Battered Women’s Justice Project

This project provides comprehensive responses to climate disasters and public health emergencies for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by identifying promising practices that account for the unique needs of survivors.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms (NRCDVF)  builds the capacity of justice systems practitioners and victim service professionals to respond safely and effectively to domestic violence cases involving firearms.

The Providing Advocacy for Criminalized Survivors Project (the PACS Project) provides training and technical assistance to victim service organizations working with charged, incarcerated, and reentering survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

The Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP) partnering with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), American Bar Association on behalf of its Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence (ABA), Activate Change, Aequitas, Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV), Center for Justice Innovation (CJI), End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin on behalf of the National Abuse Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), Esperanza United, Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Consortium (LETTAC), Jewish Women International (JWI), National Organization for Victim Advocacy (NOVA), Regional Domestic Violence Firearms Enforcement Unit in King County, Washington (RDVFEU), Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI), and Ujima: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community team, and subject matter experts provide training, technical assistance, and resources to grant recipients of the OVW Electronic Service Protection Order Court Pilot (ESPOC) program. BWJP will provide training, technical assistance, and resources to ESPOC grantees on the electronic service of civil protection orders and support the selected pilot sites as they develop technologies, policies, and procedures for their programs.

The Liberation Project: Post Conviction Assistance for Criminalized Survivors supports training and resources for OVW grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees on post-conviction relief (PCR) for criminalized survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This project increases awareness of recently authorized VAWA provisions regarding representation of survivors on post-conviction matters and provide training on post-conviction relief remedies and practices.

The National Center on Protections Orders and Full Faith & Credit provides training and technical assistance (TA) on protection orders (POs), the Full Faith and Credit (FFC) provision of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and inter-jurisdictional enforcement of POs.

The SAFeR Approach Project is a framework for making custody and visitation decisions in cases involving intimate partner violence.

Battered Women’s Justice Project provides training and technical assistance to the OVW Firearms Technical Assistance Project pilot sites and the field at large on the implementation and enforcement of domestic violence firearms prohibitions.

This project provides specialized training and technical assistance to enhance community supervision strategies and builds the capacity of pre-trial, probation, and parole officers to effectively supervise cases involving domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This project approaches offender accountability programs as a critical component of a broad and coordinated criminal justice response and addresses both on-going and emerging training needs such as risk assessment, bail reform, investigations, victim notification, pre-trial release, and other related topics.