May 31 – June 2, 2017
Portland, OR

Together the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women and Casa de Esperanza/National Latin@ Network in partnership with Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence, Ujima, Inc., The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, and the Center for Court Innovation are holding a Cultural Competency in the Courts Training in Portland, OR on May 31 – June 2, 2017!  

Cultural Competency in the Courts Training is an interactive training for court staff that explores culture and court responses to culturally specific domestic violence and sexual assault victims.    

Who is invited to attend?                

Justice for Families, Court Training and Improvements Programs (CTIP), and STOP grantees and their OVW grant partners can participate and use their OVW travel funds to send grant funded staff and partners to this training, with prior approval from their OVW Program Manager.

Participants are strongly encouraged to bring a team of 2 to 4 court staff that works with DV/SA cases including but not limited to Judge, court clerk, security, court advocates and DV prosecutors unit. 

Registration is limited to 40 participants!

Costs:

• This training is sponsored by the Office on Violence Against Women, Department of Justice (OVW) and will be offered at no cost to participants. Please note that participants are responsible for their own meals, lodging, and travel arrangements. Please do not make any travel arrangements until you receive a confirmation email.

• When using OVW funds to attend training, it is expected participants attend ALL of the training.  travel should be made accordingly.

How to apply: Organizations invited to participate need to submit an application for this training online. 

Application 

For questions about this training or for more information, please contact Jose Juan Lara Jr at [email protected] .

This project was supported by Grant No. 2015-TA-AX-K007 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.