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EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Learn about trainings, webinars, events, and resources for professionals responding
to sexual assault of American Indian and Alaska Native people.

With our organization’s mission always in mind, we present relevant educational opportunities to tribal community providers that may be helpful in your process to help victims of sexual assault. We strive to find new strategies for delivering training needs for complex circumstances being in remote communities for tribal health care providers, victim advocates, health aides, tribal courts, prosecutors, and other providers serving American Indians and Alaska Natives, and addressing the challenges victims face in tribal communities.

Upcoming Webinars, Trainings and Events

 June

National Indian Country Training Initiative Training Announcement

​Course: Getting Away with Murder: The Challenges of Staged Crime Scenes

Date: June 6-9, 2023 at 3pm Eastern Time

Where: National Advocacy Center, Columbia, SC

Join the leading experts in the country from the Training Institute in Strangulation Prevention, a program of Alliance for HOPE International, and the Department of Justice’s National Indian Country Training Initiative in a dynamic, hands-on 3.5-day course on strangulation and suffocation murders.

Crime scene staging research has found that most offenders who stage crime scenes are male, most victims are female, and the most common victim-offender relationship involving staging is intimate partner relationships. Therefore, this course focuses on detecting staged crime scenes in intimate partner-related deaths.

Learn more and register today

Registration deadline: April 14, 2023.
Applicants will receive notification of their application status by April 21, 2023.

There is no tuition cost and travel related expenses will be covered by the U.S. Department of Justice for those selected to attend the training.

Sexual Assault Care Using Telehealth Technology 101

Date: June 21, 2023 at 9-10:30am CST

Where: Webinar

Hosted by: Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault

This presentation will outline how the use of telehealth technology for sexual assault care is being implemented to improve access to quality medical forensic exams in rural and frontier communities. The presenters will highlight the key components for development of a trauma-informed, patient-centered telehealth response to sexual assault care, including the value of partnerships between clinicians and advocates in that response. Implications for practice will be discussed along with time for questions and answers. 

Learn more and register today

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