Serving K-12 Student Survivors

Initial Meeting Checklist for Minor Survivor/Clients and their Caregivers/Guardians

Issued 2024

This checklist supports attorneys and advocates in having initial conversations with children and teens who are survivors of dating/domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking (DVSAS) and their caregivers/guardians.

Also available in Spanish.

Safety Planning Guide for Middle and High School Student Survivors

Issued 2024

This safety planning guide focuses on the needs of survivors of dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (DVSAS) who are in middle school and high school.

Also available in Spanish.

State-Specific Exclusionary School Discipline Laws

Issued 2025

These FAQs provide legal advocates and civil attorneys with a starting point for researching jurisdiction-specific school discipline laws that impact K-12 students who have been sexually assaulted by another student.

State-Specific Minors’ Privacy FAQs

Issued 2020

These FAQs provide jurisdiction-specific guidance for answering the many privacy questions that arise when victim service providers help children and teens who are survivors of sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, stalking, and sex trafficking.

Plain Language Retainer

Issued 2025

Standard legal retainers are often full of terminology that can be challenging for clients to fully understand. This alternative uses a simple layout, clear language, and helpful graphics to help minors, people with disabilities, and/or individuals who have recently experienced trauma to better understand and refer back to the services their lawyer can and cannot provide.

Also available in Spanish.

Plain Language ROI

Issued 2020

This VAWA-compliant Release of Information template uses a simple structure and straightforward language to help survivors understand what information they are authorizing their advocate or attorney to share, with whom, and for what purpose.

Find additional guides, tools, and FAQs in VRLC Resource Library!

Beyond Title IX Webinar Series

Following an incident of sexual assault or dating violence, young survivors often struggle at school – academically, socially, and behaviorally. Title IX supportive measures, while helpful for immediate relief, may not provide the long-term and intensive support many struggling survivors need at school. This 3-part webinar miniseries for civil attorneys and legal advocates explores the disability-based services and protections that may be available to survivors in K-12 schools.

Serving K-12 Survivors Webinars

Legal Options in K-12 Educational Settings for Youth Survivors of DVSAS

Recorded May 2024

This webinar for civil attorneys and legal advocates explores the legal options available to survivors of sexual assault and dating violence in elementary school, middle school, and high school settings.

Defining Teen Dating Violence

Recorded September 2024

This webinar explores the impact of dating violence on the intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of teens – equipping legal advocates and civil attorneys with knowledge, skills, and tools to recognize and respond to dating violence among teens within their communities.

Know More, Do More: Recognizing and Responding to Adolescent Stalking

Recorded September 2024

Stalking is a criminal, traumatic, and dangerous victimization that impacts people of all ages, and research suggests that adolescents experience even higher rates of stalking victimization than adults do.

Check out our webinar archive for more content!

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