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A guide outlining potential discussion questions and activities on the second season of the Netflix television show “You”.

This resource is a tool for Sexual Assault Response Teams to utilize as a team to identify areas where there may be gaps or areas for improvement regarding inclusion of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Strategies and tools for DV/SA/HT organizations to build or enhance multidisciplinary teams to better support survivors of human trafficking.

This two-page handout is designed for courts that include programming for abusive partners in their case dispositions. It lists the 10 most important questions court staff should ask as they consider making referrals and provides general information on national best practices.

Discussion of the 2020 Tribal Jurisdiction Program

Discussion on the 2021 Tribal Jurisdiction Program

In September 2022, the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), under a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, offered a weekly series of four virtual training opportunities for prosecutors. Recordings are now available for this series.

Creating a specialized domestic violence court can be daunting for any community. It requires careful planning, leadership, and the buy-in of partners. The Tulalip Tribes of Washington are tackling the issue of domestic violence head-on, spearheading an initiative to create a specialized court, one of the first in a tribal justice system. This outline of their planning process highlights the steps involved and serves as a useful guide for tribes seeking to strengthen their court’s response to domestic violence.

Because custody cases involving abuse have intermingled issues of safety and access, judges require effective and accessible information and tools to aid their decision-making. The Judicial Guide contains 14 bench cards, which provide an easy-to-use checklist system for judges at critical decision-making points throughout the case, as well as a supplemental guide, which provides additional information about in- and out-of-court behaviors, best interest of the child, and order issuance and enforcement.

Systems-change sexual assault response teams (SARTs) are community-based multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) that work to create long-term improvements to local systems of response to sexual violence. This report outlines a framework for SART effectiveness that can help teams and STOP administrators facilitate the success of systems-change SARTs. The report details ten factors of successful SARTs, including six internal team characteristics and four external supports. Additionally, the report contains recommendations for STOP administrators to use this framework to support systems-change SARTs in their state.