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Safety Planning Brochure

This Safety Planning Brochure on Non-Fatal Strangulation is a tool to help victims of non-fatal strangulation put together a safety plan. Read More

International Association of Chiefs of Police – 2014 Resolution on Strangulation Lethality

2014 resolution by the International Association of Chiefs of Police increasing the awareness of the lethality of intimate partner strangulation crimes. keywords: IACP, International Association of Chiefs of Police, resolution, strangulation lethality Read More

Hope-Centered Intake: How to Put the Science of Hope into Practice

Alliance for HOPE International President Casey Gwinn and Program Manager (OVC Technology Initiative) Sarah Pike, discussed how the science of hope can be incorporated into daily intake and case management processes at Family Justice/Multi-Agency Centers and other co-located service models.... Read More

What Judges and Court Staff Need to Know About Strangulation

Casey Gwinn, J.D., Gael Strack, J.D., Judge Lee Chitwood andJim Henderson, MSW will share new resource tools, emerging sentencing statutes, case law, and court considerations in handling strangulation cases. Casey Gwinn and Gael Strack will discuss... Read More

Strangulation Suffocation Supplemental Investigative Worksheet

  Our new strangulation worksheet is available for free to all law enforcement agencies to use for the handling of strangulation cases across the United States. It was designed by the Legal Committee for the Institute and peer reviewed by our national... Read More