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This project develops best practices for specialized and alternate interviewing techniques of adult sexual assault victims with intellectual disabilities and deliver training and technical assistance on these best practices.

Activating Change collaborates with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network to implement the Accessing Safety Initiative project. This project provides basic and intermediate training and technical assistance to grantees of the OVW Training and Services to End Violence and Abuse Against Individuals with Disabilities and Deaf People program on serving survivors with disabilities and deaf survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

The Disability and Deaf Resource Center provides training and technical assistance to increase awareness of the needs of survivors with disabilities and deaf survivors, provide resources and training on effectively addressing these needs, and improve victim services and criminal justice responses for survivors with disabilities and deaf survivors.

Activating Change collaborates with DeafHope and DAWN in the Deaf Action Initiative to provide culturally and linguistically specific training and technical assistance to deaf anti-violence programs across the United States through the Deaf Action Initiative project. This project increases the capacity of deaf anti-violence programs to effectively address sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.

This project supports prosecutors, ancillary staff, and allied professionals during the investigation and prosecution of cases involving violence against women (VAW) via expert training and technical assistance, resources, and mentorship (TTA); and enhance victim safety and offender accountability via teaching and promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed, and offender-focused practices and legal strategies that will improve prosecution outcomes. This project incorporates the principles set forth in the Department of Justice framework for prosecutors to strengthen our national response to sexual assault and domestic violence involving adult victims.

The National Resource Center on Cybercrimes Against Individuals Program (NRCC) supports the establishment and maintenance of a national resource center to provide resource information, training, and technical assistance to improve the capacity of individuals, organizations, governmental entities, and communities to prevent, enforce, and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals. Cybercrimes against individuals are defined as criminal offenses that involve the use of a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, coerce, cause fear to, or intimidate an individual, or without consent distribute intimate images of an adult, except that use of a computer need not be an element of the offense.

The Just Tech: Investigation and Prosecution of Online Abuse project provides training and technical assistance to law enforcement and prosecutors on the issue of online abuse- cyberstalking, doxing, online harassment, and image exploitation.

This project provides technical assistance on a model penal code for sexual assault, including issues around consent.

The Vital Signs: Enhancing the Healthcare Response to Stalking Project (Vital Signs) enhances healthcare professionals (HCPs) capacity to better identify and respond to stalking victims in healthcare settings, recognizing the emotional and physical risks stalking poses to patients. Vital Signs focuses on training and technical assistance and resources for forensic nurses, emergency department personnel, sexual health/pre-natal care providers, primary care providers, and other HCPs as identified.

The Stalking Prevention, Awareness & Resource Center (SPARC) provides training, technical assistance, and resources to build the capacity of service providers and civil and criminal justice system practitioners to address the crime of stalking.

The Alaska Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction Technical Assistance (AK-STCJ-TA) project provides training and technical assistance (TTA) to Alaska tribes to plan for, implement, or exercise special tribal criminal jurisdiction (STCJ) over non-Indian offenders in Alaska Native villages pursuant to the Alaska Pilot Program authorized by VAWA 2022 and codified at 25 U.S.C. 1305(d). The goals of the project are to support Alaska tribes considering, planning, and preparing to exercise STCJ and to deliver targeted TTA to Alaska tribes interested in designation, or designated, by the Attorney General as a “participating tribe” (as defined in Section 812(3) of VAWA 2022) to exercise STCJ through the Alaska Pilot Program.

The Alaska Native Advocacy Training and Technical Assistance Center strengthens the capacity and skills of victim advocates serving Alaska Native populations within the state of Alaska and provides a 24/7 Alaska Native Advocacy Technical Assistance Hotline.

Alliance for Hope International’s Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention implements the Identifying, Investigating and Prosecuting Strangulation Cases project.

The Training and Technical Assistance Initiative for Family Justice Centers (FJC) project provides training and technical assistance on the development and implementation of multi-agency, multidisciplinary victim service centers, including FJC models, designed to meet the needs of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victims.

The STOP Technical Assistance to Administrators Resource (STAAR) Project is a national technical assistance project funded by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). The STAAR Project is the designated comprehensive training and technical assistance (TA) provider for the STOP Formula Grants Program. The STAAR Project offers tools, resources, training, peer networking and sharing, and individualized technical assistance to help STOP Administrators successfully fulfill their role.

This project provides training and technical assistance to grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees of OVW’s grants for outreach and services to underserved populations program on strengthening knowledge and capacity to serve survivors experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking from underserved populations.

This project provides comprehensive training and technical assistance to existing and potential tribal coalitions to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking.

This project provides training and technical assistance to institutions of higher education on effective comprehensive prevention strategies that are informed by research or evidence-based.

This project provides training and technical assistance to attorneys on incorporating trauma informed principles into the representation of survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

The ABAs Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and partners provide training and technical assistance to state and territorial domestic violence, sexual assault, dual coalitions, and member organizations serving LGBTQIA2S+ survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault. Trainings focus on how coalitions can build LGBTQIA2S+ inclusivity through the LGBTQIA2S+ training for coalitions.

The Expanding Legal Services Initiative (ELSI) Building project provides training and technical assistance (TTA) to OVW Legal Assistance for Victims ELSI grantees to assist these grantees in establishing legal programs within their organizations that provide legal representation to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This project provides training and technical assistance to legal services providers, prosecutors’ offices, and courts, including judges and court personnel, representing or engaging with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual or two-spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This project provides trial advocacy and/or litigation skills training and technical assistance and enhances the skills of both new and experienced attorneys litigating civil cases, including, but not limited to, custody, divorce, and protection order litigation involving domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This project provides training and technical assistance to law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and systems-based victim advocates on U and T Visa programs, certifications, and language access best practices to assist marginalized and traditionally underserved immigrant and limited English proficient (LEP) survivors.

This project provides training and technical assistance to victim advocates, attorneys, law enforcement, prosecutors, law school clinics, state court judges and court staff, and shelter and housing program staff on strengthening their knowledge and capacity to serve immigrant and limited English proficient (LEP) survivors experiencing domestic violence and sexual assault.

The Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative & Clearinghouse project provides training and technical assistance to grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees on developing and implementing domestic violence fatality reviews.

The Interpretation Technical Assistance Center (ITARC) provides training and technical assistance to OVW grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees on increasing and strengthening meaningful language access to persons with limited English proficiency experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

The Healing Across Language project hosts a National Center for the Training, Testing, and Registry of Trauma-Informed Interpreters trained specifically on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence.

This project builds the capacity of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) advocacy organizations and victim service providers to serve victims of domestic violence and sexual assault from MENA communities by identifying domestic violence and sexual assault dynamics and trends, strengthening services for marginalized and/or newly arrived MENA ethnic groups, and enhancing the accessibility of services for MENA victims with limited English proficiency (LEP).

This project provides training and technical assistance to organizations currently serving or planning to serve survivors from Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities on increasing their capacity to serve NHPI survivors effectively by enhancing program design, cultural responsiveness, and language accessibility.

This project builds organizations’ skills and knowledge to address the culturally specific dynamics of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking impacting the Asian Pacific Islander (API) community and assists organizations to develop culturally specific community engagement strategies to effectively work with varied Asian-specific faith-based communities.

This project provides training and technical assistance to courts, court-based programs, and service providers seeking to ensure meaningful language access for litigants with limited English proficiency involved in domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking matters.