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The Institute for Coordinated Community Response (ICCR) is a free, year-long training and technical assistance program that is available to teams of three from rural Texas counties—made up of a law enforcement officer, a prosecutor, and a community advocate—from rural Texas counties who are motivated to improve their systemic response to domestic violence.
Throughout the year, teams will work together to identify gaps and strengths in their current systemic response to domestic violence, make recommendations for changes, and lay the foundation for a sustainable Coordinated Community Response (CCR) that will continually work to increase justice for victims and hold offenders accountable.
The training year begins and ends at the Conference on Crimes Against Women and includes 12 months of:
More than 1 in 3 Texas women will experience abuse from an intimate partner in her lifetime.
Domestic violence takes a staggering toll on our state.
Coordinated Community Responses (CCRs) have been recognized as a best practice in reducing domestic violence since the Violence Against Women Act was enacted over 20 years ago, but many communities continue to struggle with implementing and sustaining this approach. Competing agency missions, turnover, lack of training funds, and increases in requests for services are barriers to effective CCRs in every community, but they are exacerbated in rural areas that have far fewer resources than their urban counterparts.

There is an alarming lack of services available in rural Texas communities, and many victims are falling through the cracks of their community’s criminal, legal, and advocacy response.
Since May 2018:
33
Virtual and in-person
trainings provided
500
Practitioners reached
across Texas
4
Survivor focus
groups hosted
21
Advocates
14
Law enforcement officers
12
Prosecutors
13
Rural Texas counties