Addressing the Root Causes of Violence + Abuse
SATF’s online Addressing the Root Causes of Violence and Abuse course offers an introduction to anti-oppression and includes tangible skill-building and strategies to address oppression as a root cause of violence and abuse personally, interpersonally, institutionally, and structurally.
Oregon SATF is committed to reducing barriers to prevention, because we all play a role in ending violence and abuse. For this reason we utilize a sliding scale cost model. While there is no minimum cost to access these specific training opportunities, as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, any payment contribution that you are able to make helps us continue to create and provide high quality, widely available content for our community of preventionists, advocates, and allied partners. Thank you for your support!
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About this training
The course is based on and includes incredible resources and work from people and organizations throughout the world, particularly from communities who experience marginalization, who have been working throughout our history to dismantle systems of oppression.
This course is provided for free in response to requests for more resources on these topics within the violence and abuse prevention and intervention sectors. It includes many resources created by leaders in this work, activists, artists, allies, and change-agents. Although SATF compiled these resources in this course, these creators lead the efforts to more effectively address violence and abuse throughout our communities. If you are able, we recommend making donations to some of the organizations whose work is highlighted and utilized throughout this course. You can find a list of contributors at the end of the course.
The content and resources included in this course are by no means comprehensive. We have intentionally included various media, papers, toolkits, and activities that can hopefully help us start considering and unpacking oppression within our work, movements, and lives. Anti-oppression work is ongoing and we must continue working on it throughout our lives. This course is just one tool in a much larger toolbox that we can access to do this work, and continue our practice.
If you are utilizing this course within your organizations, institutions, or teams, we have additionally created this guide to support successful implementation and offer strategies for debriefs, application, and support throughout.
What’s Included
Flexible learning schedule.
Once you start your training, you can take as long as you need to complete the included curriculum based on your schedule and availability.
Training certificate.
Each participant that successfully completes the course earns a certification of completion via PDF, making it easy to maintain your training records.
Technical assistance.
Have a question about the online course content and how it relates to your work? Our training team is available throughout your course to answer questions and provide support.
Membership options
Individual License
FREE
Anyone seeking to learn more about the root causes of violence + abuse is welcome to register for this free course. Registration is done on a rolling basis, start your course today!
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Competency Areas
Our training curriculum meets Oregon training standards for advocate privilege. To learn more, please visit this link.
Our course contains five modules (each 2-4 hours long), including:
Module 1: Addressing the Root Causes of Violence and Abuse – An Overview
This module creates a shared foundation of terms and concepts to support participants as they go through the other modules.Module 2: Promoting Individual Level Anti-Oppression Work
Dives deeper into the ways oppression manifests and can be prevented at an individual level – including exploring bias, values, beliefs, and feelings.Module 3: Anti-Oppression Strategies at an Interpersonal Level
Examines ways oppression is showing up in our relationships, and between people around us – as well as how we can better interrupt this behavior.Module 4: Addressing Root Causes at Institutional/Community Levels
Looks deeper at the structures and systems that are set up to uphold oppression in our organizations, institutions, and communities – and what we can do to change these structures.Module 5: Understanding Structural Oppression and Making Change
Explores the larger context that makes oppression and change possible so we can better apply the strategies from the other modules in our broader society. This section includes a partial timeline of the history of oppression in Oregon.Complete Your Course / Certification
This project was supported in part by Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number 1NUF2CE002502-01-00 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Oregon Health Authority (OHA). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC or OHA.
