This Week’s Live CEU • 100% Free

It’s Complicated: Teaching Relationship Safety That Reflects Real Life

Led by Patricia Lund
📅 Wednesday, June 10, 2026
🕐 12:00 PM America/New_York
🎓 1.0 Type 2 CEU

What You’ll Learn & How It Applies to Your Practice

Most safety curricula teach individuals with IDD to categorize people as safe or unsafe based on how well they know them. But real relationships don’t work that way — and neither does abuse. This session examines existing relationship safety frameworks, including the widely used Circles program, and explores both their strengths and their limitations. Attendees will consider what a more nuanced, relationship-based approach to safety looks like — one that reflects the complexity of real relationships and the reality of who actually perpetrates abuse against individuals with IDD.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify at least two limitations of existing relationship safety frameworks, including the Circles program, as they apply to individuals with IDD.
  • Explain why a binary safe/unsafe categorization of relationships may be insufficient for abuse prevention in individuals with IDD.
  • Describe the key components of a relationship-based approach to safety skills training that reflects the actual perpetrator population.

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