Trainer’s Toolbox
The Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center’s website is rich with resources and downloadable manuals and presentations for professionals facilitating coalition meetings and training events.
The Trainer’s Toolbox can help you plan your upcoming training and includes:
- Icebreaker and introductory activities related to victim service
- Closing activities
- Techniques for dividing groups and for selecting a recorder and reporter
- Tips for using audiovisual aids.
- Activities to engage members and gather feedback
- Checklists to prepare
The Strategic Planning Toolkit can help your coalition organize around a central mission, a vision, and goals and includes links to sections including:
- Cover, Table of Contents and Introduction(PDF, 162 KB)
- Section 1: Prepare(PDF, 103 KB)
- Section 2: Assess(PDF, 176 KB)
- Section 3: Create(PDF, 106 KB)
- Section 4: Implement(PDF, 120 KB)
- Section 5: Communicate(PDF, 71 KB)
- Section 6: Evaluate(PDF, 118 KB)
- Appendix A: Suggested Reading List on Strategic Planning(PDF, 32 KB)
- Appendix B: Suggested Federal Grant Funding Resources (PDF, 53 KB)
- Appendix C: Five State Strategic Planning Initiatives(PDF, 53 KB)
- Glossary(PDF, 38 KB)
The Strategic Planning Toolkit is intended to function as a guide for you to use throughout the strategic planning process. The Toolkit offers guidelines you can follow and tools and resources for you to draw on at every step. The Toolkit is organized to help you both learn about the planning process and use the process. It is broken into six sections that correspond to the six steps in strategic planning. The Toolkit can benefit any victim services organization – at the state or local level – that wants to assess where it wants to go in the future. - OVC TTAC
