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Cold case sexual assault victims being reengaged in the criminal justice system can have complex, difficult emotions after being notified about renewed activity in their case. Victim advocates provide valuable support to sexual assault victims, which benefits victims and the criminal justice process. Victim advocate resources help victims on their path to recovery and their interactions with the criminal justice system to ensure a positive experience with law enforcement and prosecutors.


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Practical Considerations for Victim Advocates: Offering Support When Cases Are Declined for Prosecution

Learn how a victim advocate can best support a victim whose criminal complaint has been declined for prosecution.
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Victim or Survivor: Terminology Through Investigation to Prosecution

Learn about the terms victim and survivor and how they are used respectfully within a multidisciplinary response to sexual assault.
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Victim Advocates and Law Enforcement: A Critical Partnership for Victim Support and Healing

Learn how victim advocates can help reestablish trust between law enforcement and victims and build partnerships with law enforcement.
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Advocacy Meets Prosecution: The Benefits of a Strong Partnership

This resource will discuss the unique, and sometimes diverging, roles of the prosecution and advocacy members of the multidisciplinary team.
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Advocacy and Investigation: Identifying the Unique but Complementary Roles in Sexual Assault Response

This resource provides guidance to jurisdictions regarding how to assist law enforcement officers and victim advocates in developing collaborative relationships while maintaining their unique roles in the criminal justice process.
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Benefits of a Coordinated Community Response to Sexual Violence

A multidisciplinary response to sexual assault provides healing services to victims; this response also needs victim advocates to function properly.
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Victim Advocacy for Cold Case Sexual Assault: Developing a Work Plan

A work plan helps victim advocates assist team members, ensure a trauma-informed response to cold case sexual assault, and better support victims.
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Peer to Peer: Cold Case Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy Impact on Victim Engagement

This resource provides insight into how victim advocates can help build a coordinated community response to cold case sexual assault initiatives.
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Community- and Systems-Based Advocacy

Community- and systems-based advocates are both necessary during the criminal justice process to provide specialized support systems to victims.
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Sexual Assault Investigators

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Virtual Academy: Developing a Victim Notification Protocol Encouraging Positive Communication: A Sexual Assault Victim’s Guide to Working with Law Enforcement

Our Mission

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative aims to create a coordinated community response that ensures just resolution to sexual assault cases. Through this program, funding is provided to support multidisciplinary community response teams engaged in the comprehensive reform of jurisdictions approaches to sexual assault cases resulting from evidence found in previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits.

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