Stalking Resource Centre

The resource centre aims to serve criminal and civil justice system practitioners; community-based agencies; media representatives; stalking victims; and the general public. The centre's activities include the following components.

• Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme - aims to facilitate ongoing partnerships between experts and communities that are developing multidisciplinary responses to stalking. Staff, aided by a team of expert practitioners, are available to participate in on-site problem solving consultations. The peer-to-peer exchange programme matches experts with technical assistance requests, typically received from law enforcement, prosecutors, and community- and system-based service providers.
• Training - staff are available to participate in training events sponsored by practitioners on the local, state, and national level. Topics include could include stalking dynamics, legal remedies, multidisciplinary efforts, practitioner-specific practices, and cyberstalking.
• Information Clearinghouse - provides a range of information for practitioners. Materials include statistics, practitioner-specific educational tools, compilations of state and federal legislation and protection order statutes, case law digests of civil and criminal cases, multidisciplinary curricula, promising practices and innovative strategies model protocols, forms, and procedures.
• Practitioners' Network - to support interest in local stalking responses and to foster effective multidisciplinary work, a network of local practitioners representing diverse communities throughout the country has benn created, These local "points-of-contact" help to identify emerging issues and promising practices in the field. Members also exchange information to enhance their skills and efforts.
• Website - a continually growing resource for practitioners and victims, the Stalking Resource Center website, availablein English and Spanish, provides diverse resources, including fact sheets on federal statutes, an annotated stalking bibliography, summaries of state stalking laws, a guide to online resources, statistical overviews, practitioner profiles, and more.

The Stalking Resource Center also holds awareness raising activities such as the National Stalking Awareness Month held annually in January in which people are encouraged to distribute materials, hold events, contact media, or conduct other local activities that raise awareness about stalking. They also offer assistance for victims

Women, Rights

According to the Stalking Resource Centre stalking factsheet, "While legal definitions of stalking vary from one jurisdiction to another, a good working definition of stalking is a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear." 1,006,970 women and 370,990 men are stalked annually in the United States and 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men will be stalked in their lifetime.