Safe Horizon Training Seminars Safe Horizon offers a comprehensive range of courses in victimization issues to support service professionals in their work. As the nation s leading victim assistance, advocacy, and violence prevention organization, Safe Horizon is a pioneer in the development of programs for crime victims and crime prevention. Safe Horizon, formerly known as Victim Services, offers more than 70 programs throughout New York City s five boroughs, serving 200,000 people each year. Safe Horizon trainers are also available to go to your organization to conduct workshops and offer technical assistance tailored to your organization s needs. It is estimated that every 12 seconds a woman is beaten in this country and that the majority of female homicides are at the hands of an intimate partner.
Domestic violence is labeled the largest human rights violation affecting women and girls globally.
This course will create a solid knowledge base from which professionals may build their work with domestic violence victims. Definitions and dynamics of intimate violence, myths and cultural biases and helping strategies will be explored in this full day training. The life blood of the battered women's movement is battered women. In all aspects of our work, accountability to battered women is a must. This advanced course is intended for helping professionals who work directly with battered women and have a solid understanding regarding the basic concepts of domestic violence.