On-Site Training & Program Support

A variety of training workshops are offered by Unified Solutions free of charge to FB Grantees. If you do not see the type of training your program needs (see workshops below), contact us to determine if a training can be developed for you. We will also provide resources to link you with suitable providers. You may independently find a training consultant appropriate for your program and check with Unified Solutions to learn if we can pay the costs of bringing that person to your site. After your training request is received by Unified Solutions, we will contact you to arrange logistics and draft a specific training agenda for your group. We will make sure an on-site visit is appropriate for your needs and perhaps offer additional training methods to meet your goals. We understand that the best type of training is one that is tailored to each tribal community. Unified Solutions strives to visit each community at least once during the grant cycle to deliver training and program support. We work with program managers to identify the strengths and needs of their programs and assist in the writing of program policies, procedures, and definitions of terms. Please also refer to our Calendar for regional & national training events relevant to Indian Country.

TRAINING AVAILABLE FROM UNIFIED SOLUTIONS

Advocacy Skills

Reviewing the needs of tribal member victims of crime and the dynamics of abuse/trauma for all areas of violent crime, including: domestic abuse, child abuse, sexual assault, stalking, strangulation, dating violence, and more. Learn specific skills for on-scene crisis response, short and long-term advocacy; navigating through the criminal justice system.

Criminal Justice Investigations & Forensic Interviewing

For law enforcement and other criminal justice personnel, learn techniques of evidence collection, report writing, and investigation for domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, stalking, strangulation, dating violence, and other violent crime. Learn techniques for successful interviews of child and adult victims of crime.

The Impact of Historical Trauma

Reviewing the dynamics of internalized oppression and intergenerational trauma, understanding their effects in present-day crime response, and learning to identify the ways these processes can interfere with healing and recovery. These skills will assist advocates and counselors in appropriately addressing the effects of internalized oppression and intergenerational trauma.

Cultural Proficiency and Communication

For advocates, law enforcement and clergy, this training will review the six stages of cultural proficiency and delineate various communication styles and behaviors. Participants will learn those specific behaviors that have been shown to help and hinder effective relationship building with victims of crime from the AI/AN community.

Community Collaboration and Networking

Historically AI/AN groups collaborated in a highly structured way for such areas as trade, security and societal preservation. Today collaborations and networking are the key to successful outcomes for social change and buy-in of the entire community. This training/technical assistance will provide methods of collaborating with the faith based organization including traditional healers and how to measure the success of a collaborative effort and capacity building.

Needs Assessments and Community Outreach

This section will provide an overview of various methods of collecting information about the needs of communities such as appreciative inquiry, planning and focus groups and community mapping. The training will also address using the needs assessment to identify opportunities in each community. Outreach strategies will be reviewed with particular emphasis on approaches that would be effective in tribal or reservation settings.

Data collection and Outcomes Assessment

Improve your data collection methods by learning how to assess your data needs and how to develop a schematic flow chart for data inputting. Get answers to questions such as .When should you collect data? How can you smooth the wrinkles in the data collection process? How should you collect data?. This training will also address the various methodologies of Outcome Assessments.

Grant Writing & other Sustainability Practices

Learn the elements of effective grant writing, learn where to look for private and public grants, learn program and management practices that offer the greatest chances for long-term financial support.

To make a Training Request, simply fill out and send the online form, or you may download the form and fax it to us at (520) 622-7558.