Training and Education Opportunities
Economic Education REAP Facilitator Training
In this 2-3 day training, advocates receive the knowledge and skills to implement the REAP economic education classes including:
- Introduction to the connections between domestic violence, oppression and poverty; facilitator skills; and adult learning principles.
- Intense focus on safety, economic education and appropriate use of language.
- Opportunity to experience REAP classes as attendees while learning to facilitate all four economic education sessions
- Hands-on practice of REAP Activities; practice feedback from trainers
Economic Advocacy
Advocates providing quality individual advocacy can significantly impact battered women’s ability to seek financial security. This 1-2 day training defines economic advocacy and builds advocates’ skills in economic assessment, understanding and repairing credit, reading credit reports, creating an effective cost of living plan, saving safely, and dealing with collection agencies.
Trainers emphasize lessons learned and safety planning considerations when providing economic advocacy with women impacted by domestic violence.
Advanced Economic Advocacy:
For advocates who are currently providing economic advocacy, this 1 to 2 day training builds on the beginning workshop and helps advocates create detailed credit and debt action plans, explores how to credit counsel, introduces mortgage and foreclosure counseling, and bankruptcy options.
Cultural Competency, Oppression, and Economic Advocacy Workshop
Training focuses on learning to assist women from diverse backgrounds—race, class, faith, sexual orientation and age—while identifying their economic barriers. This one-day workshop will give advocates additional tools to identify common cultural barriers along with the knowledge and skills to overcome these barriers.
One Day Individual Development Account Workshop
Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) help women save for assets that could increase their economic independence by matching their savings (for example, if a woman saves $500 for a home repair, her savings could be matched with $1000). This training uses ROW staff’s years of experience in providing IDAs to battered women and provides participants knowledge in:
- Understanding IDAs, the history of IDAs, and the connection between assets, wealth, and poverty in America.
- The connection between safety for battered women and saving
- Exploring funding for an IDA program
- Best practices for programs providing IDAs for women experiencing domestic violence
- Working with banking institutions and data management
Building Leadership Support: Economic Education and Advocacy Services:
This 1-day interactive seminar for executive directors and other decision-making individuals in domestic violence service organizations reviews the interconnection between domestic violence and economics, provides a model for implementing successful economic advocacy services, helps leaders explore strengths and barriers to implementing programming. Information is shared regarding options for funding economic advocacy programming.