Advocate Training
Providing Core Services
Dedicated to improving the skills of advocates, these trainings represent a continued commitment to offering discipline-specific professional training opportunities to Oregon’s advocacy community. Advocate Trainings are offered annually for professionals throughout the state.
This 32-hour training will provide participants with information, strategies and skills to provide core sexual assault specific advocacy
services. Advocates who have not previously attended sexual assault specific advocacy training are strongly encouraged to attend.
Core Services sessions include:
- Sexual Assault Dynamics
- Victim Impact
- Effective Advocacy
- How to Support Victims of Sexual Assault
- Victim Blaming
- Cultural Competency
- Advocating for Survivors of Human Trafficking
- People with Disabilities
- Adolescent Victims
- Sex Offenders
- Collaboration and Systems Advocacy
- Medical Response and Advocacy
- Criminal Justice Response
- Victim Rights and Criminal Justice
- Civil Legal Remedies
- Sustainable Advocacy
- Documentation and Confidentiality
- Immigrant and refugee survivors of SA
- LGBTIQ Survivors of SA
Symposium for Experienced Advocates
This statewide symposium provides experienced advocates with an opportunity to discuss current issues, share ideas and learn about promising practices and new approaches to the professional field of advocacy specific to sexual assault. Experienced direct service providers, program coordinators and agency directors are encouraged to attend.
Advocate Instructors
- Traci Boyle-Galestiantz, Portland Community College, Women’s Resource Center
- Jessica Gilbertson, Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Kim Larson, Marion County District Attorney’s Office, Victim Assistance Program
- Christina Bondurant, mental health private practice
