CORE gives your direct care staff the mindset, skills, and ethical grounding to provide consistent, trauma-informed care, one session at a time, month after month.
Great Intentions Aren't Enough
Direct care staff walk into some of the hardest, most complex work in the anti-trafficking field — often without the specific training that survivor care requires. Without it, even well-meaning teams can unintentionally retraumatize the people they're trying to help, burn out fast, or struggle to translate compassion into consistent, ethical practice.
BUILT FOR:
- Residential safe homes and aftercare programs
- Anti-trafficking organizations providing direct services
- Direct care staff, supervisors, and program leadership
- Teams at any level of experience — new to survivor care or deepening practice
A Simple Rhythm Your Team Can Sustain
The 13-session training series is delivered one month at a time, so your team builds skill steadily instead of sitting through a single overwhelming workshop.
Flexible Implementation
Asynchronous video viewing plus facilitated team discussion. No travel, no scheduling a single all-day training.
Immediately Practical
Every session ends with tools your team can apply immediately — not just concepts to think about later.
01
Watch
Staff view a pre-recorded expert video (20–50 minutes) at their own pace.
02
Discuss
Your team hosts a 90–120 minute in-service session using the facilitator guide, group activities, and reflection tools included with every training.
03
Apply
Staff walk away with concrete tools they can use with clients the same day.
The 4 Pillars of CORE
01
Staff Wellness
- Burnout & the Window of Tolerance: recognize burnout before it takes over and build strategies to stay grounded, resilient, and connected to your purpose.
- Boundaries: learn to set and hold boundaries that protect staff and survivors, reduce power struggles, and foster emotional safety.
02
Understanding Survivor Experience
- Life Skills That Stick: Trauma-Informed Teaching — teach practical skills in ways that respect trauma responses and learning differences.
- Trauma-Informed Faith-Based Care — support spiritual healing without pressure, judgment, or shame.
- Addressing Psychosis and Delusions in Survivors — recognize symptoms and respond in trauma-informed, nonthreatening ways.
03
Foundations of Trauma & Healing
- Understanding Complex Trauma and Healing — learn how trauma affects the brain, body, memory, and behavior.
- Stages of Change — understand the stages of change model and how to work with, not against, a survivor's journey.
- Post-Traumatic Growth & Resilience — support survivors in emerging stronger through agency, validation, and strength-recognition.
04
Skills for Safe, Supportive Programming
- Conflict & De-Escalation — de-escalate intense moments and manage conflict without control or punishment.
- Avoiding the Replication of Exploitative Environments — build environments rooted in trust, collaboration, and dignity.
What CORE Delivers
Teams who've completed CORE report it back consistently:
98%
Said the content was relevant to their work
95%
Found the video teaching very helpful
100%
Rated the content accurate
88%
Found the activities very credible
What Direct Care Workers Are Saying
This series has been an outstanding resource for our team. The insights gained have sparked meaningful internal dialogue, and those who participated have already noted how relevant the content is to our specific environment and the unique needs of our CSEC youth.
CORE Program Participant
Investment
TEAM SIZE
INVESTMENT
KEY FEATURES INCLUDED
1–5 Seats
$2,500
- All videos, facilitator guides & activities
- Custom reporting
- Initial onboarding lunch and learn
- 12-month access
6–10 Seats
$4,000
- All videos, facilitator guides & activities
- Custom reporting
- Initial onboarding lunch and learn
- 12-month access
MOST POPULAR
11–20 Seats
$6,500
- All videos, facilitator guides & activities
- Custom reporting
- Initial onboarding lunch and learn
- 12-month access
21+ Seats
$8,500
- All videos, facilitator guides & activities
- Custom reporting
- Initial onboarding lunch and learn
- 12-month access
Add On: Train the Trainer
$150/hr
Virtual custom training for your facilitators — implementation guidance and instructional support, conducted by Safe House Project's Director of Collective Impact, Ana Azarah
Add-on service
Student Workbook
$39.99/participant
200-page consumable workbook for reflection, skill-building, and shared team learning. Bulk pricing available.
Add-on service
Programs that complete Safe House Project Certification receive full access to CORE at no additional cost. CORE is how the excellence assessed through certification gets practiced, strengthened, and sustained across your entire team, month after month.
Your Staff: Equipped, Not JustCompassionate
CORE gives your team a shared foundation, month by month, so survivors get consistent, trauma-informed care and your staff gets the tools to sustain the work without burning out.