Training Tools

Supporting Survivors of IPV with Brain Injuries

Healthy Relationships Toolkit (HeaRT)

Toolkit and Training

Primary prevention of violence against women and girls aims to prevent VAWG before it happens. It is challenging to change the social conditions that produce, drive, and reinforce VAWG. This involves a gender transformative approach that both changes harmful norms, practices, and structures that drive VAWG and reduces gender inequities at the same time.

Healing Roots

The Healing Roots Campaign, created in partnership with Intercambios, is Pennsylvania’s first Latine-focused domestic violence prevention campaign. Built through a year of relationship-building with cultural leaders and community members, it centers Latine voices and cultural values as essential to prevention and healing.

Intimate Partner Violence & Caregiver Abuse Screening

This guideline outlines best practices for screening women of reproductive age for intimate partner violence and emphasizes the need for referrals to effective, ongoing support

Healthy Masculinities Toolkit

The NM Healthy Masculinities Toolkit is a collection of community-informed tools designed to spark conversations, challenge harmful gender norms, and promote self-awareness and healing. It invites users to reimagine masculinity in ways that foster healthy relationships and thriving communities

Fatherhood & Father Figures Curriculum

This curriculum promotes the importance of engaging fathers and father figures in early childhood systems of care. It combines stories, tools, and reflective exercises to help professionals strengthen father-focused programming and support child development across communities

Message Matters

This document offers strategies for engaging with communities about health equity by aligning messages with the values of specific audiences

Coaching for Change

Training programs to help athletic coaches promote positive social change

Paid Family Leave Toolkit

Train the trainer toolkit on Paid Family Leave in California

Building Healthy Relationships with Media

Guidance on how to teach children media literacy

Health Equity in Practice

Learning modules to assist violence prevention partners integrate health equity and racial justice into their work

Roll Red Roll Toolkits

Toolkits to help coaches discuss the film Roll Red Roll with student athletes to spark social change

Connected Kids

Equips pediatricians to address violence prevention with families throughout stages of childhood and adolescence

LGBT-Inclusive Curriculum

Provides lesson plans to integrate LGBT history, themes, and people into K-12 classrooms

Teaching for Black Lives

Resources for educators to make Black lives matter in curriculum, teaching, and school policy

Askable Adults

Tools to help adults be more askable and supportive for the children and youth in their lives

Take a Stand for Healthy Relationships

Teaches students how to recognize healthy behaviors in relationships and how to ally for themselves and others

Bullying, Bias, and Diversity Lesson Plans

Collection of K-12 lesson plans designed to foster respect, empathy, and ally behavior

Respect Effect

App encourages young people to build healthy relationship skills by completing daily challenges

Keep Connected

Workshop series designed to help families navigate middle school and prepare for teen years

Athletes As Leaders

Empowers athletes on girls' sports teams to take an active role in promoting healthy relationships and ending sexual violence

Resistance 101

Introductory lesson for students on historical figures who resisted injustice

Awareness + Action = Social Change

This formula calls on communities to be an active part of ending gender-based violence

Coaching with Courage

Training module to support coaches in creating a positive sports culture and fostering healthy relationship skills

Shared Risk & Protective Factors

Outlines key research on risk and protective factors and explores implications for prevention

Prevention Toybox

Games and discussion activities to support prevention activities at the higher levels of the social ecology

Rethinking Schools

Sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism

Teaching a People's History

Teaching materials emphasizing the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history

Teaching for Change

Teaching critical thinking skills and approaches to leadership development and civic engagement

Safe Space Kit

Provides educators with tools to promote safety and inclusivity for LGBT youth in schools

Hardy Girls Healthy Women

Girls' empowerment program that addresses their lives in relational and social contexts

The Mask You Live In

Film follows boys & young men as they negotiate America’s narrow definition of masculinity

Start Strong Boston

Tools to start conversations around relationships, breaking up, and media messaging/influence

The Freechild Project

Impressive and inspiring database collection of youth-led activities occurring all over the world

Dating Matters

60-minute online course for those interested in improving teen health

See the Signs

Upstander-focused employer training programs for recognizing and responding to abuse

Prevent Violence NC

Cooperative statewide effort encouraging coordinated violence prevention initiatives across North Carolina

Live Respect

Program to help mentors educate and encourage middle and high school boys to examine their attitudes and beliefs about masculinity

Teaching Tolerance

Resource for educators who want to promote diversity, equity and justice

Decimos NO MAS/We say NO MORE

Campaña nacional para acoplarse a la comunidad Latin@ en la erradicación de la violencia doméstica y el asalto sexual

Open Minds to Equality

Activities to help students address inequalities based on race, gender, class, age, language, sexual orientation, ability, and religion

StandUp!

Youth focused video with accompanying discussion guide to increase active bystander skills

Media Literacy

Ideas and tools to build media literacy skills and engage communities in meaningful dialogue to end sexual violence

Building Beloved Community

Supports community-based organizations in integrating Beloved Community principles into their work

Talk Now Talk Often

Campaign encouraging parents to talk with their teens about healthy relationships

WholeSomeBodies

Curriculum for adults who have children and youth in their lives to prevent sexual violence

The Amazing Brain

Reviews early brain development, the effects of trauma on the brain, and the potential for the brain to heal and grow

Introduction to Prevention

Video learning module reviews the basics of prevention theory and strategy

How's Your Relationship?

Conversation cards to spark discussions about healthy relationships

Healthy Relationships Workshop

Workshop for grades 6-12 on defining boundaries, self-esteem, relationships, consent, and communication

Why Men Should Care

Panel discussion of men responding to the war on women

Youth Activist Prevention Toolkit

Toolkit for youth activists to prevent teen dating violence in their communities and schools

Helping Teens Stop Violence

Prepares adults for working with young people to address violence and oppression

Who Are You?

Multi-media sexual violence prevention campaign

Shifting Boundaries

Middle school-based program to promote healthy boundaries and prevent sexual harassment and dating violence.

Veto Violence

Comprehensive online resource featuring a variety of tools for the prevention of all types of violence

Lessons from Literature

Designed to extend and enrich the core curriculum for literature

Engaging Bystanders

Online course walks the participant through the concepts of a bystander intervention

Be Strong: From the Inside Out

Asset-based development program for young women exploring womanhood, respect, and positive relationships

Ugly Ducklings

Anti-bullying action campaign for LGBTQ youth

SHARE Workshop

Workshop for grades 6-12 focuses on gender role stereotypes and the dynamics of sexual harassment

Making Allies, Making Friends

Prepare young people to build a healthy multi-cultural community and prevent violence

Making the Peace

Program for helping high school students build safer schools, relationships, and communities

Everyday Mentor

Resources to help mentors support youth's academic success, emotional and physical health, and other key areas of their lives

Mentors in Violence Prevention

Leadership program emphasizing the role of students as empowered bystanders

Men’s Gender Awareness Workshop

Workshop to raise men's awareness about the impact of societal gender norms