Training for LGBTQ+ Community Members

We Keep Each Other Safe: Community Models for Responding to Domestic Violence

This training covers:

Recognizing Intimate Partner Violence in Community

• The power and control wheel and cycle of violence
• Healthy vs. unhealthy relationships
• Understanding consent
• Harm vs. abuse

Responding to Abuse in Community

• Intimate partner violence prevalence in the community
• Further marginalization of BIPOC, immigrant, bisexual, and trans community members
• Bystander intervention
• Best practices around responding to harmful statements minimizing IPV within the community

Safety Planning and Pod Mapping

• Review of survey data describing where LGBTQ+ survivors turn to for support
• Ways to support survivors who disclose their experiences to you
• Safety planning when a survivor does not want to utilize DV services or law enforcement
• Restorative justice
• Pod mapping