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International Safety Planning: Supporting Survivors of Forced Marriage and Domestic Violence
Forced marriage is a serious problem impacting women and girls (and some men and boys) from across communities in the United States. Forced marriage often results in physical, psychological and sexual abuse, and can intersect with other forms of harm including domestic violence and human trafficking. Survivors face significant safety risks including the threat of being taken, and in some cases abandoned, overseas. Serving these survivors requires advanced and creative safety planning, risk assessment, long term emotional support and coordination with agencies not often involved in domestic violence intervention work. In this session, common case scenarios and best practice guidance for identifying and screening cases with an international component will be shared, including how to support survivors seeking to avoid travel and coordinate a repatriation for those already overseas. An overview of the available forms of legal remedies and other expert support resources will also be provided.
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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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Documenting Domestic Violence: Considerations When Recommending Tech Tools for Victims
Technology has increasingly become a necessity for professionals, agencies, and organizations since the pandemic. The speed for which available tools come to market can cause confusion as to which ones should be recommended for victims and survivors to use. We will discuss vast considerations that should be vetted before a product or tool should be recommended. This course will explore the history and governance that oversee victim data, describe the technology types used, look at liabilities faced by the recommending entity, discuss the consequences of user experience, legal proceedings and how the information interacts with the case, and community access and inclusion.
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New Frontiers in Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Assault by Intoxication – Part 1
This presentation addresses the issues that investigators, prosecutors, victim advocates, and medical personal often encounter in alcohol facilitated sexual assaults. Investigators and prosecutors face many hurdles, including the consent defense, perceptions about “he said/she said” cases, and victims suffering from memory loss, as well as challenges related to victim shame, embarrassment, and lack of trust in law enforcement.
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A Survivor Speaks: Recognizing and Responding to Stalking
This incredibly unique and nuanced case study and data allows service providers and first responders to hear first-hand how victims navigate the world, the legal system, and build a new life from the devastation that stalking causes, as well as tools to plan for victim safety and hold offenders accountable.
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