Victim Advocacy Webinar Series\, Year 2
\nA webinar series for Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) grantees\, legal service providers\, legal ad vocates\, and victim advocates providing legal assistance to victims of d omestic violence\, sexual assault\, and dating violence on Tribal lands.\n
Tri bal Law and Policy Institute invites you to join our three-part webina r series that will discuss the role of victim advocates and how they work with victims and their families\; the safety needs of victims\, their chil dren\, and their community\; and systems’ responses to victims experienc ing domestic violence and sexual assault.
\nUpcoming webinar dates:
\n\n“Victim Advocacy: The Hats Worn by Advoca tes to Serve Victims and Their Communities”
\nMarch 18\, 2026
\n11:00 AM PT/ Noon MT/ 1:00 P M CT/ 2:00 ET
\nIn this webinar\, participants will receive in formation about the model of victim advocacy\, a brief history\, how it di ffers from other models of service provision\, and the importance of colla boration with other disciplines for victim and community safety and offend er accountability. The primary objective is for other professionals and al lies to have a greater understanding of the role of advocates and how they work with victims and their families.\n\nLearning Objectives\n"Victim Safety: Safety needs of Victims\, Their Children and Community"
\nApril 15\, 2026
\n11:00 AM PT/ Noon MT/ 1:00 PM CT/ 2:00 ET
\nThis webinar will focus on needs of victims w ith emphasis on safety needs for the primary victim and discuss the import ance of doing safety planning\, what that is\, and when it’s done. Parti cipants will receive information on the impact of the children who witness \, how victims and children can benefit from seeking and obtaining protect ion orders. Facilitator will explore with participants the challenges that victims may face in regard to protecting their children and reasons they want custody and assistance with visitation by abusing partner.\n\n__\nMay 20\, 2026
\n11:00 AM PT/ Noon MT / 1:00 PM CT/ 2:00 ET
\nIn this webinar the facilitator will t ake participants on a walk through of systems' response to victims experie ncing domestic violence and sexual assault. This webinar will focus on typ es of sexual assault and domestic violence and will identify legal needs a nd long-term needs of victims and how advocates can assist victims with lo cating appropriate services\, share benefits of securing legal assistance and how to work collaboratively with legal services. Participants will als o discuss the importance of improving system response through protocol dev elopment in domestic violence and sexual assault response.\n\n__\n Presenter for all three webinars:\n\nBonnie Clairmont\, Victim Advocacy Specialist\, Tribal Law and Policy Institute\n\nB onnie Clairmont (Ho-Chunk) serves from TLPI's Minnesota office as the Vict im Advocacy Specialist. Prior to her employment with TLPI\, she was the Ou treach/Client Services Coordinator for Sexual Offense Services of Ramsey C ounty\, a rape crisis center. While employed there\, Bonnie provided leade rship in the development of Sexual Assault Response Teams and Sexual Assau lt Nurse Examiner programs and offered guidance with multidisciplinary sex ual assault protocol development. She has worked more than twenty-five yea rs advocating for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. She has dedicated much of her work to providing and improving services for victim /survivors of sexual assault\, battering\, and child sexual abuse\, partic ularly those from American Indian communities. For four years she coordina ted the Strengthening the Circle of Trust Conference\, a conference focusi ng on sexual assault and exploitation perpetrated by American Indian spiri tual leaders/medicine men. Bonnie co-edited a recently published book "Sha ring Our Stories of Survival" an anthology of writing by Native Women who' ve experienced violence. Bonnie provided technical assistance to research conducted by Amnesty International USA that led to the report\, "Maze of I njustice: The failure to protect Indigenous Women from sexual violence in the USA." She and her late partner Jim Clairmont have two children and fiv e grandchildren.\n__\nThis projec t was supported by Grant No.15JOVW-24-GK-03005-LEGA awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women\, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions\, fin dings\, conclusions\, and recommendations expressed on this site or in any materials on this site are those of the authors and do not necessarily re flect the views of the Department of Justice\, Office on Violence Against Women.\n\n \; URL:https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oTrtg2GYTcea2leMU4Sc3A#/reg istration DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260503T024257 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260503T024257 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR