Tell Us About It: Victim Research Convos

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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.

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Tell Us About It, Episode 33, Measuring the Impact of a Survivor-Centered Approach.

Dec 01 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

Tell Us ABout It Episode 32: Measuring the Problem of Sexual Misconduct in Ridesharing

Nov 01 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 coll

Tell Us About It Episode 31: Learn from NAPSA's Research to Practice Team: Collaboration is Key

Oct 01 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 resea

Tell Us About It Episode 30: Building Victim Services with Research at the Saginaw Police Department

Sep 02 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

Tell Us About It, Episode 29: Using Data to Empower and Support Victims at the NVRDC

Aug 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.

Tell Us About It, Episode 28: Shaping Tribal Research Through Inclusive, Organic Conversations

Jul 07 2020 38 mins  
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, focu

Tell Us About It, Episode 27: Using Research to Counter Identity Theft and Cybercrime

Jun 09 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 acr

Tell Us About It, Episode 26: Language Access and its Role in Victim-Related Research

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.

Tell Us About It, Episode 25: Supporting Rural, Remote, and Underserved Survivors in Arizona

Dec 06 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

Tell Us About It, Episode 24: Synthesizing Victim Compensation Services Data in California

Nov 01 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 t