LEARN • PRACTICE • GROW
Skills for Calmer, Safer Families
Welcome to RADV’s Training & Learning hub. Find free courses, practical guides, and education to support safer choices and healthier relationships.
Some opportunities are self-paced online resources; others are local services with eligibility requirements. Each listing explains the provider, cost, and how to begin.
Moms and dads. Sons and daughters. Partners, grandparents, and caregivers. Everyone deserves the opportunity to learn safer ways to respond when life feels overwhelming.
Riders Against Domestic Violence (RADV) connects you with free tools from established organizations. Choose the starting point that fits your needs. You do not need to tell RADV your personal story or register with RADV to follow these links.
Stress and anxiety can make coping harder, but they do not excuse threats, intimidation, control, or violence. Learning coping skills and taking responsibility for harmful behavior can go hand in hand. A survivor is never responsible for managing someone else’s behavior.
Start here: stress and overwhelming feelings
Doing What Matters in Times of Stress
Provider: World Health Organization (WHO)
Cost: Free illustrated guide and accompanying audio exercises.
Learn practical ways to ground yourself, handle difficult thoughts and feelings, and act on what matters to you. Practice at your own pace, a few minutes at a time. The provider’s page includes multiple language options.
Open the free WHO stress-management guide and exercises
If anxiety is persistent, interferes with daily life, or feels unmanageable, a qualified mental health professional can help you find care that fits your needs.
Learn skills for anger and irritability
Anger & Irritability Management Skills (AIMS)
Provider: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Cost: Free, self-paced online course. No registration required.
Explore skills for recognizing anger and managing your reactions. Although designed around veterans’ experiences, VA states that these resources can help people who have not served in the military.
AIMS does not provide a completion certificate. It is general skills education and does not replace specialized domestic violence intervention or court-required treatment.
Support for parents and caregivers
Arizona’s Children Association
Cost: Free, voluntary parenting services in English and Spanish. No referral needed.
The provider lists parenting classes in Yuma County for caregivers of children from birth to age five, and Parents as Teachers home visits in Maricopa County from pregnancy until a child starts kindergarten. Confirm current availability and eligibility with the provider.
Explore free parenting education and support
For other Arizona locations or family needs, search 211 Arizona for local resources. Costs and eligibility for listed services vary.
For teens and young adults
love is respect
Audience: Young people ages 14–24, plus people supporting them.
Cost: Free educational resources and confidential support services.
Find information about boundaries, consent, healthy dating relationships, and warning signs of abuse. These resources offer a youth-focused starting point rather than asking teens to rely on an adult anger-management course.
For younger children, seek age-appropriate guidance from a pediatrician, school counselor, or qualified child mental health professional.
Healthy relationships
One Love Foundation
For: Young people, parents, educators, and community members.
Cost and format: Free resources and online training. Education Center access requires an account.
Learn about healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors, boundaries, and supporting a friend. One Love also offers training for people preparing to facilitate its workshops. Follow the provider’s facilitator training and material-use requirements before leading a session.
Explore One Love’s education and training
Financial empowerment
Moving Ahead — NNEDV and The Allstate Foundation
For: Survivors rebuilding independence and people seeking to understand financial abuse.
Cost and format: Free curriculum and learning resources; not a scheduled RADV class.
Explore financial abuse, money management, credit, and planning for greater financial independence through NNEDV’s Financial Abuse Toolkit and Moving Ahead curriculum.
Open the financial empowerment toolkit and curriculum
Digital safety and privacy
NNEDV Safety Net Project
For: Survivors, parents, teens, young adults, and people supporting them.
Cost and format: Public educational toolkits and guides available at no charge; these are resources rather than a formal course.
Explore technology abuse, online privacy, location sharing, digital consent, and safety planning. Consider using a safer device if yours may be monitored. Plan for safety before changing accounts or settings, because changes may alert an abusive person.
Explore technology safety toolkits
Explore Teens and Technology resources
Worried that you are hurting someone?
Seeking help is a meaningful first step. If you have used threats, monitoring, humiliation, coercion, or violence, stress-management exercises alone are not enough. Specialized intervention focuses on accountability and changing abusive behavior.
- The National Domestic Violence Hotline: Am I Hurting My Partner? — information to help recognize harmful behavior and seek support.
- Arizona Sexual and Domestic Violence Helpline: intervention options — includes programs accepting voluntary participants, such as Chrysalis. Confirm eligibility, fees, and any financial assistance directly. These programs are not all free.
Participation in a course does not establish that someone is safe or entitle them to forgiveness, contact, or reconciliation. Respect the other person’s boundaries and choices.
If someone is hurting you
You deserve support regardless of whether the other person seeks help. You do not have to take a class together or help them complete one.
Visit the National Domestic Violence Hotline for support and safety planning. In the United States, call 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788. If there is immediate danger, call 911.
If your device or browsing may be monitored, consider using a safer device to access support.
Workshops & upcoming learning opportunities
No RADV-led workshops or live training dates are scheduled on this page yet. When opportunities are confirmed, this section will list the topic, provider or facilitator, date and time, format, cost, eligibility, and registration link.
In the meantime, you can begin with the free self-paced resources above. Organizations interested in discussing an educational opportunity with RADV can contact us here.
One manageable first step
Choose one resource today. Try one lesson or exercise, then return to practice. Asking for help can be the beginning of change; keeping people safe requires continued action.
About this resource page: RADV shares education and referral links. The linked organizations provide their own materials and services; listing them does not imply a partnership or endorsement. This page is not therapy, crisis response, or a certified domestic violence intervention program.
Resource information checked October 17, 2026. Availability, eligibility, and fees may change; confirm details with each provider.
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