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  • 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

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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!

Cynthia (CeCe) Terlouw

Founder and Executive Director, Terebinth Refuge

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.

ANGELA BOLES

Founder and Executive Director, The Project to Restore