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 #DVAM2022 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.

The theme of Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2023 is “Drawing Connections: Prevention Demands Equity.” This campaign calls on individuals, communities, organizations, and institutions to change ourselves and the systems to build equity and respect.

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).

In 2022, DOJ released this updated guidance to help law enforcement agencies recognize, mitigate, and prevent gender bias and other bias from compromising the response to, and investigation of, SA, DV, and other forms of gender-based violence.

Time length: 10 minutes

LETTAC has prepared a flyer that outlines how to receive training and technical assistance.

Time length: 8 hours

Clery Center’s no-cost 2022 NCSAM Summit will bring together campus safety practitioners and higher education leaders from around the country to discuss how progress is best made when collaboration with partners takes place.

Time length: 2 hours

Free virtual training that defines human/sex trafficking, identifies how people are recruited, outlines characteristics of the traffickers, and provides information on how to respond to victims and specific indicators.

Time length: 2 hours

This free virtual training covers the definitions and dynamics of sexual assaults on campus, identifies common misperceptions, identifies relevant polices, and outlines ways to intervene and examine perpetrator motivation.

Time length: 2 hours

Free virtual training that focuses on dynamics of dating and domestic violence on campus, identifies common misperceptions, and offers an understanding of predominant aggressor and the impact of dual arrest.

Time length: 2 hours

A free virtual training that offers an understanding of common stalking behaviors and explores ways to attribute victim-centered meaning and context to those behaviors.

Time length: 2 hours

This free virtual training defines LGBTQ+ sexual and intimate partner violence (IPV), explores unique issues related to the LGBTQ+ community, identifies specific challenges and barriers to services and responses, and provides best practices.

Time length: 2 hours

This training encompasses the basic-to-intermediate aspects of report writing. This training was featured on the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence - 2022 Trauma-Informed Symposium, held on August 11-12, 2022.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

To help the victims of crime, justice system professionals must recognize the basic scientific concepts concerning the neurobiology of trauma. This training was featured on the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence - 2022 Symposium.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

This training was featured on the agenda for the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence -Symposium. This session incorporates the principles of the neurobiology of trauma as it relates to the interview process.

Time length: 1 hour

By uniting our efforts through the same hashtags and simple messaging, through GiveForDV and during DVAM, it builds the case that Every1 has a part to play in supporting our work to end domestic violence. We hope you will join us in this campaign.

Time length: 1 hour

The Domestic Violence Awareness Project (DVAP), a project of the NRCDV, developed a unified message and action guide: #1Thing. One person’s actions may seem insignificant, but together a communities' collective “#1Things” can lead to transformation.

Time length: 1 hour

This year’s campaign seeks to support victims with a clear message: If you are experiencing abuse in your relationship, you don't have to face it alone. Learn about your local Family Advocacy Program and other resources available to you.

Time length: 1 hour

If you are in immediate danger, call 911. The Office on Violence Against Women does not provide services directly to the general public. Find local help by clicking on our local resources map or calling one of the national hotlines.

Time length: 1 hour

The Victim Assistance to Support Tribes Center is an extension of NCVC's mission to include our Indigenous Partners in hopes to expand services of victims and survivors which may be overlooked and underserved in Indigenous communities.

Registration is now open for the 2022 Rural Virtual Conference: Collaborative Responses to Domestic Violence in Rural Communities (Oct 3 & 4). Sessions will cover implementing collaborative, systemic responses to DV in rural communities nationwide.

Time length: 15 minutes

This October, the National Violence Against Women Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Consortium (LETTAC) commemorates and elevates Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) and highlights available training and technical assistance.

Time length: 1 hour

Peruse the video messages of support from the LETTAC Consortium; explore the LETTAC #DVAM2022 booklet to learn more about our subject-matter experts and requesting TTA; and check out the accompanying toolkit full of DVAM curated resources.

Time length: 40 minutes

View this fireside chat with OVW leaders Allison Randall, OVW Acting Director, and Nadine Neufville, Deputy Director of the Grant Development and Management Division, and reminiscence where we came from and forecast where we’re going.

Time length: 20 minutes

In this podcast episode, OVW grant specialist Jessica Neal interviews Dorian Johnson, a former project director at Spelman College, to discuss the importance of OVW’s grants for HBCUs, as well as tips for applying for and using OVW grant awards.

Time length: 1 hour

This publication by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges explores the issue of teen dating violence, how to support LGBTQIA+ teens experiencing dating violence, and practical considerations for judges and courtroom personnel.

Do you know your stalking statutes? Check out this interactive map for all U.S. jurisdictions created by the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC) of AEquitas. Stalking: know it; name it; stop it.

Time length: 1 hour

These trainings and publications by the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC) of Aequitas can assist law enforcement in their identification of and response to stalking crimes.

These resources by the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC) of Aequitas can help judicial officers use concrete knowledge of stalking behaviors and how they relate to other crimes to better identify stalking in any type of case.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

This is a collection of Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) webinars highlighting survivor-centered, trauma-informed advocacy for trafficking survivors.

Time length: 30 minutes

This Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence website defines trafficking, sex trafficking, domestic minor sex trafficking, and commercial sexual exploitation of children. It offers trafficking statistics, resources, and helplines.

Time length: 30 minutes

This TA Brief addresses the complexity of advocacy for survivors of trafficking. Topics include definitions; analysis/root causes; trauma-informed advocacy, endangerment, and confidentiality; and considerations/recommendations at points of contact.

Time length: 45 minutes

This report integrates expertise from advocates and survivors that can serve as a primer for program design for victims of trafficking; forge collaborations; expand the field’s knowledge of trauma; and inform safety, healing, and empowerment.

Time length: 5 minutes

This Department of Defense website includes human trafficking training, a parent resource guide, a student guide to preventing human trafficking, and survivor accounts published by the Combating Trafficking in Persons Program Management Office.

Visit this Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website to learn more about National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (January 11) and explore the DHS's Blue Campaign and social media shareables. #WearBlueDay

Time length: 7 minutes

Explore these human trafficking campus law enforcement training videos by the Department of Homeland Security's Blue Campaign, a national public awareness campaign. Learn how to recognize and respond to human trafficking as campus law enforcement.

Time length: 50 minutes

This U.S. Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign webinar explores how trafficking uniquely impacts Tribal communities and explains how to better recognize and respond to Tribal victims of human trafficking.

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) are invaluable collaborative partners in a prosecutor’s response to human trafficking. SANEs provide much-needed medical care and enhance investigations and prosecutions when included on multidisciplinary teams.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

This webinar will teach you to investigate and prosecute crimes of intimate partner human trafficking and recognize the methods of control used by these offenders, which are uniquely manipulative and difficult to identify.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

In this webinar, learn to effectively document incidents of sex and labor trafficking to protect victims, hold offenders accountable, and educate the public.

Time length: 5 minutes

This article explores the research of Katherine Scafide, PhD, a former forensic nurse examiner and now an assistant professor at George Mason University, on the use of alternate light sources to more accurately detect bruising across all skin tones.

Time length: 15 minutes

This Justice Today podcast episode, hosted by the National Institute of Justice, discusses research on human trafficking that is helping victims and developing tools and information to help better understand, prevent, and respond to trafficking.

Time length: 30 minutes

This report includes descriptions of OVW grantees’ accomplishments, aggregated data on their work from 2018 to 2020, scholarly research that supports the effectiveness of grant-funded activities, and best practices to respond to VAWA crimes.

Time length: 1 hour, 10 minutes

This podcast addresses stalking as a pattern of behavior directed at a specific person. It causes a person to fear for their safety or the safety of others.

Domestic violence is a pervasive concern for the community and police. Research shows that when police can intervene during early stages of emotional, verbal, or physical abuse, this is critical to preventing violence.

In this podcast, Adam Dodge exposes the danger of living in an online world while demystifying the process of creating a digital safety plan, collecting evidence of tech abuse, and how one might create a legal system that properly investigates.

Victim-centered, trauma-informed approaches to crime can support victim recovery and engagement with the criminal justice system. These approaches enhance victim and community safety while helping law enforcement solve and prevent crime.

Effective victim response requires multilayered strategies to meet crime victims’ individual needs. To carry out these strategies, law enforcement agencies and their partners must identify and secure appropriate funding.

This podcast addresses gender-based violence and human trafficking directly with young men. In this episode, Matt Osborne explains the magnitude of the problems of human trafficking, objectification of women, and pornography addiction.

Time length: 3 hours

This webinar series addresses the intersectionality of human trafficking and intimate partner violence, the importance of a multidisciplinary approach, complexity in identification and victim disclosure, and trauma-informed services/support.