P, Therapist in Private Practice
Fostering Community Collaboration: A Field Guide to Social Change
10 clock hours or 1 academic credit
Participants of this
interactive workshop will discover the theory and practice behind facilitating
collaboration within a community and/or group of people. This workshop explores
skills in fostering community ownership; tools that begin the process of change
and strategies to maintain collaborative efforts. A willing to collaborate is
the only requirement.
Overview of the History of Prevention
The Theory of Social Change
Nuts and Bolts of developing ownership and collaboration
Specific Tools to create and sustain change
Facilitation for the Ups and Downs of group dynamics and change.
Creation of a personal action plan for a project
“This is information I can use anywhere. With individuals and with groups”
Jeremy, Youth Treatment Provider
ASL interpretation and workshop materials printed on colored paper are available for all workshops. These services require at least 21 days advance notice prior to the workshop of your choice. Please indicate your need for any of above services when you register (425- 226-5062). The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) accredits all workshops for Continuing Education clock hours. All of the workshops can be taken for academic credit through Seattle Pacific University. Workshops are also approved by the Washington State Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs to meet on-going training requirements. Due to funding cuts in the county we are no longer able to offer scholarships. All workshops have a lower cost to help offset this change.