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Providing Better Care to Incarcerated Survivors
Our free Community Conversation Series goes beyond the basics, delving deep into topics covered in the Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Exam (SAMFE) Virtual Practicum. In this session, we will discuss language access, providing culturally specific care for Latin@ survivors, and addressing immigration concerns and questions.
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“How Can We Do This Better?” Caring for Latin@ Survivors
Our free Community Conversation Series goes beyond the basics, delving deep into topics covered in the Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Exam (SAMFE) Virtual Practicum. In this session, we will discuss language access, providing culturally specific care for Latin@ survivors, and addressing immigration concerns and questions.
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Project Empower: Best Practice in Hospital-based Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Patient Care
This session will highlight the development of Project Empower, a hospital-based violence intervention and prevention program, as the result of a 10-year development process. The presenters will describe the initial development, sustainability, and growth of a hospital-based intimate partner violence/domestic violence intervention program at a Level I trauma center.
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When Victims of Crime Become Defendants: Should Context Matter?
What does justice look like when a victim of a crime becomes a defendant? This session will inspire every kind of professional to consider context in their response in these cases. Incarcerated women experience staggering rates of sexual assault and domestic violence across the life span leading up to the offenses for which they are charged or convicted.
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Measuring Success in the Criminal Justice System’s Response to VAWA Crimes
Since 2019, the Violence Against Women Measuring Effectiveness Initiative (VAWA MEI) and the Justice Research and Statistical Association (JRSA) have been engaged in efforts to research, pilot, evaluate, and recommend outcome measures that OVW and grantees can use to measure the success of law enforcement’s response to crimes. The project will culminate in recommendations to OVW for collecting outcomes that are linked to good practice, matched to VAWA-funded activities, useful to grantees for data-driven decision-making, feasible for both OVW and grantees to implement, and minimally burdensome for grantees to use. This presentation shares the results of this two-year exploration.
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Ten Steps to Consider When Conducting a Criminal Sexual Assault Investigation
This presentation will focus on lessons learned from a 25-year law enforcement career which has placed the presenter in a variety of communities. Whether inner-city Atlanta, Georgia, the St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation, or on a college campus, sound trauma-informed investigative principles around gender-based violence and sexual assault should apply equally to all.
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Reimagining Justice for Survivors through Policy Change and Healing Environments
At any level of the justice system, serving survivors with a verdict against their perpetrator or a settlement for themselves is not enough to say we have reached justice. Our society is socialized to believe impunity and punishment of perpetrators will become justice for survivors, and while we believe this to be true for some – what can be truly transformative is a reimagined focus on healing. Survivors deserve systems and spaces that create healing opportunities and prevent harm, though throughout the United States there is a growing crisis of sexual assaults occurring within psychiatric and rehabilitation facilities.
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Using Restorative Justice to Benefit Victim Survivors: Is It Possible?
Although an ancient practice, restorative justice is experiencing a revival in public interest. Communities, particularly those that have been shut out of the traditional American systems of adjudicating crime, are drawn to a system which incorporates community residents into the decision-making process.
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Elevating Survivor Voices: The Impact of Start by Believing
All too often, when sexual assault victims find the courage to come forward, their disclosures are met with doubt or blame, rather than empathy and support. End Violence Against Women International set out to better understand the impact of responses to victim disclosures, both from professionals as well as loved ones.
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Justice Begins with a Trauma-Informed Approach: Reflections and Visions
Victims and survivors of sexual assault measure “justice” in many ways. There are evolving community expectations and demands for trauma-informed approaches to victims and survivors. This has led to new professional standards for trauma-informed care in our response, investigation, and prosecution of sexual assault cases, and more importantly, for victims and survivors; “Justice begins with a trauma-informed approach.”
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