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BTCC Core Trainings

BTCC currently offers several core trainings to organizations and groups throughout the community. While each training focuses on a singular topic, all BTCC core trainings:

Use a popular education model, where facilitators bring their experience to the table alongside the expertise of participants
Use an interactive approach, where participants get the opportunity to engage with content and consider how it might apply to their own work and lives
Use the E4 framework from Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, asking whether solutions are ethical, equitable, efficient, and effective

Trainings are available upon request, by filling out our Training Request Form.

Primary Prevention 101

Training time: 2 hours

Great for groups who: want to get at the root of issues, are interested in thinking critically about the strategies they use in their work, want to explore ways to improve community conditions and dream big about what's possible

Historically, the significant majority of our nation’s resources and services have been directed at addressing the effects of social problems. While it is essential to serve those who have experienced harm, we believe that we also have the responsibility to work to prevent social problems and harm from happening in the first place. This is what we mean by primary prevention.

This training provides an overview of the “what” and “how” of primary prevention. Primary prevention strategies are those designed to get in front of social problems by promoting safe and equitable community conditions to ensure that all community members have the opportunity to live at their full potential. Primary prevention strategies have been used to address social problems including child maltreatment, sexual violence, youth violence and intimate partner violence.

Introduction to Trauma & Community Resilience

Training time: 2 hours

Great for groups who: are interested in exploring how people are impacted by the relationships and environments surrounding them, want to bring a trauma-responsive lens to their work, want to think about how what shapes us surrounds us as individuals

This training is anchored in the understanding that we are all holding, carrying, and processing trauma. We know that some populations, however, are more vulnerable to trauma exposure. Participants will be invited to hold this tension, along with the acknowledgement that while there are patterns & trends in folks’ responses to trauma, people experience it and its effects in different ways.

The training defines trauma & explore concepts related to trauma exposure and response, looks at trauma through a sociocultural lens, and identifies potential impacts on our bodies, brains, and health. Participants will be challenged to explore how to apply this information to their organizational contexts, if applicable. They will also be introduced to the continuum of trauma approaches and the profound actions needed to be fully trauma-informed.

Implicit Bias Primer

Training time: 3 hours (or two 1.5 hour sessions)

Great for groups who: acknowledge that systems of oppression (i.e. racism, poverty, ableism, ageism) negatively impact our community, want to examine their organization's policies and practices with a critical eye, are open to having thoughtful conversations about decisionmaking and gatekeeping

Policies are developed, codified, and enacted by individuals and are therefore influenced by individual biases. When biases are enforced through organizational level policies and practices they can appear normal and intractable, and the impacts ripple out, creating real disparities and harm for our community members, coworkers, employees or clients.

Our introductory-level training on implicit bias is focused on the organizational level because environments inform and reinforce our behaviors- and when we have the power and responsibility to make changes. This introductory session will define implicit bias, explore how it operates within individuals and organizations, and identify tools to mitigate it.

Please note: to request the Implicit Bias Primer for your organization, fill out this form, rather than the general training request form

Dominant Narrative

Training time: 2 hours

Great for groups who: want to think about communications in their work and lives, find themselves frequently frustrated by public narratives, want to explore how to shift hearts & minds with storytelling

As advocates we are often confronted with language and assumptions that reinforce trauma and injustice, and the public stories we both hear and tell impact the solutions we arrive at.

This training digs into our embedded cultural stories and how they affect our day to day experiences. We’ll break down the current narrative undergirding our American and midwestern ideals and discuss the effects on our communities. We will also explore a counter-narrative - one that builds healthier, more just communities. Groups will get a chance to think about the difficult narratives that frequently show up in their specific sector, work, or community, and build their own, new shared narratives to move forward with.

Power Analysis

Training time: 2-3 hours

Great for groups who: want to be thoughtful about how their decisions impact each other & community members, are excited to better understand how power dynamics shape their work, are grappling with how to address root cause issues & systems of oppression

Power imbalances are the most upstream root causes of the inequities we seek to change, so they're the most impactful sites for intervention as we try to improve our communities. This training uses Human Impact Partner's power analysis resources to explore 3 frameworks of power, and then explore how they show up in our lives and organizations. Participants will get to dig into how they, and the organizations they're a part of, wield power, and explore how they might move into models of sharing power more equitably.

De-Escalation

Training time: 2-3 hours

Great for groups who: want to have a cohesive & values-based response to crises, work with folks in stressful situations, want practical tools and skills to bring to their day-to-day work

The folks at Fireweed Collective wrote, "When you or someone close to you goes into crisis, it can be the scariest thing to ever happen. You don’t know what to do, but it seems like someone’s life might be at stake or they might get locked up, and everyone around is getting stressed and panicked." This training addresses those moments of stress, crisis, and harm. Participants will have time to assess their shared values, learn about verbal and non-verbal de-escalation skills, and practice in real time as a group.

Collective Care

Training time: 2-3 hours

Great for groups who: feel strongly about supporting their coworkers and community members, work in high stress and burnout fields, want to think about ethical strategies for supporting staff and colleagues

Self-care requires a vast reimagining. What if, instead of administering self-care assessments, we looked at the conditions that create burnout? What if, instead of encouraging the development of self-care plans, we prioritized and institutionalized access to the resources that contribute to health?

In this session, we will collectively define, compare, and contrast self-care and collective care. We will explore the social determinants of health and map the influences that enable collective care and how we can integrate them into our prevention work. In the words of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “Collective care means shifting our organizations to be ones where people feel fine if they get sick, cry, have needs, start late because the bus broke down, more slower, ones where there's food at meetings, people work from home - and these aren't things we apologize for."

Training Accessibility & Accommodations

Our hope is to provide trainings are accessible and inclusive for all community members and organizations. To that end, we try our best to offer accessibility accommodations for both virtual and in-person trainings, including captioning, translation, audio-visual assistance, large print resources, and more.

To see a list of some accommodations we are able to offer, click here. If you have additional questions about accessibility before requesting a training, please reach out to us here.

BTCC Member-Offered Trainings

In addition to our core trainings, BTCC members have a wide range of expertise, and may offer trainings or resources from within their own organizations. To get connected for more information about any of these trainings, contact btccbloomington@gmail.com. Topics include but are not limited to:

Advocacy 101
Building Skills and Connection Through Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Conflict Mediation and Community Accountability
Cliff Effect
Crafting Compelling Testimony for Public Testimony
Introduction to Popular Education
Intercultural Development Inventory
Maternal Mortality and Paid Family Leave
Social Ecological Model
Structural Supports for Supportive Workplaces
Voter Registration for Non-Profits