Community Education

TRAINING TOPICS

Regina’s Safe Alliance offers online presentations via Zoom locally and nationally. In-person presentations are available upon request for groups located within Georgia.

Contact Us! 

To request an in-person or virtual presentation email the Education and Outreach team at education@reginasafealliance.org or call 404-936-9455

We predominantly provide training for groups and organizations consisting of:

  • Victim-survivors of crime and violence 

  • Victim advocates 

  • Direct social service providers (case managers, social workers, legal advocates, etc.) 

  • Medical and mental health providers

  • Faith-based and Cultural Communities.

How Domestic Violence Impacts Children

  • Recognize the ways children experience or are exposed to domestic violence and become emotionally entangled with adult relationships

  • Discuss the effects of childhood parentification and other unhealthy attachment styles on emotional development

  • Discuss how a child’s trauma mindset influences his/her choice of dating partners and peer relationships

  • Recognize the signs and evolution of an intergenerational cycle of domestic violence and trauma

The Truth about Sexual Violence

  • Discuss 10 forms of sexual violence and who is affected including statistics as related to young people, males, and across ethnicities

  • Recognize power and control tactics often used by offenders

  • Discuss the emotional and psychological effects of the survivor-offender trauma bond

  • Discuss the shame conundrum from the perspective of the survivor, legal system, social group, and community at large

  • Identify coping tools in involvement with the police and court system

  • How to regain a sense of justice even if the offender is not arrested or convicted

Violence against Immigrant Women

  • Identify four reasons immigrant women often suffer higher rates of abuse in their intimate relationships compared to U.S. citizens

  • Discuss eight types of power and control tactics used against immigrant women

  • Discuss unique concerns related to the emotional, psychological, and spiritual vulnerabilities of immigrant women

  • Identify culturally sensitive ways to support immigrant women in abusive relationships, regardless of their decision to stay or leave 

  • Discuss Federal legislation (Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in support of abused immigrant women, VAWA's definition of psychological trauma, and how to get appropriate help