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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.

The National LGBTQ Youth Survivor Training and Technical Assistance project provides training and technical assistance, and develops best practices to improve responses to LGBTQ youth survivors of dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.

This project provides training and technical assistance to communities implementing or expanding their multidisciplinary sexual assault response teams (SARTs). The project helps jurisdictions develop policies, procedures, and make organizational culture shift to better serve survivors of sexual assault.

This project provides basic and advanced Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) training and technical assistance to OVW Rural Grant Program grantees and potential grantees on innovative community collaborative approaches to responding to children, youth, and adult victims of sexual assault residing in rural areas or rural communities.

The Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition supports Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program grantees through training and technical assistance including trainings to strengthen grantees’ capacity to provide sexual assault services in Indian Country and Alaska Native villages.

This project provides training, technical assistance, and resources to OVW grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees on building organizational and staff capacity in providing trauma-informed and comprehensive sexual assault victim healing services within rape crisis centers, dual sexual assault/domestic violence organizations, and multi-service organizations.

This project provides training and technical assistance to institutions of higher education on developing effective victim services and advocacy programs for college students, including capacity building, referral processes, collaborative victim service models with local victim service providers, and training for campus advocates.

The Culturally Specific Campus Consortium provides customized, intensive training and technical assistance that is rooted in a culture-specific framework, reflects the campus community, and promotes best practices in addressing violence against women on campus. The project assists culturally specific campuses in developing a comprehensive approach to addressing VAWA crimes that includes establishing coordinated community response teams, effective response protocols, victim services, and multi-faceted prevention programming.

The Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MSCASA) provides technical assistance to institutions of higher education, including institutions in the Gulf region, that are funded under the FY 2024 OVW Expanding Sexual Assault Victim Services on Campus Pilot Program to document their work and develop promising practices guides that serve as a model for higher education institutions to implement and expand victim services offered to sexual assault survivors.

This project provides technical assistance and resources to Campus grantees and institutions of higher education through an online clearinghouse.

The Culturally Specific Services Program Comprehensive Sexual Assault Technical Assistance Project provides training and technical assistance to grantees and potential grantees of the OVW’s grants to enhance culturally specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking program (CSSP) on developing and implementing culturally relevant sexual assault services, also addressing CSSP statutory purpose areas and non-intimate partner sexual assault.

Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (Monsoon), through its National Organization of Asians and Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence Program, implements the Training & Technical Assistance on Sexual Assault in the Asian Pacific Islander (API) Communities Project which provides culturally relevant training and technical assistance on sexual assault services to organizations currently serving or planning to serve victims and survivors of sexual assault from API communities.

This project provides training and technical assistance to strengthen coordination between sexual assault victim service providers and homeless service providers.

The Ensuring Safety and Access in Virtual Civil Protection Order Processes project improves survivors safety and access in virtual civil protection order processes by establishing a learning collaborative of experts, mentor courts, and learner courts as well as sharing lessons learned with the national court community.

With FY 2024 TA Initiative funding, End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, through its project, the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), convene the National Institute for the Prosecution of Elder Abuse and provide technical assistance to prosecutors on prosecuting cases of abuse in later life, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, neglect, abandonment, economic abuse, or willful harm committed against victims who are 50 years of age or older.

The National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL) provides comprehensive training and technical assistance for grantees and potential grantees of the Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program (Abuse in Later Life Program). The Abuse in Later Life Program supports a comprehensive approach to addressing abuse in later life, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, neglect, abandonment, economic abuse, or willful harm committed against victims who are 50 years of age or older.

The National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), a project of End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, hosts the Abuse in Later Life National Resource Center. This resource center increases the capacity of victim services organizations and justice system entities to recognize and respond effectively to abuse in later life and improve organizations’ capacity to design and deliver services effective for the needs of older victims.

This project provides in-person and virtual 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.

As the comprehensive TA provider to the OVW TTA Initiative, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) operates TA2TA: The TA Provider Resource Center (TA2TA) and recognizes that the OVW TA provider community can bolster the collective impact through common forums for discussion and change. Through activities such as all-TA provider meetings, webinar series, roundtables, and peer-to-peer connections, both virtual and in-person, TA providers are afforded the opportunity to connect and collaborate with other programs and organizations to develop a shared understanding of TA and practical strategies to improve delivery approaches to their unique and varied constituents. Designed by and for the OVW TA provider community, TA2TA facilitates the collaboration and communication integral to the continued strength and sustainability of the work of this project, the OVW TA provider community, and its constituents. In growing partnerships, strengthening relationships, and convening to identify promising practices and emerging trends, TA2TA lays the foundation for better day-to-day realization of work on OVW-funded projects while generating a strategic plan and future vision for the OVW TTA Initiative.

The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) provides technical assistance to coordinate and streamline TA delivery to grantees and potential grantees under OVW’s grants to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and Stalking on Campus Program (Campus Program), which includes coordinating the efforts of TA providers, creating centralized communication to grantees, coordinating TA information for dissemination and coordinating meeting logistics for OVW campus grantees and potential grantees for institutions of higher education on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.

This project provides training and technical assistance to custody evaluation professionals, family court practitioners, and judicial officers on topics related to domestic violence and child custody.

Replicating the Cook County Expediter Model: A Pilot Project to Increase Safe Child-Related Relief in Civil Protection Orders (Safer Parenting Facilitation and CPOs Project) supports selected jurisdictions in adapting the Cook County, IL Expediter Program to their unique courts and communities, assisting the selected jurisdictions with their program planning, staff development, implementation benchmarks and tools, and data collection and assessment protocols.

The Civil Protection Order (CPO) Guide Training and Technical Assistance project provides training and technical assistance on the CPO Guide and emerging issues related to the issuance, service, and enforcement of CPOs, advise jurisdictions navigating changes to their CPO systems, and promote and distribute the CPO Guide and companion resources.

This project provides training and technical assistance about nuisance ordinances and crime-free lease addenda, including the impact on survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and working with communities to mitigate harm caused by such ordinances.

This project provides training and technical assistance on the housing provisions of VAWA to improve the capacity of OVW grantees to provide housing assistance to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

The Comprehensive Coalition Technical Assistance (CTA) project focuses on strengthening the capacity of domestic violence and dual coalitions to create and implement effective, survivor-centered, and survivor-driven services, policies, and practices for domestic violence work in their state or territory.

The Confidentiality and Privacy project strengthens and builds the capacity of OVW grantees and subgrantees, specifically of the OVW Improving Criminal Justice Responses Grant Program, to address survivor privacy and confidentiality.

NNEDV’s Collaborative Approaches to Housing for Survivors (CAHS) team provides training, technical assistance, and resource development at the critical intersection of domestic violence, homelessness, and housing. The team also engages in systems work, advocating for policies to increase survivors’ access to housing and protect their confidentiality. The team works to strengthen the collaborations necessary to improve housing options for survivors of domestic violence and their children in order to enhance safety, stability, and well-being. CAHS is a partner of the Safe Housing Partnerships Technical Assistance Consortium (SHPTAC), an innovative national project dedicated to building the capacity of state and territorial coalitions and local programs to improve policies to address the needs of survivors. Working with SHPTAC and experts from national, state, territorial, and local organizations, we help strengthen technical assistance available to both housing/homelessness providers and domestic violence service providers.

NNEDV provides technical assistance for grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees of OVW’s Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking program (Transitional Housing Program). NNEDV provides comprehensive, specialized technical assistance and training to state and territorial domestic violence coalitions, local domestic violence programs, other nonprofit organizations and local and state agencies. The Housing Project helps organizations create best practices in housing, transitional housing and related services for victims, and strengthens programs’ response to victims with an emphasis on survivor-driven, empowerment-based services.

This project will provide in-depth training and technical assistance to OVW grantees on child and youth online safety, including technology-facilitated abuse (TFA), digital literacy, healthy relationships, and related topics.

The Technology Abuse and Safety Technical Assistance (TAS) Project strengthens and builds the capacity of civil and criminal justice system professionals and victim service providers across the nation to respond effectively to the use and/or misuse of technology in domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (including cyberstalking).