Learning4Change

Courses for Frontline Workers

We offer frontline workers (such as social workers, educators, health practitioners, police officers, community workers) capacity building via the e-learning platform on violence prevention topics. We partner with our peers in civil society, business and government providing a space for them to use our e-learning platform to facilitate their own capacity building training material. We believe that partnering enables greater access to violence prevention strategies and a wider scope of knowledge and skills when together with our training, partners bring further capacity, the frontline workers benefit to a greater extent. We, also provide contact capacity building in partnership with civil society in communities. We use our own training courses which in some cases are accredited by certain professional councils. We offer contact learning by facilitating our violence prevention in communities. Stakeholders are able to partner with us to host capacity building in their communities.

Topics covered in training offered by Violence Prevention Agency:

• Understanding the contested nature of violence
• Violence prevention, definitions and strategies
• Contextualising violence locally, regionally and globally
• Trauma as a consequence of violence
• Violence and trauma: Impacting learning
• Childhood trauma
• Addressing trauma in the workplace
• Debriefing and mentoring frontline workers
• Training Trauma Support Workers
• Traumatic bereavement
• Facing the prospect of dying
• Mentoring leadership
• Gender-based violence, hate crimes, organised crime, torture, crimes against humanity
• Violence and trauma within the psychosocial disability sector

We target the ECD centres, schools, TVET colleges, universities, faith-based organisations, community-based organisations, workplace, safety and security, social development, justice and health sector. The training courses are facilitated over 25 hours and tailored to suit the participants in terms of availability.