Tell Us About It: Victim Research Convos
Tell Us About It: Victim Research Convos is a twice monthly podcast produced by the Center for Victim Research, with support from the Office for Victims of Crime. Each episode features an interview with a victim services expert on the work they do in their field and the importance of a partnership with a researcher or a practitioner in their projects. All images by Shutterstock, www.shutterstock.com.
Episodes
December 1, 2020 • 28 mins
Dr. Lauren Cattaneo and Dr. Amanda Stylianou discuss their work to measure the impact of a survivor-centered approach to victim services at Safe Horizon in New York City. Drs. Cattaneo and Stylianou discuss the nature of survivor-centered practice with victims of intimate partner violence, the measures used to determine the effect of that approach, and how data was gathered in the course of victim services. This project revealed t...
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November 1, 2020 • 29 mins
Janine Zweig of the Urban Institute and Chad Sniffen of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center share how they worked with Uber Technologies to better understand sexual misconduct in the ridesharing industry. Janine and Chad share the process to define sexual assault, harassment, and other misconduct and then set up a system to track complaints. This new taxonomy and data collection will provide a more complete understanding o...
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October 1, 2020 • 29 mins
Marian Liu, an assistant professor at Purdue University, and Mariah Freark of the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission join Susan to discuss how the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA) uses data and research to study adult victimization. Marian and Mariah's relationship through the Research to Practice Interest Group brings practitioners and researchers together to better understand and more full...
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Tell Us About It Episode 30: Building Victim Services with Research at the Saginaw Police Department
September 2, 2020 • 33 mins
Join Brittany Jeffers, the victim services specialist and unit coordinator of the Saginaw Police Department, and Dr. James Bowers, a criminal justice professor at Saginaw Valley State University, as they share their experience in conducting and using research to inform the development of law enforcement-based victim services. They also discuss the elements that have contributed to their long-term successful partnership.
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August 12, 2020 • 30 mins
In this episode, we talk to Bridgette Stumpf and Lindsey Silverberg of the Network for Victim Recovery of DC. They share NVRDC's experience in becoming a data-informed champion for victims, from the steps they’ve taken to promote data collection and quality to their use of data for advocacy and programming.
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On this episode of "Tell Us About It," experts from the Tribal Law and Policy Institute and the Hoopa Valley Tribe share their experience in working together on a Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grant from the National Institute of Justice. Heather Valdez Freedman, Jeremy Braithwaite, and Kendall Allen-Guyer share insights on how research is changing in tribal communities, focusing mainly on including community members' voices ...
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June 9, 2020 • 28 mins
On this episode of "Tell Us About It," you will get to hear from Eva Velasquez, the president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center. Listen to Eva explain how the ITRC collects and uses data and research to better protect our wellbeing when it comes to internet scams, fraud, cybercrime, and privacy issues. You will also learn about how the ITRC partners with researchers across the country in an effort to collect as much dat...
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May 12, 2020 • 22 mins
Have you ever wondered how language barriers play into research on victims of crime? Join us as Gabriela Lopez-Zeron, a linguistic justice expert from Michigan State University, sheds light on how language access plays a key role in working with multiracial, multicultural victims.
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December 6, 2019 • 32 mins
This episode of Tell Us About It features a conversation with Lynn Jones and Sarah Young Patton, partners on a research fellowship project funded by CVR. Lynn and Sarah collaborated on a project to understand and address the victim service needs of rural and Native American communities in Coconino County, Arizona through outposts in Flagstaff, Arizona, Page, Arizona, and the Grand Canyon.
Lynn Jones is a Professor in and the Assoc...
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November 1, 2019 • 17 mins
On this episode of Tell Us About It, we spoke with Robin Foemmel Bie about the data evaluation project completed at the California Victim Compensation Board. This project aimed to understand the effectiveness of the victim compensation services and the needs of their community. She talks about the completion of a baseline data report, needs assessment, and a gap analysis, and how they synthesized this data into strategies to addres...
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October 4, 2019 • 27 mins
On this episode of Tell Us About It, we speak with Laura Puls and Muriel Wells, two research librarians in the victim services field. Laura and Muriel spoke about their mission as research librarians, how research librarians serve their community in a variety of ways, and the value of contacting a research librarians with questions and requests.
Laura Puls is the Research Librarian for the Center for Victim Research. Contact Laura...
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September 20, 2019 • 27 mins
On this episode of Tell Us About It, we speak with Alesha Durfee, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University and Paul Thomas, Court Administrator for the Mesa Municipal Court, Mesa, Arizona. Dr. Durfee and Mr. Thomas were partners on a CVR-funded researcher-practitioner fellowship. Their project examined the relationship between gender, victimization, and the need for victim services...
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September 6, 2019 • 25 mins
On this episode of Tell Us About It, we talk with Kaitlin Lounsbury of the National Children’s Alliance (NCA), the membership association and accrediting body for Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs). She talks about the development and implementation of NCA’s Outcome Measurement System (OMS), including the challenges of bringing the nation’s 900+ CACs into the system and the value of OMS at the local, state, and national levels.
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August 17, 2019 • 33 mins
On this episode of Tell Us About It, we take a look at Expect Respect, a program of The SAFE Alliance in Austin, TX, promoting safe and healthy relationships for youth and preventing dating and sexual violence. Barri Rosenbluth and Barbara Bell join us to discuss the genesis of the project, the different programs associated with it, and the value of bringing an evaluation aspect into the project.
Barri Rosenbluth is the Senior Dir...
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On this episode of Tell Us About It, we discuss one of CVR’s supported fellowships: “Understanding the Social Contexts of Reentry, Criminal, and Trauma Recidivism in Prince George’s County.” The conversation features Dr. Joseph Richardson, the Principal Investigator for the study; Che Bullock, the Senior Violence Intervention Specialist for the project; and Uzo Ihekwoaba, the digital storyteller for the project. We talk about their...
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July 19, 2019 • 20 mins
This episode of Tell Us About It is the second of a two-part series focused on research and policy at Casa de Esperanza and its National Latin@ Network. In part two, we continue our conversation with Rosie Hidalgo and Rebecca Rodriguez of Casa de Esperanza. We discuss the topics and insights they covered at the recent Latin@ Research and Policy Roundtable, which brought together research and policy advocates for Latin@ survivors. T...
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This episode of Tell Us About It is the first of a two-part series focused on research and policy at Casa de Esperanza and its National Latin@ Network. In part one, we speak with staff members Rosie Hidalgo and Rebecca Rodriguez about the incorporation of community-based research into their work, and how this informs their policy advocacy and research needs.
Rosie Hidalgo is the Senior Director of Public Policy for Casa de Esperan...
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June 21, 2019 • 21 mins
This episode of Tell Us About It features a talk with Natalie Wilkins, a behavioral scientist the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Natalie joins us to discuss the creation of the Connecting the Dots tool, an online training tool that is a part of the CDC’s VetoViolence resource. The Connecting the Dots tool offers training that highlights the shared risk and protective factors that research shows are linked to mult...
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June 7, 2019 • 31 mins
On this episode of Tell Us About It, we talk with Julie Valentine and Nancy Downing about their experiences as practicing forensic nurses. We cover the scope of forensic nursing as a practice, as well as the focus and importance of incorporating research and practice into the forensic nursing discipline.
Julie Valentine is a forensic nurse, a certified sexual assault nurse examiner, and an assistant professor of nursing and ethic...
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On this episode of Tell Us About It, we’re joined by Heather Warnken and Jennifer O’Brien to talk about the new National Survey for Victim Service Providers (NSVSP), which is a part of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the Office for Victims of Crime’s Victim Services Statistical Research Program. We cover the goal of the survey, how it complements the National Census of Victim Service Providers conducted in 2017, and how ...
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