Coercive Control during COVID-19: New Tactics
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe and into our homes, domestic abusers are finding new ways to exercise coercive control.
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Financial Abuse Toolkit
The Financial Abuse Toolkit from NNEDV provides a multitude of helpful resources to aid survivors and advocates, including general resources about financial abuse, a financial literacy curriculum, and resources specific to service providers.
Communities Against Hate
Communities Against Hate is a national initiative to collect data and respond to incidents of violence, threats, and property damage motivated by hate around the United States. Communities Against Hate aims to aggregate data on hate incidents, providing legal and social support, raising awareness, and educating the public on the prevalence of hate.
American Indian & Alaska Native Victim Services Resources
OVC provides publications, multimedia, and related resources to supplement the efforts of victim service providers and allied professionals to help victims. These resources include information about OVC tribal initiatives, partnerships with other agencies and organizations, and dynamic videos to raise awareness of culturally sensitive, victim-centered programs.
Recording – Anti-Blackness, Racism, and Slavery in America
Join the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence for a long-overdue discussion about anti-blackness and racism in America. This conversation will help us to better understand race and how we see it, racism, anti-blackness, and what it means to be a descendant of a history in the United States that people often avoid.
Serving Victims in Tribal Communities
Serving Victims in Tribal Communities Visit the OVC Tribal Multimedia Resources page which offers videos designed to inform and assist victim service providers and allied professionals in their efforts to help crime victims in Indian Country.
National Elder Fraud Hotline
National Elder Fraud Hotline 833–372–8311 To help combat fraud against older Americans and provide services to victims, OVC announces the launch of the National Elder Fraud Hotline. Call 833–FRAUD–11 (833–372–8311) to receive help from a hotline case manager. Learn more on the National Elder Fraud Hotline website. Hotline is available daily from 6:00 a.m.–11:00…
Coordinating Multi-victim Cases: Building Partnerships, Confidentiality, and Providing Individualized Services
Coordinating Multi-victim Cases: Building Partnerships, Confidentiality, and Providing Individualized Services February 18, 2020 This webinar is made available through the OVC training archive This webinar will provide insights and guidance for how to navigate working with multiple survivors involved in the same case. It will touch on possible conflicts of interest, disclosures, record keeping,…
Resource: DocuSAFE
DocuSAFE Resource from National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) DocuSAFE is a free app that helps survivors collect, store, and share evidence of abuse, such as domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, online harassment, and dating violence. Survivors can document abuse by logging individual incidents, including any photos, screenshots, or video documentation of threatening…
Understanding Human Trafficking
Understanding Human Trafficking This webinar is hosted by the Office for Victims of Crime Summary: OVC invites victim service providers, allied professionals, and interested members of the general public to register for this new training, a series of five interactive online modules that offer foundational learning on trauma-informed and victim-centered approaches to human trafficking. The…