Introduction

Building on expertise in implementing reforms for justice-involved women locally and advising jurisdictions nationally on this issue, the Center for Court Innovation (CCI), Black Women’s Blueprint (BWB), the National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI), and Reverend Cheryl Dudley of the American Baptist Churches of Metropolitan New York are creating: 
 
Project SAFE: Services and Fundamental Enhancements for Justice-Involved Women

Project SAFE will provide targeted training and technical assistance to Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grantees working with justice-involved Black/African-American women who are survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. The project will address the intersectionality of racism and racial bias, poverty, and specific gender-responsive needs of women in the justice system.

The purpose of this questionnaire is to learn about what current trainings, outreach, technical assistance services to sites, materials, and documents exist as well as what types of training, outreach, technical assistance services, materials, and documents would be most helpful to you, your staff or agency, and to the system responders in your community. All responses to this questionnaire will be kept confidential and used solely for development of training and technical assistance for the purposes of Project SAFE. However, if you’d like to identify yourself for follow up, you can do so by answering the designated identification questions.
 
This project is supported by grant number 2016-TA-AX-K022 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this questionnaire are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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* 1. Please indicate all of the following ethno-racial groups that your agency serves. Select all that apply.

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* 2. If you selected Black and/or African-American in question number 1, please indicate all of the following ethno-nationality groups that your agency serves. Select all that apply.

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* 3. If you selected Black and/or African-American in question number 1, please indicate all of the following age groups that your agency serves. Select all that apply.

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* 4. With respect to ethno-racial identity, does your agency's staff reflect the population you serve?

Please note that “cisgender woman” refers to women who were assigned “female” at birth and identify as women and “transgender woman” refers to women who were assigned “male” at birth and identify as women. For the purposes of this questionnaire, “queer” refers to any gender identity or sexual orientation not otherwise described as “heterosexual” and/or “cisgender”.

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* 5. Does your agency serve cisgender women?

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* 6. Does your agency serve transgender women, queer/gender non-binary persons, and/or cisgender women of color?

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* 7. Does your agency serve lesbian, bisexual, and/or queer women/gender-non binary persons?

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* 8. With respect to gender identity, does your agency’s staff reflect the population you serve?

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* 9. Does your agency or your agency’s grantees provide services to Black/African-American women with a history of arrest?

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* 10. If your agency serves Black/African-American women with a history of arrest, please indicate all of the following charges that the Black/African-American women you serve have had. Select all that apply.

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* 11. Does your agency serve Black/African-American women who have a history of incarceration?

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* 12. Does your agency provide re-entry support?

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* 13. If your agency provides re-entry support, is this support available to families?

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* 14. Does your agency receive OVW funding? If so, please select all that apply.

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