Technical Assistance

The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center is dedicated to ending violence against American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian women while strengthening the sovereignty and safety of Native communities. Our primary goal is to support the growth and effectiveness of grassroots, trauma- and healing-informed Tribal programs and advocates, fostering survivor-led efforts to promote safety and justice.

 

NIWRC offers community-driven technical assistance, policy guidance, training, and resource development to Tribal Nations, programs, and advocates working to prevent and respond to violence. Our support focuses on strengthening Tribal programs, policies, and responses to intimate partner violence, sexual violence, missing and murdered Indigenous women, stalking, sex trafficking, and coordinated community efforts.

 

Apply for Technical Assistance 


What is Technical Assistance?

Technical Assistance (TA) includes a range of activities designed to assist in problem-solving and build individual and organizational capacity to:

  1. Improve practice, including those related to the provision of advocacy to victims/survivors;
  2. Engage in policy analysis and enhance systems or institutional level response;
  3. Raise public awareness and/or mobilize prevention activities;
  4. Support research; or
  5. Any other aspect of intervention or prevention efforts.

Training can be part of technical assistance only if necessary to ensure effective capacity building, policy development, procedure implementation, and response.


Requesting Technical Assistance

Technical assistance may be provided through consultation, referral, and/or virtual platforms. As needed and budget allows, two to three-day in-person on-site visits may also be arranged. NIWRC can also connect Tribal Nations and advocates to regional Tribal coalitions, Native organizations, and trained consultants throughout our network. Below are examples of technical assistance focus areas. When requesting, please be specific about the problem or issue you are dealing with and identify one area of need. 

  • Program development/staff development
  • Strategic planning
  • Shelter development and/or meeting safe housing needs, including transitional housing
  • Development of trauma-informed responses, policies, and procedures
  • Incorporating community organizing, community awareness, and education initiatives
  • Developing policies and/or practices to meet the needs of domestic/ intimate partner violence survivors experiencing mental health issues and/or substance use
  • Strengthening and restoring coordinated community responses
  • Establishing batterers/offender’s re-education programs
  • Creating strategies to address child welfare in the context of domestic violence
  • Promoting advocacy/awareness in working with healthcare systems
  • Safety and technology practices and policies
  • Research for Tribal communities, including data collection and program evaluation
  • Strategies and policies for supporting all survivors of intimate partner violence
  • Pandemic or disaster relief

After requesting technical assistance, you will receive a confirmation of your submission within five working days. We will work with you to tailor technical assistance specifically for your program and community. For questions or more information, contact Tara at technical-assistance@niwrc.org or use the NIWRC Contact Us page.


Additional Resources

To request a speaker for an event, submit a request through the NIWRC Contact Us page. When possible, please allow for one to two months advance noticeIf you are a student, researcher, or media, we encourage you to explore the NIWRC Resource Library for webinars, special collections, booklets, fact sheets, research papers, videos, toolkits, reports, and much more.