Safety Planning and Risk Assessment: Building Trans Survivor Skills
Introductory 
Service Providers
Trans Communities We can help keep each other safer. In this workshop, we’ll look at tools for assessing risk in different situations, how to ask for support from others, and what might be included in a safety plan. Safety planning can be a useful process for individuals (as well as relationships, groups, and communities) to think ahead about ways to increase safety and decrease risks. Safety planning can be widely applied and be as specific or general as people need. We’ll look at scenarios including relationship violence and safety outside of the home.
Links and resources in this training
0:18 Who is FORGE?
2:05 Welcome
3:33 Care activity
5:52 Crisis support options
6:37 Discussion: What does safety mean?
11:55 What is safety planning?
15:28 What increases risk?
19:11 Discussion: How can trauma impact our relationship to risk?
25:59 Pause when assessing risk
30:30 Risk assessment activity
39:21 Being hurt is not your fault
40:47 Discussion: Strategies for increasing safety
44:49 Options activity
51:33 Steps: Planning
53:51 Practice activity
56:55 Steps: Preparing
59:23 Support
1:01:11 Discussion: Support
1:07:39 Types of violence
1:08:49 Increased risks of harm
1:12:36 Relationship options
1:13:38 Safety and care while in a harmful relationship
1:17:39 Considerations if leaving
1:19:16 Discussion: Safety planning in abusive relationships
1:19:54 Resources
Recorded October 16, 2024.