Training Delivery - Live Video (VTC)

TTA Session #1: Community Engagement & Resource Mapping

RED TTA Kickoff Meeting

Provide the PREA Coordinator and team an overview of the standards, resources, information on the role of the PREA Coordinator, and how to prepare for an audit. The TA will also include coaching and strategies to implement their PREA policy.

The Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking (ICESAHT) has requested a 90-minute PREA 101 advocacy training on May 21, 2024. The session will provide an overview of corrections and PREA, with a focus on the role of advocates in providing support to incarcerated survivors. Terri Noone from the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence will explain the process for handling calls from Indiana state prisons. JDI will also provide ICESAHT with up to three (3) one-hour coaching sessions as they refine how they want to work with member agencies.

A staff attorney at the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault is working with an advocate who is trying to assist an inmate with PREA-related issues. IowaCASA has requested four (4) coaching sessions to help their legal team and others who support member agencies with advocacy of incarcerated survivors. More specifically, the coaching will focus on requests made by incarcerated survivors and appropriate advocacy services. IowaCASA is sending a survey to member organizations to learn their specific needs, including how to support incarcerated survivors.

The Survivor Empowerment Center (SEC) based in Southern Illinois has requested training for their staff and coaching sessions for their Rape Crisis Services Program Coordinator, Jennifer Short. More specifically, JDI will provide two training sessions for SEC staff and volunteers. The first session will be an overview of the criminal justice system, the PREA standards, and the role of advocates. The second session will include specific guidance for serving incarcerated survivors. Coaching sessions will focus on building relationships with corrections agencies and advising Ms.

Address questions and issues

Address training and implementation questions and issues

Informational sessions with prospective pilot sites (any intersted VTC program) addressing the VTCEI goals and objectives, what is expected to be a pilot site, and how to become a pilot site

TA checkin meetings to follow up on: progress toward completing training, progress with implementation, updates to implementation plan, challenges with implementation, problem-solve as needed, identify availability and sources of recidivism data, discuss next steps

The Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators (CJJA) is made up of executive staff leaders of most of the individual states in the US and territories. A PREA Committee meets bi-monthly and is attended by some executive leaders and primarily by state-level Juvenile PREA Coordinators for each state's juvenile justice agency. The National PREA Resource Center (PRC) arranges for speakers and presentations at these meetings based on content requests from the members.