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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 Improving 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.

This project provides training and technical assistance to support law enforcement agencies in implementing policies, practices, and training aligned with the principles set forth in the Justice Department’s Identifying and Preventing Gender Bias in Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Guidance.

The National Protocols Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Project (SAFETA) provides training and technical assistance (TA) around implementing the National Intimate Partner Violence Medical Forensic Examination Protocol, National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations Adult/Adolescent 2nd Edition, the National Protocol for Sexual Abuse Medical Forensic Examinations: Pediatric, the National Best Practices for Sexual Assault Kits: A Multidisciplinary Approach, and the National SAFE Training Standards 2nd Edition.

The National Tribal Clearinghouse on Sexual Assault (NTCSA) is a comprehensive resource hub that supports our Tribal communities with resources and education dedicated to improving the response to sexual assault. The NTCSA was developed by the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition (MIWSAC) and the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN). IAFN hosts the Indigenous Sexual Abuse and Assault Clearinghouse (ISAAC) website, including an online learning management system (LMS), to support broadly accessible TTA to multidisciplinary audiences serving AI/AN sexual assault survivors. The ISAAC component of the NTCSA focuses on ensuring responses are culturally appropriate and on strengthening tribal medical responses to AI/AN sexual assault survivors.

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.

Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault’s National Sexual Assault Coalition Resource Sharing Project (RSP) work to enhance rural sexual assault services through Weaving Roots and Branches: A Training and Technical Assistance Project. This project provides training and technical assistance to OVW rural grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees on enhancing organizational services and strengthening advocacy skills to meaningfully address sexual assault across the lifespan, including sexual assault services for children and youth, in rural communities.

This project provides training and technical assistance to state and territorial sexual assault and dual coalitions on improving and expanding the response to sexual violence, strengthening collaboration with state and local partners, and supporting underserved communities in coalition activities.

The Resource Sharing Project (RSP) of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault and project partner North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA) supports  Inviting Imagination: Healing Advocacy for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. This project provides training and technical assistance to victim service organizations, state and territorial coalitions, and state administrators on advocacy and healing for adult survivors of child sexual abuse and developing financial assistance programming for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Additional, RSP and NCCASA will support pilot sites focused on developing advocacy and direct financial assistance programming for adult survivors of child sexual assault.

The National Sexual Assault Coalition Resource Sharing Project (RSP), a partnership of Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault and North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, supports grantees of the Sexual Assault Services Formula Program (SASP) providing training and TA to state and territory administrators of SASP and sexual assault coalitions.

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.

This project provides training and technical assistance to local rape crisis centers, state sexual assault coalitions, and correctional facilities (including prisons, jails, and juvenile detention) to strengthen organizational expertise and builds community-based partnerships that address the unique needs of sexual assault survivors who are currently or formerly incarcerated. This project will address how survivors who are released can be connected to community-based sexual assault services.

The Rooted in Resilience project expands advocacy services for currently and formerly incarcerated sexual abuse survivors by building the capacity of sexual assault service organizations and other survivor service organizations to establish sustainable, trauma-informed art workshops in a wide variety of detention and reentry facilities in communities throughout the United States.

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.