DV RISC Technical Assistance Portal

Through the DV RISC Technical Assistance Portal we can respond to your needs and inquiries of how to enhance your domestic violence homicide prevention efforts, and connect you with a variety of tools, resources and experts in the fields. Contacting us through the portal will enable you to receive personalized attention and a customized support plan from our team. A description of sampled requested topics and services are listed below.

  • Strategic Planning

    We can help by:

    • Providing resources from the Community Readiness Toolkit – systems mapping activities, capacity and resource assessments, strengths & opportunities analyses, planning timelines
    • Facilitating in-person or virtual strategy meetings
    • Connecting with subject matter experts and culturally specific technical assistance providers

  • Community Engagement

    We can help by:

    • Providing resources from the Community Readiness Toolkit – racial impact statements, survivor informed practice self-assessments
    • Facilitating community listening sessions
    • Facilitating the creation of planning teams
    • Strategizing on including the voices of survivors
    • Connecting with culturally specific and other specialized technical assistance providers

  • Training

    We can help by:

    • Providing training needs assessments
    • Organizing customized multidisciplinary trainings
    • Connecting with subject matter experts and culturally specific technical assistance providers
    • Providing access to updated webinars and e-learnings on the DV RISC website

  • Peer to Peer Learning

    We can help by:

    • Connecting with professional peers who are also implementing domestic violence homicide prevention initiatives
    • Adding names to the DV RISC listserv with updates on peer to peer learning opportunities

  • Technology

    We can help by:

    • Providing information on using technology to support domestic violence homicide prevention
    • Connecting with subject matter experts

  • Measuring Impact

    We can help by:

    • Providing information from the Community Readiness Toolkit – sample performance measures and evaluation tools

  • DV Risk & Lethality Information for DV Homicide Prevention

    We can help by:

    • Providing general information and research on risk and lethality tools, strategies and assessments
    • Providing access to a summary of key risk and lethality assessments on the DV RISC website
    • Connecting with subject matter experts

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FAQs

Here are some frequently asked questions about the DV RISC Technical Assistance Portal.

Anyone is eligible for technical assistance support. You do not need to be funded by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) or any other federal agency in order to receive support.

You can expect to be contacted by a member of the DV RISC project team as soon as possible. If several days have passed and you have not received any communication, you can send an email to dvrisc@courtinnovation.org

Receiving support through our technical assistance portal and from our project team is completely free. However, depending on your needs, we may recommend a training by an external agency and there may be associated costs. But we will discuss this with you, first.

Please refer to our Privacy Notice on how we will handle your information.

OVW- the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women funds and oversees this project, but they are not involved in the daily operations of the DV RISC website or technical assistance portal.

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