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Downloadable Training Materials
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Integrating Crime Victims' Issues Into College and University Curricula
Summary:
This curricula is a series of multidisciplinary educational models designed to broaden college and university students' exposure to and awareness of criminal victimization and its impact on victims and teach them about helpful responses when encountering victims.
What's Included:
- Curriculum kits and teaching materials, including class exercises and sample assignments
- A faculty involvement guide with steps to create a supportive learning environment and respond to student experiences with victimization
- Templates for internship agreements to increase undergraduate and graduate student placements in victim services
Sexual Assault Advocate and Service Provider Training Curriculum
Summary:
This training teaches advocates about sexual assault advocacy, the realities and impact of sexual assault, procedures to follow in common situations, techniques to support recovery, and strategies for organizational wellness and self-care, with modules on drug-facilitated sexual assault, campus sexual assault, military sexual assault, sexual assault on cisgender men and LGBTQ+ individuals, and neurobiology and trauma.
What's Included:
- All training modules
- Important tools to help you train, including a customizable agenda that allows you to download specific modules
- Participant feedback forms and certificates of completion for your participants
- Additional information for SAASPT trainers and managers of sexual assault advocate/service provider programs
Victim Impact: Listen and Learn Curriculum
Summary:
This training consists of 13 units, built around 10 core crime topics: property crime, assault, robbery, hate and bias, gang violence, sexual assault, child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, drunk and impaired driving, and homicide.
What's Included:
- All training units
- Video clips of victims speaking about their experience
- Certificates of completion for your participants
- Important tools to help you train, including a customizable agenda that allows you to download specific units
Online Training
Develop the skills to guide and shape lively and topical discussions during a training or event.
Facilitation Skills Online Training
Length: 34 minutes
This training includes seven narrated modules that address:
- Differences between facilitating and presenting,
- Facilitator responsibilities,
- How to facilitate a successful training,
- How to build consensus and resolve conflicts, and
- How to facilitate, debrief, and summarize training activities.
Tools
Design and deliver effective training.
Instructional Design Standards
Summary:
The OVC Instructional Design Standards establish the processes that OVC grantees must follow in the development of OVC-funded trainings.
The Instructional Design Standards are based on the ADDIE approach to help ensure that:
- The trainings are based on the needs of the participants,
- Participants achieve the goals of the training,
- The trainings are delivered in a consistent manner each time they are offered, and
- The effectiveness of the trainings can be evaluated using specific, measurable outcomes.
Job Aids
Resources Included:
- High Level Design document,
- Detailed Design document,
- Instructional Design Checklist for the Development of Face-To-Face OVC-Funded Training,
- Instructional Design Checklist for the Development of Online OVC-Funded Training,
- Best Practices for Blended Online Trainings,
- Best Practices for Self-Paced Online Trainings, and
- Instructional Designer Job Descriptions.
Trainer's Toolbox
Resources Included:
- Icebreaker and introductory activities,
- Closing activities,
- Techniques for dividing groups and for selecting a recorder and reporter, and
- Tips for using audiovisual aids.
