FRONTLINE EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROGRAM
We supply print and online resources of the best evidence-based practices provided by national experts for immediate and tangible solutions.
Resources
Downloadable Guides
From our partnership with the Rising Steps Learning Center, we have made available a variety of resource guides to empower you with practical skills to identify perpetrators and exploitation. Including tips for trauma-informed and child development solutions. Feel free to download and save to your devices. Printed versions are available at startrisingup.com
GROOMING: Perpetrator Behavior Guide
A simple guide by frontline professionals and experts to empower citizens with tools to detect perpetrator behavior.
PREVAIL: Assessing Adverse Experiences Guide
A simple guide & assessment tests provide helpful insight to individuals about the severity of their trauma.
OPEN EYE REPORT: Unmasking Child Exploitation
This in-depth report confirms that the epidemic of child exploitation in America is now too big for government solutions.
WATCH: Assessment Guide for At-Risk Children
A simple tool created by frontline professionals and experts to guide mandated reporters and citizens about reporting.
SAFE ADULT: Model for Protecting Kids
A simple guide by frontline professionals and experts to empower citizens with the tools needed to safeguard & protect kids.
Resources
Resource Kits
From our partnership with the Rising Steps Learning Center, we have made available life-changing resource kits to empower you with practical skills to safeguard and care for children.
SAFEGUARD CHILDREN KIT: They’re Worth It!
Provides safe adults with the skills to discern, detect, & take action to safeguard and protect children from all forms of child exploitation through prevention & early intervention strategies.
Resources
Tests & Tools
From our partnership with the Rising Steps Learning Center, we have made available testing and tools to empower you with practical skills to assess trauma and take action.
EXPANDED ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences Test
Experts agree that though the ACEs test of 10 base questions was groundbreaking and insightful, other trauma factors massively impact a child’s development & must also be considered. This expanded ACEs test includes questions for these additional trauma factors.
AAEs: Adverse Adulthood Experiences Test
This test was inspired by the nationally recognized ACEs study on the long-term impacts of childhood trauma. The AAE is similarly designed to measure adverse experiences within adulthood and provide a score so that individuals can quantify the trauma they have experienced.
REPORTING PREP TOOL: Assessing a Child’s Danger Level
This tool was created in collaboration with frontline professionals & experts to guide mandated reporters and concerned citizens with the information they need to gather before making a report of abuse. This free tool implements the assessment principles from the Watch Assessment Guide.
Resources
Trainings
From our partnership with the Rising Steps Learning Center, we have made available trainings to empower you with practical skills to identify perpetrators and exploitation.
Empower Safe Adults to Stop Child Exploitation
Introductory 1-Hour Training
Empower Safe Adults provides citizens with a big-picture look at child exploitation and sex trafficking in America. We give some stats (state & national) and discuss how “We the People” can be part of the solution. Also, this training is designed to bring awareness and give participants a sample of our advanced 4-hour training.
Watchful Eye Safeguarding Children from Sex Abuse & Exploitation
Advanced 4-Hour Training
Watchful Eye provides citizens of all experience levels with an in-depth look at child sex abuse, exploitation, and sex trafficking in America. We teach about the “connections” of child exploitation and actions that we can take to prevent and detect problems early. This training is designed to empower adults in the skills needed to safeguard children and detect perpetrator behavior.
W.A.T.C.H. Child Assessment Tool Training
Advanced 2-Hour Training
W.A.T.C.H. Child Assessment provides citizens and mandated reporters with an in-depth look at the child reporting process in America. We teach about the “results” of making reports and supplemental solutions to protect kids. Also, this training is designed to empower mandated reporters and adults to aid at-risk or endangered children from falling through the gaps of government agencies.
S.T.E.P.S. To Intentional Interactions
Advanced 4-Hour Training
S.T.E.P.S. to Intentional Interactions provides citizens and professionals with social awareness and interpersonal relationship training. We teach the concepts and application of emotional intelligence skills to help achieve workable relationships with people of opposing views, cultures, and beliefs. Also, this training empowers individuals to improve their social competency and communication skills. It is a course we require all of our trainers to take because the skills are fundamentally needed with any form of social interaction.
Empower the Trainer
Advanced 8-Hour Certification Training
Empower the Trainer is a certification training required to become an ETF course facilitator or trainer. So, we teach the concepts and application of instructor-style communication skills, creating a trauma-informed approach, stewardship of survivors’ stories, and how to bring hope to complex and emotional topics. Also, this training empowers those with lived experiences as professionals and survivors to use their experiences to train their community in how to prevent, intervene, and rescue children from all forms of exploitation. However, this course is only available to those who desire to become a certified ETF trainer and includes background screenings, application, and an extensive onboarding process.
Empowering safeguarding skills through evidence-based training.
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