Conducting Trauma-Informed Investigations for Sexual Misconduct Cases

Last updated August 6, 2018

Course Length

52m

Last Updated

August 6, 2018

Conducting Trauma-Informed Investigations for Sexual Misconduct Cases

Last updated August 6, 2018

Overview

A trauma-informed investigation takes into account different conditions such as shock, denial, memory loss, or withdrawal that may interfere with the interviewee’s ability to clearly articulate their experience. Investigators are missing the opportunity to solicit the most objective version of a reporting party’s story if they do not consider developing a fact-finding strategy that is also trauma-informed.

Join us online to learn how to create a safe space for all parties in the high stakes of a trauma case.  Creating this environment through carefully chosen words and actions will help you elicit better responses that lead to more productive investigations.

Who should attend?

If you have a role in sexual misconduct or trauma cases on campus, you will benefit from this webcast.

Agenda

During this webcast, we’ll offer specific language / verbiage suggestions to help you build rapport and ask better questions during trauma-informed investigations.

We’ll also offer research-based suggestions of how you can close gaps in your cases in ways that build trust and account for the particular neurobiology of trauma.