Sexual Violence Content Topic Results

Written from a law enforcement perspective, this module offers information and guidance for first responders as well as investigators and prosecutors on investigating sexual assault against people with disabilities.

This presentation for law enforcement covers how investigations can be improved using language tools and how to hold officers more accountable by using the U Visa certification process as a crime fighting tool.

April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) campaign for 2019 is laser-focused on one concept: consent. In NRCDV's April 2019 TA Question of the Month, Susan Sullivan of NSVRC discusses SAAM 2019's theme, "I Ask."

The information from this module answer questions that have historically created significant hurdles for sexual assault victims and addresses issues of false reporting.

This training module explores the importance of effective victim interviewing in the successful investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases and addresses how to overcome barriers to effective interviewing.

This report from the National Black Women’s Justice Institute explores how recognizing the pervasive and systemic nature of sexual violence against Black women, girls, trans, gender nonconforming and nonbinary people by police, penal, and immigration officers, in prisons, jails and/or detention facilities, and in social service, learning, and health care settings, calls into question our reliance on these systems and structures of dominance as responses to sexual violence, and as effective mechanisms of prevention, early detection, and healing.

The crime of human trafficking is at its core a human rights violation, exploiting an individual for economic gain. In NRCDV's January 2019 TA Question of the Month, Karen Romero from Freedom Network offers information on what domestic violence advocates should know about serving survivors of human trafficking.

In this NRCDV Radio podcast, Marium Durrani (Director of Public Policy, NRCDV) and Karen Romero Training Institute Director, Freedom Network USA) discuss the many intersections involving human trafficking, including housing and homelessness. 

Spirituality and religion may be essential aspects of a victim's/ survivor's life and identity. This handbook, written for advocates, addresses key questions and issues that may arise in the aftermath of sexual violence and abuse and offers ways for advocates and allies to support survivors.

This document from the World Health Organization outlines risk and protective factors for violence against women and outlines prevention strategies.

This security toolkit draws together the key lessons of the past decade in promoting gender equality in security and justice. The toolkit shares new and emerging good practices, reflect upon how successes in increasing gender equality have been achieved and move forward thinking about integrating a gender perspective in security and justice sector institutions.

Though factors such as mandated reporting and confidentiality may be seen as barriers to working with teens, they are simply aspects of working with this age group. This manual is designed to help those providing services to survivors of sexual violence serve teens using a trauma-informed approach.