MBCC Training
2025 Crime Prevention Conference
The 2025 Montana Crime Prevention Conference will take place on October 28 and 29, 2025 at Billings DoubleTree by HIlton.
Post-conference training will take place on October 30 and 31, 2025.
Please visit the Crime Prevention Conference page for details.
Educational Power Hour
Please visit the Educational Power Hour page for details.
Montana Training Opportunities
Children's Alliance of Montana
New Training
Montana Advanced Victim Advocacy Training: Engaging Through Advocacy
- Live via Zoom!
- Engaging through Empathy is a training where you will learn how you can approach clients in a way to create sustainable change by building relationships and meeting them where they are at.
- Learning Objectives:
- Recognize how assumptions and biases can impact family engagement.
- Differentiate between empathy, compassion, and sympathy.
- Implement motivational interviewing skills to deepend engagement.
- Who Should Attend: Victim Advocates, Child Advocacy Center Staff, CPS, and any MDT Members interested in advancing their interviewing skills.
- Tuesday, August 26, 2025 | 9:00am - 11:00am MDT
- Register Here
New Training
Montana Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Facilitator Training
- Learn about developing and maintaining MDT Relationships.
- Defining roles and responsibilities of team members
- Defining mission, vision, and values of the MDT
- Managing change and turnover on the MDT
- Navigating and resolving conflict
- Knowledge of evidence-informed team development models
- Facilitating shared decision-making
- Ensuring adherence to MDT agreements and protocols
- Understanding of the various meeting structures that support effective teams
- Facilitating effective communication processes
- Creating psychological safety
- Building resilience for the MDTs
- This training meets the MDT Facilitator Training Requirements for CAC Accreditation by the National Children’s Alliance (NCA).
- Wednesday, September 10, 2025
- Lodging for 9/9/2025 and working lunch funded for approved participants.
- Apply Here
- Deadline to apply: August 8, 2025
- Only 24 seats available! Must apply!
36th Annual McGuire Memorial Conference on Family Violence
Upcoming Conference Know More, Do More: Recognizing and Responding to Stalking
- Stalking is a prevalent, traumatic, dangerous, and often misunderstood crime. Join us to explore the dynamics of stalking, focusing on its highly contextual nature, and discuss strategies to apply when working with victims of stalking.
- September 25-26, 2025 | 8:00am - 4:30pm
- Location: First Interstate Bank Op Center
- 1800 6th Avenue North, Billings, MT
Officer Standards and Training (POST)
National Training Opportunities
National Criminal Justice Association Training
New Training
Grant Ready! Essential Financial Rules Every Grant Manager Must Know
- During this virtual training, participants will gain an understanding of administrative requirements, cost principles and allowability rules—included in Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200 (2 CFR 200) and the U.S. Department of Justice Grants Financial Guide—that apply to all recipients of federal funding. Participants will learn important accounting terminology and understand what it means to follow “generally accepted accounting principles” to accurately record and manage federal awards. Additionally, participants will learn about common compliance findings and solutions to address them. After this training, participants will:
- Recognize cost principles and federal financial requirements
- Understand basic internal control principles and methods to improve checks and balances in financial accounting
- Know where to locate resources to comply with Federal Financial Grant Rules and Regulations
- This webinar is for state, local, tribal and nonprofit grant managers and direct recipients and subrecipients of federal funding.
- July 24, 2025 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- NCJA Members: $129
- Non NCJA Members: $149
- NCJA Members Register Here
- Non NCJA Members Register Here
Praxis International
New Training
Community Connection: Building Pathways to Confidential Advocacy & Services for Rural Survivors
- Rural survivors are often connected with advocacy and service providers by word of mouth from family, friends, and neighbors. Establishing clear linkages to refer survivors can further increase their sense of community and support in rural areas. Join Bree Adams Bill and Maren Woods as they explore what rural communities can do to connect more survivors with advocates and service providers. During this session, we will:
- Share ideas: look at ways to expand outreach to rural survivors through linkages with community partners.
- Consider possibilities: discuss the benefits and challenges of implementing a referral process from community services to confidential advocacy.
- Offer resources: share existing tools to increase advocacy and service programs connections with survivors.
- Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- Register Here
30th San Diego International Summit on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma Across the Lifespan
Upcoming Conference 40 Years of Inspiring Change: Unifying for Safety and Peace
- This Summit is a unique forum for professionals across all disciplines and philosophies to gather for an in-depth exchange of current information on all facets of violence, abuse, and trauma prevention, intervention, and research, as well as recovery, wellness and healing-centered practices.
- August 17, 2025 | Affiliated Training
- Summit: August 18-19, 2025 | 8:00am - 4:30pm
- Location: Town & Country Resort, San Diego, CA
- 500 Hotel Circle N., San Diego, CA 92108
- Register Here
23rd Annual Hawai'i International Summit on Preventing, Assessing, & Treating Trauma Across the Lifespan
Upcoming Conference Collective Healing and Resilience: Culture, Connection, and Care
- The Hawaiʻi Summit is a multidisciplinary gathering of professionals working together to tackle the major issues in fields dealing with violence, abuse, and trauma. International and local speakers come together to share their findings on causation, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation at both the global level and at smaller, community-based levels.
- March 1, 2026 | Affiliated Training
- Summit: March 2-4, 2026 | 8:00am - 4:30pm
- Location: Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI
- Registration Coming Soon! Check out the summit webpage here!
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Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative (RVCRI)
- The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative (RVCRI) hosted a webinar on funding, training opportunities, and specialized support available to rural law enforcement agencies. A group of expert presenters from leading organizations shared practical tools and knowledge to enhance community safety, build agency capacity, and drive impactful change.
- Check it Out!
Office of Victims of Crime Technical and Training Assistance
New Training
Building a Dynamic Board: Enhancing Productivity and Engagement
- According to the Third Annual Nonprofit Board Engagement Survey, highly engaged boards are more likely to achieve their goals and drive organizational success. The survey also found that nonprofits with highly engaged boards reported increased funding and better financial stability. Are you interested in learning about ways to increase your board’s engagement and involvement in activities to strengthen the impact of your organization? Do you have questions about how to equip your nonprofit board members with the skills and knowledge necessary to govern, collaborate, and drive your organization’s mission forward effectively?
- July 31, 2025 | 12:00pm MT
- Register Here