Enhancing the Response to Teen Victims Webinar
Series
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presentation materials!)
The Teen Victim Initiative is excited to announce the
launch of our powerful new Web training series on helping teen victims of crime.
Over the next several months, national and local experts will present on ten
topics free of charge to help victim assistance providers, law
enforcement personnel, and other allied professionals provide informed,
culturally competent, and developmentally appropriate responses to teen victims
and their families. We are able to provide these trainings free to you with the
support of a grant awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
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Publications
Chart a Course: Policies that
Affect Victim Services for Teens
This guidebook is designed to help
organizations examine their policies on providing direct services to teen
victims, who are developing their own identities and striving for autonomy but
still depend on adults for many physical and emotional needs. It also helps
victim advocates handle difficult challenges that arise in working with teens,
often related to teens' legal status as minors. The guidebook's four sections
explore mandated reporting of suspected child abuse, teen victims'
confidentiality rights, boundaries for advocates providing teen victim services,
and victim advocates partnering with schools to address teen victimization.
Teen Action Toolkit: Building a Youth-led Response to
Teen Victimization
The Teen Action Toolkit is intended as a
resource for educators, law enforcement personnel, outreach workers, victim
service providers, youth workers, teens, and others who might be interested in
starting a youth-led effort to improve local policies, outreach, and services
for adolescent crime victims. The toolkit provides a blueprint for engaging
youth in community problem-solving around the issue of teen victimization. It
includes "how-to" guidance on the four phases of the Teen Action Partnership for
Teen Victims program (community assessment, outreach, advocacy, and peer victim
service), and includes ideas for activities and reflections.
(This file is 1.9 MB (168 pages) and
may take several minutes for users to
download)Up to
five (5) free hard copies can be ordered from the Community Oriented Policing
Strategies (COPS) Website
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/ric/ResourceMain.aspx?RID=420
Snitches Get Stitches: Youth, Gangs, and
Witness Intimidation in Massachusetts
Witness intimidation is a pervasive threat to the
criminal justice system, particularly in crimes such as domestic violence,
trafficking, and gang violence and drug trafficking. Yet few jurisdictions have
developed a comprehensive response to the problem of witness intimidation. The
study described in Snitches Get Stitches gathered information directly
from youth on their views about gangs, reporting crime, relationships with law
enforcement, and witness intimidation. The report contains ten key findings
and six recommendations to help criminal justice authorities and
communities better coordinate and focus their efforts to protect young witnesses
to gang crimes.
The National Center also compiled three brief research
summaries aimed atlaw enforcementand criminal justice officials,policy makers , and educators and youth workers.
Reaching and Serving
Teen Victims: A Practical Handbook
This guide explains the unique impact
of victimization during adolescence. It provides strategies for
assessing local teen victimization, creating effective teen outreach and
service environments, and interacting with teens. The handbook also
includes guidance on issues such as family involvement and mandatory reporting.
Download the handbook or order free printed
copies from the National Crime Prevention Council Fulfillment Center at
1-800-NCPC-911 or at www.mcgruffstore.org.Shipping charges apply.
This document was produced as part of the Youth Outreach for
Victim Assistance project
(
YOVA) a partnership between the National Center for Victims
of Crime and the National Crime Prevention Council funded by the
Office for Victims of Crime to support youth-adult teams designing and implementing teen
victim outreach campaigns.
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Projects
Youth Outreach for Victim Assistance (YOVA)
The National Center for Victims of Crime and the
National Crime Prevention Council are working with groups of youth and
adults around the country to design and implement youth-led educational
awareness campaigns to reach out to teen victims of crime and
abuse.
Learn
more about YOVA.
Teen Action
Partnership
In Maryland, Connecticut,
Ohio, and Texas, teens organized campaigns to help victims of crime in
their communities. Teen Action Partnership project
sites conducted community assessments, did teen outreach
campaigns, and advocatied for policies to make it easier for
teen victims to get help. Learn more about the Teen Action Partnership or click here to download the Teen Action
Toolkit
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Youth
Building Resilience Post-9/11
The National Center for Victims of
Crime organized Youth Building Resilience Post-9/11, a project supported by
a September 11 recovery grant from the American Red Cross Liberty Disaster
Relief Fund, to build the resilience of those New Jersey youth who were
mostdirectly exposed to and affected by the attacks of September 11,
2001.
Read more about Youth Building
Resilience.
To view
many more teen-related resources, please click
here!