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30 Hour Pre-Service Advocacy Course
The 30 Hour
Pre-Service Advocacy Training must be completed before a staff member or
volunteer of a Crime Victim Service Center responds to a victim of crime. The
content of this course will focus on the fundamental skills of advocacy and
working with victims of crime, saving crime-specific advocacy tips and other
advanced topics for training during the advocate’s first year of service.
The course will include the following topics for advocates:
- Victimology/Empowerment
- Values Clarification
- Cultural Competency
- Listening Skills
- Crisis Intervention
- Resources Legal
- Justice Systems
- Secondary Trauma
6-hour
Advanced/Recurrent Training Course
This is a recurrent course for
advanced advocates, or for those new advocates who have completed the core
training outlined above. This class covers two topic areas and meets the annual
classroom training requirements for both for new advocates in their first year
of service and tenured advocates as set forth in the Standards Manual for the
Crime Victim Service Centers published by the Washington State Office of Crime
Victims Advocacy.
The course will include the following topics for
advocates:
- Dealing with Families
of Homicide Victims
- Working with the
Victims and Survivors of DUI-Related Offenses
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