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This project offers foundational and advanced courses to increase the quality, quantity, and competency of court personnel, advocates, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers in tribal courts. In addition, this project offers culturally specific training and technical assistance, focusing on the challenges tribal criminal and civil justice systems, and tribal communities, face when addressing domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking.

The Campus Law Enforcement Technical Assistance project works with law enforcement departments at institutions of higher education to improve outcomes for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking and to increase prevention measures on campus.

The Enabling the Victim Services Community to Identify and Respond to Forced Marriage Situations project provides training and technical assistance to victim and legal services organizations to develop the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to forced marriage situations and recognize the intersectionality of forced marriage with domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking and family violence.

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 Athletes Experiencing Sexual Abuse in Sport: Building the Capacity to Serve project increases the capacity of sexual assault service providers to address sexual abuse (SA) of athletes within their sport and better meet the needs of survivors.

The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence (The Network) will implement the Intersection: Domestic Violence + Community Violence Project. The Network and its project partners will work with three pilot locations to strengthen the working relationship between domestic violence (DV) and community violence (CV) organizations, facilitate mutual understanding and learning between the two types of service provider organizations, and generate mutually impactful strategies and service models to respond to individuals who experience both DV and CV.

Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) with the Native Alliance Against Violence (NAAV), American Bar Association on behalf of its Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence (ABA), Tribal Judicial Institute at the University of North Dakota School of Law (TJI), and the National American Indian Court Judges Association (NAICJA) promote effective collaboration amongst victim advocates, lawyers, and lay advocates to advance trauma-informed, victim-centered, and culturally appropriate legal assistance service delivery to survivors on tribal lands.

The Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) provides training and technical assistance to Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction (STCJ) and tribal governments grantees and potential grantees interested in planning for, implementing, and exercising criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit certain crimes within tribal jurisdictional boundaries, including tribal leaders, judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, tribal general counsel/in-house counsel, victim advocates, law enforcement, court staff, child welfare staff, probation/parole/re-entry, corrections, and other disciplines that may be necessary to plan for and exercise STCJ.

The Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) provides training and technical assistance, through semiannual Inter-Tribal Working Group (ITWG) meetings, to special tribal criminal jurisdiction (STCJ), tribal governments, and potential grantees on the challenges and gaps that tribal nations encounter in their planning, implementation, and exercise of jurisdiction over non-Indians. The target audience for this project is all tribes interested in implementing STCJ and ITWG participants including tribal council members, judges, victim advocates, defense attorneys, law enforcement, prosecutors, court staff, tribal general counsel/in-house counsel, probation/parole/re-entry, corrections, and other disciplines that may be necessary to plan for and exercise STCJ.

This project delivers training and technical assistance (TA) to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that are grantees or potential grantees of the Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus (Campus Program). This project focuses on culturally specific and trauma informed strategies/approaches to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking (collectively, gender-based violence or GBV) on campus.

UJIMA: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community in partnership with Black Skeptics, LA; Bowie State University, Department of Criminal Justice; First Baptist Church of Glenarden International; Just Solutions; The National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault; and The Person Center will implement the Improving Responses & Advocacy for Black Survivors project, which provides training and technical assistance, resource development, and support to enhance the services and responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking for Black/African American survivors.

This project provides training and technical assistance to courts on the intersection of racial equity and procedural fairness within the court process in civil, criminal, and family courts addressing domestic violence.

This project provides training and technical assistance to local, state, and tribal governments about implementing or improving domestic violence fatality review teams to ensure that such teams are informed by culturally specific responses.

VAWA MEI creates reporting tools and resources for grantees to report their OVW-funded activities and provides ongoing training and technical assistance. VAWA MEI analyzes the reported data, and publishes 6-month summary reports for each discretionary grant program, annual summary reports for formula STOP and SASP grant programs, and biennial Reports to Congress including emerging research from the field and cumulative data from all OVW-funded programs over 2-year periods.

The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Effective Interventions with Students Responsible for Sexual Misconduct project expands the implementation of STARRSA (Science-Based Treatment, Accountability, and Risk Reduction for Sexual Assault). STARRSA is designed specifically for college and university students who have engaged in problematic sexual behavior. Expanded implementation of STARRSA addresses key gaps in services related to behavior change of campus sexual assault respondents, expands the options necessary to meet the needs of diverse and culturally specific campuses, and offers new opportunities to enhance the efficacy of grievance processes intended to hold students meaningfully accountable for their actions, prevent the behavior from recurring, and give them the skills needed to live safely in any community.

This project provides training and technical assistance to build the capacity of emerging executives and aspiring leaders working in domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking organizations that serve culturally specific communities.

This project provides basic and advanced training and technical assistance (TTA) to institutions of higher education funded under the Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking on Campus (Campus Program) to build the capacity of the student conduct, Title IX, and other disciplinary personnel to implement trauma-informed strategies to address campus domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (DDVSAS) by strengthening policy, developing protocols, enhancing training, and promoting core competencies for effective student disciplinary response.

The Legal Empowerment Advocacy Project (LEAP) enhances and expands the capacity of non-attorney legal advocates working with survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

The Youth in Education Settings Legal Services Project (YES Project) builds the capacity and competency of civil attorneys and legal advocates on legal issues that arise in primary and secondary educational institutions involving youth (ages 11 to 24) survivors of dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

The Sexual Assault Justice Education (SAJE) project provides basic and advanced consultations, resources, training, and technical assistance to attorneys who represent sexual assault survivors.