Working in Transition Housing Programs

This course explores the basics of transition house work and provides an opportunity to remember and rethink our practices in relation to the goals of our work with other advocates facing similar challenges.

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Transition Housing Programs are unique environments, with most entailing communal living environments with women, youth an children who may be in the midst of, or overcoming, crises. This course explores the basics of transition house work and offers an opportunity to remember and rethink our practices in relation to the goals of our work with other advocates facing similar challenges.

Pre-requisite: Foundations in Violence Against Women v2.0

Full member fee: $60.00 CDN
Associate Member fee: $90.00 CDN

Non-member fee: $125.00 CDN

Instructor

BC Society of Transition Houses

The BC Society of Transition Houses develops and delivers online and in-person training tailored to the needs of anti-violence workers who work directly with women, children and youth experiencing violence.

Course curriculum

1. About This Course
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Course Overview
1. Learning Objectives
2. Exploring Our Values: Why It’s Important
3. Take a Look
4. Understanding Feminist Principles that Guide Our Practice
5. Key Approaches That Support A Feminist Framework
6. Women's Transition Housing and Supports Program Framework
7. Self Reflection
8. Ethical Practice
9. Ethical Guidelines for Feminist Workers
10. Self Reflection
11. Beyond the Ethical Standards
12. Self Reflection
13. Quiz
1. Learning Objectives
2. "More Than a Bed"
3. Core Services Provided by Transition Houses
4. Initial Contact Services
5. Safety Planning Around Phone Use
6. Quiz
7. Risk Assessment
8. Take a Look
9. Safety Planning
10. Take a Look
11. When a Woman Calls
12. Meeting Immediate Needs
13. Eligibility
14. Take a Look
15. Limitations of Communal Living
16. Food for Thought
17. Intake Process
18. Meet Her Where She Is At
19. Take a Look
1. Learning Objectives
2. Encouraging Conversation
3. Self-reflection
4. Active Listening
5. Paraphrasing
6. Reflecting Feelings
7. Empathy vs. Sympathy
8. Being Empathic
9. Reframing
10. Summaries
11. Using Questions
12. Silence
13. Summary of Active Listening Skills
14. Reflection
1. Learning Objectives
2. Understanding Crisis
3. Normal Responses to Experiences of Violence
4. Creating Safety
5. Responding to Disclosures
6. Containment
7. Honouring Women’s Resistance
8. Reflection
9. Advocacy
10. Community Coordination
11. Take a Look
12. Other Services and Resources for Women
1. Learning Objectives
2. Thinking about our "House Guidelines"
3. Questioning Our Practices
4. Self Reflection
5. Structure of Power within Transition Houses
6. Case Study
7. Putting It Into Practice
8. Conflict Resolution and Education
9. Take a Look
10. Guidelines for Living Together
11. Take a Look
1. Learning Objectives
2. Barriers to Service for Women with Varying Levels of Mental Wellness and Substance Use
3. Addressing Transition Housing Staff Concerns
4. Implications for Policies and Practices
5. Personal Reflection
6. Supporting Older Women
7. Ways to Support Older Women
8. Supporting Women with Pets
9. Strategies for Accommodating Pets
1. Learning Objectives
2. Mothering in the Context of Violence Against Women
3. Against What Standard?
4. Staff Perceptions of Mothering
5. Personal Reflection
6. Supporting Around Parenting
7. Talking to Mothers Who Have Experienced Violence
8. Helping Mothers Fleeing Violence to Use Positive Discipline
9. Repairing the Mother Child Relationship
10. Personal Reflection
11. Supporting Women Involved with MCFD
12. Children and Youth’s Responses to the Violence their Mother has Endured
13. Reflections
1. Learning Objectives
2. What are Records?
3. About Record Keeping
4. Guidelines for Recording Personal Information
5. Take a Look
6. Record Guidelines
7. Information from a Third Party
8. Quiz
9. Record Management
10. Online Databases
11. Case Notes
12. Take a Look
13. Case Study
14. Case Study: Questions
15. Sample Forms
16. Take a Look
1. Learning Objectives
2. Supporting Each Other
3. Creating Cultures of Collective Accountability
4. Resisting Slippage Into Burnout
5. Ways to Develop Your Communication Strategies
6. Personal Reflection
1. Course Feedback

About this course

$125.00
116 lessons
0 hours of video content