Domestic Violence Training & Staff tools

Skill building and skill challenges  Desk tools Powerpoint presentations Other training

Skill building and skill challenges

• Coding TANF and TA-DVS Cases (PDF)
• Making Payments in TA-DVS Cases (PDF)

Desk tools

Tools to support working with survivors

• Making it safe up-front for victims of domestic violence (PDF)
• Interviewing: Questions to ask women when you suspect DV (PDF)
• Asking Questions in Domestic Violence Cases (PDF)
• Identifying Safety Concerns (PDF)
• Empathetic Interviewing (PDF)
• Assessing the Outcome of Help-seeking (PDF)
• Coping with Trauma (PDF)
• Making decisions in DV cases (PDF)
• MPWG15 (Screening Protocols for Temporary Assistance for Domestic Violence Survivors (TA-DVS))
• Forms
• Helping victims overcome the effects of domestic violence (PDF)
• Exploring options (PDF)
• Building on victims strength (PDF)
• Safety Planning Tool (PDF)
• Noticing Strengths (PDF)
• Effective Listening (PDF)

About Abusers

• How abusers impact survivors at work (PDF)
• Power Wheel: Abuser Workplace Tactics (PDF)
• Ways the abuser talks her into reconciling (PDF)
• Behaviors abuser use with service providers (PDF)
• The Department of Justice has links to information about Oregon Batterer Intervention Standards, the 2008 Batterer Intervention Directory and Frequently Asked Questions about Batterer Intervention on their web page for SB-81 at www.doj.state.or.us/crimev/sb_81.shtml.

TANF/TA-DVS program supports

• TA-DVS Income Calculation Sheet (Word)
• Policy Clarification when working with Non-citizens (PDF)
• Eligibility summary (PDF)
• Computer coding guide (PDF)
• Flow chart (PDF)
• MPWG12 (Quick reference to DV related rules and citations for SS programs)
• PDP VS Domestic Violence Assistance Agreement (PDF)
• Verifying Client Information in TA-DVS cases (PDF)
• Family Violence Option/DV Waivers (PDF)
• TA-DVS TRACS Addendum (PDF)
• Narration of Domestic Violence (PDF)
• Forms
• Coding non-citizen cases (PDF)
• Screening tools (PDF)
• Response to possible fraud (PDF)
• Required forms
• JOBS participation when there’s domestic violence (PDF)
• Clarification: Client choice in a domestic violence situation (PDF)
• Clarification: When it's safe for a DV survivor to participate in JOBS (PDF)
• Clarification: When is safety at risk due to domestic violence? (PDF)
• Clarification: Oregon residents who are fleeing domestic violence and who want to relocate out of State (PDF)
• Clarification: Homelessness and domestic violence (PDF)

Child Welfare Program supports and Mandatory Reporting

• Child Welfare Practices for Cases with Domestic Violence (PDF)
• Mandatory Reporting Q & A (PDF)
• What you can do about child abuse (PDF)

Presentations

• PowerPoint - No one deserves to be hurt (1.5 MB)
• PowerPoint - Using self-sufficiency policy to support survivors of domestic violence
• PowerPoint - DV shelter tour (56.8 MB)
• PowerPoint - Domestic Violence and Children (6.82 MB)

Other training

Library

• Video and book list (PDF)
• Video and book checkout process (PDF)

DHS Training

See the Domestic Violence DHS training registration page for domestic violence related trainings including:

• Domestic Violence 101
• DV Policy and Case Planning in Self Sufficiency Programs
• Domestic Violence related Netlinks

Economic Support for survivors

• Guidelines for prioritizing debt
• Prioritizing your expenses
• Building and repairing your credit history
• Brochure on Housing Discrimination Protections for Victims
• Unemployment for Victims
• Individual Development Accounts
• 2009 Earned Income Tax Credit

E-learning Opportunities

At: www.witnessjustice.org/

• Trauma & Trauma Informed Care
• Cultural Competency
• Working with Undocumented Survivors

At: www.co.multnomah.or.us/dchs/dv/workplace.shtml

• Domestic Violence and the Workplace

At: www.simmons.edu/ssw/dvtraining/

• Domestic Violence training geared to social workers

For questions or comments about this site contact DHS-WEB@state.or.us