The Violence Against Women Project's mission is to improve the justice system's response to domestic and sexual violence and stalking by providing multi-disciplinary training and technical assistance to increase implementation of best practices, enhance offender accountability, and empower victims.

The Project's primary focus is on providing statewide and specialized training for prosecutors/law enforcement and other partners in the coordinated response to domestic and sexual violence and stalking. In addition, VAWP provides specialized training to meet the unique needs of your local community.

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A multidisciplinary response is the most effective and best response to violence against women. Accordingly the training responses are designed for and appropriate for a multidisciplinary audience.

The VAW Project provides training through statewide training events and specialized training to meet the unique needs of your local community. Nearly all of the Project's statewide training events are multidisciplinary.

The Project also has a regular schedule of webinars on relevant issues, case law, statutes and trial practice. The webinars are usually short – 45 minutes to an hour – and presented over the lunch hour.

In addition to the statewide seminars the Project's staff is dedicated to providing specialized training created to meet the unique needs of your community. The Project routinely partners with local domestic and sexual violence service providers, law enforcement, coordinated community response committees, sexual assault response teams, and/or prosecutor's offices to provide high-quality, timely training to local communities. Most specialized local trainings are provided at no- or very low cost. Topics for specialized local training include:

- Investigating violence against women crimes

- Effective report writing in domestic and/or sexual assault cases

- Stalking and Cyberstalking

- Legal updates on statutes and case law which impacts domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking cases

- Specialized Trial Advocacy

If you have questions or want to schedule a training click on the Contact Us button.

 

The Project’s legal staff provides technical assistance to prosecutors and others through timely legal research and aid in drafting motions or briefs on legal issues.  To request assistance click on the Contact Us button, email staff directly or call.  

The Project publishes a periodic newsletter distributed statewide via email with stories on recent issues of interest.  To subscribe click on the Contact Us button and use “Subscribe to Newsletter” in the subject line.  

The Project also publishes two comprehensive trial manuals, The Domestic Violence Trial Manual The Sexual Assault Trial Manual.  If you would like a downloadable, searchable copy of the Domestic Violence Trial Manual please contact us.