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Our next Community Advocate Training Session will be in January 2025  - keep checking this page for more details and registration links!

If you’d like more information on CAT or would like to get on the list for future sessions, please reach out to izzyl@stepsvt.org.

About Community Advocate Training

This comprehensive training will provide foundational knowledge about intimate partner violence, anti-violence work, and Steps to End Domestic Violence’s programs and services. It will give you practical tools to support those experiencing domestic violence in your life and community. During the training, we will explore different elements of power and control-based violence and we will offer discussion and education on the intersections of domestic violence, racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, xenophobia, and poverty.

This 20-hour training consists of 5 hours of self-paced pre-work, followed by 3 in-person sessions. 

Training will include:

- Domestic Violence 101 

- The empowerment model: what it is and how to apply it when working with survivors

- Tools and resources to support community members experiencing domestic violence 

- The 6 Core Principles of Social Change Advocacy 

-Steps to End Domestic Violence agency and program overviews

At the end of this training, you will feel more prepared to support survivors of intimate partner violence in your community. CAT also fulfills the 20-hour training requirement for Vermont’s Victim and Crisis Worker Privilege.

About Steps to End Domestic Violence:

  • Last year we fielded over 4,000 hotline calls

  • We provided free, confidential service to more than 1,900 people last year

  • We’re seeing a paradigm shift where violence isn’t tolerated and survivors are believed

  • We need YOU to help move things forward

For information about the training, including financial assistance, email izzyl@stepsvt.org or call (802) 658-3131 x 1067.