在骨干中从一个视图向另一个视图发射事件

I have a main view and inside that main view I have another view that gets created when I click a button. Is there a way to listen for a custom event on the parent view for an event that is fired from the child view. I tried to do it through the el property using jQuery trigger but that didn't quite work.I have a main view and inside that main view I