TRAININGS
Drawing upon over 45 years of expertise, Rose Brooks Center is a leader within the domestic violence movement – both within the Kansas City metro and the national domestic violence movement at-large. Rose Brooks Center provides training and technical assistance to community partners and community members that translates the domestic violence movement’s tenants and research findings into ideas for implementation and facilitates the adoption of best practices both individually and systemically.
All Trainings
- 10/19/26
- 1PM-3PM
In this experiential activity participants assume the roles of diverse battered women as they seek assistance from a variety of resources. Each resource represents an institution or service that victim-survivors encounter as they struggle through their circumstances, such as courts, doctors and shelters. Participants soon realize that those resources can either help or hurt victim-survivor’s ability to become safe. In Her Shoes demonstrates that an individual’s escape from abuse is complicated, unpredictable and, sometimes, impossible. It is the experiential nature of In Her Shoes that allows participants to better understand the extreme challenges faced by victim-survivors.
- 10/22/26
- 1PM-5PM
How does your organization provide services, resources, and support to domestic violence survivors from immigrant or refugee populations? Do you have practices in place to meet the needs of survivors with limited English proficiency? This course provides guidance and examples to make your services accessible to all survivors:
- Overview of domestic violence in the immigrant and refugee community
- Legal Remedies that may be available to immigrant survivors
- Examples of policies and procedures related to persons with LEP
- Examples of language resources
- How to work with an Interpreter
- 10/26/26
- 9:00AM-4:00PM
Drawing on nearly 40 years of experience implementing domestic violence programs, this this course provides participants with a solid foundation of knowledge and understanding about domestic violence, including:
- Domestic violence prevalence, definitions, theoretical and historical frameworks
- Power and control tactics, and the impact on victims
- Community and institutional responses to domestic violence
- 11/13/26
- 9AM-11AM
Research has shown the link between humans and animals can be life-changing and in some cases, lifesaving. This training provides participants with an understanding about domestic violence, as well as:
How human violence and abuse towards animals are connected
How you can use a simple screening tool to determine if someone is experiencing violence
Resources available to victims of domestic violence and their pets
- 11/16/26
- 9:00AM-4:00PM
For anyone who has struggled with how to help a client, colleague or friend experiencing an abusive relationship, this is a great follow-up course to The Nature and Dynamics of Domestic Violence. This all-day training provides participants with practical skills to support domestic violence survivors in planning for safety in a broad range of contexts and situations:
- Principles and framework of risk assessment and safety planning
- Tools, scenarios, and real-world examples
- Practice with experienced domestic violence advocate
- 12/03/26
- 12:00PM-4:30PM
Supporting those who have experienced trauma often takes a personal toll on the helper. Drawing on the work of Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, this half-day course provides practical approaches to self-care:
- Define secondary trauma and its relationship to compassion fatigue and burnout
- Identify the impacts of trauma exposure and how to recognize its effects
- Examine Trauma Stewardship and its role at Rose Brooks Center
- Explore strategies to integrate the concepts of Trauma Stewardship
- 12/10/26
- 10AM-1PM
It is important to understand how power and control tactics may be different for persons with disabilities. Planning for safety must address these differences. This training covers:
- Definitions & types of disabilities
- Ableism 101
- Population-specific coercive control tactics & barriers
- Safety planning definition, considerations, & role plays
- Best practice recommendations
- 12/15/26
- 9AM-12PM
- Define reproductive coercion and how to assess
- Describe the impact of domestic violence on reproductive health outcomes
- Examine strategies advocates can use to respond to those experiencing reproductive coercion
- 12/29/26
- 1PM-3PM
Abusers who strangle their partners are nearly 10 times more likely to murder them. This essential two-hour training was presented to nearly 1500 KCPD officers in an effort to save lives and increase offender accountability. This course brings to light the dangers of strangulation and provides participants with practical knowledge needed to recognize and document a strangulation injury.
- Review anatomy and physiology of strangulation and common methods used
- Explore sign and symptoms of strangulation
- Learn the basics of documenting a strangulation injury
- 09/29/26
- 10AM-12PM
In 2016, there were 44,074 incidents of domestic violence in Missouri reported by law enforcement, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol with the highest amount of 8,572 incidents in Jackson County. Because of the high prevalence of domestic violence in Kansas City, it is imperative for the community at-large to:
- Learn what actions are triggered by a DV-related 911 call in KCMO
- Gain a greater understanding of the local criminal justice system
- Identify the different systems victim-survivors of domestic violence interact with when they seek justice
- Know what services are available to victims of domestic violence in the KC metro
- 09/28/26
- 12:00PM-3:00PM
- Define reproductive coercion and how to assess
- Describe the impact of domestic violence on reproductive health outcomes
- Examine strategies advocates can use to respond to those experiencing reproductive coercion
- 09/21/26
- 12:00PM-4:30PM
Supporting those who have experienced trauma often takes a personal toll on the helper. Drawing on the work of Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, this half-day course provides practical approaches to self-care:
- Define secondary trauma and its relationship to compassion fatigue and burnout
- Identify the impacts of trauma exposure and how to recognize its effects
- Examine Trauma Stewardship and its role at Rose Brooks Center
- Explore strategies to integrate the concepts of Trauma Stewardship
- 09/14/26
- 10:00AM-1:00PM
Description: Human trafficking is a crime involving the exploitation of someone through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of compelled labor or a commercial sex act. One of the most common relationship types that victims of trafficking have with their trafficker is that of an inmate partner relationship. This training provides:
- An overview of definitions related to trafficking which are both legal and informal
- Explains the Action, Means, Purpose model of trafficking which sheds light on how trafficking is conceptualized and prosecuted
- Examines the myths and barriers victim-survivors of trafficking encounter
- Provides best practice recommendations on how to work with and identify trafficking victims
- 09/10/26
- 10:00AM-2:00PM
How does your organization provide services, resources, and support to domestic violence survivors from immigrant or refugee populations? Do you have practices in place to meet the needs of survivors with limited English proficiency? This course provides guidance and examples to make your services accessible to all survivors:
- Overview of domestic violence in the immigrant and refugee community
- Legal Remedies that may be available to immigrant survivors
- Examples of policies and procedures related to persons with LEP
- Examples of language resources
- How to work with an Interpreter
FAQ
Rose Brooks Center trainings are geared for any professional who could potentially work with victim-survivors of intimate partner violence. Rose Brooks Center trainings are oriented toward training professionals how to appropriately respond to and assist victim-survivors of intimate partner violence in a trauma-informed, client-centered, equitable and inclusive way utilizing harm reduction and low-barrier modalities. Rose Brooks Center trainings are not intended to be utilized for therapeutic or psycho-educational purposes.
Please contact Rose Brooks Center's Advocacy and Education Manager, Kayla Ross. She can be reached at kaylar@rosebrooks.org or (816) 605-7173
Currently, Rose Brooks Center trainings are worth CEUs in Kansas as well as CEUs and CLEs in Missouri. Very soon, all community training will also be worth Missouri Law Enforcement POST. Please subscribe to Rose Brooks Center’s training listserv to be notified of this update. You can subscribe to our listserv HERE.
Currently, Rose Brooks Center trainings are free of charge however donations are highly encouraged to continue the longevity of Rose Brooks Center’s training program. Donate to Rose Brooks Center HERE.
Within one week of completing a Rose Brooks Center training, you will receive an email with a certificate of attendance attached. If you do not receive a certificate of attendance via email after having attended a Rose Brooks Center training, please email Jess Harman at jessicah@rosebrooks.org
You can register for training by visiting each of the training class pages above. Under the "Overview" header there is a register link for each individual class.
Please only register yourself and do not share your training link. After you register for training, you will be sent a link to join via email. If you share this link to join with other individuals, then these other individuals won’t receive certificates of completion for having attended or continuing education credits.
Rose Brooks Center uses ZOOM for our training. ZOOM is free to use and does not require downloading software to your computer. You can learn more about ZOOM by visiting their website's help center here.
If you have a training inquiry/request, please email Kayla Ross Advocacy and Education Manager, at kaylar@rosebrooks.org.
