Course Overview

This course starts with the basics of Title IX and its applicability to sex discrimination and sex-based harassment in K-12 and higher education. Our foundational-level Title IX Investigator training equips participants with the knowledge needed to complete compliant, timely, thorough, and trauma-informed investigations.

  • Describe the role of a Title IX Investigator as it relates to the formal grievance process.

  • Understand investigation procedural requirements under Title IX.

  • Identify steps to designing a thorough investigation plan.

  • Develop a trauma-informed interviewing style, including crafting sound questions.

  • Prepare a comprehensive and informative investigation report.

Course curriculum

    1. Course Introduction and Instructions

    2. Pre-Course Assessment

    3. Meet Our Speakers

    1. Lesson and Speaker Introduction

    2. History of Title IX

    3. Title IX Definitions

    4. Participants in the Title IX Process

    5. Overview of the Title IX Grievance Process

    1. Lesson and Speaker Introduction

    2. Introduction to the Title IX Regulations

    3. Sexual Harassment and Recipient Response

    4. Title IX Grievance Process for Formal Complaints

    1. Lesson and Speaker Introduction

    2. Role of the Title IX Investigator

    1. Lesson and Speaker Introduction

    2. Forming an Investigative Team

    3. Reviewing Key Documents

    4. Drafting an Investigative Plan

    1. Lesson and Speaker Introduction

    2. Preparing a Preamble

    3. Recording Interviews

    4. Building Rapport and Trust

    5. Questioning the Parties

    6. Interviewing Minors

About this course

  • $750.00
  • 9 hours of Title IX content
  • Downloadable course material
  • 32 unique lessons

Meet Your Instructors

*These are just a few of the experts you'll meet throughout the course.

Thomas A. Denton

Founder & Director of Investigations

Tom Denton is a founding member of Title IX Solutions, LLC and Tactical 97 Group, LLC. He is a retired Chief of Police and career law enforcement officer with over 31 years of public service with municipal, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. In 2005, he founded Tactical Investigations, LLC and has been a licensed private detective for 14 years. Tom has extensive experience investigating child sexual assaults and Title IX violations. He has received specialized training in Forensic Child Interviewing and state-of-the-art Trauma Informed Interviewing techniques. He is a certified Title IX Investigator. Tom was a sworn Special Federal Officer with an F.B.I. Violent Crimes Task Force in the Southern District of Illinois. He specialized in electronic surveillance and suspect interviews. Tom investigated organized criminal enterprises concentrating on large scale drug trafficking, weapons, and gang violence.

Elizabeth Abdnour, J.D.

Investigator & Advisor

Elizabeth (Liz) Abdnour is an experienced civil rights and employment attorney. She represents students and provides investigative, consulting, and training services to educational institutions, groups, and nonprofits of all sizes. After a career in legal services, where she learned how to advocate for underserved clients from a trauma-informed perspective and supervised a law school practice clinic, Liz transitioned into higher education where she spent three years in the civil rights office at a large and grant university. Liz then opened her own law and consulting practice where she now serves both individual and institutional clients. The combination of Liz’s legal experience and her years as an investigator and equity coordinator give her unparalleled expertise regarding educational institutions’ obligations with respect to civil rights and Title IX response.

Lin-Chi Wang

Advisor & Investigator

Lin-Chi serves as a professional Title IX Advisor and Investigator. She utilizes her experiences to help individuals, schools, and workplaces bridge civil rights’ compliance with humane approaches to achieve outcomes that are not just fair and equitable, but that also promote harm reduction and healing, with trauma-informed and culturally appropriate training and thinking. Lin-Chi brings a depth of experience to anti-discrimination and sexual harassment work. Prior to founding Wang Law, LLC and serving as an independent advisor and investigator, Lin-Chi served as the Director of Equity& Title IX Coordinator and Associate Dean of Students at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. In that role, she oversaw response and investigation of all institutional reports and complaints of identity-based discrimination and harassment, sexual misconduct, intimate partner violence, stalking, and retaliatory harassment as prohibited by college policies. She also served as the primary institutional investigator for such complaints. Prior to Muhlenberg College, Lin-Chi served as an institutional civil rights investigator for Michigan State University, conducting sensitive and high-profile internal investigations. Before her career in higher education, Lin-Chi practiced as an attorney at a labor and employment law firm in Michigan. In her various positions, Lin-Chi has developed a deep understanding of how to approach anti-discrimination and sexual harassment work effectively within the current regulatory and compliance structure. She believes in doing the work in a trauma-informed and culturally appropriate manner, with humanity, empathy, compassion, and harm reduction at the forefront, while also keeping bias and fairness in check.

Course Pricing

For group discounts (four or more) or offline invoicing, please contact our Training Coordinator, Cara Kuhn:

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