Join Violence Free Colorado's Executive Director, Amy Miller, and Communications and Membership Director, Amy Pohl, for our February Brown Bag session! This discussion on confidentiality and privilege comes in response to questions from our members and partners regarding the differences between privacy, confidentiality, and privilege. We hope that this session will help answer these questions and address concerns regarding the obligations and challenges to maintaining confidentiality and privilege and provide you with an opportunity to ask related questions. We will… Continue Reading Brown Bag: Confidentiality and Privilege for Advocates

The impact of trauma can be far-reaching and enduring. This webinar gives an overview of understanding what trauma is both in terms of what kinds of experiences can lead to trauma and what is happening within the nervous system of the individual. Signs and symptoms of trauma are reviewed along with an introduction to what it means to be trauma-informed.

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This webinar reviews series of strategies that helpers can use to engage a person on the cognitive, behavioral, emotional and interpersonal aspects of depression. Useful ideas about how journaling and homework assignments can be incorporated into the treatment process with clients are presented. The overall recovery process in the treatment of depression is described and, in conclusion, a short series of troubleshooting around stuckness is offered.

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Please contact Amy Pohl- apohl(at)violencefreeco.org- for more details.

For more info, contact apohl(at)violencefreeco.org.

Knowing how to respond to a threat is a tremendous challenge. After a violent incident, it is not uncommon to find that many different people were aware of clues that an attack was being planned. Yet, without the proper mechanism to gather information and assess the situation, prevention is nearly impossible. This webinar provides a communication and decision-making model to help businesses, schools, organizations and communities become proactive in their management of threats. Strategies to… Continue Reading Violence Threat Assessment – Planning and Response Live Webinar