Description:
Join us for a 2-part training series designed to strengthen your knowledge, confidence and skills to have supportive conversations about substance use with survivors of sexual and domestic violence (SDV).
We will ground our content in social justice and abusive values frameworks to acknowledge the many reasons SDV and substance use co-occur among survivors.
We will draw on tools and skills in the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model, a public health approach that can help facilitate supportive conversations around substance use that honor dignity and autonomy of survivors.
Training objectives:
In these sessions, we will explore:
- How substance use intersects with sexual and domestic violence.
- How forms of dominance and oppression may affect survivors’ experience of our helping systems.
- Strategies to facilitate supportive conversations about substance use with survivors.
- Resources for substance use supported by the Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS)
- How to apply skills to help survivors create a plan that meets their needs.
Intended audience:
People who work directly with survivors of sexual and domestic violence who may encounter individuals who use substances and want to have conversations with those individuals about their use.
To request accommodation, please contact us.