Training, Speakers, and Workshops
The following are a sampling of some of the workshops, training and keynote addresses that are offered by ECT.
Gender Bias in Policing
Recruiting and Retaining Women in Policing
Train the Trainer--With Impunity: men and gender violence
Ending Men's Violence Against Women: Interventions and Prevention
Working With Men Who Batter
Engaging Victims of Crime
International Training
Auditing
Gender Bias in Policing
Recruiting and Retaining Women in Policing
Train the Trainer--With Impunity: men and gender violence
Ending Men's Violence Against Women: Interventions and Prevention
Working With Men Who Batter
Engaging Victims of Crime
International Training
Auditing
Gender Bias in Policing
To improve law enforcement’s response to allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence, we need to be able to identify and prevent gender bias in policing practices. Gender bias, whether explicit or implicit, is inherent in all society. However, its affect in policing practices can be viewed as a form of discrimination that may result in officers providing less protection to certain victims on the basis of gender, failing to respond to crimes that disproportionately harm people of a particular gender or offering reduced or less robust services due to a reliance on gender stereotypes.
In this workshop, participants will engage in small group exercises to help individuals identify and assess their personal gender bias and recognize what their experience is in their police agencies. Only when we identify our biases can we hope to change behaviors to enhance the service to crime victims.
This workshop will assist departments in assessing how gender bias can affect law enforcement officers’ response to sexual assault and domestic violence and provide a set of principles that keep victims safe and hold offenders accountable, including developing clear, unequivocal policies, training for officers, and supervision protocols and systems of accountability. Training goals include...
In this workshop, participants will engage in small group exercises to help individuals identify and assess their personal gender bias and recognize what their experience is in their police agencies. Only when we identify our biases can we hope to change behaviors to enhance the service to crime victims.
This workshop will assist departments in assessing how gender bias can affect law enforcement officers’ response to sexual assault and domestic violence and provide a set of principles that keep victims safe and hold offenders accountable, including developing clear, unequivocal policies, training for officers, and supervision protocols and systems of accountability. Training goals include...
- Identifying gender bias in everyday interactions between victims of violence, perpetrators, and practitioners
- Examining different theories of the origins of sexual/domestic violence and how these theories impact responses to victims and perpetrators
- Applying Department of Justice Guidelines on Gender Bias to case fact patterns and reports
- Share promising practices which address gender and other biases to promote victim safety and offender accountability
Recruiting and Retaining Women in Policing
ECT trainers and consultants will work with police departments and other governmental authorities to audit departments for recruiting and retention, as well as conduct training on how to effectively recruit and retain women in policing and assist them in developing an action plan to proceed.
Train the Trainer--With Impunity: men and gender violence
ECT trainers will provide a train-the-trainer course using the film With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence.
Training Technique
Utilizing a strategic training approach based on the educational methodology of Paulo Freire and applying adult learning styles.
Participants will learn how to use the film With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence to facilitate training and community dialogues in their own jurisdictions. This training will include the following:
Organizing a community dialogue
Analyzing the film
Creating social change
Examining why we are silent
Considering the power of language
Exploring hierarchy
Engaging men and boys
Conducting effective exercises
Creating change in your community
Creating a personal action plan
Training back the learning
Upon successful completion of the training, participants will receive a copy of the documentary and facilitator's guide for their use to continue the momentum to end men's violence against women.
Training Technique
Utilizing a strategic training approach based on the educational methodology of Paulo Freire and applying adult learning styles.
Participants will learn how to use the film With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence to facilitate training and community dialogues in their own jurisdictions. This training will include the following:
Organizing a community dialogue
Analyzing the film
Creating social change
Examining why we are silent
Considering the power of language
Exploring hierarchy
Engaging men and boys
Conducting effective exercises
Creating change in your community
Creating a personal action plan
Training back the learning
Upon successful completion of the training, participants will receive a copy of the documentary and facilitator's guide for their use to continue the momentum to end men's violence against women.
Ending Men's Violence against Women: Interventions and Prevention
In this workshop or keynote address, ECT speakers will review the successes and unintended consequences of community interventions and offer ideas for the future. ECT speakers will also talk about primary prevention strategies to engage men, boys and community organizations in challenging and changing societal norms.
In addition to this 45 minute presentation, ECT presenters will show the award-winning film With Impunity: men and gender violence created by Michael Paymar and the late Dr. Ellen Pence, with time for discussion.
In addition to this 45 minute presentation, ECT presenters will show the award-winning film With Impunity: men and gender violence created by Michael Paymar and the late Dr. Ellen Pence, with time for discussion.
Working With Men Who Batter
Michael Paymar, author of Violent No More: Helping Men End Domestic Abuse and co-founder of the curriculum Creating a Process of Change for Men Who Batter provides keynote addresses, interactive training and workshops on effective interventions with men who batter. Through his years of working with men who batter participants will explore:
The principles of a coordinated community response
The theories and controversies over treatment models
The dynamics of battering
Policies to ensure accountability
How to engage men who batter in dialogue
Risk and danger assessments
Breaking through minimizing, denial, and blame
Alternatives to violence and abuse behavior
This keynote presentation may also be conducted by other men and women with years of professional experience in working with men who batter.
The principles of a coordinated community response
The theories and controversies over treatment models
The dynamics of battering
Policies to ensure accountability
How to engage men who batter in dialogue
Risk and danger assessments
Breaking through minimizing, denial, and blame
Alternatives to violence and abuse behavior
This keynote presentation may also be conducted by other men and women with years of professional experience in working with men who batter.
Engaging Victims of Crime
Laura Goodman, a thirty-year veteran in the field of law enforcement presents an interactive workshop that identifies effective strategies for law enforcement to use with crime victims and witnesses to engage their active participation in the criminal justice system, improve successful
prosecutions and increase opportunities to assist in a victims’ recovery and restoration.
In addition to this presentation on victim engagement, Laura will provide training on best practices in law enforcement investigations, effective methods of interviewing victims and suspects, fundamentals of report writing, establishing the predominant aggressor and
understanding how the dynamics of battering influences officers and leadership in departments.
prosecutions and increase opportunities to assist in a victims’ recovery and restoration.
In addition to this presentation on victim engagement, Laura will provide training on best practices in law enforcement investigations, effective methods of interviewing victims and suspects, fundamentals of report writing, establishing the predominant aggressor and
understanding how the dynamics of battering influences officers and leadership in departments.
International Training
ECT trainers and consultants train and consult nationally and internationally on gender-based violence helping law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, probation/parole/corrections, advocates, NGOs, counselors, and policymakers develop intervention strategies that centralizes victim safety while holding offenders accountable for their behavior.
ECT trainers have collaborated with the World Futures Council, Global Rights for Women, Advocates for Human Rights, International Association of Women Police, and the Open Society Women’s Program. They have worked in South Africa, Moldova, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Republic of Georgia, China, Tajikistan, Lebanon, Montenegro, Bangladesh, Slovenia, Hungary, Trinidad-Tobago, Canada, Japan, Scotland, Sweden, Israel, Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland and Australia.
ECT trainers have collaborated with the World Futures Council, Global Rights for Women, Advocates for Human Rights, International Association of Women Police, and the Open Society Women’s Program. They have worked in South Africa, Moldova, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Republic of Georgia, China, Tajikistan, Lebanon, Montenegro, Bangladesh, Slovenia, Hungary, Trinidad-Tobago, Canada, Japan, Scotland, Sweden, Israel, Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland and Australia.
Auditing
ECT will conduct audits on current policies and procedures to identify failures and recommend actions to ensure an effective response to gender-based violence and the recruitment and retention of women police.
For further information
For information on fees for training, keynote addresses, workshops or short or long term consultation send us your contact information and someone from ECT will call you about rates and availability.
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