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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.

This project addresses the gap in awareness of and access to survivors employment rights and protections and builds the capacity of OVW-funded and potentially OVW-funded attorneys and advocates through trainings, technical assistance, and practical tools so that they are better able to assist survivors particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous survivors, survivors with disabilities, survivors who are deaf, and/or LGBTQIA+ survivors with the unique challenges they face in accessing and utilizing their employment protections.

This project provides training and technical assistance for officers of state, tribal, territorial, and local courts on elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking of older adults.

The goal of STAGES Pathways is to create a community of learning and practice amongst community-based organizations and their partners to build, enhance, or adapt their existing services for older adult survivors of abuse including restorative options and strategies to increase financial sustainability and safety.

The Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED) offers hands-on workshops and technical assistance to help U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grantees to enhance the relevance and effectiveness of training and education programs supported by OVW, and improve the capacity of OVW grantees to design and deliver well-organized, accessible, highly-interactive training and education for their constituents. I-LED workshops reach national, multidisciplinary audiences of OVW grantees and their constituents, including advocates, attorneys, social workers, visitation center staff, volunteer coordinators, judges, and other professionals who engage in program design and/or faculty service.

This project provides multi-faceted training and technical assistance to institutions of higher education on engaging college-age men, including athletes and fraternity members, as leaders and influencers in the efforts to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.

The Resource Center on Workplace Responses to Assist Victims of Domestic & Sexual Violence maintains the National Workplace Domestic and Sexual Violence website and provides training and technical assistance to employers and labor organizations, and assist those entities with developing protocols and policies on domestic and sexual violence in the workplace.

This project designs and delivers a spectrum of multi-modal, multi-media education and technical assistance to support the infrastructure and staff development of survivor-serving and coalition organizations to improve organizational capacity to successfully lead, operate, and sustain their organizations.

This project improves community collaborative responses to address human trafficking experienced at the intersection with domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, increases the capacity of OVW grantees and their partners to identify and assist survivors of trafficking, and provides training and technical assistance specific to disciplines represented in multi-disciplinary teams on how to better identify and respond to human trafficking.

George Washington University, along with project partners the Global Woman Peace Foundation (GWPF), Sahiyo U.S., and the U.S. End FGM/C Network, provides training and technical assistance to OVW grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees on the prevention and response to Female Genital Mutilation /Cutting (FGM/C), including understanding the intersectionality of FGM/C with domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.

Training and technical assistance will address teen dating violence prevention and intervention, dating violence outreach strategies, and effective youth advocacy in rural communities, building the capacity of rural victim service organizations.

This project will provides training and technical assistance that supports the provision of supervised visitation and safe exchange (SV&SE) services through trainings including national supervised visitation immersion trainings, products on emerging challenges faced by SV&SE programs, supports a national peer community of SV&SE providers, and provides individualized technical assistance.

Inspire Action for Social Change with the Center for Justice Innovation, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Ujima, Inc., the National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, and Red Wind Consulting, will provide outreach, training, and technical assistance to supervised visitation and safe exchange programs providing services to families with a history of domestic violence. Outreach and training about the reimagined guiding principles through webinars, videos, podcasts, and other written and visual resources.

The Institute for Intergovernmental Research, Inc. (IIR) project provides training and technical assistance (TTA) to support grantees of the Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response (ICJR) OVW grant program.

The Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) implements the National Violence Against Women Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Consortium (LETTAC). LETTAC provides streamlined training and technical assistance to law enforcement and criminal justice system professionals to deliver trauma-informed, survivor-centered, culturally specific responses to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

With FY 2025 TA Initiative funding, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) will provide training and technical assistance on the development and implementation of multi-disciplinary anti-human trafficking collaborative teams with the primary victimizations of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This project will also include training and technical assistance a multitude of professional disciplines that may participate in multi-disciplinary collaborative teams to include law enforcement, legal services, victim service providers, healthcare providers, and others.

This project supports FY 2025 TA Initiative purpose area 22: Human Trafficking Collaboration in Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Cases.

The Building Capacity to Serve Youth Survivors of Sex Trafficking Project provides training and technical assistance to Consolidated Youth and Engaging Men grantees and partners on strengthening their services to address youth sex trafficking.

Through Bridging the Gap: Helping Service Providers and Corrections Officials Come Together to Respond to Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Detention, Just Detention International (JDI) will provide training and technical assistance to local rape crisis centers, state sexual assault coalitions, and corrections agencies — including prisons, jails, and youth facilities — to strengthen organizational expertise and build community-based partnerships that address the unique needs of sexual abuse survivors who are currently or formerly incarcerated. JDI will support advocates and corrections officials across the country, particularly those in rural and Tribal communities, to develop sustainable partnerships, build capacity to provide services to survivors behind bars, and ensure survivors know how to get services upon their release.

Just Detention International, Inc. (JDI)  implements the Aligning Visions: Adapting the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations to Meet the Needs of Incarcerated Survivors project. This project provides recommendations for updating OVW’s 2013 recommendations for administrators of prisons, jails, and community confinement facilities for adapting the U.S. Department of Justice’s A National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations, Adults/Adolescents.

The Empowering Survivor Entrepreneurs project provides advocates and case managers knowledge, tools, and trauma-informed strategies to support survivor entrepreneurship as a pathway to economic independence and healing. Additionally, Ladies Empowered with Resources, Inc., collaborates with Grace Healing and Wellness Center to equip advocates and case management staff with a trauma-informed framework when working with survivors around economic justice.

This project provides training and technical assistance to attorneys, legal advocates, and judges on interstate civil legal matters, including interstate custody, interstate enforcement of protection orders, and jurisdictional issues in divorce proceedings in the context of domestic violence cases.