Equipping Christian Shelters to Serve Survivors
Offering courses designed to meet the training needs of shelters that work with survivors of sex trafficking.
Access vital training even with limited resources
Tailored to the unique needs and challenges of shelter care
Build a stronger and more effective workforce
Courses taught from a biblical worldview
Access vital training even with limited resources
Tailored to the unique needs and challenges of Shelter Care
Build a stronger and more effective workforce
Courses taught from a biblical worldview
Welcome to ShelterU
ShelterU is a learning platform featuring a comprehensive library of training courses offered by the Institute for Survivor Care. It is a valuable resource for shelters that are committed to providing quality, compassionate care to survivors of sexual exploitation. By offering this learning platform, specifically tailored to staff roles within the shelter setting, ShelterU can assist organizations in building a stronger and more effective workforce that is better equipped to support survivors.
Benefits & Features
Flexible Learning
Access our extensive library of high-quality courses at your own pace, on your own schedule, and from any location.
Expert Instructors
Learn from experts in the field of survivor care who have worked in the field and have a passion for teaching.
Interactive Learning
Enhance what you learn with accompanying resources and presentations.
Targeted
Training courses are specifically designed to be relevant to the field of shelter care for survivors of sex trafficking.
Learn Anywhere
Online training gives participants the flexibility to learn when and where it is convenient.
Curated Collections
Access to collections of courses designed to equip specific positions.
Discussion forums
Join other like-minded users to create a sense of community
Assessment Quizzes
Designed to help gauge learners’ progress.
Cost Effective
Pricing options that make training accessible for all shelters.
Recently Added Titles:
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TBRI: Application in Your Role as a Caregiver
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Attachment Theory and Disorders
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Screening for Exploitation
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Teaching Joy
ShelterU Sneak Peek
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ShelterU Navigation
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Client Testimonials
My organization has benefitted from the trainings, resourceful studies, support & connections and also their commitment to prayer and intercession for needs. I am quite proud and thankful to be “under the wings” of such a great organization!
I learned about the Institute’s training to help others build a sustainable program — with the mentorship of the team at The Institute for Survivor Care we are half way to opening up a shelter in Kansas! Your work will have a ripple effect across this nation.
Full Course Listing
- Addictions and Sobriety
- Advisory Board
- Assessments
- Attachment Theory and Disorders
- Belonging
- Board and Executive Director Relationship
- Board Composition and Selection
- Brain Health
- Child Development and the Impact of Trauma
- Church Engagement and Cultivation
- Continuum of Care
- Contributing
- Coping Strategies
- Coping Strategies for the Emergency Setting
- Core Competencies
- Crisis Communications
- Critical Relationship: Executive Director and Program Manager
- Cultivating In-Kind Support
- Cultivating Individual Donors
- Cultivating Referrals
- Cultural Considerations
- De-escalation & Conflict Management
- Defining Paraphilias
- Defining the Role of the Executive Director
- Defining Your Communications Strategy
- Defining Your Fundraising Strategy
- Defining Your Service Set
- Defining Your Shelter
- Defining Your Staff Plan
- Defining Your Staff Plan for the Emergency Setting
- Disenfranchised Grief
- Dissociative Disorders and Interventions
- Domestic Minor Familial Sex Trafficking
- Donor Management Systems
- Effective Transfers and Program Completion
- Emotional Regulation
- Employment/Job Readiness
- Environmental Safety
- Environmental & Structural Safety for the Emergency Setting
- Essential Forms and Assessments for the National Case Management System
- Essential HR Policies & Practices
- Ethics in Communication
- Exit Portfolio
- Facilitating Rest Well
- Forcing Faith
- From Referral to Intake
- Fundraising Events
- Grant Prospecting and Reporting
- Homeostasis
- Impact Measurement: Tools for Effective Impact Measurement
- Impact Measurement: Turning Insights Into Action
- Impact Measurement: Think Like a Donor
- Incident Reporting
- Individual Safety Planning
- Informed Consent
- Internal Communications
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Introduction to Stages of Change
- Learning
- Life Skills
- Major Donors
- Mandatory Reporting
- Maslow’s Hierarcy of Needs
- Mastering Difficult Conversations
- Navigating the Legal System
- Necessity of Auditor and Attorney
- New Resident Orientation
- Non-Suicidal Self Injury
- Ongoing Communications with Former Residents
- Organizational Goals and Metrics
- Organized, Ritual and Satanic Abuse
- Peer Dynamics
- Personal Expression
- Personal Hygiene
- Personal Resilience
- Preparing for Placement
- Preparing Survivors for Transitioning into Community
- Preserving Your Marriage
- Principles of Staff Care
- Principles of Trauma Informed Care
- Property Maintenance and Vehicles
- Property Selection
- Purpose of Emergency Stabilization
- Recovery of the Home after an Exit
- Recruting and Managing Volunteers
- Recruiting the People You Need
- Relational Safety
- Religious Character
- Resident Files
- Retaining and Releasing Your Staff
- Risk Management
- Safe Spirituality
- Safe Within
- Screening for Exploitation
- Sex Trafficking in America: Let’s Start the Conversation
- Social Media Strategy
- Spiritual Warfare
- Stages of Change and Motivational Interviewing for Survivors of Sexual Exploitation
- Stages of Heaing and Restoration
- Structure and Charter of the Care Team
- Structure of Your Budget
- Support Pets
- Survival Behaviors
- Survivor Engagement
- TBRI: Application in Your Role as a Caregiver
- Teaching Joy
- The Role of the Case Manager
- Training and Engaging Your Board
- Trauma Informed Care: A Deeper Dive
- Trauma Responses
- Trauma Responses: Bedwetting
- Triune Care Model
- Trust-Based Relational Intervention® Introduction and Overview
- Understanding Diagnoses
- Understanding Medication Assisted Treatment
- Understanding Privacy & Confidentiality
- Victimology
- Victimology for CSEC
- Vision, Mission, and Values
- Volunteers as Staff
- What Worked for Us: Fear Exercise
- What Worked For Us: Freshman Journal
- What Worked for Us: Resident Internship Program
- What Worked For Us: New Resident Orientation Exercise
- What Works for Redeemed Ministries
- What Works for Terebinth Refuge
- Working with Law Enforcement Agencies
- Your Brand and What It Says about You
- Your Therapeutic Community