2022 February Advanced Course
This training contains recordings from the February 2022 Advanced Course. Trainings will be posted typically 3-4 days after sessions.
Strangulation has been identified as one of the most lethal forms of domestic violence and sexual assault. This training will be provided by the leading experts in America.
The Advanced Course covers:
- The most current research and emerging case law on domestic violence and sexual assault strangulation crimes
- Stranglers, cop killers, and terrorists
- Understanding lethality and the need for training
- A survivor’s perspective
- Lessons learned from San Diego
- Anatomy, physiology, medical signs and symptoms
- Long term consequences, delayed death, and fatal strangulation
- Need for imaging and how to advocate for implementation
- The role of all first responders, including dispatchers, paramedics, and crime scene investigators
- Investigative strategies, report writing, and interviewing witnesses and the suspect
- Clinical documentation and the forensic domestic violence/strangulation exam
- Successful prosecution strategies
- New strategies for advocacy and working with traumatized victims
- Screening for traumatic brain injury and medical advocacy
- Development of local experts
- Use of experts in court, including tips for testifying
- Advocating for victim safety from the time of arrest through probation
- Recommendations for probation
- Understanding and integrating ACES and science of HOPE in your work
- Best practices and developing an implementation plan, including a county-wide protocol
Course Content
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
