DVP Family Partnerships Training Series

DVP Family Partnerships Training Series

Our upcoming virtual training series- Deepening Family Partnerships will focus on the importance of partnering with families to keep our clients safe and healthy. We understand that a socially just and culturally relevant approach to our work must recognize and combat historic and systemic efforts to weaken Black and Brown families. Through a 2-part training series, we will offer tools to support direct service providers in integrating a family partnership approach to client work.

The training series is open to direct service providers working within the DVP network and will focus on building the knowledge, language, and skills needed to engage in culturally relevant, family-centric direct service work for culture change, community healing, safety, and justice.

The specific goals of the training are to:

• Introduce a family partnership approach as an important strategy to preventing, intervening, and reducing violence
• Articulate family-centered work through a social justice lens that recognizes the importance of ancestral ties to Black and Brown community health and healing
• Introduce life coaching strategies that support clients to reclaim family and move from the I to the We

Register today! Space is limited.

TRAINING DATES

Part 1: Building Family Partnerships with Dr. Carole McKindley-Alvarez: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, 10am-12pm

Part 2: Healing Centered Coaching to Reclaim Family with Leslie Avant-Brown: Wednesday, April 27th, 2022, 11am-1pm

ABOUT THE TRAINERS

Dr. Carole McKindley-Alvarez is an organizational consultant for non-profit, for-profit, and governmental agencies providing organizational needs assessments, DEI services, retreat and meeting facilitation, and executive coaching. She has been an executive and consultant for over 20 years and has created and provided numerous trainings, seminars, and workshops on cross-cultural awareness, education, and the impact of violence on families and communities both locally and nationally. Her areas of expertise are family, community, and gender violence, cross-cultural studies, working with the aging population, and psychological assessment.

Leslie Avant-Brown is the CEO and Principal of Blooming Willow Coaching, a culturally relevant, healing-centered coaching practice that allows her to partner with thousands of individuals and organizations seeking to impact change. She is a long-time innovator, facilitator, coach, and thought leader within movement work. Her cutting-edge, community-centered approach to coaching is award winning and recognized for its innovative design and ability to support culture change. Leslie leads the Blooming Willow Conductor’s Coaching program and partners with the DVP each year to support service providers from the network to obtain their coaching certification. Leslie was a long-time Oaklander, is a native of Detroit and recently relocated to Florida. In her free time, she enjoys finding new adventures, spending time with her wife, belly laughing, eating delicious food, and creating!