EVENTS

The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will host a virtual Tribal Consultation on the Tribal Set-Aside from the Crime Victims Fund for Fiscal Year 2023 on Wednesday, November 9th from 2:00−4:00 p.m. eastern time (1:00–3:00 p.m. central/12:00–2:00 p.m. mountain/11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. pacific/10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in Alaska)

Information about the Tribal Consultation and other upcoming events will be available soon at: https://ovc.ojp.gov/program/tribal/tribal-victim-services-set-aside.

Consultation testimony can be provided by:

• an elected Tribal leader,
• an appointed Tribal leader, or
• someone designated by an elected or appointed Tribal leader. Designation must be provided in writing.

If you are a Tribal leader’s designee to speak at the Consultation, OVC asks that you provide a Delegation of Authority letter on Tribal letterhead signed by the elected or appointed Tribal leader or have the elected or appointed Tribal leader send an email toovctribalsetaside@usdoj.gov to confirm your authorization to testify on behalf of the Tribe. Instructions for how to submit your testimony will be available after you register. Written testimony will be welcomed via email to ovctribalsetaside@usdoj.gov through November 30, 2022.

In addition to the virtual Tribal Consultation, OVC plans to host a Listening Session before the 17th National Indian Nations Conference, scheduled for December 6–9, 2022, at the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Reservation in Palm Springs, CA. This Listening Session will be held in-person on December 6, 2022, from 9:00–11:30 a.m., and will provide all interested persons an opportunity to offer feedback about the set-aside program, and other matters to enhance services for victims of crime within Tribal communities. Written feedback will be welcomed via email to ovctribalsetaside@usdoj.govthrough December 31, 2022.

OVC looks forward to hearing from you in November and seeing you in December. Please email any questions to ovctribalsetaside@usdoj.gov.

Dear Tribal Leader Letter

Framing Paper

This webinar will address how victim advocates and other social service professionals can build a coordinated response across jurisdictional boundaries to better serve AIAN living in urban areas. Special attention will be paid to recent legislation like Savanna’s Act, which specifically mentions the need to partner with urban AIAN programs. Learning

Objectives: At this end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify unique challenges faced by AIAN living in urban areas who are victimized by domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, and sex trafficking.

• Provide culturally responsive support to AIAN victims living in urban areas.

• Enhance interjurisdictional coordination to enhance support to victims and reduce gaps in services.

Registration link:

https://red-windnet.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2pBi9Y4NTiiv7enhOzhz8A#/registration

Gender-based violence often involves physical violence targeted at the head, neck, and face—through blows to the head or strangulation. Though this has been common knowledge for decades, brain injuries caused by violence are unacknowledged, rarely identified, and almost never immediately treated. Both survivors of violence and professionals who work with them have been largely unaware of brain injury as a significant consequence of violence. Brain injuries can cause physical, emotional, and cognitive consequences that can impact every area of a survivor’s life—including their ability to successfully access and participate in services, maintain employment, secure and sustain housing, and meet self-sufficiency goals. This webinar will introduce CARE (Connect, Acknowledge, Respond, Evaluate), Ohio’s evidence-based framework developed by the Ohio Domestic Violence Network and The Ohio State University. CARE is a brain injury-aware, trauma-informed approach focusing on accessibility and accommodations with practical, hands-on, free tools, strategies, and resources to support your work.

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GEKzVGr6Tq-Py7zsulalkA?utm_campaign=STTARS&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=296141931&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8SpPpj0LyIgQB1Fz-AZ0C3IX0d-9KOUE0DOIegzyL-56R9fpCoh_iYB56IPnauDnaUCyQ5S3dUDjB2ra7bS3GqCm2_cg&utm_content=296141931&utm_source=hs_email#/registration

In this age of neuroscience with focus on the physiological reaction of the brain and body to a trauma, recognition of the feelings experienced by the survivor as a result of the trauma has almost become secondary. This presentation reminds us of the importance of fear, anger, guilt, and depression in response to trauma. The Justice Clearinghouse will discuss where these feelings come from, the role that they play in the traumatic response, and how we can assist the survivor with managing or coping with these feelings as part of their recovery from the trauma.

Registration info:

https://www.justiceclearinghouse.com/webinar/the-four-most-common-feelings-oftrauma-survivors/?source=ncjrs

The Praxis Talk Story series explores critical issues related to social justice advocacy through dialogue with national organizers, advocates, and activists. This session considers the intersections between Indigenous solidarity and our work to end gender-based violence. We will talk story about what it means for advocates to be in solidarity with Indigenous communities and survivors, what actions advocates, and advocacy programs take to create social change related to Indigenous rights and sovereignty, and how advocacy programs can be in stronger solidarity with Indigenous survivors and communities.

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-xC-FgzASZ-oRAfyFbSVZA#/registration