This flier promotes the 2-day training on Compassion Fatigue/Vicarious Trauma.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Curriculum Design for Victim Service Providers.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on DNA in Sexual Assault Cases: The Role of Law Enforcement, SAFE/SANE Nurses, and Victim Advocates.

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An informative worksheet specifying vocabulary, definitions, and the constitutional rights of victims.

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This worksheet outlines key points for consideration, including essential vocabulary and language when considering an individual jurisdiction’s laws.

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A comprehensive document detailing the 13 common rights of victims and an indepth definition for each.

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This flier promotes the 1-day training on Building Resiliency in Child Abuse Organizations.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Enforcing Victims' Rights.

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This flier promotes the 4.5-hour training on Increasing Effectiveness of Child Welfare Workers for Child Victims of Trauma.

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This flier promotes the 1-day training on Increasing Effectiveness of Providers for Child Victims of Violence.

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This flier promotes the Integrating Crime Victims' Issues Into College and University Curricula, which includes curriculum kits and teaching materials, a faculty involvement guide, and templates for internship agreements.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Leadership in Victim Services.

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This flier promotes the Advanced Military Sexual Assault Advocate Training for Sexual Assault Response Coordinators and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Victim Advocates.

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This flier promotes the 1.5-day training on Strengthening Military-Civilian Community Partnerships to Respond to Sexual Assault.

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This chart examines the needs of victims of crimes through the different stages of the criminal justice process—from the time the crime is reported to post-conviction.

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This is a worksheet from the National Victim Assistance Academy to help practitioners think about the step-by-step actions required when working through the decisionmaking process.

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This document lists possible impacts on victims of crime in four categories: physical, psychological/emotional, financial, and spiritual.

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This fact sheet promotes the tools and resources offered through OVC TTAC, including specialized and customized training to support professional development, enhance services to the community, and expand outreach to underserved victims of crime.

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This flier promotes the standardized, face to face trainings available through OVC TTAC.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Grant Writing and Other Funding Strategies for Victim Service Providers.

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This flier promotes the Human Trafficking Task Force e-Guide, which includes guidance on how to form and develop new human trafficking task forces as well as ideas to strengthen existing task forces; creative strategies, examples, and lessons learned from existing task forces; and links to numerous tools, trainings, and resources.

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Working with elder abuse cases in the criminal justice system is a unique process, requiring proper court accommodations. This appendix covers recommended accommodations, as well as properly advocating and navigating cases in the criminal justice system.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Identifying and Responding to Elder Abuse.

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This flier promotes Victim Assistance Training Online, a basic victim advocacy training program that offers victim service providers and allied professionals the opportunity to acquire the basic skills and knowledge they need to better assist victims of crime.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Program Evaluation.

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This flier promotes the 2.5-day training on Providing Culturally Competent Services to Victims of Crime.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Serving LGBTQ Survivors of Violence.

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Developed for practitioners, this worksheet serves as an activity where participants are asked to create a fictional, interactive case study where a survivor exhibits symptoms of trauma.

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This document lets practitioners create their own self-care plan, covering personal, professional, and organizational topics.

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This flier promotes the 2.5-day training on Sexual Assault Advocate and Service Provider Training.

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This worksheet serves as a guideline for creating comprehensive strategic plans to tackle tasks and objectives.

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This worksheet tasks program managers to fill out a checklist concerning their attitudes toward changes in work and projects over a long period. The check marks are then scored and explained.

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This checklist is used to identify clients and their interests and to assess the impact of a strategic planning project on each client group and the level of client participation in the plan.

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This tool discusses the characteristics, benefits, and drawbacks of seven essential tools for data collection.

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In this activity, five groups are formed and each is given different scenarios to develop a marketing strategy by listing the main audience, the main ideas, possible communication methods, the timeline, and the management structure of the plan.

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The document serves as a tool for program managers to assess their organization’s readiness before delving into a project to meet current and future client needs.

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This document lists four sample strategic plans as models for program managers to create their own.

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This document discusses the varying effectiveness of delivery methods.

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This document outlines five essential steps to assess the role of stakeholders in an organization.

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Covering the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of an organization, this document and worksheet allows program managers to assess multiple components of their organizations.

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This document and worksheet lists 20 common values and leaves room for program managers to assess their organization’s values and behaviors.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Strategic Planning for Victim Service Leaders.

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Dealing with difficult and stressful situations as a practitioner is never an easy task and may require short-term interventions. This worksheet gives 14 case study examples and space to discuss possible interventions and best practices.

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Dealing with work and personal life stressors is never an easy task and may require short-term interventions. This worksheet gives 14 stress examples and space to discuss possible interventions and best practices.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Supporting Children Living with Grief and Trauma: A Multidisciplinary Approach.

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This flier promotes the SANE Program Development and Operation Guide, which includes new research, innovative practices, and all the latest information you need to create a new SANE program or enhance an existing one.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Supporting Crime Victims With Disabilities.

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Intended for use by educators, these are nine tips for a successful presentation.

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This worksheet covers the three types of learners: visual learners, auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners. Each section describes each learning type and leaves room for notes.

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The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Instructional Design Standards establish the processes that OVC grantees must follow in the development of OVC-funded trainings. The Instructional Design Standards are based on the ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) approach to developing training

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This document goes over frequently asked questions regarding resiliency.

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This document goes over frequently asked questions regarding resiliency.

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The Trainer's Toolbox includes useful information for all trainers.

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This document provides definitions for resiliency terms.

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This document provides definitions for resiliency terms.

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Here is a sample CPR Card that includes examples of the type of resource information to include.

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Here is a sample CPR Card that includes examples of the type of resource information to include.

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This list provides a number of national resources for victims of crime.

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This paper briefly describes several basic forms of child abuse and neglect and the developmental and ecological contexts within which child maltreatment occurs.

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This paper defines elder abuse and discusses the unique impacts and effects on victims of elder abuse.

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This paper describes the scope of homicide in the United States, the homicide differential, the extent of trauma experienced by family members and friends of the deceased victim, and effective strategies for victim assistance and justice system responses to co-victims of homicide.

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This paper briefly describes the crime of human trafficking, its impact on victims, and models for multidisciplinary, collaborative approaches for serving this population.

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This paper defines identity theft and discusses the impact of identity theft on victims.

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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the trends and issues service providers should consider when assisting survivors of impaired driving crimes.

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This paper defines intimate partner violence and discusses the unique impacts and effects on victims of intimate partner violence.

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This paper defines sexual assault and discusses the unique impacts and effects on victims of sexual assault.

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This assessment form goes over primary and secondary risk factors for suicide.

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This document provides sample advocate application and recruitment materials such as a sample job description, application, and interview.

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This document reviews strategies for preventing compassion fatigue and burnout.

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This document provides definitions of strategic planning terms.

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This document provides an extensive reading list of strategic planning resources.

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This document provides information on federal grant funding resources.

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Leaders in five states (Colorado, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont) have shared their experiences of strategic planning and their ideas about the strategic planning process. This document is a synthesis of the key points and themes that emerged from interviews with these five states’ leaders.

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This flier promotes the 1-day Cyberviolence Judicial Training.

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This fact sheet outlines key adult learning principles that organizations should consider as they develop training and written materials.

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This fact sheet can be used for reference when developing human trafficking resources and trainings and to review existing resources to evaluate the information critically and identify its relevancy.

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Learning how to develop and build resiliency is essential for victim service providers, first responders, and organizations of all sizes. This document includes questions for you and your organization to ask to begin identifying ways to build resiliency.

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Learning how to effectively work with, manage, and support volunteers allows for organizations to expand their capacity as well as incorporate the communities they serve. This is essential knowledge for victim service providers, programmatic staff, and organizations of all sizes. This document includes questions for you and your organization to ask to begin identifying ways to enhance your volunteer programs.

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Understanding how to develop and manage a board of directors is key for victim service provider organizations of all sizes, primarily for leadership and programmatic staff who interact with the organizations board of directors. This document includes questions for you and your organization to ask to begin to identify ways to develop and manage your board of directors.

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This flier promotes the 2-day training on Serving Survivors of Homicide Victims.

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This checklist lets practitioners check off what actions they believe are justified under various circumstances when working with victims of crime.

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This flier promotes the 2.5-day training on The Ultimate Trainer.

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A flier for OVC's monthly Expert Q&A, a national forum designed to help victim service providers communicate with national experts and colleagues about best practices for assisting victims of crime.

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An example of a completed Detailed Design Document.

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An example of a completed High Level Design Document.

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This postcard promotes the 1-day training on Building Resiliency in Child Abuse Organizations.

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This self-care worksheet for practitioners addresses positive lifestyle changes and exercises that help to prevent compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.

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A comprehensive document that defines the constitutional rights of victims during the many steps of the criminal process, and includes essential vocabulary and scenarios.

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Developed by the National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium, this document outlines ethical standards required of practitioners when working with victims of crime.

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Includes time requirements, detailed content outlines and notes, and resources for each learning objective within the module. Activities to help achieve the objectives are presented in detail.

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Lists the essential components of effective training to meet the OVC Design Standards.

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Lists the essential components of effective training to meet the OVC Design Standards.

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Outlines steps and best practices to develop and implement blended online training.

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Outlines steps and best practices to develop and implement self-paced (asynchronous) online training.

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Provides key responsibilities, basic qualifications, and professional skills for instructional designers.

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Outlines the entire training and includes the training audience, training goals, and content and learning objectives for each module.

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This worksheet, developed for program managers, serves as a checklist to ensure all bases are covered during the grant writing and funding application processes.

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This document provides essential information on the importance of thinking about elder abuse in case scenarios where it may not come to mind, such as domestic violence. The document also details laws, services for the aging, and other programs related to elder abuse and assistance specifically.

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This flier promotes the Identity Theft Victim Assistance Online Training and how it provides advocates and other allied professionals with the tools they will need to better understand the rights and needs of victims of identity theft and to help assist them in their financial and emotional recovery.

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An assessment and development plan from the National Victim Assistance Academy measuring self-resiliency and the resiliency of your organization.

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A word search from the National Victim Assistance Academy that includes essential acronyms and agency vocabulary.

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This document describes the roles of different victim service providers, including law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, correctional institutions, and parole.

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Intended for use by program managers, this sample needs assessment surveys the capacity of an organization and its services.

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Using this worksheet, program managers can visualize and evaluate the long-term impacts they wish to achieve by identifying goals and essential elements of change and mission growth.

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This document outlines Terry Cross’s six stages of cultural competence and leaves room for practitioners to evaluate their own level of cultural competence.

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By using this worksheet, practitioners and organizations are guided to identify and create practical strategies to overcome cultural barriers in their communities and become culturally competent.

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Identifying situations that cause unease is an essential step toward cultural competence. This checklist helps practitioners identify what makes them uncomfortable about different cultural communication styles.

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As described in Edward T. Hall’s 1976 book Beyond Culture, two forms of communication exist, high- and low-context. Ultimately, this document gives comprehensive summaries of both communication styles and is intended for cultural education of practitioners and organizations.

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By working with management, the organization, LGBTQ survivors, and staff, this worksheet can help an organization plot and plan to ensure the organization is LGBTQ friendly.

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This checklist identifies an organization’s values, whether strongly held or weakly held.

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Covering the steps of a homicide trial from trial preparation to verdict and sentencing, this document serves as an informative guide to the needs and wants of survivors and prosecutors.

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These three cold case examples help practitioners think about procedure, relatives and friends of the victim, and local laws pertaining to different cases.

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Intended for group discussion, this worksheet gives practitioners space to list their top five work and personal life stressors and coping mechanisms.

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There are many myths about rape and sexual assault; this document lists 10 common myths and their corresponding factual truths.

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This document describes the impact that childhood trauma can have on the development of the brain and its functioning. It also describes the factors that can affect brain dysfunction, and the various anatomical structures in the brain that can be impacted, changing its functionality.

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This document defines Disorder of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS) and Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD), and describes the criteria that must be met in order for an individual to be diagnosed with DESNOS or DTD.

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This document describes different types of treatments that may be effective in working with children dealing with grief or trauma. Cognitive behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization reprocessing, equine-assisted therapy, and art, writing, and play therapy are described.

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Covering nine laws, this document details each law and its relevance to acts of violence.

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This worksheet lets organizations list potential partners, their current relationships, and benefits.

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This document provides the top 13 tips for a successful PowerPoint presentation.

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A document with nine examples of training activities, from brainstorming tasks to field trips.

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Adults learn for different reasons than children. This document outlines five reasons adults learn and offers tips to create effective training strategies.

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This worksheet provides sentences for participants to use to practice their articulation.

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This worksheet allows participants to define their goals for the end of the training.

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This is the answer sheet from the Evaluating and Writing Objectives worksheet.

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