Trainings
Trainings
Calling all prosecutors! Connect with AEquitas Attorney Advisors and your peers on the third Thursday of every month at 2:00PM ET to examine prosecution strategies, emerging issues, promising practices, and more.
Office Hours is an uninhibited, unrecorded conversation between all registrants. It is NOT a webinar. Take advantage of a chance to meet our experts, converse, brainstorm, and share best practices and challenges in a national conversation.
AEquitas Online
3:00pm - 4:30pm ET / 12:00pm - 1:30pm PT
Are you tired of navigating complex human trafficking cases with limited resources? Join us for "The Traffick Report: Conversation with the Field," an online discussion held on the last Wednesday of each month. Professionals from various disciplines, including law enforcement, victim services, and medical professionals, come together to share insight, challenges, and successes in the fight against human trafficking.
AEquitas Online
The NIPDV is a 3 ½ -day highly interactive course designed to challenge participants to re-evaluate their approach to prosecuting domestic violence. The curriculum, facilitated by a multidisciplinary faculty, is grounded in evidence-based prosecution, equipping prosecutors with the skills and strategies to hold offenders accountable regardless of whether victims are able to testify at trial. In addition to practical case evaluation and litigation skills, NIPDV focuses on risk assessment, coordinated community responses, trauma-informed interviewing, strangulation, intimate partner sexual assault, co-occurring crimes, witness intimidation and forfeiture by wrongdoing, presentation of evidence at trial, expert testimony, cultural humility, jury selection, and ethical considerations.
Through a combination of hypothetical case scenarios, participant exercises, small group discussions, interactive lectures, and faculty demonstrations, participants will re-examine their own beliefs about domestic violence and refine their prosecution practices.
THE DETAILS
Location:
Hotel Monteleone
214 Royal Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
Dates:
May 7th-10th, 2024
Times:
• May 7th: 8:00 AM – 5:05 PM CT
• May 8th: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM CT
• May 9th: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM CT
• May 10th: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
ELIGIBILITY
• Must currently be employed as a prosecutor in a local, state, or tribal prosecutor's office in the United States
• Must handle domestic violence crimes — all experience levels welcome
• The course will be capped at 54 participants
• Selected participants will receive an email with instructions for registration and further details
INTERESTED?
Please email info@aequitasresource.org to indicate your interest in attending the Institute.
Within your email, please include the following:
• Name
• Jurisdiction
• Number of years prosecuting domestic violence
• A commitment to attend and participate in all days of the Institute, or an explanation for any potential or confirmed conflicts
• A brief explanation (1-2 sentences) of your interest in the Institute and/or why you should be considered
• Whether your office receives funding through the U.S. DOJ Office of Violence Against Women's Improving Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Grant Program
Successful applicants will be notified of selection no later than March 2, 2024. Apply today!
NEED-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS
AEquitas is able to cover airfare and up to four nights of lodging for four participants. If you are interested in a scholarship, please include in your email application an explanation of financial need.
ANY QUESTIONS?
Feel free to email us at info@aequitasresource.org
AEquitas
2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
Stalking is a criminal, traumatic, and dangerous victimization that impacts people of all ages, and research suggests that adolescents experience even higher rates of stalking victimization than adults do. This webinar focuses on how stalking impacts teens, exploring the dynamics and contextual nature of stalking, considering the diversity of stalking behaviors, highlighting the intersections of stalking with bullying, teen dating violence, and sexual violence, and offering strategies to better recognize and respond to victims and survivors.
By the end of this session, participants will be better able to:
-Identify stalking victimization in adolescent populations
-Recognize how stalking intersects with other victimizations, including teen dating violence and sexual violence
-Incorporate stalking education and response into existing programming.
This project was supported by Grant No. 15JOVW-22-GK-03986-MUMU awarded by the Office on Violence
Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
SPARC Online
2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
Meaningful violence prevention requires communities to intervene directly with youth at high risk for future violence. Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) and Family Team Meetings (FTMs) are promising practices for early intervention but may not be commonly leveraged as criminal justice innovations across the nation. As jurisdictions seek to prevent and intervene in violence, they should consider engaging family members of at-risk youth to ensure they receive proper psychological, social, and educational support.
Please join us for this engaging presentation led by criminal justice practitioners at the York County District Attorney’s Office in Pennsylvania. Presenters will discuss how criminal justice professionals can collaborate with community and government professionals, as well as the families of at-risk adolescents, to support the community’s youth and mitigate the risk of future violent behavior. They will also explore strategies to leverage grant funding, research partnerships, and technical assistance to move violence prevention and intervention efforts forward.
As a result of this presentation, participants will be better able to:
-Incorporate Family Group Decision Making and Family Team Meetings as part of a broader violence prevention strategy.
-Identify risk factors for violent behavior and leverage protective factors to mitigate the risk of future violence.
-Evaluate and close gaps in the community’s response to violence prevention.
SPARC
Beyond the Basics (BTB): Advancing Human Trafficking Investigations and Prosecutions” is a 2.5-day training designed for ECM HTTF investigators, analysts, and prosecutors with significant experience responding to human trafficking. This highly interactive training uses a buildable case file to highlight emerging trends and to share resources and promising practices to advance investigations and prosecutions of sex and labor trafficking. Applications are due no later than May 3, 2024.
AEquitas DC
Our staff are available to provide customized training related to sexual violence, domestic and intimate partner violence, stalking, human trafficking, child abuse, elder abuse, and witness intimidation. These trainings can be on-site or web-based and be tailored to specific jurisdictions and scope.
Submit RequestWe’ve archived descriptions of past trainings to showcase the broad range of our course offerings that can often be repeated on request.
View Past TrainingsFor past webinar recordings, please see our Resources.
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