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Course Descriptions

VAT Online has four sections: Basics, Core Competencies and Skills, Crimes, and Specific Considerations for Providing Victim Services.

Includes information that all victim service providers must know, including victims' rights and the justice systems, which provides a foundation for victim services.

Core Competencies and Skills

Includes modules such as basic communication skills, confidentiality, and advocacy.

Includes the characteristics and prevalence of crime, and other information about crimes including sexual assault, elder abuse, and child abuse and neglect.

Specific Considerations for Providing Victim Services

Includes information and skills to serve populations such as LGBTQ populations, campus/university victims of crime, and victims of sexual assault in the military.

The Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center is a component of the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

OVC TTAC is operated by ICF Incorporated, L.L.C. under the Office of Justice Programs/Office for Victims of Crime Victim Services Training and Technical Assistance Center (VSTTA) contract GS00F010CA/15PVCD23F00000007 and Technical Assistance Collective (TAC) contract GS00F010CA/15PVCD23F00000008.

OVC TTAC neither endorses, has any responsibility for, nor exercises any control over the organizations' views or the accuracy of the information contained in those pages outside of the OVC TTAC website.

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