AEquitas

This project supports prosecutors, ancillary staff, and allied professionals during the investigation and prosecution of cases involving violence against women (VAW) via expert training and technical assistance, resources, and mentorship (TTA); and enhance victim safety and offender accountability via teaching and promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed, and offender-focused practices and legal strategies that will improve prosecution outcomes. This project incorporates the principles set forth in the Department of Justice framework for prosecutors to strengthen our national response to sexual assault and domestic violence involving adult victims.

The National Resource Center on Cybercrimes Against Individuals Program (NRCC) supports the establishment and maintenance of a national resource center to provide resource information, training, and technical assistance to improve the capacity of individuals, organizations, governmental entities, and communities to prevent, enforce, and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals. Cybercrimes against individuals are defined as criminal offenses that involve the use of a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, coerce, cause fear to, or intimidate an individual, or without consent distribute intimate images of an adult, except that use of a computer need not be an element of the offense.

The Just Tech: Investigation and Prosecution of Online Abuse project provides training and technical assistance to law enforcement and prosecutors on the issue of online abuse- cyberstalking, doxing, online harassment, and image exploitation.

This project provides technical assistance on a model penal code for sexual assault, including issues around consent.

The Vital Signs: Enhancing the Healthcare Response to Stalking Project (Vital Signs) enhances healthcare professionals (HCPs) capacity to better identify and respond to stalking victims in healthcare settings, recognizing the emotional and physical risks stalking poses to patients. Vital Signs focuses on training and technical assistance and resources for forensic nurses, emergency department personnel, sexual health/pre-natal care providers, primary care providers, and other HCPs as identified.

The Stalking Prevention, Awareness & Resource Center (SPARC) provides training, technical assistance, and resources to build the capacity of service providers and civil and criminal justice system practitioners to address the crime of stalking.