Presented Online via Zoom
Whether this is your first social justice workshop or you are at the advanced level, we encourage participants at all learning levels.
After completing the certification, you will take this knowledge outside of the workshop space, commit to being an lifelong social justice learner and engage what you’ve learned to better your community.
Facilitated by Meleani Bates Online via Zoom
Developing critical consciousness about race and oppression requires us to first understand our own racialized identities. This workshop aims to support ongoing exploration of our positionality, strengthen our ability to read racially stressful encounters, and recast/reframe situations using skillful interruption strategies that preserve our collective humanity.
Facilitated by Meleani Bates Online via Zoom
The Cycle of Socialization helps us to understand the ways in which we are all socialized to help maintain oppressive systems and human hierarchies.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
Language is ever changing and manifests our world view. When we have access to language, we are better able to understand and articulate community needs. It is important for our growth that we be mindful of the language we use, as it cultivates our patterns and determines our routes to liberation. In our ever-changing, technologically-advanced modern world, we have more access to shared language than ever before. And, in the world of equity work, fluidity and understanding of terms and definitions is necessary as we work collectively to dismantle antiquated, oppressive systems that have for too long been barriers for marginalized communities.
Facilitated by Kaycie López Jones Online via Zoom
In this workshop, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how bias in both its explicit and implicit form informs implicit associations and can lead to microaggressions. Participants will explore the different types of microaggressions and gain tools that can help them identify and interrupt microaggressive moments and behaviors.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
This workshop aims to dissect functions of anti-Blackness by providing nuance, reflection, and tools to guide participants in recognizing their own anti-Black biases, an ability to recognize anti-Black practices and policies at a macro level, and to encourage the dismantling of anti-Black practices at all facets of social existence.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
In this workshop, we will break down the nuances with language & cultural norms to examine how they fit into institutional expectations. We’ll spend time discussing how power moves in and out of spaces shaping the ways in which we engage with one another. For us to discuss several facets within sociocultural groups, we must dissect how our organizations and structures contain a US-centric lens. We will look at how white supremacy shows up within the US versus other countries. By identifying ways in which we can dismantle US culture taking dominance within our institutions, we can start to build a foundation that supports multi-cultural, multi-lingual sociocultural identities..
Presented by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
The Disability Justice workshop aims to center the social and colonial context surrounding the experiences of people with disabilities. Participants will learn about the historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the way people with disabilities are perceived and treated in society, across all facets. The workshop will also cover topics such as accessibility, inclusion, and the rights of people with disabilities. By attending this workshop, participants will gain a roots-centered understanding of disability justice issues and how they can work to deconstruct supremacist values and actions that perpetuate harm onto people with disabilities.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
In this interactive workshop, we will explore the principles and practices of restorative justice as an approach to conflict resolution that focuses on repairing harm, building relationships, and restoring community. Through a variety of activities, including breakout discussions and reflection activities, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how restorative justice can be used to address a wide range of issues, from relationship and communication ruptures, to addressing community violence.
Facilitated by Meleani Bates Online via Zoom
The Cycle of Liberation illustrates how we can identify our own impacts toward equity, healing and liberation, to actively interrupt our participation in the cycle of socialization. Liberation can be described as critical transformations that empower us to analyze how systemic and dominant assumptions, structures, prescriptive rules, and roles are inherently flawed and violent. In this session we will explore our own socialization. Each session is 2 hours. The Cycle of Socialization offering is a prerequisite to the Cycle of Liberation workshop.
Presented Online via Zoom
YWCA offers the 40-Hour Domestic Violence Advocacy Training to community members who are looking to become domestic violence advocates. Each certification is for 40 hours of training in advocacy for Survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault. This training ensures that the needs of domestic violence Survivors have been met and served through a trauma informed, culturally responsive lens.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
This workshop is geared towards individuals and organizations that see the need to take a bold move to improve the way they provide an environment of equity and inclusivity in the workplace.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
Remember what was most important to you as a teen or young adult? Through a voluntary group role play, we will try to set the stage for understanding youth between the ages of 16 age 24, who statistically experience the highest rate of intimate partner violence. Why do youth stay in abusive relationships? In addition to the numerous barriers adults face, there are a myriad number of reasons unique to their age group; peer pressure, distrust of adults, conflicting emotions and more. We will explore how best to support and safety plan with teens and young adults while helping to maintain their confidence and trust.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV), sometimes known as sexual assault in the context of domestic violence, is a pervasive and often hidden problem. IPSV creates a highly dangerous situation and is associated with increased risk of death, severe long-term trauma for victims, and repeated victimization. In this workshop we will describe the nature and prevalence of IPSV. The dynamics and impact of IPSV and the specific challenges faced by survivors will be identified. And we will investigate the use of sex as a weapon of power and control and strategies for supporting and providing services for survivors.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
e will explore the 3 main components that contribute to the existence of gender violence: sexism, sexual objectification and victim blaming. Looking through the lens of history and our current culture, we will reveal the pervasive myths and norms that justify sexual violence and that keeps the focus on blaming and silencing survivors. We will explore how gender violence highlights a male-patterned violence: a prevalent violence committed most often but not always by men, often motivated by aggression, revenge, competition, and entitlement used to help to maintain patriarchy, male dominance, and oppressive stereotypes.
Presented by Kevyn Way Online via Zoom
You have probably been taught that gender is determined by one’s sex. However, this is not the case, and I am here to explain why! As more and more nonbinary, transgender and gender-nonconforming people starting to feel safer to live in their truths, it is important that others have a base level of understanding the difference between gender and sexuality. Join me as we dismantle the binary and learn about the beautiful mosaic of gender identities. In this interactive workshop, we will break down terms, participate in activities and engage in interactive learning focusing on gender and sexuality.
Presented by Mara Martinez-Hewitt & Brianna Suslovic Online via Zoom
In this 3-hour workshop we will use Spring Up’s power mapping tool to discuss the intersectional power dynamics at play between partners, and explore how social norms of coercion and control show up in everyday communication and decision making in relationships. Participants will collaboratively uncover how both survivors and people who cause harm to internalize social scripts that shape their communication and expectations within relationships as well as from external interveners like the police and advocates. Finally, we will analyze a scenario to learn how to shift coercive and controlling communication into consensual healthy conversations.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
Through open dialogue and critical thinking, participants will seek to understand the root causes of oppression, challenge oppressive narratives, and identify strategies for dismantling these systems of injustice. Participants will explore the role of education, activism, and collective action in promoting social transformation and creating a more just and equitable world for all.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
Dynamics of Poverty aims to raise awareness about the social issues related to poverty and its impact on individuals and communities. Participants will learn about the root causes of poverty, the effects of poverty on health and well-being, and strategies for addressing poverty at the individual and community level. The workshop will also cover topics such as the impact of poverty on wellness, communities, and employment opportunities. By attending this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of the dynamics of poverty and how to work towards creating a more equitable society.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
A boundary is a limit or space between you and another person; a clear place where you begin, and the other person ends. In this workshop we will explore what our personal and professional boundaries are and how to establish and maintain them with the people in our lives. Setting limits takes time and thought, enforcing the limits takes energy and consistency. Boundaries ultimately provide us with more time, energy and happiness and deepens our connections with ourselves and others. The purpose of setting boundaries is, of course, to protect and take good care of ourselves.
Facilitated by Chris Huffine Online via Zoom
Cis men are responsible for the vast majority of most of the violence in the world, including domestic violence. Why is this so? In this workshop underlying drivers of men’s violence will be discussed and identified, particularly related to domestic violence. Time will also be spent reviewing programs that work with male abusive partners and what the change process involves.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
This workshop is geared towards individuals and organizations that see the need to take a bold move to improve the way they provide an environment of equity and inclusivity in the workplace.
Facilitated by Ruby Joy White Online via Zoom
Participants will explore the intersection of trauma-informed practices (TIP) and social equity webs. Participants will gain an understanding of how trauma can be shaped by social inequities, and how TIC can be used to promote equity and inclusion. The workshop will also provide participants with practical strategies for implementing TIC in their own settings.
Presented by Debbie Elias Online via Zoom
During Safety Planning & Advocacy Skills attendees will learn and practice advocacy skills vital to supporting survivors of domestic violence & sexual assault. Using real-life scenarios, we will work in small groups to apply these learned skills in crisis response situations & when creating safety plans. Discussions will also include healthy boundaries & tips for working with survivors.
Presented by Tyesha McCool-Riley Online via Zoom
In this workshop, attendees will review various types of abuse but focus on digital/technological and identify the impacts of digital abuse. We will talk about tips for preventing digital abuse and review the steps for creating a safety plan to maximize digital and technological safety. Attendees will also identify characteristics of healthy and abusive relationships. We will end the workshop discussing various ways to provide survivors support who may be experiencing digital abuse.
