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This document highlights programs with victim contact processes, addresses safety challenges inherent in this work, and offers considerations and best practices for safe and effective implementation.

This tip sheet describes the benefits, concerns, and potential uses of video remote interpreting (VRI) in domestic violence and sexual assault cases. It includes a summary of VRI resources for courts and others considering implementing VRI.

Created by the Alliance, and updated in 2019, this toolkit is designed to assist Family Justice and Multi-Agency Centers with starting, implementing, and sustaining a VOICES Committee. This document contains procedures, sample forms, and questions that may be used to facilitate the process. (This Toolkit is available in both Spanish and English).

The Voluntary Services approach is based on the notion that participation in services should be voluntary and not a condition of housing or receiving other services. This approach emphasizes respectful and welcoming behavior in all aspects of the work. Services are driven by the needs, wants, and individual goals of survivors. This one page handout provides helpful information for Program Providers.

On April 3, 2017, ASISTA presented a webinar on: Intermediate/Advanced U Visas: Overcoming Difficult Inadmissibility Issues, Obtaining U Visa Extensions, and Including Family Members at Adjustment To listen to this webinar recording, please clink here: Recording:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTifzqDcaHT35RLSiIQbEdQnAkcRqMUph

Programs that work with perpetrators of intimate partner violence are changing as practitioners across the United States employ new strategies to improve outcomes for both offenders and survivors. Courts and judges have an opportunity to build on this exciting time of change. This document describes the innovative approaches to risk assessment, treatment modality, compliance, and procedural fairness that intervention programs for abusive partners are using to enhance victim safety and offender accountability.

Domestic violence cases involve serious safety concerns that make monitoring compliance especially difficult. Abusive partners may continue to harass and coerce their intimate partners without the knowledge of the justice system. For courts seeking to ensure compliance and support behavior change among people who abuse their partners, strong communication and collaboration with probation departments is key. This guide discusses what courts should know about specialized probation for domestic violence offenders, providing a series of questions that courts can ask and offering recommendations.

What Do Sexual Assault Cases Look Like in Our Community? A SART Coordinator’s Guidebook for Case File Review Over the last several years, the Sexual Violence Justice Institute at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault has worked to learn best practices and find better ways to complete case file reviews as an evaluation strategy for Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs). Case file review is one way for multi-disciplinary teams to learn about their actual response to victims versus what they believe is happening during the response, and can be an exceptionally valuable strategy to identify ways to improve system response and agency practice to sexual assault. The case file review process is broken down into nine modules. Designed to be easy to use and understand, each module is only a few pages in length and includes two sections: 1) Facilitator’s Guide and 2) Lesson Plan. This toolkit is meant to be adaptable to the needs of SART teams and the community. There are additional tools and resources embedded throughout the toolkit.

This resource review definitions of sexual violence and the importance of having a nuanced definition of sexual violence.

Men who survive sexual violence come from many different backgrounds and communities. In this infographic, we share statistics on the race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disabilities of men who have experienced sexual assault.