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January 2021
NOVA Campus Advocacy Training (NCAT) Advanced Victim Assistance Training for Victim Advocates, Title IX Coordinators and Allied Professionals
Regional Victim Assistance Training
The NCAT is a seven-week, 28-hour advanced training focused on building participants’ knowledge and skills to prevent and respond to sexual assault, stalking and interpersonal violence in higher education. Take advantage of our early bird discount rate by registering before 12/11/2020! Additional discounts are available for NOVA Members.
Asserting Victims’ Rights During COVID-19: The Evolving Landscape
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
Join NCVLI for a discussion of the ways in which the response to the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted victims’ rights legal practice. This online training will identify key rights that have been implicated by criminal justice system actors’ responses to the pandemic and articulate ways in which victims’ rights lawyers have been responding. As each jurisdiction’s justice system is continuing to adapt to this ever-changing reality, the training will include opportunities for practitioners nationwide to participate and share promising practices…
Applying Trauma-Informed Care and Disability Justice to Working with Survivors of Sex Trafficking
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
People with disabilities are more likely to experience sex trafficking than their peers. Traffickers deliberately target victims they think will be easily isolated and controlled, so conditions surrounding people with disabilities, including the fact that they are marginalized, devalued, and isolated, make people with disabilities more vulnerable to this type of abuse. A trauma-informed approach to supporting sex trafficking survivors with disabilities recognizes signs and symptoms of trauma, resists re-traumatizing survivors, and provides safe and accessible services and healing. This webinar…
February 2021
Now Accepting Applications: Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Multi-Day Virtual Training Institute in February 2021 Application Deadline: Thursday, December 3, 2020 Multidisciplinary teams are invited to participate in th Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Institute. The Institute will focus on improving collaborative responses for adult/youth domestic violence and sexual assault victims who have also experienced human trafficking. As a result of the Institute, participants will be better able to: • Strengthen multi-disciplinary collaborative strategies in responding to youth and adult trafficked…
State Recommendations and Self-Assessment Survey to Prevent the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States
Multi-sesson Online
Regional Victim Assistance Training
The National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States was established in 2017 pursuant to Section 121 of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-183). The Committee advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General on practical and general policies to improve the Nation’s response to the sex trafficking of children and youth in the United States. In September 2020, the Committee published its…
A Conversation on Serving Survivors with Disabilities
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Webinar
Research has shown that people with disabilities experience increased risk of domestic and sexual violence compared to people without disabilities. They also experience unique challenges in receiving healing and support, everything from receiving outreach for services through participating in programming. This conversation will help you begin to understand the unique dynamics of sexual and domestic violence in the lives of people with disabilities and the barriers they face when seeking services. You will also receive practical guidance for making your…
March 2021
Oregon State Basic Victim Assistance Academy – 2021
Multi-sesson Online
Regional Victim Assistance Training
The Oregon State Basic Victim Assistance Academy (Basic Academy) provides fundamental education for victim service providers and allied professionals who routinely interact with victims of crime. The March 2021 Basic Academy will be 100% virtual. This interactive online format allows increased accessibility to this deep knowledge and skills training. During this 40 hour training, which spans four weeks, there will be synchronous and asynchronous elements of the Basic Academy. This means you will get to do some work at your…
Clergy FAQs and the Campus Workbook: Protecting the Confidentiality of Survivors on Campus
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Chaplains, campus ministers, and other clergy may be among the few professionals with whom survivors may have confidential and privileged communications on higher-education campuses given changes to Title IX in recent years. The Victim Rights Law Center has developed jurisdiction-specific FAQs to answer questions about clergy-penitent privilege, whether clergy are mandatory reporters of abuse and neglect, and what exceptions to clergy mandatory reporting may apply. OVW-funded victim service providers who attend this webinar will learn how these FAQs, and our…
A Conversation on Serving Deaf Survivors
Regional Victim Assistance Training
Deaf individuals in the U.S. experience rates of domestic and/or sexual violence equal to or higher than hearing individuals, with emerging research pointing to rates twice that of hearing individuals. From 911 systems that only take phone calls to victim service providers not providing American Sign Language interpreters, Deaf survivors routinely face barriers when reaching out for help. Through this conversation with Deaf advocates, you will gain insight into the experiences of Deaf survivors, get a better understanding of the…
Survivor-Led Lawyering in the Face of Institutional Oppression and Barriers
Regional Victim Assistance Training
This interactive webinar will engage participants in a deeper understanding of common attacks to a survivor’s credibility in legal proceedings through the lens of intersectionality, institutional bias, and oppression. We will cover the 4 I’s of Oppression, how various forms of oppression (i.e. racism/white supremacy, heterosexism, ableism, sexism, classism, and anti-immigrant bias) may present themselves in a survivor’s life, and our professional responsibility to understand and address institutional bias as practitioners and organizations. From the initial intake to presenting a…