Online Courses & Tools
Welcome to Inspire Action’s eLearning platform launch page where you will find self-guided online courses designed to support accessible, self-paced opportunities for you, your staff, and partners.
Our eLearning platform reflects our commitment to trauma-informed ongoing learning that promotes self-reflection, critical thinking, and growth. Our initial selection of courses will help you and your partners delve into the critical foundations of supervised visitation and safe exchange services. The online courses provide the tools needed to enhance your services to centralize safety and humanity and facilitate healing and change for adult survivors, children, and people who cause harm.
Courses are free and available to you and your partners!
See what's available now and be sure to check back often, as new coursework will be added to the dashboard.
The Foundations of Supervised Visitation & Safe Exchange Services
This course delves into the history and current context of supervised visitation and safe exchange for families experiencing intimate partner abuse. During this course, we will explore the importance and role of supervised visitation and safe exchange has in the larger community response to post-separation violence. Additionally, this course will increase participants' understanding and knowledge of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Guiding Principles and key strategies that support safety, healing, and change for survivors, children, and people who cause harm.
Working with Infants, Children, and Youth in Supervised Visitation
This course is crucial to the work we do with young people in supervised visitation services. Across four chapters, we’ll focus on compassionate and validating care for young people, learning how to listen to their voices, and building the relationships that will make their supervised visitation experiences as safe and healthy as possible.
Preparing Infants, Children, and Youth for Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Services
In this course, we’ll uncover how to enhance your authentic engagement with young people impacted by family violence, through trauma-informed orientation approaches. By enhancing your ability to connect and build rapport with children and youth, you can support them to recover and heal.
Trauma-Informed Compassionate De-escalation in Supervised Visitation Services
In this course, we will explore how to support the safety of all family members using our services by exploring how supervised visitation programs can center equity and compassion when working to de-escalate situations. Using a trauma-informed approach, we will explore how culture, experience, and identity shape how we experience conflict, harm, and risk. Practical tips and strategies will be offered to support your ability to de-escalate tense moments when safety is a concern.
Trauma-Informed Considerations for Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Providers
In the course, we will explore how we can build environments that resist retraumatization and foster healing, well-being, and equity through policy, practice, and perspective change. Equity-centered, trauma-informed environments require us to understand how our experiences with identity, culture, community, and institutions shape our perspectives and norms. Ongoing self and team reflection in this area is foundational to understanding the diverse and multi-faceted ways that both trauma and healing show up in our own lives, in our organizations, on our teams, and for the families we serve. This training series works for individuals and teams, invites ongoing reflection to shift practice change, and encourages us to consider ourselves alongside the families we work with in supervised visitation and safe exchange services.
