Vision Change Win Training Series Registration

About the Training Series
The training series is a chance for organizations to develop and deepen their safety and security infrastructure. At each level of the training series, organizations learn concrete strategies for identifying and addressing potential risks and developing safety structures that are scaled to the organization's unique capacity, adaptive to changing conditions, and trauma-informed. The Training Series is successive so each training is meant to build off of the last. Participants should complete 101 prior to attending 201; complete 101 & 201 prior to completing 301.

Please reach out to safety@visionchangewin.org with questions!

Registration ends 24 hours prior to each training please register by Tuesday at 2pm EST. 

Vision Change Win's Community Safety Programming is rooted in our decades-long legacy and grounded in the following Community Safety Values:

BIPOC legacy: We believe that Black, Indigenous, People of Color have been creating safety for ourselves for decades. Some of the practices in toolkit are over 30 years old- passed down through oral tradition from Black, Indigenous people of color.

Rooted in abolitionist values and movements with histories resisting state violence: We see building power as an abolitionist strategy and people build power through electoral work, through policy work, and through community work that's outside the state. We know the US is embedded with oppressive institutions and that we can agree that we need to build the power of oppressed communities to self govern outside of oppressive institutions. We support progressive movement groups who do not believe in abolition, but ask that all of our community safety skills in our trainings are practices outside of the state (any form of law enforcement including local police, FBI, Homeland security, ICE, etc) 

Disability Justice Informed: We believe this work is not about embodying or replicating the state, this practice challenges misogynistic performances of safety. We do not exclude disabled community members or group leaders from our safety plans or safety teams. We reject the ableist myth that security work should be held by only the able bodied. We make security accessible, for all bodies, and adaptive to changing conditions.

Women and Femme leadership: We lift up the leadership, expertise, and specialized skills that women and femmes bring to safety work. We reject sexist, misogynistic, and transphobic practices and behaviors within our safety teams and practices. Those who experience gender based violence are experts in addressing it, we learn from the brilliance of these experts to address and intervene in gender based violence and all forms of harm.  

No shortcuts to on the ground experience: We believe that community safety is deep work which takes time to learn, and that practice is the only way to gain and improve community safety skills. We believe in rigorous training and that community safety trainers should not only be familiar with community safety curriculum but also be able to answer tough community safety questions based on lived experiences. 

TRAINING SERIES LEVELS & TOPICS

101 Introduction to Safety and De-escalation (No Prerequisites)
What does progressive safety and security look like? BIPOC and other oppressed communities have long been developing safety strategies outside of the state. This training introduces security culture core principles, a piece of the long generation legacy of safety work. Organizations learn the basic components of de-escalation including assessing risk and practice foundational verbal de-escalation tactics.

201 Safety for Direct Actions and Events (Prerequisite: MUST complete 101)
How can my group create safer events? How do we create a security team and who should be on it? Community Safety and Security work is collective work. In this session organizations learn how to develop safety protocols for an action or event, including how to create a security team, differentiate team roles, and make team decisions.

301 Organizational Security Culture (Prerequisite: MUST complete 101 & 201)
How can my organization maintain or grow our security team? Where do we start with building an organizational security plan? How do we ensure the safety plans we make are implemented? This training focuses on tactics to build and maintain safety structures including growing capacity of a security or safety team. Participants learn strategies for building a security team training practice and, how to start a security plan.

Solidarity Scholarship
In order to make our trainings as accessible as possible Vision Change Win offers 10 scholarships each month to BIPOC, low-income folks, Immigrants, Queer or Trans folks, Disabled folks or other marginalized communities. These slots are first come first serve, participants only need to indicate in the registration form they are applying for a solidarity seat. We encourage participants applying for a Solidarity Scholarship to apply early as seats go quickly. 

*Please Note: Vision Change Win values disability justice and strives to make each training accessible to participants. If you have an access need, please indicate it in the registration form below with at least two weeks prior notice. If you're unable to provide two weeks notice we may ask you to register for the following month's training series to allow time to secure the appropriate access supports. 
 

(2024) April 10 (101) | April 17 (201) | April 24 (301)  (April series: 6-8pm EST)

(2024) May 8  (101) | May 15 (201) | May 22 (301) | May 29 (401- Digital Security) (2-4pm EST)

(2024) June 12 (101) | June 19 (201) | June 26 (301) (June series: 6-8pm EST)

(2024) July 10 (101) | July 17 (201) | July 24 (301) | July 31 (401- Digital Security) (Spanish Interpretation available) (2-4pm EST)

Thank you for registering for our training series, please reach out to safety@visionchangewin.org with questions!