Training and Professional Development

To increase safety for clients, social workers and advocates must be braver in providing ethical, non-directive, transparent, and relevant services. Katie's trainings encourage advocates to be courageous in understanding their relationship to power, their willingness to learn and grow, and in developing sustainable practices to increase well-being in this essential work. 

There is a direct correlation between economic wellbeing, mental health, and safety, making effective economic work essential for all helping professionals. Katie's economic empowerment trainings focus on client-centered economic practices, paying special attention to the dynamics of power, money, and safety. Trainings meet the wide-ranging needs of advocates from those who are hesitant about doing financial work to seasoned economic professionals. All training topics are adaptable and we can explore new topics together.

 Training topics include (but are not limited to): 

• Survivor-Centered Economic Advocacy
• Budgeting Basics: Making Safer Decisions When Everyone Wants My Money
• Client-Centered Cost-of-Living Planning
• Give Me Some Credit! Expanding Credit Safety for Survivors
• Banking, Saving, and Investing with Survivors 
• Money, Power, and Values: How Can I Be An Economic Advocate? 
• Applying Motivational Interviewing Strategies to Economic Advocacy 

Crafting domestic violence trainings that reflect the complex needs of survivors, while responding to the varied experience of learners, is challenging. Katie works with you to create an anti-violence training fit for your audience, from initial volunteer trainings to advanced, complex, safety planning professional development in-services. Trainings and education on wide-ranging topics in the anti-violence field are customizable by topic and organizational needs.  

Training topics include (but are not limited to):

• DV 101 & 202: Power, Oppression, and Intimate Partner Violence  
• Moving Toward Safer: Empowering, Holistic Safety Planning with Survivors of IPV
• Cultural Humility with Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence 
• Reducing Risks and Building Partnerships to Create Safe(r) for Children Exposed to IPV
• Using Domestic Violence Assessment Tools to Increase Safe(r) for Survivors 
• Survivor Safety: Motivational Interviewing and Intimate Partner Violence 
• Understanding Typologies of Those who Batter to Increase Survivor Safe(r)
• Risk Assessment Tools

Ethics requirements can be boring and repetitive. Katie creates interactive, engaging, and applicable ethics-based professional development sessions. Based on real world social work dilemmas and using case-based ethical problem solving strategies, Katie's ethics trainings are relevant and timely. 

Training topics include (but are not limited to):

• Supporting a Client’s Right to Be Wrong: The Ethics of Client-Centered Practice
• The Ethical Evolution: Practicing Ethical Social Work in the Technological Era 
• Setting Ethical Limits: Boundaries, Self-care, and Sustainable Social Work 
• Beyond Self-Care: The Ethics of Practicing Sustainable Social Work 
• Ethical Considerations in Helping Clients Address Financial Concerns 
• What Do I Have to Do? Mandatory Reporting and Informed Consent