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The following workshop handouts / slides are now online for current NOVA Members. If you are not a current NOVA member, you may become a member online for instant access to these materials.

Child Sexual Abuse: A Mother's Story

Lucy Lee, Executive Director, Exploited Children's Help Organization (ECHO)

Helping Children Who Witness Domestic Violence

Michele Penta, MS, LMHC, Coordinator, Family Safety Project, Caritas Holy Family Hospital

Enhancing Victim Safety by Increasing Perpetrator Accountability and Monitoring

Doug Gaudette, Director, Family Safety Project, Caritas Holy Family Hospital

Batterer Intervention Programs: What Every Victim Advocate Needs to Know

David Gutierrez, Assistant Division Director

Jeanne Keen, Program Administrator

Kentucky Division of Violence Prevention Resources

National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP)

Jeannette M. Adkins, NACP Review Committee Member

More information on the NACP Program may be found here

Creating a Victim Focus: The Victim's Role in Offender Reentry and Reentry Courts

Ramona Jarboe, Allen County, Indiana, Adult Probation

Anne Seymour, Justice Solutions

Volunteer Recruitment, Management and Appreciation

Rhonda S. Barner, Director

Montgomery County OH Prosecutor's Office, Victim/Witness Division

Why Victim Relations is as [or more!] important as Public Relations

Rick Jones, Appriss

Will Marling, Executive Director, NOVA

NOVA NOVA's Crisis Response Model with Groups/Neighborhoods Impacted by Crime

Rose Olmsted, MS, LSW, CCR

Freeborn County Crisis Response Team and Freeborn County Crime Victims Crisis Center

The Bridge-Victimization to a Life After

Julia B. James, M.S., Victim Advocate / Safe Harbor Educational Support Services

Office of Undergraduate Studies, Auburn University

Victims Deserve to be Heard

Cal Wrathall, Executive Director, Victims Services Branch, Alberta Solicitor General's Department

Domestic Violence Homicide: The Children Left Behind

Barbara Parker, PhD, RN, FAAN

Theresa A. Thomas Professor in Primary Care Nursing and Director, PhD Program University of Virginia, School of Nursing

Cyberbullying: Who are the Victims? What can we do?

Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University

It Ain't Nothing Like You've Seen on TV!

Jackie Bolden, Victim Assistance Coordinator, Potter County Victim Assistance Program

Victim Services and Community Collaboration - The VS2000 Experience

Michelle Adams, Project Director, Denver Office of the District Attorney

Steve Siegel, Director of Program Development, Denver Vale Board

Healing the Healers through Dance

Frances Pelliccia, MD

Emotional Abuse: How it contributes to victimization and revictimization

Frances Pelliccia, MD

Working With The Military

Betsey M. Larcom, Victim Advocate, Navy

Crisis Response Within Law Enforcement Agencies

Staci A. Beers, MSW, Victim Advocate, Margate Police Department

The Effects of Murder on a Family and the Community

Madge Burton