Technical Assistance Available:
Implementing VAWA 2005 Forensic Compliance Mandates within Local Communities

Many professionals across the country are aware of the challenges facing local jurisdictions in establishing a community response system that is compliant with the provisions of VAWA 2005.

On the background page, we provide general information about VAWA 2005 and the provisions regarding medical forensic examinations.

The resource page offers tools for professionals, including a self-assessment tool to use in your own community, and sample policies, protocols, forms, and other documents that can be adapted for use.

We also have a page providing information about FREE webinars we are offering to provide training and technical assistance on the topic of forensic compliance.

We would like to take this opportunity to describe the various forms of technical assistance that are available from us.

EVAW International is providing technical assistance in the area of forensic compliance. We can offer information, resources, and guidance as needed in this complex and challenging area.  You can contact us with inquiries via email, telephone, or fax.  Contact information is provided on our website.

TA is available for all STOP Grant Administrators, Executive Directors of state coalitions, law enforcement agencies and other organizations struggling with these complex issues.  As part of our grant objectives, we are working in an intensive way with professionals in eight communities who have been identified as leaders in the multidisciplinary coordination of sexual assault response.  However, the goal is not simply to provide assistance for these particular communities.  Rather, we are developing resources and tools based on our work with these communities that can then be adapted for use by others.  The goal is that these communities will serve as a model, and the individual professionals in those communities will emerge as leaders who can provide training and technical assistance for others facing similar challenges – both in their own states and across the country.  For background information on VAWA 2005 and this TA grant, please click here.  For more information about these eight communities, please feel free to contact us.

A number of tools and resources are also available to adapt for use in your community. Please click here to review these materials, which include a self-assessment tool and sample policies, protocols, forms, and other documents that can be adapted for use in other communities across the country.

We will also host a series of webinars, to provide training and information in this area.  Best of all, these webinars will be offered free of charge.  For more information please click here.

If you have any questions or want to request TA in the area of forensic compliance, we encourage you to contact us directly.  We look forward to working with you, striving to achieve the noble spirit – and not just the letter– of this critically important VAWA provision.

This project is supported by Grant No. 2009-TA-AX-K003 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed on this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on violence Against Women.