Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence: Trauma-Informed Identification, Safety Planning, and Ethical, Interdisciplinary Practice for Helping Professionals 6/18/26
Date/Time
Time: 8:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: LIVESTREAM
Cost: $99.99
Credits: 5 CE Credits
Events open 15 minutes before the hour. Registration ends 30 minutes before the event opens.
Presenter(s)
CEU Creations presents:
Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence: Trauma-Informed Identification, Safety Planning, and Ethical, Interdisciplinary Practice for Helping Professionals 6/18/26
FEATURING:
- A trauma-informed framework to identify DV/IPV patterns
- Practical, survivor-defined safety planning plus ethical decision-making on confidentiality, documentation, and interdisciplinary collaboration
EVENT INFO:
8:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Events open 15 minutes before the hour. Registration ends 30 minutes before the event opens.
COST:
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:
Social Workers:
ASWB ACE – 5 Clinical CE credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 5 Contact hours
Psychologists:
APA – 5 CE credits
Counselors:
NBCC ACEP – 5 Contact hours
NY State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 5 Contact hours
Addiction Professionals:
NAADAC – 5 Contact hours
Nurses:
California Board of Registered Nursing – 5 Contact hours
Case Managers:
CCMC – 5 Contact hours
Long-Term Care Administrators:
This course is not approved for NAB/NCERS participant hours.
Attendance or applied credit certificate available for other credentials.
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credits.
Counselors: If this course awards Ethics hours, please note that some states do not recognize Ethics hours; in those cases, Contact hours will be awarded.
Target Audience: Social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses, and case managers
Counseling Skill Group:
4. Counseling Services
5. Documentation
6. Case Management
7. Discharge and Continuing Care
OVERVIEW:
Domestic violence (DV), including intimate partner violence (IPV), is a pervasive public health and human services concern that intersects with trauma, mental health, substance use, chronic health conditions, child welfare, housing instability, immigration stressors, and economic insecurity. Helping professionals across healthcare, behavioral health, and social services are frequently the first or most trusted points of contact for individuals experiencing DV/IPV. Effective response requires a survivor-centered, trauma-informed approach that prioritizes safety, autonomy, and dignity while navigating ethical responsibilities, documentation standards, and interdisciplinary coordination.
This training provides an evidence-informed, trauma-responsive, and culturally attuned framework for recognizing DV/IPV patterns (including coercive control), using safe and appropriate screening approaches, conducting risk appraisal for escalation and lethality, and implementing practical, survivor-defined safety planning. Participants will also address considerations for diverse populations and contexts (e.g., LGBTQ+ survivors, older adults, individuals with disabilities, rural communities, and culturally/linguistically diverse clients), along with ethical decision-making, confidentiality and privacy considerations, mandated reporting parameters as applicable by role and jurisdiction, and strategies to reduce bias, enhance engagement, and prevent secondary traumatic stress.
OBJECTIVES:
By attending this training, you will be able to:
1. Differentiate common patterns of DV/IPV using accepted terminology and practice frameworks.
2. Identify behavioral, psychological, and contextual indicators of DV/IPV.
3. Demonstrate at least two strategies to ask about DV/IPV in a way that prioritizes safety, autonomy, and dignity and is trauma-informed and culturally responsive.
4. List key escalation/lethality indicators and select appropriate next steps when immediate danger is suspected.
5. Give examples of a survivor-centered safety plan that addresses immediate safety, digital/privacy safety, children and dependent-care considerations, pets, and common barriers to leaving.
6. Integrate ethical decision-making into DV/IPV response by analyzing confidentiality, informed consent, professional boundaries, documentation, and collaboration dilemmas consistent with professional ethical standards and applicable laws/regulations.
AGENDA (all times are Eastern):
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence – Jessica Loftus, LICSW (includes a 10-minute break)
12:00 p.m. – 12:40 p.m. Midway Reset
12:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence – Jessica Loftus, LICSW (includes a 10-minute break)
PRESENTER BIO:
Jessica has spent the last 20 years of her work as a clinical social worker committed to supporting survivors of gender-based violence and complex trauma in refugee camps, domestic violence shelters, trauma-specific services, and within healthcare. Jessica was the Program Director of Violence Intervention and Prevention Programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. until March 2025, when the hospital system undertook structural reorganization; she is currently a Senior Clinical Social Worker at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and sees clients in private practice. As the co-founder of the Adelante Project, Jessica has sought to develop creative and meaningful healthcare-based services for people who have experienced all forms of exploitation and human trafficking, and to develop and change systems that care for these survivors. Jessica is an expert in clinical care for survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, and complex trauma. She holds an MSW from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and a BA from Vassar College.
COURSE PARTICIPATION INFORMATION:
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This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions. A computer or mobile device is required. Zoom account is not required.
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To receive credit, you must log in on time, attend the entire presentation, and interact.
POST EVENT: When the training ends, your attendance will be processed using Zoom analytics. Once processed, the evaluation link will be available in your account and we ask that you complete it within 3 days of the training. Once your evaluation is complete, your certificate will be available in your CEU Creations account within 24-72 hours.
Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions.
FINE PRINT
SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/24-11/22/27. Social workers completing this course receive 5 Clinical CE credits.
CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0616. This activity is approved for 5 Contact hours.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: 5 CE credits. CEU Creations is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CEU Creations maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
COUNSELORS: 5 Contact hours 
CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0199. This activity is approved for 5 Contact hours.
ADDICTION PROFESSIONALS: This course has been approved by CEU Creations, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 5 CEs.
NURSES: 5 Contact hours. CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number: CEP17905. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure transferability of the CE credits.
Cancellation Policy: Registrants must cancel their registration in their CEU Creations account. No email, faxes, or mail cancellations will be accepted. Cancellation fee: $25. Refunds will not be given for cancellations within five (5) business days prior to the workshop date.
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