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Spiritual Abuse: Allyships with Faith Communities: Trauma-Informed Leaders Supporting Survivors
This webinar focuses on creating change in domestic violence advocates’ relationships with these communities by showing how faith leaders can create a safe space for victims.
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Righting a Wrong: Impact of the Criminalization of Survivors of the Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking
Survivors of the sex trade and sex trafficking face many barriers, including housing issues, substance abuse, difficulty obtaining employment, and long-lasting trauma
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Using Forensic Genetic Genealogy to Solve Serial Sexual Assaults and Sexually Motivated Homicides
More and more suspects are identified using the analysis of biological samples collected at a crime scene or developed from the remains of Jane or John Doe combined with traditional genealogical research on potential relatives identified in public DNA databases. Nowhere is this investigative technique more relevant than with a cold case sexual assault homicide, deemed otherwise stagnant.
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Reproductive and Sexual Coercion: An Intimate form of Abuse
Research has shown that experiencing intimate partner violence may put women at higher risk for experiencing reproductive and sexual coercion. The presenter will define reproductive/sexual coercion, discuss the various tactics perpetrators use to control their partner’s reproductive/sexual health and autonomy and outline ways that staff can effectively screen for, and respond to, signs of reproductive coercion.
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“Mindhunting” in Practice: Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Offender-Focused Investigations
The investigation of cold case sexual assaults presents unique challenges to law enforcement. While victims are centered in these investigations, shifting the focus to those who commit these crimes is an under-utilized yet effective approach.
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Holding Serial Sexual Offenders Accountable
Presented by a highly experienced panel including a forensic nurse, a police detective and a prosecutor, this session will focus on a case study involving a serial sexual offender, and details the involvement of multiple disciplines in investigating, building, and prosecuting the case. The presenters will also discuss how these different disciplines work together to prosecute sexually violent predators.
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The Risk of Reporting: “She Made a Report of Rape and Ended up in Handcuffs
False reports of sexual assault are rare (between 2-8 percent of all sexual assault reports), so Ms. de Leon pursued as many police records as she could to investigate these reports.
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Forging New Trails
Leading a sex crimes unit requires a deep understanding of the intricacies of the offense, a passion for the work, and, most importantly, the ability to train and lead your investigators towards an approach that is victim-centered, offender-focused, and trauma-informed. Learning and implementing best practices in sexual assault investigations can help you ensure a more effective response by holding perpetrators accountable for their crimes and providing better service to victims.
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Seek Then Speak: Online Interviewing Tool for Sexual Assault Survivors
To increase access to reporting and services, EVAWI partnered with EBinRA to create a self-guided, online interviewing tool for sexual assault victims.
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Our Stories Are Our Power: Using Testimony & Narrative to Create Social & Political Change
Testimony creates the space for imagining injustice, so that the world may come to an understanding of the effects gender-based violence has on victims, families, and communities. In this interactive presentation, we will consider ways that storytelling and testimony have created political change across history and social justice movements and explore the ethics of storytelling in our increasingly interconnected world.
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