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Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC)
Brochure: Understanding Stalking on Campus (Spanish)
A printable brochure on the basics of stalking on campus and among college-age adults (ages 18 to 24), providing resources and generally answering questions such as:
- Who are stalkers?
- What do stalkers do?
- What can you do to be safe?
- Are you being stalked?
Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC)
Workshop: Understanding Stalking – Facilitator guide
A guided script for the facilitator of a public awareness workshop on the basics of stalking
Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC)
Understanding Stalking Workshop Slideshow
A slideshow for a public awareness workshop on the basics of stalking
National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL)
Unique Challenges in Abuse in Later Life Cases
A list of various challenges that often arise when working with older victims so that service providers know what they may encounter and thus can be better prepared to provide effective services.
Updates on VAWA Self-Petitions and U Visas: Practice Pointers on Emerging Issues, Including Keeping Your Survivors Safe While Applying for Status
On September 21, 2017, ASISTA Executive Director Gail Pendleton and Senior Policy Counsel Cecelia Friedman Levin presented a webinar on VAWA self-petitions and U Visas. In addition to updates on case adjudication and process, they shared emerging best practices and strategies for helping your clients avoid detention and removal while pursuing secure immigration status. To listen to the webinar recording, click here: https://youtu.be/Z8cLYcH266s
Use of Social Media in Teen Dating Violence
Legal Momentum’s National Judicial Education Program has created a set of educational materials for judges, courts, court-related professionals, schools, parents, teens, and the community to learn about the dangers and consequences of Teen Dating Violence. These Information and Resources sheets were developed by the National Judicial Education Program (NJEP) with funding from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. “Teen Dating Violence” (TDV) is a scourge that is as epidemic, harmful, and potentially lethal as adult domestic violence. Unchecked TDV can entrench a lifetime pattern of perpetration by abusers and acceptance of abuse by victims. Use of Social Media in Teen Dating Violence explains how teens can use social media to perpetrate intimate partner violence and how courts can use social media to help figure out the facts at hand in cases of TDV.
Use of Social Media in Teen Dating Violence: Glossary
Legal Momentum’s National Judicial Education Program has created a set of educational materials for judges, courts, court-related professionals, schools, parents, teens, and the community to learn about the dangers and consequences of Teen Dating Violence. These Information and Resources sheets were developed by the National Judicial Education Program (NJEP) with funding from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. Teen Dating Violence” (TDV) is a scourge that is as epidemic, harmful, and potentially lethal as adult domestic violence. Unchecked TDV can entrench a lifetime pattern of perpetration by abusers and acceptance of abuse by victims. Use of Social Media in Teen Dating Violence: Glossary provides a list (current as of February 2016) of the technologies and forms of social media that teens use today. The glossary defines these forms of social media and also explains how teens use each form (e.g., uploading pictures to Instagram, “”chatting”” on WhatsApp, etc.). “
Use of Social Media in Teen Dating Violence: Technology How-Tos for Judges
Legal Momentum’s National Judicial Education Program has created a set of educational materials for judges, courts, court-related professionals, schools, parents, teens, and the community to learn about the dangers and consequences of Teen Dating Violence. These Information and Resources sheets were developed by the National Judicial Education Program (NJEP) with funding from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. Teen Dating Violence” (TDV) is a scourge that is as epidemic, harmful, and potentially lethal as adult domestic violence. Unchecked TDV can entrench a lifetime pattern of perpetration by abusers and acceptance of abuse by victims. Use of Social Media in Teen Dating Violence: Technology “”How-Tos”” for Judges is a resource guide for judges (and other court system professionals) with categories such as “”How to Stay Up-to-Date on TDV Issues,”” “”How to Retrieve Messages from Smartphones,”” “”How to Obtain Information That May Be Open to ‘E-Discovery’,”” “”How to Ensure Teen Victims Are Protected,”” and “”How to Evaluate ESI (Electronically Stored Evidence.”” “
Sexual Violence Justice Institute at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Using A Ten-Factor Framework for Sexual Assault Response Team Effectiveness for STOP Grant Making Strategies
This tool takes a closer look into the findings of the Ten-Factor Framework for Sexual Assault Response Team Effectiveness findings and outlines ways for STOP Administrators to fund effective sexual assault response teams (SARTs). The tool details the ten factors of successful SARTs and different strategies STOP Administrators can use to support SARTs to achieve these factors.
Sexual Violence Justice Institute at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Using STOP Funding to Meaningfully Address Sexual Violence
This resource is a tool for STOP administrators to meaningfully respond to sexual assault. With a specific focus on the STOP 20% sexual assault set aside, it details several activities that respond to sexual assault and lists the STOP allocation areas (law enforcement, prosecutors, victim services, and the courts) those activities could be allocated to.