Publisher: SPARC

[pdf] Trauma Informed Structured Interview Questionnaires for Immigrant Cases (SIQI) (July 23, 2024) (+)

The SIQI tool’s goal is to help identify stalking and human trafficking that are co-occurring with domestic violence and child abuse. The following questionnaires are provided to facilitate the Trauma Informed Structured Interview, which is the second part of the Trauma Informed Immigration Story Writing Intervention Method. During the story developing session, clients are encouraged to share their story uninterrupted while advocates and attorneys listen, take notes, and watch for triggers. This tool is designed to be used during follow up interviews with clients. This Structured Interview Questionnaire for Immigration (SIQI) will aid advocates and attorneys in eliciting additional in-depth information to strengthen their client’s immigration case and will also provide a complete picture of trauma and distress endured by survivors. The questions are designed to facilitate the client’s healing and to strengthen the client’s immigration application by uncovering important details of the story by screening for additional incidents, experiences, and emotional harms that contribute to extreme cruelty and/or substantial mental or physical abuse. Attorneys and advocates should explain the goals of this session to the client before initiating the trauma informed structured interview. This 2024 version incorporates questions helpful to assessing stalking behaviors and risk factors.

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[pdf] Stalking Behaviors Targeting Immigrant Victims (August 16, 2023) (+)

This resource was developed by SPARC working in collaboration with NIWAP to provide a check list of stalking behaviors that are often present in stalking cases involving immigrant stalking victims and survivors. Stalking of immigrant victims includes a wide range of threatening and disturbing behaviors that can be classified into four categories: Surveillance, Life invasion, Intimidation, and Interference through sabotage or attack (SLII). NIWAP’s time on this publication was supported by the State Justice Institute Grant No. SJI-22-T-037.

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[pdf] SPARC: Stalking and Technology-Infographic (2023) (+)

SPARC (Stalking Prevention Awareness Resource Center) developed this infographic which presents data on how many offenders stalk both in-person and using technology in order to surveil, contact, intimidate, sabotage, isolate, and otherwise frighten their victims.

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[pdf] SPARC Judicial Officer Bench Card: Stalking (July 5, 2022) (+)

This bench card for state court judges developed by SPARC and NIWAP is designed to be used in conjunction with the Judicial Officer Guide for Responding to Stalking. This Bench Card covers: considering and identifying staking, assessing stalking, stalking tactics, establishing fear, risk factors, and best practices for court orders and findings including protection orders and bail conditions.

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[pdf] SPARC Judicial Officer Guide: Responding to Stalking (July 5, 2022) (+)

This judicial officer guide developed by SPARC and NIWAP is designed to help state court judges identify, understand and assess the risks of stalking and stalking behaviors courts see evidence of in the family, civil and criminal cases over which judges preside. This resource discusses co-occurring and interconnected crimes and recommends how judges can document and make findings about stalking and coercive control in state court orders. This guide includes useful charts and tables including a comparison of stalking, coercive control, and battering or extreme cruelty (the immigration law definition of domestic violence). This resource is designed to be used together with the Judicial Officer Bench Card: Stalking.

Published July 5, 2022 by ,

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