Last year our Community Educator/Trainers reached more than 20,000 people with informational presentations, professional trainings and prevention programs for schools, civic groups, faith communities and professional audiences throughout our 10 county service area.
Contact a Community Educator/Trainer
Community Education: (502) 753-3214
Prevention Programming: (502) 581-7239
Professional Training: (502) 753-3202
Louisville Metro Coalition to Prevent Teen Dating Violence: (502) 581-7274
Education and training is available in Jefferson, Bullitt, Spencer, Shelby, Oldham, Henry and Trimble counties in Kentucky and Clark, Floyd and Harrison counties in Indiana.
Step In + Speak Up / How to Deal with Bullies and Be a Better Bystander
The Center’s Community Education team offers an innovative project that’s currently being presented to schools in our community. The project was funded by a generous grant from Child Victims’ Trust Fund.
In collaboration with local filmmaker Pam Swisher and with help from talented actors at duPont Manual’s Youth Performing Arts School, we’ve created Step In+Speak Up. It’s a video, accompanying curriculum and poster series that aims to prevent seeds of violence from sprouting well before students enter high school. 
Based on the bystander intervention model of bullying prevention, the program explores dynamics of bullying and helps participants develop practical solutions based on individual experiences in their school communities. It’s a fantistic video we’re all very proud of!
The overarching goal of Step In+Speak Up is to empower kids to recognize their strengths and devise solutions to school violence that enable them to stay safe and save face. As such, the video and curriculum offer several universal intervention strategies aimed at preventing bullying before it ever starts. Click here to invite an Educator to your school for a screening of Step In+ Speak Up.
Click on thumbnails below to download Step In+Speak Up posters.
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Building Awareness in Our Community
For more than 25 years, The Center for Women and Families has been our region’s leader in awareness education. Our awareness seminars debunk myths that are often associated with domestic and sexual violence while sharing information about our services and resources. Topics include an overview of our services, dating violence, safety and awareness of sexual assault, the dynamics of domestic violence, bullying and more.
The Center’s awareness building presentations are offered free of charge with a requested honorarium.
Preventing Violence before it Begins
Prevention is the only way to eliminate domestic violence and sexual violence, and the public health and safety approach provides us with the most effective plan. This prevention model works if you buckled your seatbelt this morning, scheduled a mammogram this year or quit smoking in the past ten years.
Effective prevention programming often requires multiple sessions to be effective, empowers bystanders to get involved, and builds self-assets for participants. The Center for Women and Families has developed several unique prevention curricula based in best practices research.
Many of our prevention programs can be provided free of charge with a requested honorarium. Fees are assessed on a sliding scale.
Preparing Professionals to Respond
The Center also offers innovative and customized professional trainings for attorneys, doctors, nurses, social service providers, faith leaders and the business executives that impart skills to prepare them to help victims of domestic violence, sexual violence and economic hardship.
Common training topics including responding to domestic violence in the workplace and the effects of domestic violence on children. We are also approved to provide the national Cut it Out program to regional beauty salons.
Many of our programs have been approved for Continuing Education Credits by the Kentucky Board of Social Work, and quite often we can complete paper work for approval of continuing education credits in other professional areas.
Our professional trainings are usually provided free of charge with a requested honorarium. Fees are assessed on a sliding scale.
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