Resource Library

This program aims to support crime victims and survivors in completing and submitting their Crime Victim Compensation applications, gathering necessary documentation, and providing ongoing assistance to the claimant and/or victim.

Michigan Indian Legal Services created these resources focused on the legal system to support Native American communities and survivors in Michigan.

In this month's compilation, we collected resources and trainings that talk about advocate wellbeing. The resources offer suggestions that advocates themselves can do and also what can be done to support advocate wellbeing on an organizational level.

In this month's compilation, we highlight one training that covers fundamentals of serving survivors of domestic violence. The rest of this roundup is dedicated to specific instances that come up in the domestic violence and intimate partner violence field for which we can give specific support.

In this month's compilation, we have pulled together resources and trainings that can help us better support youth who are at risk for or who have committed crime.

In this month's compilation, we have pulled together resources and trainings that can help us better support criminalized survivors and those survivors of crime who are incarcerated.

This toolkit was designed to provide comprehensive and culturally responsive informational and educational resources, tools, videos, and examples of best practices for law enforcement, forensic interviewers, victim advocates, and others to prepare them to effectively respond to victims of crime with disabilities across the lifespan.

This guide provides an overview of Federal civil rights laws that ensure equal opportunity for people with disabilities.

There are three types of accessibility, and they are all intertwined: Attitudinal accessibility, Physical accessibility, Programmatic accessibility.

This guide instructs prosecutors in the issues that must be addressed in their interactions with and accommodations for children with disabilities in various phases of the prosecution of cases of alleged child abuse.

This document offers common sense suggestions and examples to assist law enforcement agencies in complying with the ADA

This collection provides: National and statewide homicide statistics that help illustrate the scope of the problem; an overview of tools and strategies for assessing danger or the risk of lethality in domestic violence cases; recommendations and approaches for utilizing the fatality review process to prevent intimate partner homicide; and more.

“Last week two 19-year-old twin sisters were attacked in Brooklyn after police say they refused to give their number to a 20-year-old man who approached them. The incident shocked community members and is calling attention to a bigger issue surrounding the harsh realities many women face when saying no to men."

This webinar explores gun violence in the U.S and shares a comprehensive public health approach to addressing the complexity of the growing crisis. Presenters review the historical, structural, social and political determinants of health that contribute to gun violence.

“First in WCSAP’s 2021 Keynote Series, Theda New Breast from the Native Wellness Institute, gives her talk on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2Spirit Awareness Day. She discusses grassroots organizing, healing work, and self-care “recess”.”

In the U.S., Black adult women are six times more likely to be killed than their white counterparts, troubling new data reveals...Black women living in Midwestern and Northeastern states were also more likely to be killed by a firearm, the paper found.

This short web-article discusses grief in the context of being a homicide survivor and gives suggestions for addressing the grief.

This list of experts is available to answer field-specific questions in the areas of legal, law enforcement, victim rights, etc. An archive of previous questions also exists for viewing.

A list of organizations throughout Michigan that serve and support survivors of homicide.

This guide was designed to assist families and advocacy organizations in responding when a Native woman goes missing. It provides information about immediate steps that can be taken in the first 72 hours after a person goes missing, especially where the law enforcement response is non-existent or non-responsive