Trainings
Trainings
2:00–3:30pm ET / 11:00am–12:30pm PT
This presentation will examine evidence-based prosecution techniques that will enable prosecutors to try all intimate partner violence cases—including those in which the victim is absent or a reluctant witness.
AEquitas Online
2:00–3:30pm ET / 11:00am–12:30pm PT
This presentation will address strategies and tactics to understand and explain victim disclosures through a trauma-informed lens; utilize victim behavior experts to educate fact-finders about the range of victim responses to sexual violence; and examine offender characteristics, motivations, and behaviors, as well as the impact of the offender’s actions on the victim.
AEquitas Online
Identifying, investigating, and prosecuting labor trafficking requires a collaborative approach. This training is a free, in-person, 3-day multidisciplinary training will provide opportunities for law enforcement, prosecutors, victim service providers, and allied partners to engage with diverse faculty with subject-matter expertise to develop collaborative strategies to improve your jurisdiction’s response to labor trafficking. This training will use case studies, interactive activities, and small group discussions to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and partnerships to better support victims and hold offenders accountable.
Audience: Multi-disciplinary stakeholders
AEquitas DC
2:00–3:30pm ET / 11:00am–12:30pm PT
This presentation will discuss the obstacles victims face when considering whether to participate in the prosecution of domestic violence or sexual assault and will suggest strategies that prosecutors can use to minimize these barriers to facilitate victim participation.
AEquitas Online
2:00–3:30pm ET / 11:00am–12:30pm PT
This presentation will address the ethical considerations outlined above in the context of charging decisions, immunity, compulsion of victim testimony, Crawford, and the investigative function of a prosecutor.
AEquitas Online
Pending OVW Approval - Save the Date!
Pending OVW Approval of our Conference Request Form, The National Institute on the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Homicide (NIPDVH) will be in person from April 28–May 1, 2026, at the Tucson Mariott University Park in Tucson, AZ.
The NIPDVH is designed for prosecutors who handle homicide cases, domestic violence cases, or both, and who seek to strengthen their ability to identify, investigate, charge, and prosecute domestic violence homicides and near-fatal cases. This national institute will challenge participants to re-examine traditional assumptions about domestic violence fatalities and to apply an evidence-based, offender-focused framework to some of the most complex and high-stakes prosecutions.
Facilitated by a multidisciplinary faculty, the curriculum will address the continuum of domestic violence homicide, including escalation and lethality factors, case evaluation, charging decisions, and trial strategies.
AEquitas will send out further information inviting prospective participants to apply at a later date.
AEquitas
Pending OVC Approval
Beyond the Basics is a free, in-person, 3-day advanced human trafficking training. This OVC funded event is offered as part of the OVC Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking training series for ECM task forces. The highly interactive and scenario-based training will provide innovative, practical, and trauma-informed strategies to enhance victim-centered responses, and offender-focused investigations and prosecutions. This training is for law enforcement, prosecutors, and analysts who are members of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team and of have experience investigating and prosecuting human trafficking.
Audience: Sworn law enforcement, analysts, and prosecutors
AEquitas
Pending OVC Approval
This training is a unique opportunity for elected and executive-level leadership from police and prosecutor agencies to develop and refine human trafficking responses to improve victim identification and promote public safety.
Experienced faculty with a variety of subject-matter expertise will facilitate peer-to-peer conversations around the following topics:
• Organizational infrastructure, resources, policies, and practices to more effectively combat sex and labor trafficking;
• Integration of survivor voices to develop, implement, and sustain promising practices that are victim-centered and trauma-informed;
• Effective communication of the realities of human trafficking;
• Minimizing barriers to victim disclosure
Audience: Executive level police and prosecutors with significant decision-making power over policies, staffing, and allocation of resources
AEquitas
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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