1.6Additional Domestic and Sexual Violence Resources

A.Publication: National Judicial Education Program’s (NJEP) Judges Tell

Legal Momentum’s National Judicial Education Program (NJEP) developed the publication Judges Tell: What I Wish I Had Known Before I Presided in an Adult Victim Sexual Assault Case from a nationwide survey of judges who had participated in NJEP’s Understanding Sexual Violence programs. The publication covers twenty-five points ranging from basic information about the prevalence and impact of sexual assault to pro se defendants seeking to cross-examine their alleged victims.

For additional information on NJEP and the Legal Momentum, see the Legal Momentum, Courts, The Justice System, and Women.

B.Educational Material: NJEP’s Teen Dating Violence Information Sheets

“Legal Momentum’s National Judicial Education Program [(NJEP]) has created a set of educational materials for judges, courts, court-related professionals, schools, parents, teens, and the community to learn about the dangers and consequences of Teen Dating Violence [(TDV)].” Legal Momentum, NJEP Resources on Teen Dating Violence.

“These eleven Information Sheets provide an introduction to many of the issues involved in TDV and its intersections with other areas of the law, and the Resources Sheet is a compilation of useful resources about teen dating violence for judges, courts, school, parents, teens, and the community.”

For additional information on NJEP and the Legal Momentum, see the Legal Momentum, Courts, The Justice System, and Women.

C.Resource Guide: SCAO’s Friend of the Court Domestic Violence Resource Guide

The State Court Administrative Office Friend of the Court Bureau developed the Friend of the Court Domestic Violence Resource Guide “to provide practical information about screening, detecting, and responding to domestic violence at various stages of the FOC case process. Specifically, this Guide will assist the FOC offices with the following:

•Understand the importance of screening and responses to domestic abuse.

•Identify FOC cases where domestic violence is present.

•Develop safety procedures to address domestic violence.

•Provide a safe environment when parties are at the FOC court office.

•Examine how domestic violence information will be used.

•Examine how to minimize contact between the parties.

•Examine how to keep screening protocols confidential.” Friend of the Court Domestic Violence Resource Guide, p 1.