- CAC – Child Advocacy Center
- CADV – WV Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- CEU – continuing education unit
- CDC – Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta; coordinates RPE grants
- DHHR – WV Department of Health and Human Resources
- DCR – WV Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
- DOJ – US Department of Justice
- DV – domestic violence
- FRIS – WV Foundation for Rape Information and Services
- GAR – Grant Adjustment Request – how rape crisis centers request budget modifications.
- IPV – interpersonal violence; broader term for domestic violence
- JCS- (formerly DJCS)- West Virginia Division of Administrative Services, Justice and Community Services; funds state VAWA and SASP programs
- Key Players in Rape/Sexual Violence Prevention – state planning committee for RPE
- LGBTIQQ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Inquiring, Queer and Questioning
- MUFSC – Marshall University Forensic Science Center; site where non-report sex crimes kits are sent; host through the med school of FRIS website
- NNEDV - National Network to End Domestic Violence (sponsors SafetyNet project)
- NSVRC – National Sexual Violence Resource Center; the national technical assistance provider on sexual violence
- NWVCIL- Northern West Virginia Center for Independent Living
- OVC – Office for Victims of Crime, in the DOJ
- OVW – Office on Violence Against Women, in the DOJ
- RAN – Rural Advocate Network under FRIS’ rural grant
- RCC – rape crisis center
- RCPI – Regional Community Policing Institute
- RPE – Rape Prevention Education; federal grants to each state for prevention; in WV RPE funds flow through DHHR then to FRIS then to rcc’s
- RSP – Resource Sharing Project; the collaboration of state sexual assault coalitions
- SA – sexual assault
- SAAM – Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April)
- SAC – Statistical Analysis Center, part of DCJS
- SAFE Commission – Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Commission; statutorily created state-level commission established to address SANE trainings, forensic exams and county responses
- SAKI – Sexual Assault Kit Initiative
- SANE – Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner
- SART – Sexual Assault Response Team
- SASP – federal Sexual Assault Services Program; OVW funds for sexual assault direct services
- SOW- statement of work
- STOP – (Services.Training.Officers.Prosecutors) – federal OVW funds that are distributed directly to coalitions as well as funds to states to distribute
- SV – sexual violence
- TA – technical assistance
- ToT – Training of Trainers
- VAWA – federal Violence Against Women Act
- WVPAI – WV Prosecuting Attorneys Institute; administers Forensic Exam Fund
- WVSARTT – WV Sexual Assault Response Technical Team; planning team under FRIS’ Arrest/ICJR grant
