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Professional Trainings

Hope Harbor has education and training programs available on a variety of topics that are tailored to each specific audience. If you do not see the program you had in mind, please contact us and we can combine or create a program surrounding the issue of sexual violence.

Hope Harbor Services

Covers the basics of the free services offered by Hope Harbor: crisis intervention, emergency medical and legal advocacy, counseling, and community education. It can be tailored to meet the needs of law enforcement, medical personnel, school faculty and staff, social workers, criminal justice professionals, correctional staff, and other community-based groups. Our services training will help your agency learn about Hope Harbor, recognize why/how sexual violence occurs in our community, and the best response to end that violence.

Child Sexual Abuse (Professionals)

Teaches individuals the definition of child sexual abuse, how to recognize it, appropriate reactions to disclosures, legal responsibility to report, and where to go for help if a child you know is being abused.

Developing a Sexual Assault Response Team

This training is designed to assist agencies in developing their own in-agency sexual assault response team (SART). SARTs are multidisciplinary teams of people who respond to instances sexual assault, coordinate training opportunities pertaining to sexual assault response and victim services, provide education and outreach opportunities to the population they serve, and influence agency policy and procedure as it pertains to sexual assault response. Recipients of this training will come away with an understanding of how to develop, implement, and maintain a SART within their agency or community, as well as guidance and continuing support toward these efforts. This training is ideal for universities, businesses, faith communities, and organizations with residential communities.

Co-Occurring Violence: Stalking

This training provides information about the crime of stalking. Participants will come away with a greater understanding of stalking as a form of violence, how stalking co-occurs with sexual violence and other forms of violence, and how to support stalking survivors in their community. This training is ideal for any professionals who may work with survivors of violent crime.

Co-Occurring Violence: Strangulation

This training provides information about the crime of strangulation. Participants will come away with a greater understanding of strangulation as a form of violence, how strangulation co-occurs with sexual violence and other forms of violence, and how to support strangulation survivors in their community. This training is ideal for any professionals who may work with survivors of violent crime.

Co-Occurring Violence: Sex Trafficking

This training explains what sex trafficking looks like, specifically in our area, and dispels the myths and misconceptions around sex trafficking. The training can be catered to the needs and education level of your agency.

Working with Currently & Formerly Incarcerated Survivors of Sexual Trauma

This training is customized to all staff working in confinement settings, such as local jails, detention centers, youth residencies, halfway houses, and addiction recovery centers. Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) is much more than paperwork and regulation; it’s about helping those affected by sexual trauma get the help and resources they need.

Don’t see what you or your agency needs?

Contact us to discuss a program catered to your agency’s interests and needs. We know conversations around sexual violence and prevention are difficult and we are here to help better navigate those discussions.