Training Initiatives

Team for WV Children offers a variety of free trainings designed to help attendees prevent child abuse and neglect while creating happier, healthier childhoods. Explore our different training initiatives below.

Connections Matter is a community-based initiative that explores how the connections we make in life profoundly impact our brain’s ability to grow and our own individual abilities to cope and thrive.

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The goal of LEAN on Me is to promote community responsibility to support families, rather than solely report families to CPS. All of us can use Listening, Empathy, Affirmation, and Nonjudgement to support families and prevent child abuse and neglect.​

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Making a Difference: Mandate to Report, Responsibility to Prevent

Prevent Child Abuse West Virginia has updated our “Making a Difference: Mandate to Report, Responsibility to Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect” Curriculum.

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Darkness to Light’s flagship training, Stewards of Children®, teaches adults practical actions they can take to reduce instances of child sexual abuse in their organizations, families, and communities.

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The Strengthening Families approach and protective factors framework are a research-informed, strengths-based approach that prevents child abuse and neglect by focusing on the well-being of all families and helping families identify and build on their own protective factors.

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HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) is a transformative approach that emphasizes the power of positive experiences in child development. Through this training, you’ll learn how to integrate HOPE into your practice, fostering resilience and well-being in children and families.

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