ICADV Trainings

ICADV provides many training opportunities throughout the year. We also provide limited training to communities upon request and can develop a specialized training to meet your needs. Below are brief descriptions of the training curricula we offer on a regular basis. If you are interested in setting up a training or have questions about other trainings available, please contact ICADV.

• Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence – This training functions as a basic introduction to the issues encompassed in intimate partner violence and the experiences of both survivors and perpetrators of IPV. The core information can be highly specialized dependent upon the audience. The minimum for this training is 1 hour, and it can be expanded to a full-day training (6 – 8 hours) if necessary. Focus areas include: understanding power and control dynamics; understanding the statistics, myths, and stereotypes around survivors and perpetrators; learning red flags and signs of abuse; and strategies in assessing and assisting families affected. 
• Tech Safety for Advocates and Survivors – Smart phones, email, social media, GPS systems – all of these make our lives easier and connect us in ways we never thought possible. However, just as these innovations can be used for the greater good, they can also be used to harass, stalk, threaten, and harm. This training focuses on understand the tools available to all of us, how those tools can be used both to exercise power and control, and also as safety resources for survivors.  
• Providing Questions to the Answers: Implementing a Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team – For counties considering or ready to implement a DV Fatality Review Team, this training reviews the history of Fatality Review Teams, examines the legislation enacted in Indiana, walks through the creation, implementation and administration of a team, and examines the challenges and victories of teams already active in Indiana.  Through the training, we also look at the responsibilities of ICADV in supporting active teams, and how active teams work together across the state. 
• Implementing the Lethality Assessment Project – The LAP is a two-pronged intervention process that features a research-based lethality screening tool based on the work of Dr. Jacqueline Campbell and an accompanying referral protocol that provides opportunity for first responders to immediately link survivors with advocacy programs. The LAP training walks through implementation of necessary collaborations, trains first responders and advocates on the protocol, addresses the data tracking and reporting requirements, and examines the challenges and victories currently active jurisdictions have encountered. 
• Law Enforcement & Domestic Violence – This is a specialized training specifically addressing the training needs of law enforcement officers and agencies around domestic violence.  Facilitated by Dottie Davis, a Deputy Chief with the Ft Wayne Police Department with over 20 years’ experience in law enforcement, this training can be specifically tailored to address the needs of your community or jurisdiction.  Possible topics include predominant vs primary aggressor, liability issues, legislative updates and how they affect law enforcement, as well as many others.  Interested agencies can contact the Coalition to make arrangements focused on their training needs.  

Prevention Trainings

The prevention team can provide a range of specialized trainings on prevention topics including: Primary Prevention Overview, Prevention Evaluation, Program Planning, Youth Engagement, Promoting the Positive: Safe, Stable and Nurturing Environments, Social Inclusion, and Health Narratives.