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Tech-Facilitated Gender Based Violence and Related Crimes
Keynote: Jonathan Kurland, Attorney Advisor, AEquitas
Stalking Incident and Behavior Log: Keeping a log of stalking and harassment behaviors can be helpful for victims wishing to pursue civil or legal remedies. This log includes instructions and tips for victims.
Prosecutor’s Guide to Stalking: In order to effectively hold criminal offenders accountable for all of the harm they have inflicted on their victims, and to deter witness intimidation, prosecutors should be alert for any and all cases—regardless of the type of crime—where stalking might appropriately be charged, request any necessary additional investigation to determine whether the evidence is sufficient, and prosecute stalking charges where appropriate. This guide is intended to assist prosecutors in these efforts.
First, Do No Harm: Facilitating a Trauma-Informed Response
Jonathan Kurland, Attorney Advisor, AEquitas
Assessing and Identifying Tech Abuse
Chad Sniffen, Senior Technology Safety Specialist, SafetyNet Project, NNEDV
Tech Safety App: Safety Net’s Tech Safety App is an educational resource app. It was created for anyone who thinks they might be experiencing harassment or abuse through technology and wants to learn how they can increase their privacy and security while using technology. It contains information that can help users identify technology-facilitated harassment, stalking, and abuse, and includes tips on what can be done.
DocuSAFE App: Safety Net’s DocuSAFE app 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 messages, harassing social media posts, unwanted repeat calls, or online impersonation, among other abusive behaviors. This app was created by NNEDV, with funding from the Office on Victims of Crime (OVC).
What You Need to Know
Sherry Eling, Deputy Director/VAW Resource Prosecutor, WVPAI
Providing Context: Introducing Expert Testimony in Sexual Assault Cases
Jonathan Kurland, Attorney Advisor, AEquitas
Burnout, Fatigue, and Self-Care
Cheryl Keeney, Behavior Support Mentor and Heather Merritt, Curriculum Developer, WVU CED, PBS Program
Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL): Professional Quality of Life is the quality one feels in relation to one’s work as a helper. Both the positive and negative aspects of doing one’s job influence one’s professional quality of life. The ProQOL measures three aspects of professional quality of life: Compassion Satisfaction (pleasure you derive from being able to do your work well), Burnout (exhaustion, frustration, anger and depression related to work), and Secondary Traumatic Stress (feeling fear in relation to work‐related primary or secondary trauma).
How’s Your Stress Level? Activity: Stress can have a major impact on your life. It is a leading risk factor in such diseases as high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke. Chronic stress can rob you of energy and cause you to feel tired and apathetic. The following quiz was developed by researchers at the University of Washington to measure the amount of change-related stress you have experienced in the last year. It can also point out some types of stress you could lessen or eliminate and help you avoid too many big changes coming at the same time.
What is Calming for You? Activity: This activity allows you explore activities that you find stressful and activities that you find calming in order to then create an action plan for utilizing calming activities as a coping strategy.
Improving Access to Direct Services for Survivors Who are Men
Louie Marven, Project Coordinator , NSVRC and Karla Viethaler, Advocacy and Resources Director, NSVRC
Assessing Our Capacity for Serving Male Survivors of Sexual Violence Due in large part to stigma and the prevalence of harmful norms around masculinity, men may struggle with particular challenges in their healing journey from sexual assault and harassment. Sexual assault advocates and rape crisis centers can use this self-assessment tool to reflect on your current work serving men who have had unwanted sexual experiences. The tool offers reflection questions related to individual and organizational capacity to serve male survivors.
How often are men sexually harassed or assaulted? In this infographic, we provide statistics on the prevalence of sexual violence for men.
Who are male survivors of sexual harassment and assault? Men who survive sexual violence come from many different backgrounds and communities. In this infographic, we share statistics on the race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disabilities of men who have experienced sexual assault.
Lessons on Serving Male Survivors through SASP: Commitment to Ongoing Work A resource containing lessons learned from sexual assault services programs with comparatively high percentages of male survivors served with that funding stream.
Confidentiality and Privacy in a Virtual World
Chad Sniffen, Senior Technology Safety Specialist, SafetyNet Project, NNEDV
Technology Safety & Privacy: A Toolkit for Survivors: Survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and trafficking often need information on how to be safe while using technology. This toolkit contains safety tips, information, and privacy strategies for survivors on the use of technology. While survivors are not responsible for nor can they control the abusers’ actions, with knowledge and understanding, they can take back some control and strategize for their own safety.
Agency’s Use of Technology Best Practices & Policies Toolkit: The way domestic violence, sexual assault, and other victim service agencies use technology can impact the security, privacy, and safety of the survivors who access their services. This toolkit contains recommended best practices, policy suggestions, and handouts on the use of common technologies.
Confidentiality Toolkit: This toolkit is a collection of information and resources on the confidentiality and privacy obligations for programs that receive U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women grants that serve victims of violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.
App Safety Center: The App Safety Center provides tips, information, and resources for the safe development and use of smartphone apps addressing domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, harassment, and stalking.
Improving Sexual Assault Evidence Collection in WV
Jennifer Leer, MSN, RN, CCRN, SANE-P, SANE Specialist/Trainer, WVFRIS
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De-Escalation Techniques
Cheryl Keeney, Behavior Support Mentor and Heather Merritt, Curriculum Developer, WVU CED, PBS Program
Calming the Crisis, Defusing Challenging Behavior: Challenging behavior is often the expression of an unmet need, and in many instances that need is for control, empathy or an environmental change (Tanwar, Lloyd, & Julies, 2016). This infographic will assist you in recognizing the signals of an individual escalating which can allow for intervention before the situation reaches a crisis point. Intervening early can potentially keep the situation from escalating to the individual exhibiting challenging behaviors.
Safety Training Tip: Conflict De-Escalation Techniques: This video from the Health and Safety Institute shares practical tips to de-escalate a situation as well as maintain your own safety in these situations.
Reaching Men Who are Survivors of Sexual Violence
Louie Marven, Project Coordinator , NSVRC and Karla Viethaler, Advocacy and Resources Director, NSVRC
How We Talk About Working with Male Survivors of Sexual Assault, Harassment, and Abuse How we talk about sexual violence matters. Whether you’re describing your center’s services to a friend, talking with a classroom of college students about preventing sexual harassment, or writing your agency’s newsletter, the words you use have an impact on how audiences understand those topics. They also have an impact on who sees themselves as eligible for your center’s services. This resource suggests how you can communicate about sexual violence as something that men experience and about what services are available for survivors, including men.
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