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Safeguarding Child-Victims’ Rights Initiative Launches Training

As part of NCVLI’s commitment to furthering the rights of child-victims of crime, the Safeguarding Child-Victims’ Rights Initiative has spent the past year working with an eleven-member multidisciplinary curriculum committee to develop an intensive two-day, skills-based training on how to provide effective rights enforcement representation to child-victims of crime.
Working to Dispel Rape Myths

It is far too common that victims of sexual assault are subjected to invasions of privacy during the investigation and prosecution of their offenders and that cultural assumptions about rape and rape victims inform the administration of justice. NCVLI’s Responding to Violence Against Women Project is committed to ensuring that the justice process does not become a re-traumatizing experience for victims of sexual assault. NCVLI recently provided support in a case dealing with these very issues.
Save the Date for NCVLI’s 11th Annual Crime Victim Law Conference

Save the date for NCVLI’s 11th Annual Crime Victim Law Conference, Enhancing Justice: Empowerment Through Victims’ Rights, to be held in Portland, Oregon June 8-9, 2012. This two day Conference will also include an intensive Pre-Conference Institute on June 7. Visit the Conference homepage to nominate people and teams for the Outstanding Achievement Awards and to learn about the Law Student Writing Competition (now with an extended deadline).

Student-Attorney Roundtable Lunch
This month, join Paula Pierce, for a discussion of the “Intersection of Victims’ Rights and Environmental Law: Proving who is a ‘Victim’”.

Protecting Victims from Re-Victimization: Securing Testimonial Accommodations
Join NCVLI and the National Alliance of Victims’ Rights Attorneys & Advocates for the launch of our 2012 Webinar Training Series! The first webinar in the series will focus on the use of testimonial accommodations for child-victims and adults with an emphasis on closed-circuit television and similar forms of technology.

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NAVRA member Keith Franz has long been a victims’ advocate and recently served as Counsel of Record on two cases for which NCVLI filed Amicus Curiae briefs before the United States Supreme Court.
Sarah Hays is a dual degree candidate in Law and Conflict & Dispute Resolution at the University of Oregon School of Law who interned with NCVLI’s Safeguarding Child-Victims’ Rights Initiative during the summer of 2011.
Karla Salp is the Executive Director of the Washington Coalition of Crime Victim Advocates (WCCVA) and a strong partner to NCVLI in working to advance victims’ rights in Washington State.