Training

YWCA Greater Cincinnati offers several types of trainings to groups, companies, and organizations to build cultural competency and responsiveness, increase awareness of intersectionality, diversity, and the importance of inclusion, illuminate personal perceptions of bias, and take steps toward equity, justice, and liberation in norms, practices, policies, and procedures across the community. Before we can expect our society to change, we must first understand what we need from one another to have peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Available Training Tracks

Immigrant Services Track

Training for Working with Immigrant Survivors and Interpreters

This 1.5-hour workshop focuses on developing strategies for effectively communicating with Limited English Proficient (LEP) survivors and interpreters, including navigating unique skill sets and communication structures. This involves establishing best practices for interpreting violence and abuse, and ensuring advocates/professionals control conversations while empowering survivor agency. Additionally, addressing common barriers encountered when working with interpreters during client interactions is essential.

For a free consultation or to learn more about the Immigrant Services Track, please contact Taylor Curtis at tcurtis@ywcacin.org or via phone at 513-762-2408.  

Intimate Partner Violence Track

These 1.5-hour workshops emphasize the myriad forms of gender-based violence, including but not limited to intimate partner violence, physical violence, sexual violence, mental and emotional abuse, verbal abuse, financial abuse, religious abuse, stalking, technology abuse, and abuse targeted toward an individual’s minority identity or status. These workshops reflect how internalized, interpersonal, institutional, and systemic gender-based oppression manifests and the implications of gender-based oppression.

  • Learn about gender-based violence including physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, financial, religious, stalking, and technology abuse. Discover trauma-informed approaches to help survivors and their families and provide access to resources and community support.

  • Explore gender-based violence as a multifaceted public health and safety epidemic, impacting healthcare profoundly. Learn about identifying injury and behavior patterns that are unique to survivors of gender-based violence with an emphasis on the role of medical providers in responding to survivors and providing long-term care and safety planning.

  • Learn to identify high-risk indicators in gender-based violence, collaborate with law enforcement and advocates for specialized response, and provide immediate safety planning for survivors most at risk for imminent harm.

  • Learn how Title IX affects workplace responses to gender-based violence. Develop HR policies to support employees experiencing violence and build a culture of trust. Confidentiality and non-retaliation policies play a significant role in supporting survivors in the workplace.

  • Explore the role of culture and intersectional identities when serving survivors of gender-based violence. Learn how to identify critical challenges and barriers for BIPOC, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ survivors and about evaluating the factors that contribute to trauma and methods of creating safe space.

For a free consultation or to learn more about the Intimate Partner Violence Track, please contact Taylor Curtis at tcurtis@ywcacin.org or via phone at 513-762-2408.

Project CARE (Community, Accessibility, Response, Education) Track

Project CARE’s training track contains 1.5-hour workshops to provide training for trauma-informed and responsive services to individuals with disabilities with a specialized concentration on individuals who are survivors of intimate partner violence, stalking, sexual assault/violence, or are at risk for victimization.

  • This training will explore cultural ideologies and belief systems related to ableism, sexual health, and autonomy. We will analyze discrimination and violence prevalent in daily interactions and equip attendees with skills to develop effective strategies and support systems to promote a safer, more inclusive environment.

  • Learn about breaking down cultural responsiveness for individuals with disabilities, navigating person-first best practices, and developing methods of addressing cultural needs.

  • Explore the complex intersections between individuals with disabilities, and the increased vulnerability of LGBTQIA+ survivors who are simultaneously faced with homophobia, transphobia, ableism, sexism, racism, immigration status, and other factors. Learn about providing guidance and language for creating inclusive spaces for LGBTQIA+ Individuals with disabilities.

  • Understand the value of self-advocacy, how to create strategies for self-advocacy within your organization, and how to develop a process for recruiting and fortifying a self-advocacy team.

  • Enhance skills to identify sexual abuse, violence, and trafficking among adults and youth with disabilities, including utilizing tools and protocols. Improving knowledge in lethality screening and safety planning, particularly for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities at risk of domestic and sexual violence. Learn best practices for working with survivors with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) and strategies for screening abuse/violence. Developing supportive approaches for survivors.

  • Gain insight into human trafficking and its impact, particularly on individuals with disabilities, while acknowledging specific concerns within the Ohio region. This involves identifying and implementing best practices for prevention tailored to support individuals with disabilities effectively.

  • Enhance understanding of lethality screening and safety planning, especially for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities vulnerable to domestic and sexual violence. This entails crafting screening protocols for employees/clients and safety planning for various settings like the workplace or classroom.

For a free consultation or to learn more about the Project CARE Track, please contact Holly Watson at hwatson@ywcacin.org or via phone at 513-361-2117.

Racial Justice and Equity Track

Create an organization that brings out the best in each person contributing to its mission. It includes strategies to build cultural competency and responsiveness, increasing awareness of intersectionality, diversity, and the significance of inclusion. Through exercises, it illuminates personal perceptions, stereotypes, prejudice, microaggressions, privilege, and all forms of bias. The track also provides strategies to address implicit and explicit bias, become a more equitable organization by assessing practices, policies, and procedures, and take steps toward becoming antiracist. Additionally, it covers learning restorative practices and addressing unique challenges within the LGBTQIA+ community.

  • The YWCA Toward Equity workshop series is an 8-hour program consisting of two parts, designed to enhance understanding and promote equity within organizations.

    Part 1, a 4-hour session, delves into Implicit Bias, prompting participants to reflect on their own perceptions and biases and their impact on daily work and interactions.

    Part 2, also 4 hours in duration, focuses on strategies for creating an equitable organizational culture that attracts and retains employees.

  • This training track consists of multiple modules lasting 1.5 hours each that can be completed a la carte or within a customized package. These trainings range over topics centralizing cultural competency, justice, and liberation.

    Cultural Competency and Responsiveness Training
    This workshop introduces the concept of cultural competency and builds awareness for participants around cultural humility through analyzing identity, intersectionality, and cultural diversity. The focus then shifts to identifying strategies of cultural respect through analyzing equity, inclusion, and how social responsibility impacts us at a personal, interpersonal, institutional, and systemic level.

    The Privilege is All Mine
    This workshop explores the concepts of marginalization and discrimination as it relates to social identity and intersectionality. Through reflective exercise and restorative practice, this training leads participants to awareness of social responsibility and tools to leverage social privilege to build equity for groups impacted by oppression.

    So Stereotypical
    This workshop analyzes the notions of stereotypes and social norms from a social psychology perspective providing an opportunity for participants to reflect on this type of implicit and explicit bias. This workshop dives into direct and indirect social messaging and practices that can help foster diversity, inclusion, and representation without perpetuating stereotypes.

    Monitoring Microaggression
    This workshop unpacks the daily slights that send derogatory messages to marginalized groups spotlighting the subtle ways that inequity shows up in the spaces we all occupy. Through active listening and appreciative inquiry, participants walk through the many forms of microaggression and tools for navigating encounters of microaggression.

    Racial Trauma 101
    This workshop identifies the cumulative effects of racism on health from a mental and physical perspective. Race-based traumatic stress, racial trauma, is very similar to PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) in the physical and psychological outcomes it produces. This workshop teaches the importance of trauma-informed care from a racial trauma perspective.

    Co-Conspirators 101
    This workshop investigates the steps necessary to recognize oppression and reduce complicity as an ally. The workshop then analyzes strategies to be a co-conspirator against racism to actively participate in the movement of liberation with a willingness to take on the consequences associated with dismantling racism.

  • This is an 8-hour workshop series that helps participants understand racial equity and develop strategies for addressing racism within policies, practices, and norms. The series begins by exploring concepts of racial identity development and the impacts of racism at personal, interpersonal, institutional, and systemic levels. It then moves on to deep dive into racial literacy and steps to address racial discrimination both individually and institutionally. The workshop is divided into two parts, "Developing an Antiracist Racial Identity" and "Learning to Liberate," each of 4 hours.

  • This is a 12-hour training course on restorative practices that emphasizes community building and conflict resolution. Participants will learn to conduct restorative circles as a way to foster kinship and accountability in workplaces, schools, and communities. The course is divided into two parts: Part I introduces the essential elements of restorative practices and provides an overview of affective statements, impromptu small conferences, and restorative circles. Part II focuses on the effective utilization of circles, including techniques for making connections, facilitating circles, and creating circle lesson plans.

  • This 3-hour training focuses on developing specialized safety planning, interview techniques, and culturally humble practices tailored to LGBTQIA+ populations while comprehensively understanding the systemic, institutionalized, and sociopolitical barriers they face. This includes exploring the intricate intersections among minority populations and recognizing the heightened vulnerability of survivors contending with multiple forms of discrimination, such as homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism, disability, immigration status, and more.

For a free consultation or to learn more about the Racial Justice and Equity Track, please contact Taylor Curtis at tcurtis@ywcacin.org or via phone at 513-762-2408.

Trauma-Informed Care Training Track

Trauma Informed Care training track contains 1.5-hour workshops on trauma-informed and responsive services to individuals, trauma-informed practices in the workplace, trauma-informed approaches for law enforcement, addressing vicarious trauma, and more.

  • This workshop introduces evidence-based trauma-informed practices and responsive services to individuals, trauma-informed practices in the workplace, and addressing vicarious trauma within individuals. Additionally, this workshop will provide a framework for understanding extreme symptoms and behavior and managing crises.

  • This workshop focuses on identifying proper law enforcement responses to gender-based violence, including documentation of injury and information collection in incident reports. Learn about high-risk and high-lethality concerns during domestic violence incidents and the importance of specialized advocate partnerships. We’ll also explore the role of law enforcement in filing proper charges at the scene, testifying in court, and coordinating with prosecutors in evidence-based prosecution cases.

  • This workshop identifies the cumulative effects of racism on health from a mental and physical perspective. Race-based traumatic stress, racial trauma, is very similar to PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) in the physical and psychological outcomes it produces. This workshop teaches the importance of trauma-informed care from a racial trauma perspective.

  • Learn about developing trauma-informed, victim-centric interview techniques to facilitate client disclosure and ensure safety. This involves employing open-ended, non-interrogative lines of questioning to gather comprehensive information and elicit client responses effectively. Understanding the impact of trauma on the brain, particularly in cases involving strangulation or head trauma, is crucial when interviewing survivors of violence.

For a free consultation or to learn more about the Trauma-Informed Care Training Track, please contact Taylor Curtis at tcurtis@ywcacin.org or via phone at 513-762-2408.

Payment Information

YWCA Greater Cincinnati Racial Justice and Equity Trainings are offered to create strategies to build cultural competency and responsiveness, increase awareness of intersectionality, diversity, and the importance of inclusion, illuminate personal perceptions of bias, and take steps toward equity, justice, and liberation in norms, practices, policies, and procedures across the community. Before we can expect our society to change, we must first understand what we need from one another to have peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Free consultations are offered to help our clients select the option that fits their organization! Curated options are available (prices may vary). To book a training, please complete a free consultation with our Racial Justice and Equity Department and submit the signed proposal. Fees submitted without a signed proposal will be subject to rejection. Terms and conditions are provided within the proposal.

“This was very valuable and very useful. This is the first organization I’ve worked for that required training such as this.”

— Toward Equity Participant

“Great presentation and left no crumbs!”

— Cultural Competency & Cultural Responsiveness Participant

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