PAAR Professional Training
Trainings are customizable for audience and time constraints, are certifiable for professional development and specific trainings may be developed or combined upon request.
Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking of Young People
- Develop appropriate language and understanding of CSEC
- Understanding of recruitment and grooming tactics
- Ability to apply knowledge to aid in identifying victims
- Understand the fundamental economic theory of supply and demand to CSEC
- Understanding of how vulnerability is exploited
- Develop understanding of trauma and the impact of trauma on a child development
- Develop skills to effectively identify victims of CSEC
- Build an appropriate, supportive response to victims of CSEC and effectively connect to services
Understanding Trauma & Sexual Violence
- Neurobiology of Trauma
- Understand the physiological mechanisms that create flashbacks, the difficulty talking about the trauma, detachment from emotions and lasting impact of trauma
- Define and explore dynamics of sexual violence and abuse and revictimization
- Basic techniques to manage acute reactions of flashbacks or dissociation
Sex Trafficking
- Identifying sex trafficking
- Exploration of the recruitment process with emphasis on children and adolescents
- Identifying perpetrators and victims
- Build resiliency and risk reduction skills in at risk youth
- Build skills in staff and adults in recognizing and intervening in trafficking
- Resources for referral
Understanding Self Injury as an Expression of Sexual Violence & Abuse
- Define and explore the prevalence of self-injury
- Explore the personal and societal attitudes that impact survivors
- Examine the links between childhood trauma and self-injury
- Increase capacity to respond to clients who self-injure from a trauma framework
Bystander Intervention
- Learn the importance of community involvement in violence prevention
- Discuss the barriers to interventions and how to overcome them
- Practice safety assessment in potential situations
- Increase capacity to intervene in concerning situations
Crisis Response Team Training
- Intended for first responders in school, college, and other settings
- Review neurobiology of trauma and common immediate responses
- Learn resources for victimization and how to connect with PAAR for an advocate
- Understand the advantages of a coordinated response to victims
- Support survivors and troubleshoot for needs assessment
Building & Maintaining Professional Boundaries with Children and Adolescents
- Modeling behaviors and skills
- Appropriate versus inappropriate boundaries
- Communicating boundary violations within professional settings
- Intervening and preventing boundary violations and abuse of youth
- Staying grounded in professional boundaries amongst trauma and turmoil
Responding to Survivors of Sexual Violence & Abuse
- Impact of non-disclosed sexual assault over a lifetime
- Reasons that survivors may or may not disclose sexual abuse
- Support survivors through disclosure and what happens next
- Review mandated reporting
- Resources for referral
Child Sexual Abuse
- Define and review prevalence of child sexual abuse
- Improving understanding of offenders of child sexual abuse
- Identify indicators of sexual abuse
- Examination of age-appropriate versus problematic sexual behaviors
- Explore how children may tell about sexual abuse
- Understand the links between childhood sexual abuse and later victimization
- Create safety and respond appropriately to a child’s disclosure
Compassion Fatigue- Taking care of yourself
- Recognize compassion fatigue
- Explore how compassion fatigue impacts personal and professional life
- Introduce healthy coping skills and build capacity of participants to engage in healthy coping skills
Consent 101
- Learn the importance of consent for any behavior or sexual activity
- Understand how consent communication fits within sexual violence prevention
- Discuss the difficulties in communicating consent with partners
- Move from “No means no” to “yes means yes”
- Review risk reduction techniques while keeping responsibility for sexual violence on the perpetrator
Medical Personnel
- Review the neurobiology of trauma
- Understand the physiological mechanisms that create flashbacks, the difficulty talking about the trauma, detachment from emotions and lasting impact of trauma
- Define and explore dynamics of sexual violence and abuse and revictimization
- Basic techniques to manage acute reactions of flashbacks or dissociation
- Learn the importance and impact of an advocate on survivors as they proceed through medical and legal systems
- Review the basics of evidence collection for survivors of sexual violence
