The fourth webinar in the Victim Assistance Response to Mass Violence Webinar Series highlights the importance of victim service providers responding to incidents of mass violence and terrorism.

The session focuses on:

• Coordinating victim services response agencies and victim service volunteers;
• Identifying the needs of survivors, families, and responders to equip victim service volunteers with the information they need to support them;
• Identifying the training needs for victim service volunteers in varied direct service and program support roles; and
• Integrating trauma-informed processes to prepare victim service volunteers to support victims.

Financial exploitation of older adults is evolving fast. Scammers are now using artificial intelligence (AI) to clone voices, spoof family members, and stage realistic fraud schemes. This webinar will highlight recent scam trends and explore how multidisciplinary teams (MDT) can best respond to these crimes in a coordinated, thoughtful manner while working with older adults, utilizing trauma-informed and person-centered best practices. It will also cover how this work can be time consuming and emotionally and morally draining, and how to work through these challenges with your team when they occur.

The emergence and evolution of technology enable youth and adults to connect, research new topics, build social networks, and increase their communication skills. But although technology offers many positive opportunities, abusers can also exploit it to cause harm. Perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV) may use technology as an additional method of manipulation, coercion, intimidation, and abuse. 

Do you have questions about how to identify the ways that abusers target victims of IPV through technology? Do you want to learn the foundational elements of an effective safety plan for survivors of IPV? If so, then please join us for this interactive Expert Q&A webinar!  

This session is ideal for professionals working in victim services, including social workers, counselors, law enforcement officers, and prosecutors.