Statewide Technical Assistance and Training

TC-TAT serves as a technical assistance, training, and resource center for the advancement of new practices, learning, and skill development in domestic violence prevention. TC-TAT's vision is to strengthen the collective efforts of domestic violence and allied organizations to ameliorate the effects of domestic violence and to prevent such violence. TC-TAT primarily utilizes three training and Technical Assistance approaches:

• Cluster and Individual Workshops.
• Hands-on Technical Assistance: Ongoing technical assistance in the areas of domestic violence prevention and media advocacy provided via e-mail, telephone, and on-site with the requesting agency.
• Transforming Communities Institutes: Intensive two to three day trainings provided in core or beginner level format and more advanced institutes and learning communities.
• Training of Trainers (TOT): Training of Trainers provide in-depth information and training in preparing participants to use innovative TC-TAT curricula. Following completion of the Training of Trainers, new trainers are eligible to receive technical assistance and support in conducting workshops and applying the curriculum in their own communities. Click here for more information.

Workshops and Technical Assistance
TC-TAT has significant experience as a statewide training, technical assistance, and resource center on domestic violence prevention, funded by both the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) and the State Office of Criminal Justice Planning (OES). Under the CDHS Statewide Technical Assistance and Training (STAT) grants TC-TAT has provided statewide training and technical assistance on domestic violence prevention and media advocacy. To date, TC-TAT has conducted over 76 workshops representing a total of 32 individual domestic violence prevention topics with the added value of a bi-lingual format (in areas where this was requested) with a simultaneous English/Spanish presentation and Spanish language materials. TC-TAT has also responded to over 383 requests for TA on the topics of domestic violence prevention and media advocacy, including requests from outside of California. TA requests have spanned the continuum of assistance from requests for resources and materials, to on-site TA including the facilitation of prevention-focused meetings and strategic planning sessions, as well as a variety of trainings for shelter-based staff, advocates and volunteers.

In providing training and TA, TC-TAT operates with standing and ad-hoc planning committees and a National Advisory Committee, as well as working collaboratively with regional and statewide coalitions.

Utilizing feedback and input from needs assessments, a statewide Planning team, TA requests and other less formal methods, TC-TAT developed a slate of domestic violence Prevention and Media Advocacy workshops to meet the varied needs of domestic violence and allied organizations. Workshops are designed to address all levels of learning, from basic prevention and social marketing to more advance community mobilization and campaign planning.

TC-TAT's trainings are geared to meet the needs of the diverse populations and they directly encourage the involvement of priority populations, one example of this is TC-TAT's training on a model for "Culturally Appropriate Community Engagement." TC-TAT has also published a guide to "Multicultural Alliance Building," and sponsored panels on prevention and diversity, including the diverse needs of rural communities. Over half of the prevention programs that utilize TC-TAT's services are working in low-income populations, communities of color, including immigrant populations and those serving gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender (GLBT) communities.

Transforming Communities (TC) Institutes

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