NAVAA

Strengthening Tribal and Non-Tribal Collaboration To Address Elder Abuse in Tribal Communities
2025-02-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
February 14 from 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Join this webinar with a panel of Tribal and non-Tribal law enforcement representatives for an in-depth discussion on recognizing and responding to elder abuse in Tribal communities. This webinar will enhance collaboration among law enforcement, adult protective services, and other agencies to improve relationships and develop a coordinated response. Key topics include building strong community partnerships, forming multidisciplinary teams, and establishing Tribal Elder Protection Teams. Participants will also explore strategies for working within jurisdictional challenges and fostering a united effort to address elders across Tribal and non-Tribal boundaries.
To register, click here.
OVC’s Training and Technical Assistance Center (OVC TTAC) provides training to support professional development, enhance services to the community, and expand outreach to underserved victims of crime.
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Sustaining Your Program's Capacity To Serve Victims
2025-03-10 08:00 - 17:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
Sustainability is the capacity of a program or organization to accomplish long-lasting success and stability by establishing the organization or program as an essential service to victims and the community. Victim service organizations and programs need to plan for sustainability in order to continue providing high-quality services to victims of crime. The Sustaining Your Program’s Capacity To Serve Victims training addresses what sustainability means, how to assess a program’s sustainability, the eight sustainability domains (Program Adaptation, Strategic Communications, Program Evaluation, Supportive Environment, Organizational Capacity, Strategic Partnerships, Resource Development, and Strategic Planning), and how to develop a sustainability plan. For more information, click HERE.

The Science of Hope: An Introduction for Victim Service Providers
2025-03-12 13:00 - 14:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
Hope has emerged as one of the top protective factors leading to well-being. This Center for Victim Research workshop will discuss the science of hope as a psychological strength in our ability to cope with adversity and trauma. This workshop will summarize over 15 years of research that show (1) hope predicts positive outcomes, (2) hope buffers the effects of adversity, and (3) hope can be influenced and sustained. Dr. Hellman’s published research has demonstrated that hope promotes outcomes for survivors and is an important contributor to staff well-being. For more information, click HERE.

Special Considerations for Deaf Victims of Crime
2025-03-20 12:00 - 14:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
Deaf individuals in the United States face domestic or sexual violence rates equal to or higher than hearing individuals but often encounter systemic barriers and challenges when seeking help. This webinar will explore working with Deaf crime victims, such as victims of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and financial crimes. Language and communication methods in the Deaf community and the societal impact of audism will be examined. Information on “For the Deaf by the Deaf” programs and other resources benefiting Deaf victims in their communities will also be shared. For more information, click HERE.

Webinar: Succession Planning for Victim Services
2025-03-26 14:00 - 15:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details.*
Succession planning in victim services is essential for ensuring the continuity and effectiveness of organizations that support crime victims. The Succession Planning webinar will discuss the process involved in preparing for leadership transitions to maintain the organization’s mission and operations.
In victim services, succession planning helps organizations remain resilient and responsive to the community’s needs. It involves identifying potential leaders within the organization and preparing them for future roles. This preparation can include training, mentorship, and opportunities for professional growth.
For more information, click HERE.

NOVA Community Gathering: Building Compassion, Resilience and Excellence in Times of Uncertainty
2025-03-27 13:00 - 14:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details.*
Join NOVA on March 27, 2025; 2pm-3pm ET for our monthly community gathering.
Free and open to the public, we use this time to connect as we all navigate uncertainty together. Joined by experts in the field, each month, we will focus on different topics to support the victim services community. This month, Katharine Manning will discuss how we can work as a community to build compassion, resilience, and excellence, even in times of uncertainty.
These events are not recorded, nor are there CEUs for participating. For more information, click HERE.

Overview of the Three Centers Often Created in the Aftermath of Mass Violence Incidents
2025-03-27 14:00 - 15:30
In the aftermath of many mass violence incidents (MVIs), local, state, national, Tribal and Federal leaders collaborate to create three Centers that identify and address the many needs of victims, survivors, first responders and the community-at-large:

Friends & Relatives Center (FRC)
Family Assistance Center (FAC)
Resiliency Center (RC)

While each Center and its services are unique to the impacted community, national guidance and protocols have been created that can help communities plan for the most critical components of each Center, which can be easily adapted to a specific community and MVI. This National Town Hall will provide an overview of each Center; resources available to help support them; and the continuum of services that are provided across the implementation of each Center. For more information, click HERE.

BOLO: Mental Health Concerns for First Responders
2025-04-03 12:00 - 13:15
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
Mental health is a topic gaining popularity in the first responder world – the “suck it up, buttercup” mentality is being flipped upside down. Understanding mental health concerns for first responders is crucial because of the regular exposure to critical incidents and other stressors that can have profound psychological impacts. Common concerns among first responders include Post-Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI), suicidality, anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders, which can significantly affect their well-being and job performance. Participants will learn to identify early signs of mental health struggles within first responder populations, explore effective stress management and coping strategies, learn about wellness check-in programs, and become familiar with treatment options.
If you would like more information, please click here.

Celebrating Communities: Honoring NCVRW Across the Country
2025-04-07 12:00 - 14:00
NOVA joins the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA) and National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) for a special, virtual kick-off for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW)! This 1-hour event will highlight how communities across the country are observing #NCVRW2025 and elevating this year’s OVC theme, Connecting < KINSHIP > Healing. Three NCVRW Community Awareness Projects (CAP) will be featured and advocates from these communities will share their dynamic projects and ideas for raising community awareness of victims’ rights. For more information, click HERE.

The OVC VOCA Center - April Roundtable for VOCA Compensation Administrators
2025-04-08 14:00 - 15:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
Administrators will have the opportunity to network and build relationships with their peers, discuss successes and challenges that will guide future training and technical assistance themes and topics. For more information, click HERE.

Practical Mindfulness for Criminal Justice Professionals
2025-04-08 15:00 - 16:15
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
Criminal justice professionals are busier than ever, and many are feeling overwhelmed. You may have heard of mindfulness and wondered what it offers. Or perhaps you know what mindfulness is, but you are looking to reinvigorate or begin a practice. The good news is mindfulness isn’t another item for your to-do list. Instead, it’s a shift in perception, one that can be enhanced skillfully to reduce stress on and off the job.
For more information, click HERE.

Behavioral Aspects of Human Trafficking
2025-04-15 12:00 - 13:15
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
This webinar series will provide an in-depth overview of human trafficking. Webinar attendees will gain an understanding of how human trafficking occurs and how victims are recruited/conscripted. The roots of human trafficking will be examined along with the current situation. An analysis of laws governing human trafficking will be explored. A comprehensive study of the scope of human trafficking in the United States will be provided along with an examination of indicators of human trafficking.
For more information, click HERE,

Incorporating Interns and Volunteers into Victim Services Unit Responsibilities
2025-04-22 12:00 - 13:15
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details.*
Interns and volunteers can positively contribute to law enforcement-based victim services. They can facilitate the expansion of services, be assigned responsibilities that would otherwise not be prioritized, and serve as effective representatives of victim services and the agencies they serve. For more information, click HERE.

Greater Rockies Immersive Training (GRIT) Conference
2025-04-28 09:00 - 2025-04-30 16:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
The Greater Rockies Immersive Training on Exploitation and Trafficking (GRIT) Conference is brought to you by Uprising, a Wyoming-based anti-trafficking nonprofit, and FYN Global, a small business with big ideas. The mission of the GRIT conference is to enhance the competency, confidence, and collaboration of multidisciplinary professionals in preventing exploitation and trafficking as well as identifying and supporting victims through innovative approaches to education, training, and skill-building.
For more information, click HERE.

Human Trafficking Practitioner Designation
2025-05-06 07:00 - 2025-05-08 16:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details.*
This 3-day course (24 hours) is designed to provide information on human trafficking and its evolution. Participants will develop the skills needed to provide advice, counseling, or services to human trafficking victims by applying the experiences of victims, law enforcement, victim services advocates, and non-governmental organizations. Florida law, which created privilege between human trafficking victim advocates, trained volunteers, and human trafficking survivors, will be examined. Participants taking this training should have a fundamental understanding of victim advocacy and should be currently employed with or be a volunteer with an anti-human trafficking organization. For more information, click HERE.

When Bubble Baths Aren’t Enough: The Anxiety Behind Stress and Burnout
2025-05-06 12:00 - 13:15
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
For the past two decades the criminal justice system has recognized the impact that stress and burnout has had on its personnel. The system has provided programs, information and trainings about stress management, self-care, resilience and wellness. Criminal justice workers have found this information helpful, and many of the suggested interventions beneficial in dealing with their stress and burnout. But, over the past few years, many workers have found that these interventions aren’t enough. For more information, click HERE.

The OVC VOCA Center - May Roundtable for VOCA Assistance Administrators
2025-05-06 14:00 - 15:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details.*
Administrators will be able to network and build relationships with their peers, discuss successes and challenges, and develop themes and topics for future training and technical assistance. For more information, click HERE.

National Victim Assistance Academy (NVAA) Effective Management Series: Strategic Planning for Program
2025-05-15 08:00 - 17:00
The mission of NVAA is to provide an intensive, interactive learning experience to develop and promote professional skills and knowledge for victim service providers. The Effective Management Series offers comprehensive and practical trainings to build organizational capacity.
Strategic planning is a process to help you determine where your organization is and where it wants to be in the future. Strategic planning can help you answer questions about how your nonprofit organization advances its mission and how you engage staff and the board to identify measurable goals and priorities. In this training, we will review the strategic planning process to prepare you to create and implement your organization’s strategic plan. The Strategic Planning for Program Managers training is designed for those in leadership roles who are responsible for setting the organization’s direction. The training addresses preparing for a planning process, creating the common elements of a plan, and implementing and communicating the final product.
The training will be delivered online over the course of 4 weeks, beginning on May 15, 2025. Registration is open.

Virtual National Town Halls on Mass Violence
2025-05-27 08:00 - 17:00
#KnowBeforeYouNeedTo
The National Town Hall on Mass Violence is sponsored by the NMVC with support from the Office for Victims of Crime. This quarterly series provides the best evidence-based mass violence readiness, response and resiliency/recovery resources and practices for:

Mass violence victims and survivors
Victim/ survivor assistance professionals
Mental and behavioral health professionals
Law enforcement and criminal justice officials
Allied professionals

This event is an ongoing exchange of ideas discussing experiences, lessons learned, and best practices to improve community response to mass violence incidents. To register, click HERE.

The OVC VOCA Center - June Roundtable for VOCA Assistance Administrators
2025-06-03 14:00 - 15:00
*This is not a NAVAA-based event. Please see the registration page for contact details.*
Administrators will have the opportunity to network and build relationships with their peers, discuss successes and challenges that will guide future training and technical assistance themes and topics. For more information, click HERE.

Advanced Skills - Building Trauma-Informed Organizations
2025-06-16 08:00 - 17:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
A trauma-informed organization is one where all practices and services are viewed through the lens of trauma.
In a trauma-informed organization, programs respond empathically to survivors’ needs, ensure their physical and emotional safety, develop realistic goals, and avoid re-traumatization. The Building Trauma-Informed Organizations training provides guidance on how your organization can become trauma-informed and how to modify policies and procedures to respond to trauma victims.
This training is designed for those responsible for designing and implementing their organization’s programs and policies.
This training will be delivered online, over the course of 5 weeks, beginning on June 16, 2025.
Each week, except for the introductory week, will include a facilitated webinar. There are recommended readings and videos, as well as written assignments. You should expect to spend about an hour per week on the assignments, in addition to participating in the 75-minute webinar. CEUs will be awarded for those who complete all requirements. You will find the training schedule here.
Please review your schedule to make sure you are available to attend either the live or recorded webinars and will be able to make the necessary time commitment to complete the training activities.
This training is part of the NVAA Advanced Skills Institute, and, like all OVC TTAC trainings, participation is free.
For more information, click HERE.

General Tech and Safety Planning for Victim Advocates
2025-06-17 14:00 - 15:15
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details.*
Throughout this Justice Clearinghouse webinar, participants will attain the necessary knowledge and information to assist victims and survivors in completing a general technology assessment. They will also be equipped to understand cybersecurity best practices and the proper handling of sensitive information. Furthermore, participants will receive information on how to complete a threat assessment and protect and back up data on their mobile devices. For more information, click HERE.

Responding to Mass Violence: Essential Skills for Victim Assistance
2025-06-18 12:30 - 14:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details*
Please join us on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, from 1:30–3:00 p.m. Eastern time, for the Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center webinar “Responding to Mass Violence: Essential Skills for Victim Assistance,” hosted by Krista R. Flannigan, J.D., and Mary Vail Ware.
This Vital Subjects webinar is designed to empower victim assistance providers with the best practices for trauma-informed care in the wake of mass violence incidents. Participants will learn how trauma may affect a survivor’s reactions and learn effective strategies to enhance trauma-informed responses for survivors and families. Information will also be shared about the different types of resource centers that may be established to support recovery after an incident of mass violence and the role of victim assistance in this type of program.
The “Responding to Mass Violence: Essential Skills for Victim Assistance” webinar is part of the Vital Subjects series. This series will address topics that are critical to the victim services field across the country.
For more information, click HERE.

National Victim Assistance Academy (NVAA) Effective Management Series: Developing and Sustaining Collaborations
2025-06-30 08:00 - 2025-07-25 17:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details.*
The mission of NVAA is to provide an intensive, interactive learning experience to develop and promote professional skills and knowledge for victim service providers. The Effective Management Series offers comprehensive and practical trainings to build organizational capacity.
Collaborations are a primary strategy to help an organization achieve its mission; yet, they are often difficult to implement and sustain. This training will identify methods that you can use to explore, plan, implement, and evaluate strategic collaborations. The Developing and Sustaining Collaborations training is designed for victim service providers who are responsible for developing and sustaining collaborations.
The training will be delivered online over the course of 4 weeks, beginning on June 30, 2025. Registration will open soon. Sign up for the OVC TTAC email list to receive registration notices.

NAVAA Member Debrief: A Monthly Member Roundtable
2025-07-01 12:30 - 13:30
Join us for regular opportunities to share insights, build relationships, and support one another across our peer network.
Every 1st Tuesday from 1:30-2:30 pm ET
Join us for a monthly, member-driven roundtable offering space for candid conversation and peer support. This informal meeting invites VOCA Assistance Administrators to share updates, surface challenges, and speak openly about what is happening in the field. Whether you’d like to raise an issue, ask a question, or simply listen in, the NAVAA Member Debrief offers a valuable connection point for staying informed and supported.
To join the meeting, click HERE.

Victim Advocate and Mental Health Partnerships Peer Consultant Forums
2025-07-10 14:00 - 15:30
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the registration page for contact details.*
As a result of this forum, participants will:

Receive informal peer consultation around issues of importance
Have the opportunity to share best practices with other advocates and clinicians and develop ways to be supportive of one another in their work
Gain resources and ideas from presenters, clinicians, and advocates to support their work with children and families

Support and partnerships between victim advocates and mental health staff can be critical elements in serving children and families seen at children’s advocacy centers (CAC). Victim advocates and mental health clinicians are encouraged to attend as a team to provide the best opportunity for joint learning and rich discussion in sharing best practices in the partnership role. For more information, click HERE.

Policing Domestic Violence: Past, Present, and Future
2025-07-15 11:00 - 13:00
*This is a non-NAVAA event. Any questions should be directed to the organizers on the registration page*
A movement to treat domestic violence as a public safety issue rather than a private family matter spawned a wave of reform, culminating in the Violence Against Women Act in the 1994 federal Crime Bill. Mandatory arrest policies, in particular, have been widely adopted over the past several decades.
However, research suggests these laws may not deter domestic violence as intended and may inadvertently draw survivors into the criminal justice system. Moving forward, how can we ensure new approaches work to interrupt domestic violence, hold abusers accountable, and protect survivors?
Join the Council on Criminal Justice’s Women’s Justice Commission and a panel of experts to examine the complex impact of domestic violence policing and explore promising strategies to improve safety, accountability, and justice for women.
The conversation will be followed by a Q&A. For more information, click HERE

NAVAA Community of Practice
2025-07-15 12:30 - 14:00
NAVAA Community of Practice
Every 3rd Tuesday from 1:30-3:00 pm ET
NAVAA’s Community of Practice is a monthly collaborative session where VOCA Assistance Administrators will share tools, strategies, and real-world experiences. Each meeting features peer-led presentations and guided discussion, focusing on practical implementation and lessons learned. This space supports ongoing professional development and advances our ability to serve victims through shared expertise.
To join the meeting, click HERE.

Meeting the Moment: #NOVA51 Goes Virtual!
2025-07-21 10:00 - 2025-07-25 15:30
NOVA51 Has Gone Completely Virtual!

July 21 – 25, 2025 at 11am – 4:30pm ET

*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please see the information below for contact details*
Over the past few months, we’ve heard from countless advocates and organizations facing funding uncertainty, making travel to in-person training events more difficult than ever. We recognize the immense challenges you’re navigating, and we’re committed to ensuring that every advocate—regardless of budget constraints—has access to the high-quality training, networking, and professional development they deserve.
GREAT VALUE! Attendees will receive 17 CEUs in live workshops, with access to an additional 80 CEUs of recordings post-conference!

Rethinking Public Safety in Small Town America
2025-07-23 13:00 - 14:00
*This is not a NAVAA-hosted event. Please refer to the registration page for contact information.*
Please join NCJA for our next Policy Session on July 23 at 2:00 pm ET: Shifting Populations, Escalating Risks: Rethinking Public Safety in Small-Town America.
Community violence is declining. However, police encounters are becoming more dangerous, especially across rural and small-town America. This presentation unpacks the drivers of that trend: pandemic-era population shifts, scarce behavioral-health resources, and a surge of mental-health and disturbance 911 calls managed by understaffed, under-trained departments. We also outline the contexts in which police contacts are most likely to escalate into physical altercations. Finally, we’ll spotlight solutions already delivering results, including civilian mobile-crisis teams in Denver, Eugene, Olympia, and rural Kansas, statewide de-escalation mandates, and tele-behavioral-health hubs.
For more information, click HERE.
