Pre-Employment Training for Gender-Based Violence Professionals

Interested in working in the sector? Helping to support survivors of intimate partner and family violence can be a fulfilling career that makes a difference.
If you are interested in working at a shelter or service that supports survivors but don’t know where to start, we have created a list of some training opportunities to help boost your skills and confidence.

• PATHS Training for Intimate Partner Violence Professionals

  PATHS designed this training for staff at our member agencies. This training is designed to help you better support and offer services to survivors of intimate partner and family violence. The training consists of ten modules, which include our philosophy, types of IPV, children exposed to IPV, working with diverse clients, trauma-and-violence-informed practice, reducing barriers, professional skills, self-care for IPV professionals, and legislation that can assist survivors of IPV in Saskatchewan.

• PATHS Training: What is Clare’s Law and How Can It Help?
  PATHS microlearning course about Clare’s Law. This course is a short introduction to Clare’s Law, how it works and how to access it in Saskatchewan.
• Trauma- and Violence-Informed Care (TVIC) Foundations

  This e-learning education from the University of British Columbia gives practical guidance on how to provide care in a trauma- and violence-informed way. It’s for anyone who wants to better serve people seeking health and social services. It also supports leaders in developing policies and protocols to support TVIC practice.

• AVA Online Training Certificate – Alliance against Violence & Adversity

  Based on your needs, AVA Online Training Modules courses can be completed as individual courses, or as part of AVA micro-credentials, including the AVA Online Training Certificate.

• CREVAWC’s Certificate Program in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Practice Skills

  Center for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC) is proud to offer an innovative Certificate in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Practice Skills. Designed for service providers to develop skills to recognize and respond to GBV.

• Brain Story Certification » Alberta Family Wellness Initiative

  The University of Oxford, in partnership with the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative, is working to share knowledge about the science of brain development for families and professionals. This is important information for everybody to understand how our earliest experiences can affect our long-term mental and physical health.

• Non-Violent Communication

  Nonviolent Communication involves practicing these key components: observing without evaluating, expressing feelings, identifying needs, and making requests. By focusing on these four pillars, we shift from patterns of communication that lead to misunderstanding and conflict to those that foster peace, empathy, integrity, and mutual support.

• Motivational Interviewing (UBC)

  Supporting healthy behaviour change in families can be challenging, but there are things you can do to make your conversations with families more productive. This free, accredited, online course introduces Motivational Interviewing (MI): a collaborative, patient-centered style of communication that can help strengthen personal motivation to change. Through a series of videos, self-reflective questions, exercises, and role-playing activities, this course will introduce you to the key elements of MI, and provide support and advice for successfully integrating MI into your clinical practice. Using the communication strategies and tools covered in this course, you will be able to help families explore their own reasons for change, and support them as they move effectively toward change.

• EQUIP Online Courses

This e-learning education provides practical guidance on how to provide care or services in a trauma- and violence-informed way. This education is for anyone who wants to increase their knowledge and skills when working with people seeking care in health care, social services and beyond.