Featured LETTAC Clearinghouse

Time length: 33 minutes

Savannah Sanders joins the Patchwork podcast to share how she applies what she learned about her life as a victim of human trafficking to help others who have been trafficked.

CVS enhances preventing and addressing interpersonal violence and related crimes, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and promoting policies and practices that hold abusers accountable, prioritize safety, and also help survivors heal.

This resource center helps activate people and organizations across movements to end violence against people with disabilities and Deaf people through a shared, intersectional framework.

ITARC works to improve systems responses to limited English proficiency (LEP) victims by providing technical assistance and training on the development and implementation of language accessible services.

The National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit provides technical assistance and training on protection orders, the Full Faith and Credit provision of the VAWA, and inter-jurisdictional enforcement of protection orders.

Time length: 1 hour

NDVFRI provides technical assistance in reviewing domestic violence related deaths to prevent them in the future, preserve battered women's safety, and hold accountable perpetrators and agencies/organizations that come into contact with the parties.

Time length: 2 hours

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a national information clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases across the United States.

Time length: 1 hour

PSP was established by DOJ to provide an innovative framework to enhance federal support of state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution authorities to enhance public safety and build capacity to address violent crime challenges.

Time length: 1 hour

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms (which includes the Safer Families, Safer Communities project) is the first-ever website wholly dedicated to addressing the role of firearms and domestic violence.

Time length: 1 hour

NSVRC provides information and tools to prevent and respond to sexual violence; translates research and trends into best practices; promotes informed reporting by the media; and leads April's Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Time length: 2 hours

The goal of SAJI is to develop and implement a set of performance measures for sexual assault prosecutions, targeting accountability-related outputs and outcomes such as appropriateness of sentence, support for victims, and victim satisfaction.

Time length: 1 hour

SPARC provides education and resources about the crime of stalking to enhance the response to stalking by educating the professionals tasked with keeping stalking victims safe and holding offenders accountable.

Time length: 6 hours

This toolkit is a step-by-step guide that leads Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Coordinators through the Sexual Violence Justice Institute's process of reviewing law enforcement case files.

Time length: 30 minutes

This podcast discusses issues that lead to sexual assaults on campuses and describes how early education may help prevent gender-based violence.

Time length: 22 minutes

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, or SANEs, are a critical component of a sexual assault response team, and are often the starting point for survivors on their journey towards recovery.

Time length: 23 minutes

In this podcast, Kristin Burki, the Director of the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), joins Patchwork to frame the topic of elder abuse.

Time length: 46 minutes

This podcast discusses how cultural differences can drive misconceptions and create obstacles when working with victims of crime.

Time length: 29 seconds

This podcast features Kris Bein and Monika Johnson Hostler who work as part of the national Resource Sharing Project to support coalitions serving victims of sexual assault.

Time length: 10 hours

This course provides rural law enforcement executives and investigators with the knowledge, skills, and resources for establishing a victim-centered response as part of an effective investigation.

Time length: 1 hour

This website provides information and resources regarding domestic violence.

NSA is offering free two-day training on lethality, liability, dynamics, investigating, interviewing, and Federal laws.

Time length: 35 minutes

This training focuses on the impact of trauma and helping victims of crime feel heard within the criminal justice system, increasing the rate of success in investigating and prosecuting sexual assault and domestic violence cases.

Time length: 35 minutes

This training explores strangulation as a part of domestic violence in response to the imperative that our criminal justice system has the training and tools to hold society’s most dangerous offenders accountable.

Time length: 1 hour

SAKI provides funding through a competitive grant program to support the jurisdictional reform of approaches to sexual assault cases resulting from evidence found in sexual assault kits that have never been submitted to a crime laboratory.

Time length: 1 hour

This pre-packaged briefcase offers a comprehensive set of tools covering multiple topic areas for sexual assault investigators.

Time length: 1 hour

This pre-packaged briefcase offers a comprehensive set of tools covering multiple topic areas for prosecutors investigating sexual assault.

Time length: 1 hour

This pre-packaged briefcase offers a comprehensive set of tools covering multiple topic areas for multidisciplinary team leads, Sexual Assault Response Teams, and other groups focused on improving the response to sexual assault.

Time length: 1 hour

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious, preventable public health problem that affects millions of Americans.

Time length: 1 hour

This website provides information on domestic or intimate partner violence.

Time length: 2 hours

This document provides a prosecutor's guide to full faith and credit for protection orders.

Time length: 2 hours

This guide for advocates provides information on the full faith and credit provision of the Violence Against Women Act, 18 U.S.C. §2265.

Time length: 1 hour

This guide, for law enforcement, provides guidance on the inter-jurisdictional enforcement of protection orders.

Time length: 1 hour

This document helps law enforcement agencies work collaboratively with agency personnel, community partners, and legal counsel to develop their own agency-specific policy to address sexual misconduct committed by sworn and civilian personnel.

Time length: 20 minutes

This success story features Lieutenant Valerie Martinez-Jordan of the Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff’s Office and her efforts to separate individuals with records of domestic violence from their firearms to prevent future bloodshed.

Time length: 2 hours

This is intended as a living document highlighting current best practices in the prosecution of domestic violence, inspired by the NDAA's Women Prosecutors Section and National Symposium on the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Cases.

Time length: 1 hour, 15 minutes

The National Sexual Assault Investigation and Prosecution Best Practices Guide is a living document highlighting current best practices in the investigation and prosecution of Sexual Assault.

Time length: 2 hours, 15 minutes

The National Human Trafficking Prosecution Best Practices Guide is a living document highlighting current best practices in the prosecution of human trafficking.

Time length: 15 minutes

The LETTAC Briefing Book provides an overview of the LETTAC program.

Time length: 1 hour

This publication, from the National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project (NIWAP), provides an extensive list of training materials for law enforcement and prosecutors.

Time length: 30 minutes

This resource, developed by the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), provides information regarding training and technical assistance for professionals serving immigrant and refugee women and children.

This page has tools, ideas to promote awareness in your community, and OVW-funded events and webinars on domestic violence. Resources are grouped for specific audiences: advocates, attorneys, judges, law enforcement, and prosecutors.

Time length: 1 hour, 17 minutes, 7 seconds

This webinar will highlight the Domestic Violence Homicide Response Plan, as well as provide suggestions for how it can be applied in practice.

This online resource highlights the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tribal Consultation on Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women activities for the years 2016-2021 and includes reports, agendas, framing papers, and recommendations.

This page details OVW's grant programs and other resources designed to develop the nation's capacity to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by strengthening services to victims and holding offenders accountable.

Intimate partner violence poses a significant health threat across Indian Country. Increasingly, health care professionals recognize that it is a major public health problem. Visit for promising practices, tools, and resources for AI/AN communities.

Time length: 15 minutes

The resource outlines the principles of the Domestic Violence Court model that complement and enable the Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction requirements.

Time length: 20 minutes

This publication details the initial planning stages of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington in developing a designated Domestic Violence Court to process all domestic violence cases in the tribal community.

Time length: 10 minutes

Learn about the programs and areas of focus of the National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project (NIWAP).

Time length: 14 minutes, 1 second

Kellie Greene, a program specialist at OVW, shares how her program seeks to engage children and men as allies in ending gender-based violence.

Time length: 1 hour, 18 minutes, 52 seconds

Hear from Federal Government representatives, researchers, and service providers about how COVID-19 has impacted the occurrence of domestic violence across the country.

Time length: 40 minutes

This white paper reviews the development, implementation, and assessment of the site-based trainings on which the National Homicide Review Training and Technical Assistance Project: Homicide Review Training Manual is based.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

This training manual lays out a series of steps, grouped into ten modules for law enforcement and community service agencies to follow in creating homicide review commissions in their own communities.

Time length: 45 minutes

This flyer outlines programs funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) that support law enforcement. Links to the program descriptions are included as well as to associated FY2022 funding opportunities, if applicable.

The theme of Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2023 is “Drawing Connections: Prevention Demands Equity.” This campaign calls on individuals, communities, organizations, and institutions to change ourselves and the systems to build equity and respect.

April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This page has resources and tools, ideas to promote awareness in your community, and OVW-funded events and webinars on sexual assault.

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE, online.rainn.org y rainn.org/es).

In 2022, DOJ released this updated guidance to help law enforcement agencies recognize, mitigate, and prevent gender bias and other bias from compromising the response to, and investigation of, SA, DV, and other forms of gender-based violence.

Time length: 10 minutes

LETTAC has prepared a flyer that outlines how to receive training and technical assistance.

Time length: 8 hours

Clery Center’s no-cost 2022 NCSAM Summit will bring together campus safety practitioners and higher education leaders from around the country to discuss how progress is best made when collaboration with partners takes place.

Time length: 2 hours

Free virtual training that defines human/sex trafficking, identifies how people are recruited, outlines characteristics of the traffickers, and provides information on how to respond to victims and specific indicators.

Time length: 2 hours

This free virtual training covers the definitions and dynamics of sexual assaults on campus, identifies common misperceptions, identifies relevant polices, and outlines ways to intervene and examine perpetrator motivation.

Time length: 2 hours

Free virtual training that focuses on dynamics of dating and domestic violence on campus, identifies common misperceptions, and offers an understanding of predominant aggressor and the impact of dual arrest.

Time length: 2 hours

A free virtual training that offers an understanding of common stalking behaviors and explores ways to attribute victim-centered meaning and context to those behaviors.

Time length: 2 hours

This free virtual training defines LGBTQ+ sexual and intimate partner violence (IPV), explores unique issues related to the LGBTQ+ community, identifies specific challenges and barriers to services and responses, and provides best practices.

Time length: 1 hour

By uniting our efforts through the same hashtags and simple messaging, through GiveForDV and during DVAM, it builds the case that Every1 has a part to play in supporting our work to end domestic violence. We hope you will join us in this campaign.

Time length: 1 hour

The Domestic Violence Awareness Project (DVAP), a project of the NRCDV, developed a unified message and action guide: #1Thing. One person’s actions may seem insignificant, but together a communities' collective “#1Things” can lead to transformation.

Time length: 1 hour

This year’s campaign seeks to support victims with a clear message: If you are experiencing abuse in your relationship, you don't have to face it alone. Learn about your local Family Advocacy Program and other resources available to you.

Time length: 1 hour

If you are in immediate danger, call 911. The Office on Violence Against Women does not provide services directly to the general public. Find local help by clicking on our local resources map or calling one of the national hotlines.

Time length: 1 hour

The Victim Assistance to Support Tribes Center is an extension of NCVC's mission to include our Indigenous Partners in hopes to expand services of victims and survivors which may be overlooked and underserved in Indigenous communities.

Registration is now open for the 2023 Rural Virtual Conference: Collaborative Responses to Domestic Violence in Rural Communities (Oct 2 & 3). Sessions will cover implementing collaborative, systemic responses to DV in rural communities nationwide.

Time length: 15 minutes

This October, the National Violence Against Women Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Consortium (LETTAC) commemorates and elevates Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) and highlights available training and technical assistance.

Time length: 1 hour

Peruse the video messages of support from the LETTAC Consortium; explore the LETTAC #DVAM2022 booklet to learn more about our subject-matter experts and requesting TTA; and check out the accompanying toolkit full of DVAM curated resources.

Time length: 40 minutes

View this fireside chat with OVW leaders Allison Randall, OVW Acting Director, and Nadine Neufville, Deputy Director of the Grant Development and Management Division, and reminiscence where we came from and forecast where we’re going.

Time length: 20 minutes

In this podcast episode, OVW grant specialist Jessica Neal interviews Dorian Johnson, a former project director at Spelman College, to discuss the importance of OVW’s grants for HBCUs, as well as tips for applying for and using OVW grant awards.

Time length: 1 hour

This publication by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges explores the issue of teen dating violence, how to support LGBTQIA+ teens experiencing dating violence, and practical considerations for judges and courtroom personnel.

Do you know your stalking statutes? Check out this interactive map for all U.S. jurisdictions created by the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC) of AEquitas. Stalking: know it; name it; stop it.

Time length: 1 hour

These trainings and publications by the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC) of Aequitas can assist law enforcement in their identification of and response to stalking crimes.

These resources by the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC) of Aequitas can help judicial officers use concrete knowledge of stalking behaviors and how they relate to other crimes to better identify stalking in any type of case.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

This is a collection of Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) webinars highlighting survivor-centered, trauma-informed advocacy for trafficking survivors.

Time length: 30 minutes

This Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence website defines trafficking, sex trafficking, domestic minor sex trafficking, and commercial sexual exploitation of children. It offers trafficking statistics, resources, and helplines.

Time length: 30 minutes

This TA Brief addresses the complexity of advocacy for survivors of trafficking. Topics include definitions; analysis/root causes; trauma-informed advocacy, endangerment, and confidentiality; and considerations/recommendations at points of contact.

Time length: 45 minutes

This report integrates expertise from advocates and survivors that can serve as a primer for program design for victims of trafficking; forge collaborations; expand the field’s knowledge of trauma; and inform safety, healing, and empowerment.

Time length: 5 minutes

This Department of Defense website includes human trafficking training, a parent resource guide, a student guide to preventing human trafficking, and survivor accounts published by the Combating Trafficking in Persons Program Management Office.

Visit this Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website to learn more about National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (January 11) and explore the DHS's Blue Campaign and social media shareables. #WearBlueDay

Time length: 7 minutes

Explore these human trafficking campus law enforcement training videos by the Department of Homeland Security's Blue Campaign, a national public awareness campaign. Learn how to recognize and respond to human trafficking as campus law enforcement.

Time length: 50 minutes

This U.S. Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign webinar explores how trafficking uniquely impacts Tribal communities and explains how to better recognize and respond to Tribal victims of human trafficking.

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) are invaluable collaborative partners in a prosecutor’s response to human trafficking. SANEs provide much-needed medical care and enhance investigations and prosecutions when included on multidisciplinary teams.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

This webinar will teach you to investigate and prosecute crimes of intimate partner human trafficking and recognize the methods of control used by these offenders, which are uniquely manipulative and difficult to identify.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

In this webinar, learn to effectively document incidents of sex and labor trafficking to protect victims, hold offenders accountable, and educate the public.

Time length: 5 minutes

This article explores the research of Katherine Scafide, PhD, a former forensic nurse examiner and now an assistant professor at George Mason University, on the use of alternate light sources to more accurately detect bruising across all skin tones.

Time length: 15 minutes

This Justice Today podcast episode, hosted by the National Institute of Justice, discusses research on human trafficking that is helping victims and developing tools and information to help better understand, prevent, and respond to trafficking.

Time length: 30 minutes

This report includes descriptions of OVW grantees’ accomplishments, aggregated data on their work from 2018 to 2020, scholarly research that supports the effectiveness of grant-funded activities, and best practices to respond to VAWA crimes.

Time length: 1 hour, 10 minutes

This podcast addresses stalking as a pattern of behavior directed at a specific person. It causes a person to fear for their safety or the safety of others.

Domestic violence is a pervasive concern for the community and police. Research shows that when police can intervene during early stages of emotional, verbal, or physical abuse, this is critical to preventing violence.

In this podcast, Adam Dodge exposes the danger of living in an online world while demystifying the process of creating a digital safety plan, collecting evidence of tech abuse, and how one might create a legal system that properly investigates.

Effective victim response requires multilayered strategies to meet crime victims’ individual needs. To carry out these strategies, law enforcement agencies and their partners must identify and secure appropriate funding.

This podcast addresses gender-based violence and human trafficking directly with young men. In this episode, Matt Osborne explains the magnitude of the problems of human trafficking, objectification of women, and pornography addiction.

Time length: 3 hours

This webinar series addresses the intersectionality of human trafficking and intimate partner violence, the importance of a multidisciplinary approach, complexity in identification and victim disclosure, and trauma-informed services/support.

This resource, developed by the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), provides tools and trainings for law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and victim advocates serving immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Time length: 38 minutes, 43 seconds

In this podcast, Gabriela Zapata-Alma explores that abuse causes higher risks for both mental health challenges and substance use disorders in victims. The complex pattern of abuse that is coercive control increases these dangers for survivors.

Time length: 48 minutes, 2 seconds

In this podcast episode, Joseph Scaramucci discusses both the difficulties and best practices that can determine a human trafficking investigation’s level of victory.

Time length: 30 minutes, 43 seconds

In this podcast, Just Science interviewed Mark Pooley, creator of Native Search Solutions, to explain how the challenges faced by indigenous communities influence sexual assault investigations.

Time length: 43 minutes, 15 seconds

In this podcast, Just Science interviews Dr. Julie L. Valentine, the Associate Dean of the Brigham Young University College of Nursing, to discuss the components of low prosecution rates for sexual assault cases.

Co-Responder Teams are a tool for law enforcement officers, who are often called upon to respond to people who are having mental health concerns, experiencing homelessness, or who have other health and social service challenges.

In this Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) sponsored fact sheet, the reader learns of various programs that support violent crime reduction.

Time length: 5 minutes

Explore this booklet to gain an overview of LETTAC, meet our subject-matter experts, and peruse the LETTAC workshops available at the 2023 Conference on Crimes Against Women.

Time length: 48 minutes, 43 seconds

In this podcast, Jan Langbein and Jordyn Lawson explore the connection between domestic violence and mass shootings.

Time length: 24 minutes, 8 seconds

The National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) has played an essential role in obtaining justice for victims of sexual assault nationwide. During this episode, hear how SAKI funding helped the state of Georgia process sexual assault kits.

Time length: 20 minutes, 17 seconds

In this podcast, Maya Pilkington is joined by Dr. Katherine Scafide who shares how her research on detecting bruises and skills as a forensic nurse help pediatric and adult assault domestic violence victims by providing clear documentation.

In this guidance, the reader learns that being aware and mitigating bias in law enforcement response to sexual assault and domestic violence is essential to law enforcement's ability to protect and serve their communities.

The National Institute of Justice and the Office on Violence Against Women launched the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative to further expand the evidence base about how these models function.

Time length: 38 minutes, 28 seconds

This podcast lifts up the voices of Malika Pegues and Jennifer Moston. The two women discuss systematic and complex problems that intimate partner violence survivors often encounter, such as law enforcement, healthcare, and court responses to IPV.

A victim-centered and trauma-informed response to domestic violence is essential. This means that officers need to understand that victims of domestic violence can display a wide variety of reactions to the violence; no two victims are the same.

This first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence by the Government advances an unprecedented and comprehensive approach to preventing and addressing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and other forms of violence.

Time length: 41 minutes, 46 seconds

In this podcast, Becki Kondar, Carlotta Lepingwell, and Stas Moroz have a conversation to discuss how domestic violence can impact a woman's chances for incarceration and how the Women's Prison Project is working to change that.

These short e-learning modules will enhance your investigative skills, ensure you work effectively with older victims, and provide tools that can help you play a key role in effectively responding to elder abuse at the local level.

This self-assessment tool encourages law enforcement and coordinated community responses (CCRs) to candidly and thoughtfully assess their elder abuse work and the processes they use. It helps identify existing practices and introduce new approaches.

This policy was designed to establish agency priorities, guidelines, and procedures to be followed by law enforcement officers in response to domestic violence calls.

The IACP created this training guidelines to provide essential background material, supporting details, and suggested elements on intimate partner violence in order to support agency development of comprehensive training policy and content.

Gathering evidence during the investigation of sexual assault crimes is necessary for law enforcement and others in the criminal justice system, such as prosecutors, to ask the victim questions that they may find difficult to answer.

An evaluation of state-based task forces using the “Enhanced Collaborative Model” reveals steady momentum but recommends improvements, such as a more balanced approach to sex and labor trafficking.

Time length: 48 minutes, 43 seconds

Two-thirds of mass shootings in the U.S. are committed by perpetrators with a history of domestic violence. This podcast explores the connection between domestic violence and mass shootings.

This toolkit provides resources to help child and adult victims of sexual abuse, assist survivors of acts of terrorism and mass violence, fight fires that may have taken people's lives, or respond to shootings and other crime scenes.

This e-publication gives guidelines to help victim service practitioners and program administrators enhance the quality and consistency of their response to victims of crime.

This report by the Department of State provides a comprehensive overview of the state of human trafficking around the world and the tools being used to strengthen response and coordination.

Time length: 1 hour, 1 minute, 11 seconds

In this podcast, the rights for victims and survivors are explained as disproportionately compromised by an overabundance of caseloads, insufficient financial resources, and limited manpower. This can leave victims exposed to injustices and more.

Time length: 1 hour, 5 minutes, 18 seconds

This podcast explores intimate partner violence and firearms and how the combination can be deadly for a high percentage of women. Alicia Nichols leads this conversation to identify the links and risks of firearms and IPV.

Time length: 41 minutes, 52 seconds

In this podcast, Dr. Darrell Turner discusses a new approach in detecting truthfulness of denial and the key terms and patterns investigators can look for when assessing the likelihood of a suspect's involvement in crimes of a sexual nature.

This resource is a TTA Request Form and information on becoming an OVC Fellow.

This publication is the national summary of domestic violence counts. The information gathered is from the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and NNEDV's WomensLaw Email Hotline.

This report summarizes a 24-hour survey of domestic violence shelters and services. The survey took place on September 7, 2022, and this report outlines the findings from the survey.

In this publication, findings from a national survey are summarized by the state of Florida. 24 out of 41 identified domestic violence programs in Florida participated in the survey and this report explains the results.

This publication discusses the Agency Self-Assessment Tool for Law Enforcement Victim Support which is designed to help law enforcement agencies review practices related to victim-focused, trauma-informed practices.

These videos provide more information on the National Crime Victimization Survey.

This article explores how a Navajo FBI employee reaches victims of crimes on indigenous land. The FBI navigate to distant, far out, and sometimes missing places on a map as part of the job in Indian Country.

In this template, law enforcement agencies are being encouraged to expand victim-centered, trauma-informed practices to victims, despite historically focusing on apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, and punishment of offenders.

Time length: 1 hour, 27 minutes, 4 seconds

The Podcast on Crimes Against Women talks with Rosie Hidalgo and discusses the U.S. Plan to End Gender-Based Violence. In this episode, Rosie Hidalgo provides a complete overview of the plan.

It is important for all survivors to feel prepared if they choose to contact law enforcement after an incident. The information in this resource is intended to be a general guideline for speaking with police and making a report.

This resource highlights the growing recognition of the unique challenges faced by victims of community violence when accessing Crime Victim Compensation (CVC). This attention has initiated efforts to reform and enhance the program.

Time length: 38 minutes

This film, with access to emotional police trainings, explores the complicated relationship between police and family violence. Mark Wynn encourages police officers to stop decades of disregard and systemic failures around domestic violence.

The Violence Against Women Act mandates a report to Congress every even-numbered fiscal year that provides data on the occurrence of stalking and domestic violence and evaluates the strength of anti-stalking endeavors and legislation.

This series on advocates and law enforcement begins with a historical standpoint and explores the role of victim advocates within the arena of the criminal justice system.

This report documents guidelines and interview strategies for sexual assault incident investigations and were developed in collaboration with local, state, and federal law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, and other professionals.

This guide includes information on human trafficking in federal law, tools for identification of human trafficking, investigation and response, and resources to assist victims.

Time length: 59 minutes, 26 seconds

This webinar features law enforcement officers and child trauma experts who give key information about development, the signs/symptoms of acute traumatic stress in children, and strategies for officers to intervene effectively.

This webinar slide show describes what victim compensation is, why law enforcement needs to understand it, and what law enforcement can do to help and support victims and compensation programs.

Time length: 10 minutes, 39 seconds

This short instructional video describes the role of law enforcement as they connect victims with crime victim compensation programs. This video is tailored to investigators.

Time length: 11 minutes, 39 seconds

This short instructional video describes the role of law enforcement when connecting victims with crime victim compensation programs. This video is tailored to first responders.

Time length: 10 minutes, 55 seconds

This short instructional video describes the role of law enforcement when connecting victims with crime victim compensation programs. This video is tailored to law enforcement leaders.

Time length: 46 minutes, 37 seconds

This webinar describes information about the creation of body-worn camera policies and programs which are tailored to intimate partner violence including domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

The purpose of this resource is to enhance law enforcement’s understanding of and response to sexual violence in LGBTQ+ communities.

This report examines the use of new technologies, such as body-worn cameras, as they are introduced into policing. Law enforcement needs to construct a balance between officer safety and accountability, and victim safety and autonomy.

This comprehensive IACP resource center, including training and conferences, was created to support law enforcement and allied professionals in investigating and preventing cyber-crimes and crimes that involve technology.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children presents details about child sexual exploitation and sextortion, red flags, and safety strategies.

The Safety Net Project of the National Network To End Domestic Violence provides resources and training for victim service providers and allied professionals focused on technology safety in the context of gender-based violence.

This report discusses the realities of online harassment in the context of and as a form of domestic and sexual violence and presents strategies for working with survivors to capture evidence and implement safety strategies.

Abusers misuse technology as a way to harass, control, and monitor. This online resource includes information on abuse using technology, ways abusers misuse technology, abuse involving cyber-surveillance, texts, photos, and videos, and more.

This report details a review of literature on cyber abuse, defines cyber abuse, and outlines the history and evolution of technology use among young Americans.

The Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC) of AEquitas provides training, resources, and information to prosecutors, law enforcement, victim service providers, to ensure they have the resources needed to better respond to victims.

The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics houses many resources, including podcasts and webinars, focused on cybercrime investigations.

This guide outlines online harassment and presents strategies to effectively capture evidence of harassment for admission to court.

Time length: 3 minutes

This LETTAC-compiled toolkit—assembled from the valued activities, expertise, and contributions of fellow OVW training and technical assistance providers as well as other allied professionals—provides a starting point to explore the important topic.

Love Is Respect is the national resource to disrupt and prevent unhealthy relationships and intimate partner violence by empowering young people through inclusive and equitable education, support, and resources.

This LETTAC-compiled toolkit—assembled from the valued activities, expertise, and contributions of fellow OVW training and technical assistance providers as well as other allied professionals—provides a starting point to explore this critical topic.

This tool is designed to assist supervisors ensure that domestic violence reports capture important and comprehensive details and the sum of crimes that took place.

This tool is designed to help supervisors ensure that non-lethal strangulation reports capture important and comprehensive details and the sum of crimes that took place.

This tool is designed to help supervisors ensure that stalking reports capture important and comprehensive details and the sum of crimes that took place.

Time length: 1 hour, 59 minutes, 9 seconds

Presented by Gael Strack, FJ, and Casey Gwinn, JD, this annual webinar is from the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention on “What We Learned in 2022.”

This one-page info-graphic timeline displays the physiological consequences of strangulation caused by occlusion of arterial blood flow.

Time length: 1 hour, 38 minutes, 24 seconds

Strangulation impacts law enforcement working on sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking cases. This webinar discusses the challenge that officers face when determining the predominant aggressor of strangulation cases.

This online resource outlines the impact of vicarious trauma on persons and organizations, and lists resources designed to help the reader identify and address vicarious trauma intentionally.

This manual discusses strangulation cases and how they require a specialized investigation and multi-disciplinary team. The earlier investigators can intervene and stop a domestic violence strangulation case, the higher the chance to save a life.

The Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention created a guide titled "Facts of Strangulation” to help inform victims and law enforcement of strangulation.

This brochure, developed by the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, shows the symptoms of strangulation and can be used as a resource for law enforcement and investigators.

This brochure, created by the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, shows the signs of strangulation and can be used as a resource and training material for law enforcement and investigators.

Time length: 38 minutes, 59 seconds

The purpose of this video is to provide law enforcement with training for the investigation of strangulation assault incidents, how to appropriately respond to victims of strangulation assault, and evidence collection that will assist in prosecution.

The Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention created a fact sheet on strangulation in intimate partner violence. This resource can be used for law enforcement and officers in training.

Time length: 30 minutes, 2 seconds

This PA Centered podcast episode highlights human trafficking, what it looks like and who is involved. PA Centered interviews Heather Shynder, an expert in the field.

The data on sexual violence is inherently incomplete. There are a variety of reasons, addressed in this report. Ultimately, this means that the official statistics are much lower than the actual rates of occurrence.

Using reliable and valid research, this report by the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault debunks common myths around false reports of sexual assault and rape.

Time length: 17 hours

This training module provides an overview of research on trauma and memory, as well as the intricate dynamics of sexual assault. This information can be applied to the practical tasks involved in the immediate response to a sexual assault case.

Published by EVAWI, this four-part training discusses the ideology of gender bias and the resulting stereotypes and attitudes that influence the law enforcement response and investigation of sexual assault.

Time length: 5 hours

This training module was created to intentionally confront the belief that sexual assault reports to law enforcement are false. Using research and data, this training identifies the red flags that commonly raise questions are often the reality of SA.

Time length: 8 hours

This training course was created to provide officers and investigators with instructions for their response to allegations of sexual assault, helping the victims, working in tandem with local service agencies, and performing interviews with victims.

This resource provides tips and recommendations for language use when referring to sexual assault crimes, describing sexual acts, referring to the victim and perpetrator, and more. The purpose is to create clarity and not perpetuate misinformation.

This training gives law enforcement tools for trauma-informed interviewing techniques, reviews the evidence produced from a trauma-informed interview with a SA victim, and explains how the evidence should be used in a SA investigation.

The IACP developed this resource for law enforcement agencies to determine gender bias within their agencies and enhance their responses to gender-based violence. This resource identifies a six-step response to address domestic and sexual violence.

This report, published by the University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic, outlines gender-based violence and promotes strategies of improvement for law enforcement.

Dispatchers are vital and often provide the way to safety for victims. 911 dispatchers can make the difference between life-or-death situations for victims. In this special chapter for dispatchers, their role in non-fatal strangulation is outlined.

This model policy, created by the IACP, gives guidance on the establishment of priorities, guidelines, and procedures for law enforcement officers as they respond to calls of domestic violence.

Time length: 1 hour, 41 minutes, 19 seconds

This webinar recording, led by two law enforcement officials, addresses the pertinence of determining the predominant aggressor when responding to domestic violence cases. It also provides practical tips and best practices for law enforcement.

This resource provides information on how violence to the head, neck, and face—including choking and strangulation—can have serious and long-lasting consequences to the brain. This resource is important for law enforcement working with survivors.

This publication is designed to support law enforcement agencies with the creation of comprehensive sexual assault policies. It includes policy recommendations, suggestions for collaboration, and procedures.

This guidebook includes recommendations for how police departments can enhance their response to sexual assault. It contains guidance for agency policies and procedures, accountability tactics, training, collaboration, report writing, and more.

In this publication, AEquitas created a model approach to the prosecution of sexual assault cases and measures to evaluate current practices. Volume I is divided in two parts and is intended for policy creators and prosecutors.

This model, developed by AEquitas, explains how to prosecute sexual assault and corresponding measures to evaluate current practices. Volume II provides information on how prosecutors can develop and implement a management system for sexual violence.

This resource, developed by AEquitas, has several practical tools to help prosecutors in the development and implementation of the RSVP model as well as guidance to help enhance the prosecution of sexual violence cases.

Time length: 1 minute, 52 seconds

This video, created by AEquitas, provides an overview of the RSVP model for prosecuting sexual assault and introduces corresponding measures to enhance criminal responses to sexual violence.

This resource page from the National Crime Victim Law Institute provides a myriad of resources to attorneys and advocates who work with victims of crime in criminal cases.

This training video was created for law enforcement to help them notice the signs and symptoms of strangulation when responding to domestic violence calls, and how to conduct victim interview questions and implement actions to help the victim.

This checklist includes suggestions for the seizure of firearms for law enforcement officers as they respond to crimes of domestic violence and protection order enforcement.

This guide contains 35 recommendations for gathering evidence during a medical forensic exam of sexual assault, investigating sexual assault, storing, keeping, tracking, and processing evidence, as well as maintaining communication with victims.

Victims of sexual assault often share over time. The interview process could cause victims further trauma. This is why trauma-informed approaches are the most effective way for victims to share. These tools can help investigators delve deeper.

This toolkit provides a full set of tools addressing multiple topics for sexual assault investigators. These tools will help investigators learn more about the dynamics of sexual assault cases and best practices for victim communication.

This toolkit provides a total set of tools covering multiple topics for prosecutors investigating sexual assault. These tools can help prosecutors learn more about their role in a multidisciplinary community response to sexual assault.

Time length: 45 minutes, 31 seconds

This podcast addresses how cultural differences can stir misconceptions and cause obstacles when working with victims of crime. It provides recommendations, useful for law enforcement, on how to support a victim from a trauma-informed lens.

This toolkit, funded by the Office for Victims of Crime, provides training and resources to educate officers on the dynamics of officer-involved domestic violence and human trafficking.

After completing this training, law enforcement officers will be able to understand the facts about trafficking, identify dynamics of trafficking, use new skills for interviewing suspects and victims, and recognize the human impact of trafficking.

Time length: 1 hour, 3 minutes, 16 seconds

This webinar addresses gaps consistently found in sexual assault investigations. The discussion points out ways that commanders, supervisors and investigators can use this guide to ensure more in-depth investigations.

Time length: 34 minutes, 55 seconds

This webinar provides an overview of the neurobiology of trauma, specific to sexual assault. This discussion provides insight on how the body and brain respond to trauma and implies information for improved investigation of sexual assault.

Time length: 41 minutes, 50 seconds

This webinar provides an overview of the neurobiology of trauma, specific to sexual assault. This discussion provides insight on how the body and brain respond to trauma and implies information for improved investigation of sexual assault.

Time length: 30 minutes

This webinar provides an overview of the neurobiology of trauma, specific to sexual assault. This discussion provides insight on how the body and brain respond to trauma and implies information for improved investigation of sexual assault.

Time length: 1 hour, 2 minutes, 7 seconds

This webinar discusses lessons from law enforcement about system response to sexual assault, evidence management, sexual offenders, and victim advocacy strategies for improving victim-centered approaches.

This guide offers practices and procedures that should occur during every sexual assault investigation. This information is for law enforcement investigators and supervisors to ensure the critical steps of the investigation occur.

This online resource provides guidance on the roles and responsibilities of law enforcement as investigators and sexual assault nurse examiners. This resource also offers suggestions to keep these victim interactions separate but collaborative.

Time length: 2 hours, 5 minutes

This online training, divided into six segments, prepares law enforcement to recognize and efficiently document the evidence of strangulation, which can lead to more successful prosecutions and increase safety for communities.

The purpose of this resource is to compile materials focused on improving law enforcement responses to domestic violence and sexual assault.

This toolkit has a law enforcement agency self-assessment, community assessment, sample outreach letter, action planning guide, and additional suggestions and resources to support an engaging agency response to victims of domestic & sexual violence.

The ICCR partnered with national experts to provide these free, on demand trainings for law enforcement. The topics range from stalking investigations to determining predominant aggressors, and more. Each training requires a registration process.

Time length: 50 minutes, 42 seconds

This podcast discusses the Analysis of Patterns of Denial (APOD), designed by Dr. Darrell Turner, and specifically detects deception among individuals accused of sexual offenses.

This fact sheet, created by SPARC, outlines the connection between stalking and intimate partner violence. As a resource for law enforcement, these facts can be used to inform practice and understanding of victims.

This BJS report outlines demographic features of stalking victims and details the nature of stalking victimization, the number of offenders, the victim-offender relationship, and the frequency and duration of the stalking.

Trauma-informed interviewing provides a compassionate, intentional opportunity for victims to disclose information with investigators. This toolkit will help investigators learn the skills they need to be successful.

This briefcase offers a full set of tools for sexual assault investigators. These tools will help investigators learn about the components of sexual assault cases, best practices for victim notification, strategies for investigation, and more.

Time length: 2 minutes, 22 seconds

This training video, developed by SPARC, highlights the intersection of stalking and domestic violence.

Time length: 1 hour, 4 seconds

This webinar, created by SPARC, highlights the significant entanglement of stalking and intimate partner violence.

This report by BJS details efforts during 2022 and 2023 that measure and analyze the country's occurence of human trafficking, describes characteristics of human trafficking victims and offenders, and outlines criminal justice responses.

Time length: 1 hour, 10 minutes, 15 seconds

This webinar recording by SPARC gives an introduction to the crime of stalking, focusing on the definition, frequency, dynamics, behaviors and connections with other crimes, particularly intimate partner violence.

Time length: 1 hour, 29 minutes, 19 seconds

Stalking, despite its prevalence, is rarely investigated or charged. This webinar explores how service providers, including law enforcement and prosecutors, can better investigate and charge stalking as a crime.

The Battered Women’s Justice Project organized a document to continue national discussion on how to incorporate guiding principles issued by the Department of Justice on the identification and prevention of gender bias in law enforcement.

This document details gender-biased policing, police misconduct, domestic violence, and sexual assault. This briefing outlines examples of gender-biased policing, offers ways for police to address bias, and suggests steps toward police reform.

Created by the National Resource Center for Reaching Victims and FORGE, funded by the Office for Victims of Crime, this online resource is for law enforcement agencies to provide strategies to build trust with LGBTQ+ communities.

The Chicago Department of Family & Support Services (DFSS) created this resource that gives a background of gender-based violence (GBV), an understanding of GBV in Chicago, and programs and services offered by DFSS.

Created by the Internet Crimes Against Children, this one-page document provides an overview of the crime of sextortion and its impacts on victims, and provides a resource for law enforcement, first responders, and other criminal justice personnel.

The Law Enforcement Based Victim Services (LEV) website offers videos, tools, assessments, and more, available to law enforcement personnel.

This OJP feature highlights domestic violence and it's prevalence, prevention methods, response, and training and technical assistance.

This flyer provides the definition for coercive control, helpful statistics, strategies for law enforcement personnel, and resources for victims and advocates.

This online resource provides the origination of the "cycle of violence" and why it was used to understand domestic violence (DV). With new research and guidance, the "cycle of violence" is no longer used to understand DV. This flyer explains why.

Time length: 54 minutes, 37 seconds

This podcast on Crimes Against Women, discusses historical trauma, gender violence, and healing within indigenous communities.

Time length: 38 minutes, 56 seconds

This podcast episode, by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, discusses the process used and findings from an equity focused sexual assault community assessment process in Michigan.

Time length: 1 hour, 20 minutes, 51 seconds

The National Resource Center for Reaching Victims published a podcast on improving language access for limited English proficient survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault.

Developed by Praxis International, the Blueprint for Safety is a coordinated criminal justice system response to domestic violence crimes. The Guide provides a step by step process for a succinct and streamlined response.

Developed by Praxis International, chapter 2 of the Blueprint for Safety outlines 911 emergency communications. When this response is organized and determines who is in danger, there are many opportunities to provide a succinct response to DV calls.

Time length: 1 hour, 25 minutes, 48 seconds

This webinar, by the National Resource Center for Reaching Victims, outlines resilience and an individual's capacity to overcome risk, oppression, and adversity. This resource can help law enforcement work with survivors of violence.

Time length: 1 hour, 38 minutes, 16 seconds

This webinar, created by the Family Justice Center Alliance, provides case studies on how to identify the dominant aggressor. The presenters discuss research and resources available for family violence and sexual assault professionals.

Time length: 1 hour, 27 minutes, 47 seconds

This webinar by AEquitas outlines the ways that bias against victims from Latine communities affects the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, and human trafficking.

This newsletter by AEquitas discusses the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Rahimi, as well as the Second Amendment jurisprudence that preceded it.

Time length: 1 hour, 26 minutes, 3 seconds

This presentation by AEquitas gives an overview of the history and foundation of rape shield laws and provides prosecutors with the tools to effectively litigate rape shield motions.

Time length: 40 minutes, 22 seconds

This episode by the Podcast on Crimes Against Women explores the dynamics of family courts, including tactics used by domestic violence offenders within the legal system and the impact these actions have on family courts.

Time length: 11 minutes

In this podcast episode by the Center for Justice Innovation, race, faith, and incarceration are discussed as they intertwine with domestic violence. The episode also outlines the justice system’s response to domestic violence.

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes, 10 seconds

This webinar, developed by AEquitas, discusses criminal justice responses to sex trafficking with co-occurring stalking, and will help law enforcement investigate and prosecute crimes of stalking and sexual exploitation.

Time length: 51 minutes, 17 seconds

This webinar, developed by AEquitas, will help prosecutors leverage trauma-informed strategies to enhance investigations and prosecutions of sexual violence cases, conduct trauma-informed interviews, and implement trauma-informed practices.

Time length: 1 hour, 7 minutes, 42 seconds

This webinar, created by AEquitas, explains how collaboration with law enforcement and other key stakeholders is key to a victim-centered approach to sexual violence cases, and identifies intersections between prosecutors and law enforcement.

This 2012 report by the Police Executive Research Forum is a robust work of police response to sexual assault cases.

This assessment is intended to bring awareness to current efforts and highlight areas or gaps where improvement is needed and create a more intentional discussion for teams about inclusion of the LGBTQIA+ 1 community.

Here is the link to many of the MNCASA tools and resources: Tools & Resources - Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (mncasa.org)

This resource provides a list of questions for dispatch to ask when responding to domestic violence calls.

Time length: 1 hour, 1 minute, 38 seconds

This webinar, by the Family Justice Center Alliance (FJCA), discusses fundamental beliefs and regulations in Islam that relate to gender, marriage, divorce, and domestic violence to dispel some of the myths surrounding Islam.

Time length: 1 hour, 18 minutes, 35 seconds

This webinar, orchestrated by the Family Justice Center Alliance, explores the intersection of domestic violence and PTSD. Survivors of domestic violence frequently suffer a variety of long-term impacts, also discussed in depth in this webinar.

Time length: 1 hour, 37 minutes, 12 seconds

This training, by the Family Justice Alliance Center, covers the steps of conducting a DV forensic medical exam, use of forms, history & physical examination, forensic photography, screening for strangulation, and more.

This page announcement highlights the release of a LETTAC tool: a guide for law enforcement, victim advocates, and community partners wanting to implement a co-responder program to support victims of domestic violence.

Developed by IACP and others, this roadmap provides multi-disciplinary anti-human trafficking task forces a guide on the development, format, and important notes to consider during their operations.

Developed by Genesis Women's Shelter and Support, this online resource discusses determining the predominant aggressor or whether there was self defense involved in domestic violence calls.

This resource, developed by LETTAC, is a guide for law enforcement, victim advocates, and community partners wanting to implement a co-responder program to support victims of domestic violence. Website link: https://www.lettac.org/CoResponder

Time length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

This webinar explores law enforcement engagement on SARTs and sustaining healthy partnerships to strengthen casework and victim support.

Time length: 15 minutes

Fact sheet with links to recent information about the intersection of domestic violence and firearms.

This publication provides a streamlined set of promising practices from the field for first responders, evidence collection teams, investigators, supervisors, and agencies related to victim response efforts.

This webinar focuses on the information that dispatchers/call takers need when responding to domestic violence calls and on opportunities to increase victim and officer safety.

This webinar discusses challenges and opportunities specific to follow—up investigation, including how dispatch/call taker actions can positively impact the investigation and re-establishing contact after an incident often occurs.

This webinar presents information for dispatch/call takers on how information gathered on the initial call can help establish offender status, criminal elements of crimes that occurred, and build a successful evidence-based prosecution.

Cases of violence in the homes and relationships of agency members are a reality. This webinar will present information policy, comprehensive training, effective leadership, and training to hold offenders accountable.

This report is a five-year study analyzing line-of-duty deaths. Specifically, the analysis focused on cases involving dispatched calls for service that required a police response and the information that was made available to responding officers.

This document will help guide courts, prosecutors, law enforcement, victim advocates, probation officers, and local organizations to work together to create an effective community-wide firearm surrender protocol in cases involving DV.