Professional Development 

Topics and Training Outcomes: 

• Types of Safety Planning and Risk Assessment

• Special Considerations: Children & Pets

• Tech Abuse and Considerations

• Documentation

• Getting started-opening SP conversations

• Safety in Place

• Safety When Leaving/Safe Exit

• Safety After Leaving

• Safety at Work

• Identity and Vulnerability Factors

• Complex Case Considerations

• Front-Line Safety Considerations

Course Module Topics: 

• International Standards and Monitoring Systems 

• The History of Children's Rights in the Context of Human Rights 

• Interdisciplinary Children's Rights Studies 

• Juvenile Justice 

• Violence Against Children 

• Children's Rights to Participation

• Children's Rights and Global Health 

Course Module Topics: 

• Defining Trauma

• Trauma and Education

•  Trauma Informed Care 

• The SAMHSA Framework for Understanding Trauma 

• Signs and Symptoms of Trauma 

• Resisting Retraumatization 

• Specific Equity Issues in Education and TIC 

• Trauma Informed Education to Promote Equity 

• Reflective Practice 

This self-paced course is designed to introduce learners to modes of indigeneity and indigenous ways of knowing. Learners explore indigenous histories and contemporary issues from across Canada through indigenous perspectives. Learners gain greater awareness of past and present relationships between Indigenous and settler societies. 

This course is divided into 12 sections and takes an average of 20 hours to complete. 

Course Module Topics: 

• Worldview

• The Fur Trade 

• Trick or Treaty 

• New Rules, New Game

• "Killing the Indian in the Child" 

• A Modern Indian?

• Red Power 

• Sovereign Lands

• Indigenous Women, Girls and Genderful People  

• Indigenous in the City 

• Current Social Movements 

• Living Traditions: Expressions in Pop Culture and Art   

This course introduces learners to contemporary and historical processes of land disposition in Canada. Learners gain wider awareness of resistance though enforcement of Indigenous models of consent and relationship to natural resources. Within this course learners are also invited to consider the future of the Land Back movement, and how this movement fits into the wider context of climate change activist and non-indigenous allyship. 

Course Topics: 

• Introduction to Land Back

• The Spectrum of Consent 

• Denial 

• Recognition

• Reclamation

• Continuation of Life 

Course Topics:

• Negotiation Foundations

• Strategic Negotiation 

• Negotiation Beyond Money 

• Negotiation Preparation

• Negotiation Agility 

• Assertiveness and Likability. 

This course introduces learners to the essential skills needed in the media and communication profession. Learners build skills in creating communication strategies and are introduced to best practices in communicating through visual and written mediums. 

Key Topics:

• Creating a communication strategies 

• Media Relations Foundations

• Copywriting for Social Media 

• Public Relations Founations