Resources

This Pocket Guide is designed particularly for community-based advocates as a quick reference guide to better assist victims as they navigate the criminal legal process. This Pocket Guide contains things such as a quick review of the general criminal legal process and victim rights with an emphasis on safety planning at every juncture. While this Pocket Guide is designed primarily for community-based advocates, it may be useful for other professionals who work with victims.

The Domestic Violence Advocacy Policy Toolkit inventories the 50 states’ unauthorized practice of law restrictions and exceptions to those restrictions and explores the impact of unauthorized practice of law (UPL) on legal services for domestic violence survivors.

While organizations providing support services to domestic violence (DV) survivors may refer survivors facing civil legal issues to legal aid organizations, 88% of low-income survivors receive inadequate or no legal help. Survivors may receive legal navigation assistance from DV advocates, but DV advocates are trained to give legal information, not legal advice, in order to comply with unauthorized practice of law restrictions. To chart the national domestic violence legal service landscape under the current UPL regime, this Toolkit addresses five research questions.

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The Strengthening Tribal Response to Violence Against Native Women Initiative provided training, technical assistance and resources for Tribal governments and programs that did not have Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grant funding. The goal of initiative was to enhance victim services and assist tribal criminal justice systems to more effectively address victim safety and offender accountability. The website houses comprehensive resources on Coordinated Community Response, Shelter and Safe Housing, Legal Response, and more.

Victim Services: Promising Practices in Indian Country (November 2004), describes 12 programs of services for crime victims being conducted by various Tribes throughout the United States.

Some examples of promising practices are the use of technology to provide victim assistance and education, the development of tribal college curricula and distance learning to train victim service providers, and curriculum development to promote safety and provide support for victims.

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This resource identifies Apache Violence-Free Living Program as a promising practice in victim services. The model developed by Shelley Miller, Executive Director of the Native Alliance against Violence.

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