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A Roadmap to Success: Building a Co-Responder Program for Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking
A Roadmap to Success: Building a Co-Responder Program for Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking is a guide detailing the importance and implementation of co-responder programs. Co-responders are teams of a law enforcement officer and an advocate working together to enhance safety for victim/survivors. The guide is a roadmap to develop a partnership-based program to provide greater access to justice for victim/survivors, especially those from culturally specific and marginalized communities. It outlines the core components of co-responder programs, various types of co-responder models, community and organizational preparedness assessments, team composition considerations, suggested trainings, keys to program sustainability, and success evaluation matrices.
To access the guide, click on the link, and it will open in a new page. The guide is interactive, with hyperlinks to helpful resources. Select the play buttons at the beginning of each page/section to access audio narration of the content. You may also download the guide as a PDF to refer to offline.
