LAW ENFORCEMENT SPECIALIZED UNIT PROGRAM

FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017

PROGRESS REPORT

CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT & VICTIM SERVICES DIVISION

3650 SCHRIEVER AVENUE, MATHER, CA, 95655-4203

Following the instructions, please provide the information as indicated.

SUBMIT ONE (1) SIGNED COPY OF THE REPORT VIA EMAIL ATTENTION:

Project Title and District: / Grant Award #:
Recipient: / Grant Period: January 1, 2017–December 31, 2017
Address: / Report Period:
Report Prepared By: / Title:
(Relationship to Project)
E-Mail Address: / Telephone:

PROGRESS REPORT

1STReport (6 Month):Due July 31, 2017Narrative/Statistical report covering activities for

1/01/17 – 6/30/17

2NDReport (Final):DueJanuary 31, 2017 Narrative/Statistical report covering activities for

7/01/17 – 12/31/17

BUDGET

1. / Total grant award and match: / $
2. / Total funds expended and reported to date: / $
3. / Items encumbered but not yet reported: / $
4. / Total grant balance: / $
5. / Report of expenditures submitted through (month/year)

YES NOAre grant funds being expended in accordance with the Grant Award Agreement? If no, explain in the narrative section of this report.

YES NOHasthe project added any line items to the budget during this report period?

If yes, describe each line item added and the relationship to the grant award objectives in the narrative section of this report.

FOR Cal OES USE ONLY

Report accepted as submitted.

Report NOT accepted as submitted.

See attached comments.

Report reviewed by: ______

Program SpecialistDate

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Revised 11/2016

LAW ENFORCEMENT SPECIALIZED UNIT PROGRAM

FISCAL YEAR 2016–2017

PROGRESS REPORT

SECTION I. CAL OES REQUIRED INFORMATION

PERSONNEL – Refer to Cal OES Recipient Handbook Section 2100 et seq.

POSITIONS AUTHORIZED IN GRANT AWARD AGREEMENT (Refer to Approved Grant Application)

Name of Individual

/ Position / Duties / % Grant Funded
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YES NO Have project personnel been hired in a timely manner?

If NO, please explain below.

YES NO Have any of the job duties, as detailed in the Grant Award Agreement changed?

If YES, please explain below.

YES NO Are there any personnel issues which may affect the project objectives and activities? If YES, please explain below.

YES NO Does the project need Cal OES staff to provide technical assistance? If YES, explain below.

INSTRUCTIONS: For Sections II and III below, regarding data, PLEASE REPORT ALL DATA RELATED TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SPECIALIZED UNITS (LE) PROGRAM, REGARDLESS OF THE AMOUNT OF VAWA FUNDING ALLOCATED TO YOUR INVESTIGATOR AND ADVOCATE(S) (i.e., if your investigator is only 50 percent VAWA funded and 50 percent general funded, and he/she has 30 LE-related investigations, please report all 30 LE-related investigations and NOT 15 investigations). Cal OES wants you to report ALL investigations, victims and services provided under the LE Program. If you have any questions, please contact your program specialist.
And, finally, all data must be supported by source documentation that is retained by the recipient and made available to Cal OES upon request.

SECTION II: PROGRAMMATIC OBJECTIVES

Report statistical data for the programmatic objectives listed below. The projected numbers must match what was submitted in the original Grant Award Application or any subsequent Grant Award Modifications.

Objectives / Jan 1 – Mar 31 / Apr 1 – Jun 30 / Jul 1 – Sep 30 / Oct 1 – Dec 31 / Total
1. / a. / Number of victims provided immediate response crisis intervention services in personby a DV advocate.
b. / Number of victims provided immediate response crisis intervention services by a DV advocate by telephone.
2. / a. / Number of requests made by law enforcement officers for immediate response by a DV advocate.
b. / Number of times a DV advocate provided an immediate response due to a request from a law enforcement officer.
3. / a. / Number of training events provided to relevant law enforcement personnel
b. / Number of relevant law enforcement personnel trained

SECTION III: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT (VAWA) REQUIRED INFORMATION

The LE Program is supported with federal VAWA funds. The following information must be submitted to

Cal OES on this form semi-annually and annually on the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against WomenAnnual Progress Report form.

  1. GENERAL GRANT INFORMATION

What percentage of your grant funds were directed to each of these areas?

January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31
Sexual Assault / % / %
Domestic Violence / % / %
Stalking / % / %
Total / 100% / 100%
  1. STAFF INFORMATION

Report the total number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff funded by this grant.

January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31
Law Enforcement Officer
Victim Advocate
Total
  1. TRAINING
  1. Training provided with grant funds – Report the total number of training events provided during the current reporting period that were either provided by STOP Program-funded staff or directly supported by STOP Program funds. Do not include training provided to STOP Program funded staff.

Number of Training Events Provided
January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31 / Total

Number of people trained – Report the number of people trained during the current reporting period by STOP Program-funded staff or training event. STOP Program staff who attended these trainings should not be counted as people trained. Use the category that is most descriptive of the people attending the training event.

PEOPLE TRAINED / Number
Jan 1– Jun 30 / July 1 – Dec 31 / Total
Advocacy organization staff (NAACP, AARP)
Attorneys/law students (does not include prosecutors)
Batterer Intervention Program staff
Correction personnel (probation, parole, and correctional facilities staff)
Court personnel (judges clerks)
Disability organization staff (non-governmental)
Educators (teachers, administrators, etc.)
Elder organization staff (non-governmental)
Fair-based organization staff
Government agency staff (vocational rehabilitation, food stamps, TANF)
Health professionals (doctors, nurses – does not include SANEs or SAFEs)
Immigrant organization staff (non-governmental)
Law enforcement officers
Legal services staff (does not include attorneys)
Mental health professionals
Multidisciplinary (various disciplines at the same training)
Prosecutors
Sex offender treatment providers
Sexual assault nurse examiners/ sexual assault forensic examiners
Social service organization staff (non-governmental – food bank, homeless shelter)
Substance abuse organization staff
Supervised visitation and exchange center staff
Translators/Interpreters
Tribal government/ Tribal government agency staff
Victim advocates (non-governmental, includes sexualassault, domestic violence, and dual)
Victim Assistances (governmental, includes victim-witness specialists/ coordinators)
Volunteers
Other (specify):
Total

Training Content Areas – Indicate all topics covered in training events provided by your grant funds during the current report period. Check all that apply.

Report Period: Jan 1 – Jun 30 Jul 1 – Dec 31

Sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking / Underserved populations
Advocate response / Issues specific to victims/survivors who:
Child witnesses / are American Indian or Alaska native
Confidentiality / are Asian
Dating violence overview, dynamics and services / are black or African American
Domestic violence overview, dynamics and services / are elderly
Mandatory reporting requirements / are Hispanic or Latino
Response to victims/survivors who have been trafficked / are homeless or living in poverty
Response to victims/ survivors who are incarcerated / are immigrants, refugees, or asylum seekers
Safety planning for victims/survivors / are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex
Sexual assault overview, dynamics and services / are Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
Stalking overview, dynamics and services / have disabilities
Supervised visitation and exchange / have limited English proficiency
Other (specify): ______/ have mental health issues
have substance abuse issues
Justice system / live in rural areas
Civil court procedures / have mental health
Criminal court procedures / Other (specify): ______
Domestic violence statutes/codes
Firearms and domestic violence
Identification and arrest of predominant aggressor / Community Response
Immigration / Community response to sexual assault
Judicial response / Coordinated community response
Law enforcement response / Response teams (DART, DVRT, SART)
Pro-arrest policies / Technology
Probation response / Other ______
Prosecution response
Protection orders (including full faith and credit)
Sexual assault statutes/codes
Sexual assault forensic examination
Stalking statutes/codes
Tribal Jurisdiction and Public Law 280 Other (specify):
Other (specify) ______
  1. COORDINATED COMMUNITY RESPONSE

Check the appropriate boxes to indicate the agencies or organizations that you provided victim/survivor referrals to, received victim/survivor referrals from, engaged in consultation with, provided technical assistance to, and/or attended meetings with, during the current reporting period, according to the usual frequency of the interactions. If the interactions were not part of a regular schedule, you will need to estimate the frequency with which these interactions occurred during the current reporting period.

AGENCY/
ORGANIZATION / VICTIM/SURVIVOR REFERRALS, CONSULTATIONS, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE / MEETINGS
Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly
Advocacy organization (NAACP, NAMI)
Batterer intervention program
Corrections (probation, parole, and correctional facility staff)
Court
Domestic violence organization
Educational institutions/ organizations
Faith-based organization
Governmental agency (SSA, TANF)
Health/ mental health organization
Law enforcement
Legal organization (legal services, bar association, law school)
Prosecutor’s office
Sex offender management./sex offender treatment provider
Sexual assault organization
Social service organization (non-governmental)
Tribal government/Tribal government agency
Other
  1. VICTIM SERVICE INFORMATION

The LE Program requires projects to fund a victim service advocate and to provide service to victims; therefore, this section must be completed by all grant recipients.

  1. Number of primary victims/survivors served, partially served, and victims/survivors seeking services who were not served – Please do not answer this question without referring to the separate instructions for further explanation and examples of how to distinguish amount these categories.

Report the following, to the best of your ability, as an unduplicated count for each category. This means that each victim/survivor who was seeking or who received services should be counted only once in that report period. For purposed of this question, victims/survivors are those against whom the sexual assault was directed. If the victim/survivor experienced more than one victimization, that person should be counted only once under the primary victimization. DO NOT RECORD SECONDARY VICTIMS HERE.

Primary Victims/Survivors / January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31 / Total
Served: Victims/survivors who received the service(s) they requested, if those services were funded by your STOP Program subgrant.
Partially Served: Victims/survivors who received some service(s), but not all of the services they requested, if those services were funded by your STOP Program subgrant.
TOTAL SERVED and PARTIALLY SERVED (25A + 25B)
Victims/survivors seeking services who were not served: Victims/survivors who sought services and did not receive service(s) they were seeking, if those services were funded by your grant.
  1. Number of Secondary Victims Served – Please do not answer this question without referring to the separate instructions for further explanation and examples of how to distinguish amount these categories(Report the following, to the best of your ability, as an unduplicated count for each category during the current report period. This means that each secondary victim who received services during the current reporting period should be counted only once and in only one or the listed categories, which should correspond to the category of victimization of the primary victim/survivor. For purposed of this question, secondary victims are those who are indirectly affected by the domestic violence/dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking – i.e., children, sibling, spouses or intimate partners, grandparents, other affected relatives, friends, neighbors, etc.).

Secondary Victims / January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31 / Total
Secondary Victims Who Received Service(s) Funded by the Grant
  1. Reasons that primary victims/survivors seeking services were not served or were partially served (Check all that apply.)

Reasons not served or partially served
Conflict of interest
Did not meet statutory requirements
Hours of operation
Insufficient/lack of culturally appropriate services
Inadequate language capacity (including sign language)
Insufficient/lack of services for people with disabilities
Lack of child care
Program reached capacity
Program rules not acceptable to victim/survivor
Program unable to provide service due to limited resources/priority setting
Services inappropriate or inadequate for victims/survivors with mental health problems
Services inappropriate or inadequate for victim/survivor with substance abuse issues
Services not appropriate for victim/survivor
Services not available for victims/survivors accompanied by male adolescents
Transportation
Other (specify)
  1. Demographics of primary victims/survivors served or partially served – Based on the victims/survivors reported in E1, report the numbers for all that apply. Because victims/survivors may identify as more than one category of race/ethnicity, the total for “Race/Ethnicity” may exceed the totals number of victims/survivors reported in E1. However, the total number of victims/survivors reported under “Race/Ethnicity” should not be less than the total number of victims/survivors reported in E1. The total number of victims/survivors reported under “Gender” and “Age” should equal the total number of victims/survivors reported in E1. Those victims/survivors for whom gender, age, and/or race/ethnicity are not known should be reported in the “unknown” category. DO NOT REPORT DEMOGRAPHICS FOR SECONDARY VICTIMS.

Race/Ethnicity (Victims/survivors should not be counted more than once in either the category “American Indian and Alaska Native: or the category Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander.”) / Number of Victims/Survivors
January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31 / Total
American Indian and Alaska Native
Asian
Black of African American
Hispanic or Latino
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander
White
Unknown
Total Race/Ethnicity (should not be less than the sum of victims “served” and “partially served” from number 1)
Gender
Female
Male
Unknown
Total (should equal the total of victims/survivors “served” and “partially served” from number 1)
Age
0-12
13-17
18-24
25-59
60+
Unknown
Total (should equal the total of victims/survivors “served” and “partially served” from number 1)
Other Demographics
People with disabilities
People with limited English proficiency
People who are immigrants/refugees/asylum seekers
People who live in rural areas
  1. Victims/Survivors’ Relationship to Offender – For those victims/survivors reported in E1, report the relationship of the victim/survivor to the offender by type of victimization. If a victim/survivor experienced more than one type of victimization and/ or was victimized by more than one perpetrator, count the victim/survivor in all categories that apply. The number of victims/survivors reported here may total more than the total listed in E1. DO NOT REPORT RELATIONSHIPS FOR SECONDARY VICTIMS.

Relationship to Offender / January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31 / Total
Current or former spouse/intimate partner
Other family or household member (in-law, sibling, grandparent, roommate, etc.)
Dating relationship
Acquaintance (friend, neighbor, co-worker, schoolmate, etc.)
Stranger
Relationship unknown
Total
  1. Victim Services – Report the number of primary victims from E1 who received grant funded services. Count each victim/survivor only once for each type of service that the victim received during the current reporting period; do not report the number of times that service was provided to the victim. The total for each type of service should not be higher than the total of victims reported. DO NOT REPORT SERVICES FOR SECONDARY VICTIMS

Type of Service / January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31 / Total
Civil legal advocacy/court accompaniment(Assisting a victim/survivor with civil legal issues, including preparing paperwork for a protection order and accompanying victim/survivor to a protection order hearing, administrative hearing, or other civil court proceeding. Does not include advocacy by attorneys and/ or paralegals.)
Civil legal assistance(Civil legal services provided by an attorney and/or a paralegal.)
Counseling services/support group(Individual or group counseling or support provided by a volunteer, peer, or professional)
Criminal justice advocacy/court accompaniment(Assisting a victim/survivor with criminal legal issues including notifying the victim/ survivor of case status, hearing dates, plea agreements, and sentencing terms; preparing paperwork such as victim impact statements; accompanying a victim/ survivor to a criminal court proceeding or law enforcement interview, and all other advocacy within the criminal justice system.)
Crisis intervention (Crisis intervention is the process by which a person identifies, assesses, and intervenes with an individual in crisis so as to restore balance and reduce the effects of crisis in his/her life. In this category, report crisis intervention that occurs in person or over the telephone.
Forensic Exam (Exam conducted by sexual assault nurse examiner or by a sexual assault forensic examiner)
Hospital response (Accompanying a victim/survivor to or meeting a victim/ survivor at the hospital, clinic, or medical office)
Language Services (Interpretation, translation)
Transportation
Victim/survivor advocacy (Actions designed to help the victim/survivor obtaining support, resources, or services including employment, housing, shelter services, health care, victim’s compensation, etc.)
Other (Specify):
  1. Victim-Witness Notification/Outreach to Victims/Survivors – Report the number of unsolicited letters, phone calls, or visits to victims/survivors of specific incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking identified in police reports or court documents, informing them of services and/or providing information about the criminal justice system. Victims/survivors who are the recipients of these notifications/outreach activities should not be reported as victims/survivors served in question E1 unless they also received at least one of the services reported in question E6.

January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31 / Total
Governmental Victim Services / Non-Governmental Victim Services / Governmental Victim Services / Non-Governmental Victim Services
Victim witness notification/outreach to victims/ survivors (unsolicited letters, phone calls, or visits)
  1. Protection Orders –Report the total number of temporary and/or final protection orders requested and granted for which your grant funded victim services staff provided assistance to victims/survivors during the current reporting period. DO NOT REPORT SERVICES FOR SECONDARY VICTIMS.

January 1 – June 30 / July 1 – December 31 / Total
Sexual Assault Protection Orders / Temporary Orders / Final Orders / Temporary Orders / Final Orders / Temporary Orders / Final Orders
Number Requested
Number Granted
Domestic Violence/ Dating Violence Protection Orders / Temporary Orders / Final Orders / Temporary Orders / Final Orders / Temporary Orders / Final Orders
Number Requested
Number Granted
Stalking Protection Orders / Temporary Orders / Final Orders / Temporary Orders / Final Orders / Temporary Orders / Final Orders
Number Requested Assault
Number Granted
  1. LAW ENFORCEMENT

Report the number of activities related to sexual assault, domestic violence/ dating violence, and/ or stalking cases/ incidents for the appropriate reporting periods. If an activity relates to a case/ incident involving more than one type of crime, the activity should be counted only once under the primary victimization