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1. Trauma-Informed Care in Domestic Violence Services: Redefining Screening and Engagement. This training explores what trauma-informed care truly means within the domestic violence field, moving beyond theory into practical application. The training reviews evidence-based trauma-informed frameworks and introduces alternative screening approaches that prioritize safety, empowerment, and survivor autonomy with the importance emphasized why peer support should be referred.
2. The Role of Peer Support in Reducing Revictimization: National Evidence and Local Application. This CEU course examines national research demonstrating how structured peer support services reduce isolation, increase protective factors, and lower rates of revictimization among survivors of domestic violence. Participants will explore evidence-based peer support models and review outcome data supporting survivor-led mentorship as a stabilizing and preventative intervention. Helping participants communicate to clients how peer support is part of the healing and processing continuum, not “less than” therapy
3. Safety Planning and Suicide Risk in Domestic Violence Populations
Domestic violence survivors face elevated risks of suicidal ideation, coercion-related hopelessness, and high-risk safety decisions. This training
provides an evidence-based practical and in depth peer support engagement has with safety planning strategies. The importance the certified peer support advocate holds with survivor-centered safety planning.
The course concludes with a clear, practice-based comparison between peer support services and psychotherapy, reinforcing ethical boundaries, scope of practice, and integrated care approaches.
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