EquipU - Essential Skills for Serving the Sexually Exploited

Explore the various tactics that survivors may use in their interpersonal interactions and what she may be trying to achieve by engaging in manipulative behaviors. Read more

In this course, learn how the Karen Purvis Institute's Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Model's principles apply to specific instances in caring for survivors of exploitation. Read more

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to distinguish between joy and happiness in the context of a trafficking survivor's journey, recognize that joy is a skill that can be learned and practiced, identify programming strategies that model and foster joy and understand God’s desire for us to live joyful lives. Read more

This course dives even deeper than the introductory course, Principles of Trauma Informed Care. While the introductory course may be helpful for those who don't directly work with survivors such as board members or certain volunteers, this course was designed specifcally to give staff and volunteers who consistently serve survivors a deeper understanding of Trauma Informed Care, the principles surrounding TIC and several examples for illustration. Read more

Upon completion of this course, you will have an understanding of how to identify involuntary and voluntary trauma responses in addition to distinguishing between triggers, flashbacks and dissociation. Read more

Upon completion of this course, you will have an understanding of the causes and symptoms of Nocturnal Enuresis or “Bedwetting,” be able to correlate enuresis as a possible response to trauma and explore medical and behavioral interventions to control enuresis. Read more