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School Resource Officers and Title IX: K-12 Responses to Sexual Misconduct
With Title IX guidance and regulations in flux, this session briefly explores developing case law around the requirement that educational institutions receive actual notice of sexual misconduct through an “appropriate person” before liability attaches under Title IX. While often employed by local law enforcement, school resource officers often serve as agents for K-12 school districts to receive reports of sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and other forms of gender-based harassment and abuse. Properly training school resource officers to respond to reports under Title IX will improve K-12 grievance procedures addressing sexual harassment, misconduct and violence to avoid liability and, most importantly, to ensure students feel safe and supported within their educational environments.
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Building Partnerships to Support Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Detention
Participants will learn about the Office for Victims of Crime’s cohort of four programs for incarcerated survivors: an immigration detention facility in California; comprehensive in-person services program in rural Kentucky; a four-jail pilot in Pennsylvania; and a statewide crisis line in Michigan. Going beyond the basics, this dynamic panel will share best practice strategies service providers can implement into their daily practice.
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Sexual Assault Response Innovation: A Regionalized Task Force
Nearly all major municipal US policing agencies have dedicated sex crimes units, offering expert investigative assistance to victims of sexual violence. Many municipal policing agencies/county sheriff offices have fewer than 100 sworn officers, settling for general assignment detectives. Due to intense workloads and limited training resources, it's unrealistic to expect detectives to become experts in sexual violence. The predictable result is less than optimal investigations, poor reporting experiences, and worse outcomes for victims. In 2016, the Commerce City, CO (CCPD), and Brighton, CO (BPD) police departments identified an innovative practice for sexual assault investigations: a joint sexual assault taskforce (SATF) working across jurisdictions to investigate sex crimes in a victim-centered manner.
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Trauma and Resilience Integration Using Multiple Pathways to Healing (TRIUMPH) Model
Trauma and Resilience Integration Using Multiple Pathways to Healing (TRIUMPH) model is a trauma informed model that allows flexibility in how trauma is processed. We know that the model of treatment is not a "one size fits all" so we have integrated the information gathered from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES), the brain science that exists in regard to how trauma affects the brain and how powerful healthy relationships can be as a corrective experience.
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Addressing Sexual Victimization Within Domestic Violence
This webinar will shed light on the prevalence of sexual violence within intimate partner relationships, acknowledge the importance of developing collaborative strategies between domestic violence and sexual assault agencies, and advocate for a broader inclusion of addressing sexual violence within all systems working to address Intimate Personal Violence.
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New York State’s Multi-Faceted Approach to Reducing Intimate Partner Homicides
Since 2010, New York State has been actively involved in understanding and preventing IPV homicides. A number of different methods are being used, such as enacting legislation that limits offenders’ access to firearms, conducting intensive reviews of domestic violence-related homicides, and awarding grant funds to service providers throughout the state. This workshop will provide an overview and discussion of the various methods being used to achieve the goal of reducing IPV homicides in New York State, and an analysis of the challenges and successes of those efforts. Participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups to develop ideas for programs that could be implemented in their own states, counties, or municipalities to address the problem of IPV homicide.
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Destroyed: How CNN Exposed the Destruction of Rape Kits and Mishandling of Rape Cases
In this webinar, attendees will learn critical lessons about how to do better: How to avoid biases that might harm investigations; why maintaining rape kits for the length of the statute of limitations is critical to solving your case and getting it to a successful prosecution; why a checks and balances system in law enforcement is essential to quality work, and why the latest trauma-informed training is not a luxury, but a necessity. Attendees will also walk away with some tips on how to interact with the media.
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Multidisciplinary Discussions: Trauma, Resiliency, & Reflections on 10 Years of Start by Believing
In this webinar discussions on experiences of trauma, stress, and resiliency will take place through the lens of law enforcement, advocates, and forensic nurses. Panelists will share their experiences in both the professional and personal context discussing sources of stress, the meaning of resiliency and hope, and strategies to address stress. Although pre-recorded, this session will have interactive components. Come join us to learn more about stress and what you can do to prevent, mitigate and manage it.
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Development and Implementation of Domestic Violence High Risk Teams in Rural Communities
When evaluating domestic violence lethality, research demonstrates that location matters. For example, rural women endure more severe violence and experience a higher risk of lethality. Delayed law enforcement response times, coupled with greater distances to life-saving medical intervention, increases the risk of fatality. Domestic Violence High Risk Teams are essential in rural areas as a result, yet few communities have them in place. This session will help organizations determine which partners to include in their high-risk team, as well as how to overcome the various challenges of collaboration. The presenters will review the strategies they have implement to successfully to domestic violence cases in rural communities.
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Saving Our Girls: Being Young, Missing, and Black and the Prevalence of Sex Trafficking
The story of missing Black girls in Washington, DC in 2017 played a pivotal role in national news coverage about missing teens and, while officials tried to explain the numerous cases of those who went missing, far too many of them remain unresolved. The Black and Missing Foundation indicates that nearly 40 percent of all missing people in the country are people of color. Yet, today, the missing girls in DC receive little attention. Moreover, most of these girls come from marginalized, under-resourced communities and are primarily low-income, which in Washington DC, a city of haves and have-nots, exposes a part of the capital the rest of America may rarely see. A deeper, more nuanced problem, that includes at-risk Black girls, whose lives and struggles sometimes involve sex trafficking, that is often ignored.
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