Common Acronyms

Acronym and Description

ACF – Administration for Children & Families

ARPA – American Rescue Plan Act

ATIXA – Assoc. of Title IX Administrators

BIPOC – Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

CAC – Child Advocacy Center

COC – Communities of Color

CSA – Campus Sexual Assault

CSA – Child Sexual Abuse

CSSAC – Culturally Specific Sexual Assault Center

DMST – Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

DNA – Deoxyribonucleic Acid-related to forensic exam testing

DV – Domestic Violence

DVAM – Domestic Violence Awareness Month

DVRN – Domestic Violence Resource Network

EC – Emergency Contraception

EEOC – Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

FVPSA – Family Violence Prevention and Services Act

GSM – Gender and Sexual Minorities

HBCU – Historically Black Colleges and Universities

HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act

HT – Human Trafficking

ICJR – Improving Criminal Justice Response (VAWA grant)

IPV – Intimate Partner Violence

LAV – Legal Assistance for Victim

LE – Law Enforcement

LEG – Legislative

LGBTQ – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning

NAESV – National Alliance to End Sexual Violence

NIJ – National Institute of Justice

NSVRC – National Sexual Violence Resource Center

OFVPS – Office of Family Violence Prevention & Services

OVC – Office for Victims of Crime

OVW – Office on Violence Against Women

PHHSBG – Preventive Health & Health Services Block Grant

POC – People of Color

PREA – Prison Rape Elimination Act

QTPOC – Queer and/or Trans People of Color

RCC – Rape Crisis Center

RPE – Rape Prevention Education

RSP – Resource Sharing Project

SA – Sexual Assault

SAAM – Sexual Assault Awareness Month

SACBC – Sexual Assault Capacity Building Center

SAFE – Sexual Assault Forensic Exam

SANE – Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner

SART – Sexual Assault Response Team

SASP – Sexual Assault Services Program (OVW grant program)

SOGI – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

STOP – Services Training Officers Prosecutors Grant (OVW grant program)

SV – Sexual Violence

TA – Technical Assistance

TTA – Training and Technical Assistance

UCR – Uniform Crime Report

VAWA – Violence Against Women Act

VOCA – Victims of Crime Act

WOC – Women of Color

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