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The following links provide education and training opportunities,  resources, referrals and other support and information about relationship and sexual violence and stalking prevention in Indian Country. ReSPONSE has additional resource and reference materials in its library and files. Staff members are available to provide completely confidential support and discussion, and to give presentations about these issues to campus groups.

  • http://btc.montana.edu/scc/SCCDAP1.htm: Stone Child College's Domestic Abuse Program is a new service provider on Rocky Boy's Reservation. The program is a grant partner with ReSPONSE. This website gives lots of good information about domestic violence in Indian Country, especially for Native people in the North Central Montana area. 
  • http://www.tribal-institute.org: The Tribal Law and Policy Institute is a Native American owned and operated non-profit corporation organized to design and deliver education, research, training, and technical assistance programs which promote the enhancement of justice in Indian country and the health, well-being, and culture of Native peoples.
  • http://swclap.org: The Southwest Center for Law and Policy provides legal education, training, and technical assistance on domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, child abuse, abuse of persons with disabilities, and stalking to tribal communities and to the agencies and professionals serving them.
  • http://www.msh-ta.org: Mending the Sacred Hoop-Technical Assistance is a Native American program that provides training and technical assistance to our American Indian and Alaskan Native relations in the effort to eliminate violence in the lives of women and their children. We work with villages, reservations, rancherias and pueblos across the United States to improve the justice system, law enforcement, and service provider response to the issues of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in Native communities.
  • Promising Practices in Indian Country: This downloadable publication describes promising practices for meeting the needs of victims of violence and domestic and family abuse in Indian Country. Each of the 12 program summaries includes a description of the program's activities, keys to its success, basic demographic data (e.g., service area and population), and contact information. The monograph is produced by The Office for Victims of Crime of the US Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs.
  • Programs to educate and provide shelter in domestic and sexual violence on reservations in Montana include

    • Native Indian Crisis Association, Browning 

    • Fort Belknap Domestic Abuse Board, Harlem

    • Fort Peck Tribes Crisis Center, Wolf Point