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Honoring a Survivor's Unique Human Trafficking Experience
33 minutes
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.
Center on Victimization and Safety (CVS)
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.
National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit (NCPOFFC)
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.
National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative (NDVFRI)
1 hour
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.
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
2 hours
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.
National Public Safety Partnership (PSP)
1 hour
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.
The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms
1 hour
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.
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
1 hour
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.
Sexual Assault Justice Initiative (SAJI)
2 hours
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.
Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC)
1 hour
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.
Victim-Centered Approaches to Community Supervision TTA
30 minutes
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.
NCADV's 2022 DVAM Toolkit: #WeAreResilient
1 hour
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.
Resource Sharing Project Helps Those Impacted By Sexual Assault
29 seconds
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.
Foundations of SA Investigation for the Rural Officer-Online Training
10 hours
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.
Roll Call Training: Trauma-Informed Framework for Working with Victims
35 minutes
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.
Roll Call Training: Strangulation Investigations
35 minutes
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.
The National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Website
1 hour
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.
SAKI - Multidisciplinary Team Leaders Website
1 hour
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.
Law Enforcement Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Accountability
1 hour
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.
Firearm Divestiture Program in Louisiana
20 minutes
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.
The National Domestic Violence Prosecution Best Practices Guide
2 hours
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.
Sexual Assault Investigation and Prosecution Best Practices Guide
1 hour, 15 minutes
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.
The National Human Trafficking Prosecution Best Practices Guide
2 hours, 15 minutes
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.
TTA Flyers for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors Serving Immigrants
30 minutes
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.
DOJ's Tribal Consultation on Violence Against AI/AN
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.
OVW's Tribal Affairs Division
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.
American Indian/Alaska Native Health Resources
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.
A DV Court Planning Road Map: The Tulalip Tribes’ Experience
20 minutes
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.
Engaging Men and Children as Allies in Ending Gender-Based Violence
14 minutes, 1 second
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.
Understanding Effects of the Pandemic for Domestic Violence Victims
1 hour, 18 minutes, 52 seconds
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.
The Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission: A National Model
40 minutes
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.
National Homicide Review TTA Project: MHRC Training Manual
1 hour, 30 minutes
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.
BJA Programs that Support Law Enforcement
45 minutes
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 Assault Awareness Month
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.
Improving LEA's Response to DVSA by Preventing Gender Bias
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.
NCSAM 2022 Virtual Summit: Partners in Progress
8 hours
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.
Sex Trafficking Concerns on Campus
2 hours
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.
Dating and Domestic Violence (IPV) on Campus
2 hours
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.
Everyone Deserves to be Heard
2 hours
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.
Report Writing for Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence
2 hours
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.
Trauma-Informed Response for the Justice System
1 hour, 30 minutes
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.
Trauma-Informed Victim Interview for the Justice System
1 hour, 30 minutes
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.
NNEDV's 2022 DVAM Campaign & Toolkit: #Every1KnowsSome1
1 hour
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.
NRCDV's DVAM 2022 Resources: #1Thing
1 hour
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.
Military OneSource DVAM 2022 Resource Guide: #UnitedAgainstDA
1 hour
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.
Office on Violence Against Women - Local Resources Map
1 hour
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.
NCVC's Victim Assistance to Support Tribes Website
1 hour
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.
ICCR's 2022 Rural Virtual Conference: Collaborative Responses to DV
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.
LETTAC DVAM 2022 Booklet
15 minutes
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.
LETTAC #DVAM2022 Campaign
1 hour
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.
Fireside Chat With OVW Leaders
40 minutes
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.
HBCUs: Tips for Applying for and Using OVW Grant Awards
20 minutes
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.
Teen Dating Violence: Support for Judges & Other Professionals
1 hour
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.
Identify & Respond to Stalking: Resources for Law Enforcement
1 hour
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.
Identify Stalking: Resources for Judicial Officers
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.
Webinars: Trauma-Informed Advocacy for Trafficking Survivors
1 hour, 30 minutes
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.
Trafficking 101: Statistics, Resources, and Helplines
30 minutes
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.
TA Brief: Trauma-Informed Advocacy for Trafficking Survivors
30 minutes
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.
Intersections of Trafficking, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Assault
45 minutes
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.
Combating Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Department of Defense Resources
5 minutes
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.
Human Trafficking: Campus Law Enforcement Training Videos
7 minutes
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.
Webinar: Combating Human Trafficking in Tribal Communities
50 minutes
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.
Webinar: A SANE Approach to Human Trafficking Cases
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.
Webinar: Intimate Partner Human Trafficking
1 hour, 30 minutes
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.
Improving Bruise Detection with Alternate Light
5 minutes
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.
Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking
15 minutes
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.
2020 Biennial Report to Congress on the Effectiveness of VAWA Grants
30 minutes
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.
Stalking & Post-Separation Abuse: The Connection Between Stalking & DV
1 hour, 10 minutes
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.
Proactive Police Response to Domestic-Related Repeat Calls for Service
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.
Demystifying Digital Safety & Empowering Survivors of Abuse
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.
Agency Self-Assessment Tool for Law Enforcement Victim Support
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.
Identifying and Securing Funding for Victim Response Efforts
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.
Men with More: Educating Young Men to Lead the Culture Shift
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.
Human Trafficking and Intimate Partner Violence Webinar Series
3 hours
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.