AEquitas - Champions for Justice

3:00pm - 4:00pm ET / 12:00pm - 1:00pm 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.

Pending OVW Approval of our Conference Request Form, The National Institute on the Prosecution of Domestic Violence (NIPDV) will be in person from July 15–18, 2025, at the Thompson Hotel in Austin, TX.

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 can participate in an investigation or trial. In addition to practical case evaluation and litigation skills, NIPDV focuses on risk assessment, coordinated community responses, using victim-centered and offender focused strategies for victim interviews, strangulation, intimate partner sexual assault, co-occurring crimes, analyzing digital evidence, capturing tech-facilitated abuse, witness intimidation and forfeiture by wrongdoing, presentation of evidence at trial, expert testimony, 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 National Institute on the Prosecution of Sexual Violence is supported by Grant No. 15JOVW-24-GK-03009-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.