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This toolkit is a collection of resources and strategies to assist OVW Rural Grantees in developing sustainable relationships with schools. The first section examines the context of rural dating abuse […]

Follow the steps in this tutorial to create an infographic from your program progress reports.

Domestic violence survivors often struggle with financial stability and providing for their children post separation. In fact, economic instability is a driving factor in why many survivors return to abusive relationships. While survivors may be entitled to access child support, it is often a confusing process that can put them at risk for further abuse. This guide outlines how courts can work with child support agencies to provide survivors with the support they need to make informed, voluntary decisions about whether to pursue child support, and to make the process safe and effective for those survivors who choose to pursue it.

Programs providing supervised visitation and/or safe exchange services have been increasingly collaborating with the court and legal systems to provide a more holistic response to domestic violence cases. This fact sheet provides some tips for supervised visitation programs to help support survivors navigating the child support process.

This document contains summaries of published state court decisions of interest related to civil protection orders, their issuance, and their enforcement for the year 2019. While most of these summaries are brief, containing only the courts holding and any necessary background or procedural details, a few have been expanded based on their complexity, their uniqueness, or the importance of their holding.

For civil protection orders to be effective, they must first be served on the respondent. While most states require that protection orders be personally served on the respondent, this can often prove to be a difficult task to accomplish. This publication includes strategies and resources for effectuating service of process in a safe and effective manner as well as a preliminary look at the use of electronic service of process in the civil protection order system.

This document is both an overview of key data and confidentiality concepts, and a guide to the many considerations that must be weighed when selecting a database, which include: purpose, confidentiality, data security, and program capacity (including costs, technology and staffing). This document is intended primarily for community-based victim service programs that are legally obligated under VAWA, FVPSA, and VOCA to maintain confidentiality.

Created by the Alliance, and updated in September 2019, this toolkit is designed to assist Family Justice and Multi-Agency Centers with providing client services and managing client flow throughout the Center. This toolkit provides suggestions and serves as an outline and reference for developing and implementing a centralized client services processes within a Center. The toolkit includes sample protocols for client intake, assessment, and service delivery.

This document sets service-wide domestic abuse policies and defines the roles and responsibilities of commanders and first responders. It provides a useful benchmark as you learn about the installation in your community and its response to domestic abuse. If you are a military victim advocate or otherwise affiliated with the installation, you can use it to review roles and protocols and expectations around coordinated community response.

This fact sheet is meant to aid domestic violence court planners and practitioners in collaborating with system-based and community-based victim advocacy services.