Our impact:

Statewide Comprehensive Prevention Training

What started as a dream to broaden access to prevention information in Oregon has become the state’s only free, comprehensive prevention training informed by national evidence for effective violence and abuse prevention, as well as Oregon specific best-practice informed by Oregon prevention practitioners and statewide collaborations. Scroll to learn more.

Our goals

Prevention work is our passion. Here’s what we prioritize for our Statewide Comprehensive Prevention Training:

  1. Expand access to prevention-related curriculum by removing financial barriers.

    • How we achieve this goal: offering prevention training for free for all participants regardless of institutional/organizational affiliation, hosting virtual trainings, partnering with funders to expand access to comprehensive training, and hosting in-person trainings in diverse geographical settings across the state (to date: John Day, Madras, Portland, and Eugene).

  2. Increase statewide knowledge about effective prevention program design, implementation, and evaluation.

    • How we achieve this goal: At least 70% of participants will leave training with increased knowledge about how to design, implement, and evaluate prevention initiatives in their communities, as evidenced by pre-post tests, post-training evaluations, and in-session feedback activities.

  3. Ensure consistency in prevention approaches and methods across disciplines and institutions.

    • How we achieve this goal: by recruiting a diverse participant pool, representing a variety of professional roles, expertise in prevention work, and lived experience, as evidenced by pre-training survey.

About the training

After nearly 20 years of providing technical support and assistance to preventionists in Oregon and beyond, Oregon SATF staff has identified several common trends and needs of people doing prevention work in the state.

After months of brainstorming and engaging in a creative, solution-focused design process, our team developed the Statewide Comprehensive Prevention Training framework to deliver free, high-quality, timely, accurate, and engaging training for anyone seeking to design, implement, and evaluate violence and abuse prevention in Oregon.

What the training includes:

  • Education: 4 days of in-person or virtual training (depending on year) explaining all elements of effective, comprehensive violence + abuse prevention strategies

  • Toolkits: Each participant receives a printed copy of Oregon SATF’s Comprehensive Violence Prevention Toolkit

  • Ongoing Support: Participants identify goals to achieve post-training, and Oregon SATF staff schedule one-on-one follow up appointments with participants 3-6 months post-training to check on goal progress and troubleshoot issues related to prevention work in real-time. Participants can also schedule free one-on-one or team technical assistance meetings with Oregon SATF’s prevention team.

  • Continuing Education: Follow-up resources (including webinars, episodes of Oregon SATF’s Exploring Prevention Audio Library. and more) based on participant’s expressed needs and questions during training.

Statewide Comprehensive Prevention Training: By the numbers

Organizations Served

272

Oregon SATF’s Statewide Comprehensive Prevention Training has become a tool to ensure widespread adoption of prevention information across institutions and organizations.

Below is a breakdown of the number of organizations served each year.

*does not include trainings that were provided for out-of-state partners.

Participants / Audience

501

Between 2018-2023, Oregon SATF and our collaborative partners provided training for 491* total participants in both in-person and online training formats.

Below is a breakdown of attendance at each training by year. Smaller audiences = capped registration due to space availability.

Disciplines Represented

Oregon SATF’s Comprehensive Prevention Training assists professionals from all disciplines to bolster their prevention design, implementation, and evaluation skills.

Below is a breakdown of attendees by professional discipline/affiliation.

36 Counties represented

Goal achieved! Between 2018-2023, every county in Oregon was represented at this training, including:

Baker, Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Crook, Curry, Deschutes, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jackson, Jefferson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Lincoln, Linn, Malheur, Marion, Morrow, Multnomah, Polk, Sherman, Tillamook, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, Washington, Wheeler, Yamhill.

Comprehensive Prevention Toolkit: A tangible tool to sustain growth + learning

Our staff are passionate about ensuring that communities have the foundational information necessary to do effective, collaborative, and sustainable prevention work…and we want to help practitioners save time and resources by providing tools and resources that allow them to streamline their prevention work.

When creating the Comprehensive Prevention Training curriculum, Oregon SATF staff created what is now known as the “Comprehensive Prevention Training Toolkit”, designed to provide information, a road-map for strategic planning related to prevention, and to cut down on the time communities would need to invest to create their prevention plans. Less time designing a plan = more time for effective prevention work, and maximizing of community time and resources.

Fun fact: To date, the Comprehensive Prevention toolkit has been accessed 2386 times online!

“It's really important for you to examine your own positional and systems-based privilege, where you might experience marginalization, where you might experience privilege, how you've seen that show up in your life, what various advantages or barriers you face, and to do some of your own work to come to terms with that, and especially the ways -- because privilege is often invisible, think about the ways that your privilege might have manifested.”

Kate, Episode 1.7 “Addressing Power and Privilege in Prevention Efforts”

What participants are saying

  • "I was honestly so blown away by how much I actually learned from this online course. I worried that I would struggle to retain some information because it's entirely self-directed. However, the learning theory that went into developing this course is really effective. The breaks were well-timed and I really enjoyed being able to move between slides, readings, videos, and assignments."

    Campus-based advocate, 2022

  • "This is a wonderful curriculum. I wish something like this had been available 20 years ago when I first worked as an advocate."

    Co-located advocate, 2020

  • "I learned a lot, I feel really grateful that this is a required course in Oregon. It means we are doing something right for our most vulnerable populations."

    Campus-based advocate, 2021

Examples of participating agencies + institutions by type

    • Teen Parent Services

    • Oregon Network of Child Abuse Intervention Centers

    • CARES Northwest

    • Protect Our Children Oregon

    • Ford Family Foundation

    • Community Action Program of Washington County

    • Teen Parent Services

    • Randall Children’s Hospital

    • Roads to Family

    • Law enforcement

    • Relief nurseries

    • Juliette’s House

    • Impact NW - Communities for Safe Kids

    • Kids' HOPE Center

    • Burns Paiute Tribe

    • El Programa Hispano, Proyecto UNICA

    • Latino Network

    • MIC - Micronesian Islander Community

    • Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

    • Self Enhancement Inc.

    • IRCO

    • Heartlink-ed

    • Among Friends

    • Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence,

    • Human Trafficking Prevention Organizations

    • Multnomah County District Attorney Victim Assistance Program (DAVAP)

    • HAVEN of the Dalles

    • MayDay Inc.

    • Lake County Crisis Center

    • Saving Grace

    • Project Dove

    • Harney Hope

    • Domestic Violence Services, Inc.

    • Safe Harbors

    • My Sister's Place

    • Community Works

    • Oasis Shelter Home, Inc.

    • Womenspace

    • The SAFE Project

    • WCST

    • CARDV

    • Fossil School District

    • Willamette University

    • Western Oregon University

    • Elton Gregory Middle School

    • Oregon Department of Education

    • Preschool providers

    • Oregon State University

    • Umatilla-Morrow Head Start

    • Portland State University

    • Lane Community College

    • Portland Public Schools

    • Southern Oregon University

    • DHS My Future-My Choice Program

    • Oregon National Guard

    • Human Rights Commission of Portland

    • Wheeler Co. Victim Services

    • Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ)

    • Oregon Department of Education (ODE)

    • Oregon Health Authority (OHA)

    • Citizen Review Board of Portland

    • Multnomah County District Attorney’s Victim Assistance Program (DAVAP)

    • Oregon Youth Authority

    • U.S. Army

    • Law enforcement

    • Oregon Department of Health + Human Services (ODHS)

    • Ford Family Foundation

    • Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division (CVSSD) - Oregon Department of Justice

    • Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

    • St. Charles Health System

    • Union County CARE Program

    • Sarah's Place at Samaritan Health Services

    • Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc.

    • Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette

    • Legacy Health Services

    • Randall Children’s Hospital

    • Providence

    • Street Outreach

    • OHP

    • HIV Outreach + Harm reduction

    • Independent living services

    • Food bank

    • Community Counseling Solutions

    • Morrow County Health District

    • Grant County Health Department

    • Umatilla County Public Health Department

    • Crook County Health Department

Statewide Prevention Training 2024 is coming soon! We welcome you to join us, and be part of ongoing efforts to prevent violence and abuse in Oregon.