Awareness & Action Training (A&A)
MASS delivers trainings on a variety of topics throughout Massachusetts. We have ten training teams across the state, with three to four self-advocates and one coordinator per team.
Like the rest of our organization, MASS Trainings are rooted in the rule of “nothing about us without us”. Over 95% of our trainers have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
About the Awareness & Action Training (A&A)
The Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC), Building Partnerships for the Protection of Persons with Disabilities Initiative (BPI) and Massachusetts Advocates Standing Strong created the A&A training through funding from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).
Awareness and Action (A&A) is a three-hour interactive training to educate persons with a disability and others on recognizing, reporting and responding to abuses committed against adults with a disability. It addresses five types of abuse: physical, sexual, neglect, verbal and financial.
The A&A training, taught by persons with disabilities and others, introduces the abuses being committed against persons with disabilities through five powerful video vignettes, a PowerPoint slide presentation, group activities, skits and worksheets. At the end of the training, participants take home reporting and learning materials which include a backpack, state and local resources and more.
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