Instructor Materials

Access resources for designing and delivering training.

• Integrating Crime Victims' Issues Into College and University Curricula
  This curricula is a series of multidisciplinary educational models designed to broaden college and university students' exposure to and awareness of criminal victimization and its impact on victims and teach them about helpful responses when encountering victims.

Online Training

Access interactive training in a wide variety of subject areas. Programs are available to take on your own schedule, at your own pace, from your own computer.

• Victim Assistance Training Online - Advocacy
  This module examines the critical role of victim service providers in advocating for crime victims. When you know how to advocate for crime victims, you ensure that their voices are heard and they receive the appropriate assistance.

• Victim Assistance Training Online - Assessing Victims' Needs
  This module describes how to accurately determine the services that will help victims in the aftermath of a crime. Conducting a thorough needs assessment helps you identify a victim's specific needs so you can refer the victim to the most appropriate resources

• Victim Assistance Training Online - Collaboration
  This module identifies the challenges to a successful working partnership and describes responses to these challenges. No single organization can provide all the resources and services for crime victims, so working through other organizations to obtain this assistance is critical.

• Victim Assistance Training Online - Trauma-Informed Care
  This module covers the impact of trauma on crime victims. Victims react to the psychological trauma of a crime in various ways. In order to ensure they receive the care they need, you must become familiar with the impact of trauma and the concept of trauma-informed care.

• Victim Assistance Training Online - Victim Compensation
  This module provides information on the key eligibility requirements needed to qualify for victim compensation funds, and the victim compensation program application process.

• Victim Assistance Training Online - Victims' Rights
  This module lays the groundwork for victim service providers to know the rights afforded to victims of crime. By becoming familiar with the background and foundations of victims' rights, you may develop a greater appreciation for the efforts that resulted in these rights, and why they are so important.

Tools

Access tools to help build your organization to better serve victims.

• Resource Library
  Use our online Resource Library to search for tools, promotional items, reference materials, and more for your organizational development and training needs.

Training

Request comprehensive and practical skill-building training delivered by subject matter expert consultants.

• Enforcing Victims' Rights
  This 2-day training provides a comprehensive overview of crime victims' rights and the advocate's role in enforcing those rights.

Webinars

Access online trainings, conferences, and informative gatherings that are available live or prerecorded.

• Expert Q&A
  Participate in our monthly Expert Q&A sessions to communicate with national experts and colleagues about best practices for assisting victims of crime or access previously recorded sessions.

• Victims' Rights
  This webinar series provides attorneys across the country with the tools needed to increase their knowledge base about crime victim issues.

Additional OVC Resources

• Calendar of Crime Victim Assistance-Related Events
  This list of events is meant to help victims, victim service providers, allied professionals, and other interested individuals plan, promote, and locate events of interest to those serving, supporting, and working with victims in their community.

• OVC Products
  OVC develops publications and products on emerging victim issues, promising practices, policy development, and technical assistance and skill-building tools.

• Online Directory of Crime Victim Services
  Since its launch in 2003, the Directory of Crime Victim Services (the Directory) has helped many crime victims and service providers find nonemergency crime victim service programs in the United States and abroad. The Directory includes contact information for thousands of victim service providers.