Online Courses

Searching for more advanced training for your and your organization? Check out Activating Change’s available online courses.

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Centering Deaf Survivors in Domestic and Sexual Violence: A Virtual Training for Deaf Advocates course image
Centering Deaf Survivors in Domestic and Sexual Violence: A Virtual Training for Deaf Advocates

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Reaching Every Victim: A Toolkit for Law Enforcement

This toolkit is designed to provide law enforcement investigators with the knowledge and practical strategies needed to conduct effective interviews with victims of sexual assault who have intellectual disabilities.

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Working with Faculty to Promote Access

In this course, you will learn how to support presenters and faculty so they can actively support an accessible learning environment. You will learn how to expand your current contract template to include expectations regarding accessibility, include key information and guidelines on accessibility to include in your presenter/faculty orientations, and provide additional tailored support to presenters before and during an event.

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Building Accessible and Safe Services through Policies and Procedures

In this course you will learn about key ingredients to include in policies and procedures to account for survivor safety and accessibility. You will also learn some of the key policies and procedures that should be in place within victim services programs and disability programs to ensure safety and accessibility.

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Assessing for Physical Access and Safety

In this course, you will learn the importance of conducting regular safety and accessibility reviews within victim service programs and disability programs. You will learn how to choose the right tool for your program and how to build your team's capacity to conduct reviews.

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Accounting for Access in Program Materials

In this course, you will learn how to make your intake materials, outreach materials, and other program materials accessible to survivors with disabilities. You will learn the importance of font choice, color contrast, and plain language. Additionally, we will review how to build electronic materials accessibly.

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Providing Sign Language Interpretation During Events

This course is designed to help you provide qualified interpretation during in-person meetings and conferences, as well as live and on-demand virtual trainings, and embed interpretation in video-based resources.

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Leveraging Registration to Ensure Access

This course will help you design event registrations so you can collect the information you need to meet the access needs of your event's participants. Through this course, you will learn how to select an accessible survey and forms platform to use for registration, the questions to ask to understand the access needs of participants, how and when to ask those questions, and what to do with the information you gather.

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Creating Accessible Materials

This course is designed to provide you with the skills needed to develop accessible materials, including selecting the right font, ensuring an appropriate color contrast, and constructing a reading order that is accessible. It will also cover how to use the built-in access features of software such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

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Creating Accessible Online Engagements

This course will help you ensure your virtual engagements (virtual conferences, webinars, and online courses) are accessible. You will learn how to select an accessible video-conferencingplatform or learning management system, how to integrate accessfeatures into online training, and how to structure and staff onlinetrainings to best support access.

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Budgeting for Accessibility

This course will provide you with information on average costs for common access features and accommodations; help you estimate access costs for your project; and provide guidance on how to include and justify these costs in grant applications.

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Creating Accessible In-Person Meeting Spaces

This course is designed to help you select an accessible city and venue, design an accessible meeting room set up for the size and purpose of your event, and leverage signage and wayfinding to help attendees navigate your meeting space with the greatest ease.

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