Featured LETTAC Clearinghouse

Welcome to OVW’s biennial conferral webinars! During these conferrals, we get the opportunity to hear directly from you. Your feedback will be used to shape the work of the future.

Time length: 33 minutes

Savannah Sanders joins the Patchwork podcast to share how she applies what she learned about her life as a victim of human trafficking to help others who have been trafficked.

CVS enhances preventing and addressing interpersonal violence and related crimes, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and promoting policies and practices that hold abusers accountable, prioritize safety, and also help survivors heal.

This resource center helps activate people and organizations across movements to end violence against people with disabilities and Deaf people through a shared, intersectional framework.

ITARC works to improve systems responses to limited English proficiency (LEP) victims by providing technical assistance and training on the development and implementation of language accessible services.

The National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit provides technical assistance and training on protection orders, the Full Faith and Credit provision of the VAWA, and inter-jurisdictional enforcement of protection orders.

Time length: 1 hour

NDVFRI provides technical assistance in reviewing domestic violence related deaths to prevent them in the future, preserve battered women's safety, and hold accountable perpetrators and agencies/organizations that come into contact with the parties.

Time length: 2 hours

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a national information clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases across the United States.

Time length: 1 hour

PSP was established by DOJ to provide an innovative framework to enhance federal support of state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution authorities to enhance public safety and build capacity to address violent crime challenges.

Time length: 1 hour

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms (which includes the Safer Families, Safer Communities project) is the first-ever website wholly dedicated to addressing the role of firearms and domestic violence.

Time length: 1 hour

NSVRC provides information and tools to prevent and respond to sexual violence; translates research and trends into best practices; promotes informed reporting by the media; and leads April's Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Time length: 2 hours

The goal of SAJI is to develop and implement a set of performance measures for sexual assault prosecutions, targeting accountability-related outputs and outcomes such as appropriateness of sentence, support for victims, and victim satisfaction.

Time length: 1 hour

SPARC provides education and resources about the crime of stalking to enhance the response to stalking by educating the professionals tasked with keeping stalking victims safe and holding offenders accountable.

Time length: 30 minutes

This program supports specialized TTA to ICJR, STOP grantees (and non-grantees) to develop community corrections strategies and enhance probation and parole officers’ response to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.

Time length: 6 hours

This toolkit is a step-by-step guide that leads Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Coordinators through the Sexual Violence Justice Institute's process of reviewing law enforcement case files.

Time length: 1 hour

This toolkit includes information, background, messaging, templates, and content to help promote your involvement in #DVAM2021 and your commitment to seeing a national culture where we are all safe, empowered and free from domestic violence.

Time length: 30 minutes

This podcast discusses issues that lead to sexual assaults on campuses and describes how early education may help prevent gender-based violence.

Time length: 22 minutes

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, or SANEs, are a critical component of a sexual assault response team, and are often the starting point for survivors on their journey towards recovery.

Time length: 23 minutes

In this podcast, Kristin Burki, the Director of the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), joins Patchwork to frame the topic of elder abuse.

Time length: 46 minutes

This podcast discusses how cultural differences can drive misconceptions and create obstacles when working with victims of crime.

Time length: 29 seconds

This podcast features Kris Bein and Monika Johnson Hostler who work as part of the national Resource Sharing Project to support coalitions serving victims of sexual assault.

Time length: 10 hours

This course provides rural law enforcement executives and investigators with the knowledge, skills, and resources for establishing a victim-centered response as part of an effective investigation.

Time length: 1 hour

This website provides information and resources regarding domestic violence.

NSA is offering free two-day training on lethality, liability, dynamics, investigating, interviewing, and Federal laws.

Time length: 35 minutes

This training focuses on the impact of trauma and helping victims of crime feel heard within the criminal justice system, increasing the rate of success in investigating and prosecuting sexual assault and domestic violence cases.

Time length: 35 minutes

This training explores strangulation as a part of domestic violence in response to the imperative that our criminal justice system has the training and tools to hold society’s most dangerous offenders accountable.

Time length: 1 hour

SAKI provides funding through a competitive grant program to support the jurisdictional reform of approaches to sexual assault cases resulting from evidence found in sexual assault kits that have never been submitted to a crime laboratory.

Time length: 1 hour

This pre-packaged briefcase offers a comprehensive set of tools covering multiple topic areas for sexual assault investigators.

Time length: 1 hour

This pre-packaged briefcase offers a comprehensive set of tools covering multiple topic areas for prosecutors investigating sexual assault.

Time length: 1 hour

This pre-packaged briefcase offers a comprehensive set of tools covering multiple topic areas for multidisciplinary team leads, Sexual Assault Response Teams, and other groups focused on improving the response to sexual assault.

Time length: 1 hour

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious, preventable public health problem that affects millions of Americans.

Time length: 1 hour

This website provides information on domestic or intimate partner violence.

Time length: 2 hours

This document provides a prosecutor's guide to full faith and credit for protection orders.

Time length: 2 hours

This guide for advocates provides information on the full faith and credit provision of the Violence Against Women Act, 18 U.S.C. §2265.

Time length: 1 hour

This guide, for law enforcement, provides guidance on the inter-jurisdictional enforcement of protection orders.

Time length: 1 hour

This document helps law enforcement agencies work collaboratively with agency personnel, community partners, and legal counsel to develop their own agency-specific policy to address sexual misconduct committed by sworn and civilian personnel.

Time length: 20 minutes

This success story features Lieutenant Valerie Martinez-Jordan of the Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff’s Office and her efforts to separate individuals with records of domestic violence from their firearms to prevent future bloodshed.

Time length: 2 hours

This is intended as a living document highlighting current best practices in the prosecution of domestic violence, inspired by the NDAA's Women Prosecutors Section and National Symposium on the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Cases.

Time length: 1 hour, 15 minutes

The National Sexual Assault Investigation and Prosecution Best Practices Guide is a living document highlighting current best practices in the investigation and prosecution of Sexual Assault.

Time length: 2 hours, 15 minutes

The National Human Trafficking Prosecution Best Practices Guide is a living document highlighting current best practices in the prosecution of human trafficking.

Time length: 15 minutes

The LETTAC Briefing Book provides an overview of the LETTAC program.

Time length: 1 hour

This publication, from the National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project (NIWAP), provides an extensive list of training materials for law enforcement and prosecutors.

Time length: 30 minutes

This resource, developed by the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), provides information regarding training and technical assistance for professionals serving immigrant and refugee women and children.

This page has tools, ideas to promote awareness in your community, and OVW-funded events and webinars on domestic violence. Resources are grouped for specific audiences: advocates, attorneys, judges, law enforcement, and prosecutors.

Time length: 1 hour, 17 minutes, 7 seconds

This webinar will highlight the Domestic Violence Homicide Response Plan, as well as provide suggestions for how it can be applied in practice.

This online resource highlights the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tribal Consultation on Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women activities for the years 2016-2021 and includes reports, agendas, framing papers, and recommendations.

This page details OVW's grant programs and other resources designed to develop the nation's capacity to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by strengthening services to victims and holding offenders accountable.

Intimate partner violence poses a significant health threat across Indian Country. Increasingly, health care professionals recognize that it is a major public health problem. Visit for promising practices, tools, and resources for AI/AN communities.

Time length: 15 minutes

The resource outlines the principles of the Domestic Violence Court model that complement and enable the Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction requirements.

Time length: 20 minutes

This publication details the initial planning stages of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington in developing a designated Domestic Violence Court to process all domestic violence cases in the tribal community.

Time length: 10 minutes

Learn about the programs and areas of focus of the National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project (NIWAP).

Time length: 14 minutes, 1 second

Kellie Greene, a program specialist at OVW, shares how her program seeks to engage children and men as allies in ending gender-based violence.

Time length: 1 hour, 18 minutes, 52 seconds

Hear from Federal Government representatives, researchers, and service providers about how COVID-19 has impacted the occurrence of domestic violence across the country.

Time length: 40 minutes

This white paper reviews the development, implementation, and assessment of the site-based trainings on which the National Homicide Review Training and Technical Assistance Project: Homicide Review Training Manual is based.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

This training manual lays out a series of steps, grouped into ten modules for law enforcement and community service agencies to follow in creating homicide review commissions in their own communities.

Time length: 45 minutes

This flyer outlines programs funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) that support law enforcement. Links to the program descriptions are included as well as to associated FY2022 funding opportunities, if applicable.

Sexual harassment, assault, and abuse can happen anywhere, including in online. For too long harassment, cyberbullying, and sexual abuse and exploitation have come to be expected as typical and unavoidable behaviors online. Let's change that!

April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This page has resources and tools, ideas to promote awareness in your community, and OVW-funded events and webinars on sexual assault.

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE, online.rainn.org y rainn.org/es).