Jyoti Venketraman from NJCASA will cover a step by step approach to increase understanding of evaluation including best practices on low-capacity evaluation to provide participants with the skills to apply evaluation principles to sexual violence prevention programs.

Certified police instructor Ellen Bloom, formerly of 180 Turning Lives Around of Monmouth County and Detective Shawn Murphy of Monmouth County’s Prosecutor’s Office Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit will focus on all aspects of drug facilitated sexual assault including dynamics, types of drugs, signs and symptomology, effective crisis response and the legal, medical and mental health options available. Forensic and investigative considerations of predatory drugs such as interviewing techniques and evidence collection will also be discussed.

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This Training Institute workshop will offer an in-depth look at the necessary components that make up a victim-centered, coordinated, comprehensive response to campus victims. Through lecture and discussion, topic areas include what works and what doesn’t in campus prevention; the culture and dynamics of campuses and their impact on victim response; offender behaviors; critical concepts in creating an effective response; federal statutory requirements; and strategies to move forward in developing a coordinated sexual assault response team on your campus.