Iowa Domestic Abuse Advocate Certification Program
The purpose of the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence Advocate Certification Process is to:

• Provide a method to assure clients, the community, and other members of the domestic violence profession, that domestic abuse project paid and unpaid staff have successfully completed training and supervised work experience necessary to provide nonjudgmental,
  empowering intervention for victims of domestic abuse and their children.
• Provide a mechanism to recognize the competency of skilled domestic abuse advocates, acquired through a combination of work and life experience, training, and traditional academic preparation.
• Assure continued professional growth.
• Increase community and professional awareness that the field of domestic violence is a specialty area.
• Assure that Certified Domestic Abuse Advocates adhere to the Certified Domestic Abuse Advocate Code of Ethics

• Domestic Abuse Dynamics
• Domestic Abuse within Gay/Lesbian/Transgender Relationships
• Immigrant Battered Women
• Community Organizing
• Impact of Domestic Abuse on Children
• Elder Abuse
• Trauma
• Risk Assessment and Safety Planning
• Mediation and Domestic Abuse
• Housing and Economic Justice
• Technology Safety
• Prevention
• Fund Development and Communication

ICADV also sponsors training for advocates wanting to become trainers on domestic abuse issues.
For more information please call 515-244-8028 or email kirstenf@icadv.org.

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