Victim Assistance to Support Tribes Welcomes You
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Click the link above to request Training and Technical Assistance through a short online form.
VAST Awareness Days Calendar 2022-23
Please feel free to share Victim Assistance to Support Tribes’ awareness days calendar, from August 2022-July 2023, with any colleagues!
VAST Center in the News
- Read Renee Stapp’s feature in the Macarthur Safety and Justice Challenge’s blog on Indigenous People’s Day. The Overrepresentation of Indigenous People in America’s Jails: What Needs to Change?
- Check out Renee Stapp’s quote in the Report to the President: Activities and Accomplishments of the First Year of Operation Lady Justice.
“We need more funding for Tribal communities to have training and education, and the ability and funding to develop their own response which best suits their community needs. What works on the Fort Berthold reservation is not going to work within the boundaries of the Muscogee Creek Nation. We have to make sure that we allow our Nations to guide these responses that best suit their needs” (Renee Stapp, 2020).
Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Topics:
VAST provides TTA on a wide range of topics to support your work responding to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. We believe that TTA is a mutual exchange rooted in your autonomy and sovereignty. No request is too big or too small. We’re here to support you.
We can provide TTA on a broad area of topics, including but not limited to:
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This project is supported by Grant No. 2020-TA-AX-K019 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.