Futures Without Violence

This project addresses the gap in awareness of and access to survivors employment rights and protections and builds the capacity of OVW-funded and potentially OVW-funded attorneys and advocates through trainings, technical assistance, and practical tools so that they are better able to assist survivors particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous survivors, survivors with disabilities, survivors who are deaf, and/or LGBTQIA+ survivors with the unique challenges they face in accessing and utilizing their employment protections.

This project provides training and technical assistance for officers of state, tribal, territorial, and local courts on elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking of older adults.

The goal of STAGES Pathways is to create a community of learning and practice amongst community-based organizations and their partners to build, enhance, or adapt their existing services for older adult survivors of abuse including restorative options and strategies to increase financial sustainability and safety.

The Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED) offers hands-on workshops and technical assistance to help U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grantees to enhance the relevance and effectiveness of training and education programs supported by OVW, and improve the capacity of OVW grantees to design and deliver well-organized, accessible, highly-interactive training and education for their constituents. I-LED workshops reach national, multidisciplinary audiences of OVW grantees and their constituents, including advocates, attorneys, social workers, visitation center staff, volunteer coordinators, judges, and other professionals who engage in program design and/or faculty service.

This project provides multi-faceted training and technical assistance to institutions of higher education on engaging college-age men, including athletes and fraternity members, as leaders and influencers in the efforts to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.

The Resource Center on Workplace Responses to Assist Victims of Domestic & Sexual Violence maintains the National Workplace Domestic and Sexual Violence website and provides training and technical assistance to employers and labor organizations, and assist those entities with developing protocols and policies on domestic and sexual violence in the workplace.

This project designs and delivers a spectrum of multi-modal, multi-media education and technical assistance to support the infrastructure and staff development of survivor-serving and coalition organizations to improve organizational capacity to successfully lead, operate, and sustain their organizations.

This project improves community collaborative responses to address human trafficking experienced at the intersection with domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, increases the capacity of OVW grantees and their partners to identify and assist survivors of trafficking, and provides training and technical assistance specific to disciplines represented in multi-disciplinary teams on how to better identify and respond to human trafficking.