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Effective school policies form the foundation of a comprehensive abuse intervention prevention and response framework. At the most basic level, policies guide teachers and administrators in their response to an incident of violence. However, school policies can also shape a school’s climate by creating a space where healthy relationships are encouraged and abusive behaviors are responded to and handled in a way that supports students. This guide will assist schools and school districts in developing comprehensive policies addressing healthy relationships and abuse intervention and response as well as offer ideas and examples for developing procedures that are responsive to the needs of all student survivors. *Former product of Break the Cycle now a resource of NCJFCJ*

This document discusses some of the considerations that should be considered when expanding electronic filing (e-filing) for self-represented victims of domestic violence in abuse cases.

‘Full Faith and Credit for Protection Orders: Assisting Survivors with Enforcement Across Jurisdictional Lines’ is a National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit resource guide for advocates.

Presentation on FY 2020 OVW Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction (SDVCJ)

Outline of Webinar Presentation Two separate solicitations: ” FY 2021 OVW Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction (SDVCJ) – Standard ” FY 2021 OVW Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise SDVCJ: Targeted Support for Exercising Tribes Solicitation – Targeted ” General Grant Writing Tips “

Drawing extensively from NJEP’s publication “Judges Tell: What I Wish I Had Known Before I Presided in an Adult Victim Sexual Assault Case,” the University of Pennsylvania developed a guide titled “Sexual Misconduct Complaints: 17 Tips for Student Discipline Adjudicators, intended for adaptation by individual academic institutions.” It is offered as a template for nonprofit colleges and universities. This resources provides some of the training . . . in handling complaints of sexual harassment and sexual violence” that the U.S. Department of Education Office on Civil Rights Dear Colleague Letter of April 4, 2011 recommended fact-finders and decision-makers in sexual violence cases receive. Another major source for this guide is a 2000 report from the United States Department of Justice: “The Sexual Victimization of College Women,” which provides statistical snapshots of the frequency of campus sexual assault, the relationships between complainants and alleged assailants, and other matters. If your school adapts this resource, please leave the first footnote in the guide intact, as it credits the work of the University of Pennsylvania and the National Judicial Education Program. “

Training materials to support youth in rural communities.

Guide to Using Zoom as the Virtual Video or Audio Platform to Conduct Remote Supervised Visitation

The purpose of this Guidebook is to offer concrete consumer and economic civil legal remedies, as well as nonlegal advocacy strategies, through the lens of survivor centered advocacy – rooted in the experiences of survivors who are living in poverty. This Guidebook was authored and developed in coalition with advocates and attorneys across the country who hold unique expertise at the intersection of consumer law/economic advocacy and domestic violence. Chapters feature a range of consumer and economic civil legal issues, including: – Credit reporting and repair, including discriminatory credit and identity theft – Debt collections and defense, including navigating student loans – Bankruptcy and foreclosure – Federal tax advocacy – Economic relief in civil protection orders – Economic issues in family law – Barriers in civil court – Rights and protections in housing and employment, including advocacy for survivors with criminal records

The Family Court Enhancement Project (FCEP), an initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), was a multiyear demonstration initiative designed to build the capacity of court systems and partner stakeholders to improve child custody decision-making in cases involving domestic violence. The FCEP enabled the project sites to explore, implement, and assess new and innovative court and non-court procedures and practices designed to improve custody and parenting time decision-making and overcome existing barriers identified during the assessment phase of the project. One important objective of the FCEP, as a demonstration initiative, is to share lessons learned and experiences, and outcomes with other communities so that they can benefit from the focused work at each project site. During the course of its intensive work with the FCEP sites, the project’s TA teams discerned several themes that emerged as each site engaged in efforts to improve its response to domestic violence in child custody cases. Building upon these themes in partnership with multiple stakeholders at each site, we identified five fundamental values that underlie the work and developed a set of Guiding Principles that enable courts and communities to incorporate those values into their systems, processes, and decision-making.