Gain an understanding of the role of an expert witness. This webinar focuses on the use of experts that respond to sexual violence including medical evidence, toxicology, and/or victim responses to trauma.

This webinar focuses on building a baseline knowledge of systems-change sexual assault response teams (SARTs). Learn about systems-change SARTs and factors for their effectiveness.

Planning for victims’ and survivors’ safety is a critical component of victim services. Learn about simple safety steps that Victim Service Providers can use in our everyday lives.

Learn about the importance of a culturally appropriate, coordinated effort when responding to victims of sex trafficking in Indian Country. By using victim experiences, participants will be able to identify critical components to incorporate into protocol to ensure safety for the victim.

This webinar focuses on the nexus between intimate partner violence perpetrators and the danger they pose to their significant other, third parties and law enforcement. Examine high profile cases of intimate partner violence killers and successful implementation of lethality risk assessment in communities.

Learn cultural and social justice consideration to strengthen the approach to the medical forensic exam to help combat inequities in the healthcare system. This webinar will review inequities within the sexual assault response how the role of a forensic nurse can address the oppression/inequities.

Learn about federal Indian law and the analysis used to determine which criminal justice agencies have jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute crime in Indian country. This webinar reviews the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma and how the decision has impacted caseloads for federal and tribal prosecutors in Oklahoma.

The statistics of childhood sexual assault are alarming. Understand the disparaging, lifelong effects of childhood trauma and explore effective ways to help strengthen the natural resiliency of children.

This webinar reviews the impact of sexual violence against men and boys including mental health issues. Learn from the presenter’s own story that healing is possible.

Part one of this two-part series will give you a general overview of sex trafficking including definitions, informed language, warning signs and outreach strategies to those being trafficked.

Take a deep dive on what makes a successful Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) including stakeholder contributions to building a collaborative victim response. Learn about challenges and how to sustain a trauma-informed, victim-centered approach by the SART through the lens of a forensic nurse.

Gain perspective on the barriers survivors face every single day and the possibilities of transforming services to better fit survivors rather than asking survivors to change to fit services.

Begin to understand how the brain changes over the course of addiction. Substance use disorder and drug addiction are chronic diseases but they are treatable.

Substance use does not cause sexual assault or domestic violence. Learn the reasons survivors turn to substance use to cope with the trauma they have experienced and how substances are used as a weapon.

Learn about the multiple layers of trauma many survivors experience and healing using trauma-informed approaches.

Understand the history of violence against gender and race. This webinar touches on the assimilation attempts that were employed against American Indian and Alaska Native people.