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This project provides training and technical assistance on immigration law for attorneys and legal advocates focused on immigration status options and protections for survivors, implementing best practices in representing survivors, and understanding current legal developments relevant to immigrant survivors.

This project provides comprehensive responses to climate disasters and public health emergencies for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by identifying promising practices that account for the unique needs of survivors.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms (NRCDVF)  builds the capacity of justice systems practitioners and victim service professionals to respond safely and effectively to domestic violence cases involving firearms.

The Providing Advocacy for Criminalized Survivors Project (the PACS Project) provides training and technical assistance to victim service organizations working with charged, incarcerated, and reentering survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

The Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP) partnering with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), American Bar Association on behalf of its Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence (ABA), Activate Change, Aequitas, Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV), Center for Justice Innovation (CJI), End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin on behalf of the National Abuse Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), Esperanza United, Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Consortium (LETTAC), Jewish Women International (JWI), National Organization for Victim Advocacy (NOVA), Regional Domestic Violence Firearms Enforcement Unit in King County, Washington (RDVFEU), Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI), and Ujima: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community team, and subject matter experts provide training, technical assistance, and resources to grant recipients of the OVW Electronic Service Protection Order Court Pilot (ESPOC) program. BWJP will provide training, technical assistance, and resources to ESPOC grantees on the electronic service of civil protection orders and support the selected pilot sites as they develop technologies, policies, and procedures for their programs.

The Liberation Project: Post Conviction Assistance for Criminalized Survivors supports training and resources for OVW grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees on post-conviction relief (PCR) for criminalized survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This project increases awareness of recently authorized VAWA provisions regarding representation of survivors on post-conviction matters and provide training on post-conviction relief remedies and practices.

The National Center on Protections Orders and Full Faith & Credit provides training and technical assistance (TA) on protection orders (POs), the Full Faith and Credit (FFC) provision of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and inter-jurisdictional enforcement of POs.

The SAFeR Approach Project is a framework for making custody and visitation decisions in cases involving intimate partner violence.

Battered Women’s Justice Project provides training and technical assistance to the OVW Firearms Technical Assistance Project pilot sites and the field at large on the implementation and enforcement of domestic violence firearms prohibitions.

This project provides specialized training and technical assistance to enhance community supervision strategies and builds the capacity of pre-trial, probation, and parole officers to effectively supervise cases involving domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This project approaches offender accountability programs as a critical component of a broad and coordinated criminal justice response and addresses both on-going and emerging training needs such as risk assessment, bail reform, investigations, victim notification, pre-trial release, and other related topics.

This project provides training and technical assistance to the Consolidated Youth and Engaging Men (CYEM) Program grantees and potential grantees on the development of new projects and enhancement of current projects addressing the needs of children and youth who are exposed to or are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking.

The STOP Administrators Culturally Specific Technical Assistance project will focus on providing State Administering Agencies (SAAs) with the necessary knowledge, resources, and supports to meaningfully engage with culturally specific communities and organizations (CSOs) that are eligible for STOP Formula Grant Program funding and help SAAs build the capacity of CSOs to successfully apply for and manage STOP Program funds.

Opportunities for All: The PEACE Approach to Culturally Specific Outreach strengthens the organizational capacity of culturally specific organizations (CSOs) to serve survivors, through the implementation of the comprehensive five-prong strategy known as the PEACE Approach. The PEACE Approach involves evaluating and strengthening CSOs’ capacity to serve survivors, increasing the sustainability of their victim services activities, and enhancing the connection and engagement of CSOs with each other and with other types of organizations.

The Advocate Training Institute for Peace and Safety (Advocate TIPS) project provides training and technical assistance to culturally specific organizations across OVW grant programs, potential grantees and subgrantees on building their organizational capacity to provide services to culturally specific communities.

This project increases the effective use of intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessments as part of coordinated responses to domestic violence homicide prevention and maintains a national online resource center.

This project provides training and technical assistance on emerging trends and best practices to to Justice for Families (JFF) grantees and court-based and court-related personnel.

The Center for Justice Innovation in collaboration with Futures Without Violence, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), and the National Council for Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), this project will provide training and technical assistance to court staff (including court clerks, court administrators, mediators, and guardian ad litem) across the United States seeking to improve court responses to gender-based violence.

This project provides training and technical assistance to Justice for Families grantees and Stop Violence Against Women Formula subgrantees to enhance their ability to design and deliver training programs using adult learning methodologies to court-based staff and others working within the civil justice system.

This project provides training and technical assistance for law enforcement, prosecutors, judges and court staff, and victim services providers on pre-trial release criteria and conditions of bond (COB) that address the safety of victims in cases that involve domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This project provides training and technical assistance (TTA) to victim advocates, probation and parole, attorneys, law enforcement, prosecutors, state court judges, and court staff, on effective abuse intervention program practices. Also, this project examines existing and emerging models for promoting offender accountability in the criminal justice system.

This project builds the capacity of OVW-funded mentor courts to serve as promising practice court models for other jurisdictions, fosters peer mentorship for specialized domestic violence courts, and builds the national network of mentor courts in the domestic and sexual violence field.

This project provides training and technical assistance to OVW grantees serving survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking regarding economic issues, including consumer legal advocacy, credit issues, coercive debt, and economic self-sufficiency and security.

This project provides training and technical assistance to culturally specific community-based organizations implementing transitional housing programs.

The Clery Center for Security on Campus (Clery Center) is the comprehensive training and technical assistance provider for the Jeanne Clery Act project. This project provides basic and advanced training and technical assistance to institutions of higher education to improve Jeanne Clery Act reporting, training, and record keeping for the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.

This project provides training and TA to OVW funded domestic and sexual violence programs, domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions, homeless service system providers, and continuums of care with the primary goal of increasing coordination and collaboration among these entities and expanding their capacity to meet the housing needs of survivors, with a focus on equity and the needs of survivors from historically marginalized communities.

The Conference on Crimes Against Women, through its Institute for Coordinated Community Response (ICCR) implements the ICCR Rural Cohort Program. This project works alongside selected rural counties evaluating their current responses to domestic violence and assisting selected sites in establishing effective, sustainable, survivor-centered Coordinated Community Response (CCR) teams.

The Seek Then Speak: A Survivor-Centered Alternative Pathway to Justice and Services project enhances and expands the utilization of Seek Then Speak, an interactive web-based tool for sexual assault survivors to have a new way to privately gather information, explore options, and take action, including beginning the process of reporting their sexual assault to law enforcement, if they choose.

This project provides law enforcement with training and tools to effectively respond to allegations of sexual assault by using trauma-informed, victim-centered, and offender-focused approaches and investigative techniques with the goal of increasing the likelihood of successful investigations and prosecutions while avoiding re-traumatizing victims.

This project provides medical providers and allied professionals with quality training and technical assistance aligned with current best practices to improve sexual assault survivors’ access to medical forensic care, including culturally appropriate care.

This project provides training and technical assistance on building the capacity of organizations to serve Latina victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This project will provide training and technical assistance for the OVW Culturally Specific Services Program (CSSP) grantees.

This project hosts a consortium of OVW TA providers with OVW TA projects that solely address the needs of culturally specific communities to coordinate current OVW training and technical assistance for culturally specific community-based organizations (CSCBOs).

This project provides training and technical assistance on addressing homicide prevention and local, state, tribal, and federal firearms policies and laws through a cultural context of domestic violence in various traditionally marginalized and underserved communities.

This project provides training and technical assistance on addressing firearms related domestic violence homicide prevention and local, state, tribal, and federal firearms policies and laws through a cultural context of domestic violence in various traditionally marginalized and underserved communities.

The project addresses the cultural context of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in underserved and traditionally marginalized communities with a primary focus on Latin@ communities and supports ICJR grantees and potential grantees that are creating or revitalizing coordinated community response teams in increasing their knowledge of the Latin@ communities and prioritizing the safety of victims from underserved and traditionally marginalized communities.

This project provides opportunities to build collaborative approaches to providing interventions and services for victims of domestic and sexual violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women, children, and families, as well as those who identify as Two Spirited/LBGTQ and persons with disabilities.

This project provides basic and advanced TTA for Tribal law enforcement officers and agencies responsible for responding to and/or investigating domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking cases, and enforcing protection orders, in Indian Country and Alaska.