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Professional Trainings & Workshops to Prevent Domestic Violence

Center for Domestic Peace offers expert-led professional trainings and workshops designed to help individuals and organizations recognize, respond to, and prevent domestic violence.

Volunteer Training

Training to Become a Certified Domestic Violence Advocate

Through the 40-hour training program that Center for Domestic Peace offers, training attendees learn practical, hands-on skills that will enable them to:

  1. Describe the problem of domestic violence and discover solutions
  2. Assist survivors and abusers seeking to free themselves from DV
  3. Understand the barriers that survivors face when trying to get help
  4. Understand how culture shapes each individual’s experience
  5. Imagine and participate in transforming society’s norms from domestic violence to healthy and equal relating
A woman smiles during a C4DP training focused on strengthening services and support for domestic-violence survivors in Marin County.
C4DP staff lead a workplace training session on recognizing and responding to dating and domestic violence, presented to a small group in a conference room.
Corporate Training

Prevention Education for Safer Workplaces and Communities

C4DP provides customized education and training programs designed to meet the specific needs of your organization or business. Our trainings empower professionals, leaders, and teams with the tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent domestic violence in a range of environments – including schools, workplaces, hospitals, and social service agencies.

Topics Include:

  • Awareness training and response protocols for domestic abuse
  • How to recognize and address domestic violence in the workplace
  • Understanding the impact of domestic violence on children and youth
  • Prevention education that fosters healthy, equitable relationships
  • Community activism strategies to shift harmful cultural norms
  • Certification training to become domestic violence advocates

Our expert-led trainings can support policy and protocol development, ensuring that your organization is equipped to take meaningful action to help end domestic violence.

Responder Training

Identify and Respond to Domestic Violence

Our evidence-based programs are tailored to meet the unique needs of businesses, nonprofits, schools, and community groups. Whether you’re looking to empower your workplace with domestic violence prevention tools, engage youth in healthy relationship education, or support your staff with trauma-informed practices, our trainings can be customized to support your goals.

All trainings can be offered in English and Spanish.

Domestic Violence 101

This 1-hour training provides an introduction to domestic violence.

What We’ll Discuss:

  • Definitions and data on domestic violence
  • The warning signs of an unhealthy relationship
  • The pattern of abuse
  • The different types of abuse

This 1-hour training describes the services offered by Center for Domestic Peace.

What We’ll Discuss:

  • How to connect youth and adults to Center for Domestic Peace
  • How to access our emergency shelter
  • How victims and abusers can get help
  • C4DP therapy programs
  • C4DP services for child witnesses

Participants must complete a C4DP Connector Training to be eligible.

This 2.5 hour training will teach you how to assess the lethality level of relationships with domestic violence.

What We’ll Discuss:

  • The 5 domestic violence Risk Level Assessor Steps
  • Questions that help evaluate lethality risk
  • How to support survivors and connect them to C4DP

1.5 hour training for parents to learn the effects of adult’s unhealthy relating and how to talk to their children.

What We’ll Discuss:

  • How to tell if your child/ren have been affected by an unhealthy adult relationship
  • 3 ways to help children who have been affected by unhealthy adult relationships
  • How Center for Domestic Peace can help

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