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Training resources

Live workshops and recorded trainings are available at no-cost for VSHSL-funded providers.

The Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy (VSHSL) supports VSHSL-funded providers and programs by offering core competency trainings. These trainings are meant to help providers attain and maintain key skills and concepts. Training topics are informed by responses to the annual narrative report. This resource is available to eligible providers at no cost. Some trainings have been recorded and are available to view online.

Upcoming trainings

Note:

  • Please register individually even if you plan to attend the training as a group.
  • Once you receive the Zoom login information, please do not forward it; all registrants will receive the login information.
  • Encourage staff in your organization to register for trainings early.  

Q&A Fiscal Management & Best Practices Including How to Set Up Your System to Track Expenses 

Trainer: Sunray Accounting Solutions/Sofia Olson

Date: Thursday, June 4, 2026

Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm

Location: Virtual

Description:  This first ½ of this workshop is best for those who have already viewed the required Fiscal Management & Best Practices training. DCHS contractor trainings and resources - King County, Washington. Join us to ask any follow up questions after viewing the required recorded training. 
 
The second ½ of this workshop will introduce the nuts and bolts of setting up your accounting system to track expenses, allowing you to pull and provide reports on specific expenses like the General Ledger. 
 
Luckily, it’s a specific set of skills and tools that you can master. You can begin that journey toward mastery by learning the basics in this workshop.  
 
In this workshop, you will learn: 
• How to structure your accounting systems to track grants 
• How to review your grant spend downs so you know how much remains in each grant 
• How to allocate payroll and non-payroll expenses correctly across grants 
• How to allocate your joint overhead costs correctly to grants 
• How to provide a budget vs actuals for your funders 
• What a general ledger is and how to provide it to your funders

Trainer bio: Sofia Olson of Sunray Accounting Solutions is an empathetic, deliberate thinker with 20+ years of non-profit accounting experience, including 10+ years of setting up systems to track grant expenditures and supporting others to do the same. She says her superpowers are cleaning up messes; identifying what is needed in the present moment to get clearer, cleaner, more sustainable and dynamic systems to manage complex financial data; and creating and implementing those systems.
Sofia began learning accounting as the volunteer treasurer at the Seattle Young People’s Project in 2003, and then grew her skills in various roles, including my most recent as the Finance & Operations Manager at a local non-profit before launching her consulting business.

     

Working with Immigrant Community Members

Trainer: Liberated Legacy Pathways/Rosie O’Connor

Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm

Location: Virtual

Description: This workshop will focus on building some foundational knowledge of working with our immigrant community members. Starting with a general overview of immigration pathways and sharing some of the most common requests and/or challenges facing the immigrant community, and then offering some support in building our capacity to show up in relational and sustainable ways that best serve both our clients and ourselves.

Trainer Bio: Rosie O'Connor (They/them), LICSW, is a Somatic and EMDR therapist and has worked in refugee and immigrant mental health with a focus on youth and families since 2013. They have worked internationally supporting programming in Thailand, Sierra Leone, and India as well as with local and US national organizations including United Nations, International Rescue Committee, Refugees Northwest, Research Program for Children and Adversity, Trauma Resilience Youth Program, University of Denver Korbel School for International Studies and University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. They are also an international foster parent and organizer in their local community for immigration justice.

Veteran Provider Training Supports

The Veteran Provider Training Supports program provides trainings to the veteran-serving community on key issues that affect veterans, military servicemembers, and their respective families. The trainings aim to strengthen the ability of entities to be inclusive and welcoming of veterans, servicemembers, and their respective families. This VSHSL-funded training program is implemented by our partners Minority Veterans of America and the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs.

Learn more and view available trainings:

Previous trainings

Past trainings are recorded and available to watch on Vimeo.

Watch previous trainings