While the training is particularly relevant for law enforcement professionals and prosecutors, it is equally critical for other professionals who are involved in the criminal justice and community response to sexual assault victims.  This would include professionals from the fields of:  victim advocacy, victim-witness assistance, forensic medicine, health care, mental health, victim services, social services, probation/parole, the defense bar, the judiciary, the military, research, and higher education.

While the content of the OnLine Training Institute is primarily focused on the techniques for successful law enforcement investigation and prosecution, this information is targeted not only toward law enforcement professionals and prosecutors but also for cross-training purposes with these other professions.  For example, victim advocates will benefit by increasing their knowledge of the criminal justice system, so they can provide more effective services for their clients.  Forensic examiners will gain by better understanding how the information and evidence they collect may impact the investigation and prosecution of sexual assaults reported by their patients.

The OnLine Training Institute is primarily focused on the techniques for successful investigation and prosecution of non-stranger sexual assault.  Yet training modules also address a broader range of content that is relevant to the criminal justice and coordinated community response to sexual assault.  Below you will find the list of training modules that are currently available or coming soon to the OnLine Training Institute.  You can find out more about exactly which modules are currently available by clicking on the “Courses” tab at the top of this page.  

Individual Courses  

• Effective Report Writing: Using The Language of Non-Consensual Sex  
• Dynamics:  What Does Sexual Assault Really Look Like? 
• Victim Impact:  How do Sexual Assault Victims Respond? 
• Preliminary Investigation:  Guidelines for First Responders 
• Law and Investigative Strategy:  What Kind of Sexual Assault Is This? 
• Interviewing the Victim:  Techniques Based on the Realistic Dynamics of Sexual Assault 
• False Reports: Moving Beyond the Issue to Successfully Investigate and Prosecute Sexual Assault 
• Coordinated Community Response:  Sexual Assault Response and Resource Teams (SARRT) 
• Reporting Methods for Sexual Assault Cases 
• Role of the Victim Advocate:  Community-Based and System-Based Advocacy 
• The Forensic Examination 
• Clearance Methods for Sexual Assault Cases 
• Sexual Assault Response and Resource Teams (SAART): A Guide for Rural and Remote Communities

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI), you may do so on our home page by following the "Make a Donation" link.

For a description of courses that are currently available, please see the Courses page or the My Account page.  You will then be able to view updated information about your status in any course(s) that you have enrolled in on the My Account page.   If you have any questions, you can contact EVAWI staff at HelpDesk@evawintl.org.  

For professionals who successfully complete OLTI courses, continuing education is available for nurses through the Board of Registered Nursing and for counselors through the National Board of Certified Counselors.  For law enforcement, continuing education is available on a state-by-state basis. Check on our OLTI Law Enforcement Accreditation Map to see the current status of your state.

Professionals in other fields may be able to earn continuing education credits by submitting a printout of the training module and the personalized certificate of successful completion to the organization that awards such credits. A PDF version of each training module is available to you after enrollment in the course, and a computer-generated certificate will be sent to you after successfully completing each training module. In addition, a list of course titles and average completion time on our letterhead is available for download by  clicking here.

Please feel free to contact the staff of EVAWI if you need any assistance during this process, by sending us an email at HelpDesk@evawintl.org.

Yes, you are welcome to disseminate copies of the OLTI modules in PDF format.  In fact, we encourage it.  By sharing OLTI training modules with co-workers and other colleagues, we can all work together toward the goal of improving the criminal justice and community responses to sexual assault.

Yes, you can incorporate information from the OLTI into your own training materials or other resources, as long as they are cited appropriately.  There are three primary ways to do this. 

(1)  If you cite a general idea from the OLTI, you should use in-text citation with the author name(s) and year (e.g., Littell, Lonsway, & Archambault, 2012).  Then the full reference will need to be included in a footnote/endnote or reference list at the end of the document.  For this type of citation, you need to make sure the idea is stated in your own words. 

(2) If you quote information verbatim, it needs to appear in quotation marks with a page number (e.g., Archambault & Lonsway, 2012, p. 14).  Again, the full reference will need to appear in the footnote/endnote or reference list at the end of the document.

(3)  If you excerpt a section of material from the OLTI, you will need to be very clear about where the excerpt begins and ends, and then provide the full reference information in a footnote/endnote or reference list at the end of the document.

A sample reference might look something like this (depending on which reference format you use):

Archambault, J. & Lonsway, K.A. (February 2006; updated May 2012).  Interviewing the Victim:  Interviewing Techniques Based on the Realistic Dynamics of Sexual Assault.  OnLine Training Institute module developed by End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI).  Available at http://olti.evawintl.org/.