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Training &
Technical
Assistance

Training is the heart of FORGE’s work. Our energetic team of trainers and facilitators thrives on enhancing victim service providers’ and allied professionals’ knowledge, skills, and outreach to transgender and non-binary survivors of crime and trauma. We work with:

  • Victim service providers
  • Medical advocates
  • Mental health providers
  • Forensic nurse examiners
  • First responders
  • Prevention workers
  • Educators and institutions
  • Community organizations
  • …and many others.

Trainings, Workshops and Custom Webinars

FORGE regularly offers new, free, live-audience webinars. We also provide a robust archive of recorded webinars available at no cost 24/7. We work with clients and agencies to design customized trainings that can be delivered online, in-person, at conferences, or at a site of your choosing.  We extensively train on topics that intersect with trans communities and sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and hate-motivated crimes.

We train on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Creating a trans-welcoming agency
  • Adverse Childhood Events and trans communities
  • Navigating inclusive policies, procedures, and protocols
  • Medical advocacy and forensic exams
More about our trainings

Technical Assistance and Consulting

We recognize that questions can’t always wait for formal trainings! A significant part of our work is helping you help your clients. This can be through something simple like a reference or a referral, being a thought partner to help work through a challenge, or providing guidance on how to handle an unfamiliar situation with a trans+ or LGBTQ+ survivor (or another professional). 

Sometimes organizations need a deeper dive to create the respectful, knowledgeable environment in which to better serve trans+ clients. We offer custom assessment of how your agency is serving trans survivors and how you can improve it, site visits (in-person, post COVID-19, or virtual), reviews of policies and procedures, holding focus groups or work groups to improve services to trans+ survivors.

More about our technical assistance
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Kudos from our Trainees

“Anywhoooo, this Wednesday I received the notes cards from your workshop. They couldn’t have come at a more needed time. I’ve got them pinned up in my cubicle and they are helping me keep a harmonious smile on my face. Thank y’all for facilitating that. It was a powerful exercise and I deeply appreciate it.”
"Thank you so much for all of the work you do! I just participated in the “Serving Transgender Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence” webinar and it was great, so again and again, thank you."
RE: Serving Trans Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence: “I have been telling everyone in my work place about this webinar. It has been by far the best webinar I have listened to. I learned lots. Many thanks.”
“I have been soooo impressed with all of your materials and have been sending links to many of your webinars to my colleagues and partners on campus and inviting them to view them with me. It’s great to have these powerful resources so readily available. Thank you.”
“Thank you both so much for such an informative and important webinar! You were absolutely phenomenal presenters.”
“That was a phenomenal webinar! …Thank you so much [FORGE] for your informative, accessible, and valuable presentation.”
"Michael was an excellent presenter. He made the workshop very enjoyable."
"The presenter, michael, was fantastic! So friendly, so knowledgeable, so reassuring and realistic!"
“That was amazing work you two did that day. You are an invaluable resource for the many of us surviving and helping others like us to keep surviving. Thank you again.”

Free Webinars Coming Up

We’re constantly adding to our extensive library of free recorded webinars. Check them out!

See our recorded webinars