Training
Training workshops are designed for professionals working in helping and human services professions. You’ll learn more about sexual violence and gain the skills to create safer work environments, respond to clients, and support people who experience sexual violence. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Clinical and Public Health Workshops
Supporters need support as they navigate the complexities and impacts of sexual violence on clients and patients. Our training helps professionals enhance their knowledge and skills regarding sexual violence and the impacts on those they serve. These trainings also provide essential self-care tools for helping professionals. Workshops can be offered virtually, at your location, or in the CCASA office. Custom programming is also available.
Understanding the Impact — Recognize the impacts of your work and the signs of strain or burnout
This training is for professionals working in the helping profession and human services field. You will gain the skills and knowledge to recognize the impacts of your work and understand the potential signs of empathetic strain, vicarious trauma, and burnout. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Topics include:
- Recognizing signs of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue/empathetic strain
- Identifying strategies to cope with vicarious trauma and empathetic strain
- Understanding and enhancing practitioner resilience
- Self-care for helpers
Length: 3 hours (multi-session training available upon request)
Format: Online or in-person
Prerequisite: Experience working in trauma-related services
Cost: Contact us for pricing
Counselling and Sexual Violence
Learn clinical frameworks for understanding sexual violence, principles of effective sexual violence support, and skills for supporting clients who have experienced sexual violence. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Topics include:
- Trauma and impacts
- Sexual violence umbrella
- Definitions and facts
- Window of tolerance
- Trauma responses
- Supporting a disclosure
- Stages of recovery
- Referrals and CCASA services
Length: 3 hours (multi-session training available upon request)
Format: Online or in-person
Prerequisite: Experience working in trauma-related services
Cost: Contact us for pricing
An Introduction to Sexual Violence and Trauma-Informed Care: Implications for Practice
This session provides an overview of sexual violence and the principles of trauma-informed care. You will learn how to support individuals who have experienced sexual violence and implement best practices in your professional environment. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Topics include:
- Understanding sexual violence and its impacts
- Core principles of trauma-informed care
- Practical strategies for supporting those impacted by sexual violence
- Recognizing and addressing trauma responses
Length: 3 hours (multi-session training available upon request)
Format: Online or in-person
Prerequisite: Experience working in trauma-related services
Cost: Contact us for pricing
Sexual Violence and Trauma-Informed Care: Moving from Understanding to Application
This session enhances your understanding of sexual violence and trauma-informed care, focusing on practical application through interactive learning and case studies. Learn to address biases and create a supportive environment for yourself, those you serve, and your colleagues. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Topics include:
- Recognizing and mitigating personal biases
- Implementing trauma-informed practices
- Enhancing professional practices
- Considering bias
- Promoting safety for yourself, the people you serve, and your colleagues
- Creating a safe and empathetic environment
- Interactive case studies
Length: 3 hours (multi-session training available upon request)
Format: Online or in-person
Prerequisite:
Experience working in sexual violence or any of these recommended workshops:
- An Introduction to Sexual Violence and Trauma-Informed Care
- Understanding the Impact
- Counselling and Sexual Violence
- Sexual Assault and Responding to Disclosures
Cost: Contact us for pricing
CCASA Services
Learn about CCASA’s impact in the community, our services, the values that drive our work, and the meaningful outcomes supporting those affected by sexual violence.
Length: 1 hour
Format: Online or in-person
Prerequisite: No prior knowledge required
Cost: Free
Workplace Workshops
Workplace workshops engage all members of your team. Our approach minimizes any discomfort your team may feel and focuses on teaching them how to work together better. Workshops can be offered virtually, at your location, or in the CCASA office. Custom programming is also available.
Moments Matter
In this research-informed workplace sexual harassment training, you’ll gain insight into what sexual harassment is and what it looks like and explore engagement strategies toward ending workplace sexual harassment and improving workplace culture. This online-only workshop uses best practices for adult online learning. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Topics include:
- What sexual harassment is (and isn’t)
- What sexual harassment costs us, interpersonally and collectively
- How to help stop sexual harassment as someone who:
- Witnesses someone sexually harassing others
- Is told about someone else’s sexual harassment
- Is told they have done something that might amount to sexual harassment
- Is in a position of leadership and responsible for a safe, healthy workplace
Length: 3 hours
Format: Online
Prerequisite: No prior knowledge required
Cost: Contact us for pricing
Workplace and Sexual Harassment
Professionals will learn about sexual violence, skills for responding to it in a supportive and positive way, and tools for implementing meaningful change in workplace environments. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Topics include:
- Defining sexual harassment
- Sexual harassment vs. flirting
- Impacts of sexual harassment
- How to respond to disclosures of sexual harassment
Length: 3 hours (multi-session training available upon request)
Format: Online or in-person
Prerequisite: No prior knowledge required
Cost: Contact us for pricing
Sexual Assault and Responding to Disclosures
Explore the realities and complexities of sexual violence and learn skills to provide positive and supportive messaging to people impacted by sexual violence. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Topics include:
- Facts about sexual violence
- The root causes of sexual violence and its impacts
- Consent
- Tools for supporting others
- Language for talking about sexual violence
- CCASA services
Length: 3 hours (multi-session training available upon request)
Format: Online or in-person
Prerequisite: No prior knowledge required
Cost: Contact us for pricing
Specialized Workshops
These workshops are designed for nonprofits, social services, and other public-serving organizations who want to learn about sexual violence and how to support their staff, clients, or guests.
Child Sexual Abuse and Responding to Disclosures
Professionals will learn about child sexual abuse, gaining the skills to respond and an overall understanding of why positive and supportive responses are so vital in disclosures of child sexual abuse. Optional 1-hour skills practice and role-play session are available. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Topics include:
- Facts about child sexual abuse
- Reporting obligations
- Indicators and impacts
- How children disclose
- Key messages of support
Length: 3 hours (multi-session training available upon request)
Format: Online or in-person
Prerequisite: Experience working with children
Cost: Contact us for pricing
Sexual Assault and Responding to Disclosures
Explore the realities and complexities of sexual violence and learn skills to provide positive and supportive messaging to people impacted by sexual violence. You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Topics include:
- Facts about sexual violence
- The root causes of sexual violence and its impacts
- Consent
- Tools for supporting others
- Language for talking about sexual violence
- CCASA services
Length: 3 hours (multi-session training available upon request)
Format: Online or in-person
Prerequisite: No prior knowledge required
Cost: Contact us for pricing
Child and Youth Education Workshops
If you work with children and youth and are interested in delivering programming yourself, you may be interested in licensing our child and youth workshops: “Who Do You Tell?”™ and Birch Grove™.
The “Who Do You Tell?”™ and Birch Grove™ programs for children and youth can be licensed for a fee by approved organizations, with CCASA providing ongoing training and consultation. A screening interview will be conducted to determine an organization’s capacity for delivering this programming.
Consulting
CCASA offers consultation in two areas: organizational and policy, and consultation and support for professionals working with people who have been impacted by sexual violence, including consultation about referrals to our services.
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