Foundational Training

Request a 2-hour core training for your agency

Our 2-hour core trainings are great for LGBTQ+ social service providers looking to provide essential training to their staff on providing culturally responsive and specific support to LGBTQ+ IPV survivors, learning best practices, and providing tangible skills building. This training covers:

Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence

  • Understanding dynamics of power and control in abusive relationships, and how they may uniquely manifest for LGBTQ+ survivors
  • Identifying barriers to leaving an abusive relationship that LGBTQ+ survivors face
  • Learning best practices around enhancing the safety and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ survivors in social service provision


Intimate Partner Violence in the LGBTQ+ Community

  • Understanding the unique and specific issues that LGBTQ+ survivors face
  • Understanding identity abuse and how to address it in work with survivors
  • Building skills in how to address, safety plan, and work to overcome barriers around systemic barriers that LGBTQ+ survivors face


Safety Planning

  • Understanding core tenants of safety planning and how to build a safety plan with an IPV survivor
  • Identifying safety planning strategies for survivors who feel unsafe accessing law enforcement, with a focus on disproportionately impacted communities including BIPOC LGBTQ+ survivors and transgender survivors