Staff

Stanley Pryor has more than 39 years of experience in providing training and technical assistance to federal, state, and local governments; and to community-based organizations and advocacy groups in program development, needs assessment, community partnerships and planning. His faculty appointments include the Georgetown University, School of Medicine (Research Associate) and the Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Social Work (Assistant Professor). Since 1976 he has worked in the human services field with vulnerable populations including crime victims, people with disabilities, American Indian/Alaska Native groups, and young children. As a senior program manager for ICF International, he served as project director for the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC) contract, managing the delivery of technical assistance and training to federal, state, local and tribal victim service providers and allied professionals across the Nation. Throughout his career Mr. Pryor has gained expertise in designing, developing and implementing adult learning training and technical assistance initiatives for the federal government (Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services), universities (e.g., Georgetown University, Virginia Commonwealth University), and state and local faith-based and community organizations. He managed the development of numerous training curricula and materials and Technical Assistance toolkits, including Strategic Planning Tool Kit for Victim Service Organizations, Victim Notification and Safety in Relation to Offender Reentry, The Essential Elements of State Child Care Administration, and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect of Disabled Preschoolers.

As Project Director for OVC TTAC, his responsibilities included project management, coordination with OVC senior management, budget development, and coordination and delivery of training and technical assistance (TTA) to the field of victim services. He was the principle presenter for OVC at national conferences related to OVC TTAC, facilitated OVC national symposiums, the Victims of Crime Act Administrators and Tribal Victim Assistance working group, and the DOJ OVC/ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) federal working group on Anti-Trafficking task forces. He developed the training and technical assistance contractual system for OVC TTAC. This work included developing the infrastructure and written guidelines for the OVC technical assistance response to requests from both federal and non-profit agencies, the review and approval policies and procedures for the OVC scholarship, conference support and conduct guidelines for all OVC consultants. Additionally, he was a strategic OVC partner in the design and implementation the OVC training strategy; developing Technical Assistance blurbs for the OVC annual Report to Congress, and the re-design of the OVC National Victim Assistance Academy. Most recently he managed and facilitated a six month series of meetings for the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), bringing more the 16 Federal agencies together as a working group to determine the technical assistance and training needs of the 42 BJA funded Anti-Human Trafficking task forces. He managed the development of the final report to the General Accounting Office on the working group which provides the framework for future training and technical assistance to the task forces.

Chris Harper is an enrolled member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, served as a Tribal Law Enforcement Officer for nearly 25 years. During that time, he secured Law Enforcement Certification through both Arizona State and the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. In the course of his duties, Mr.Harperworkeddiligentlytobuildrelationshipswithvictimservicesprovidersthroughouttheregionand,as a result, identified the need for Tribal Codes addressing victimization issues. Mr. Harper assisted in developing Tribal Domestic Violence Codes, emergency response plans, and served as part of the Tribal response team for critical incidents. Mr. Harper worked for the Colorado River Regional Crisis Services Administration as the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Law Enforcement Liaison and Legal Advocate.

His experience includes but is not limited to developing a county-wide protocol for law enforcement response to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking. He serves as a member of the Arizona Governor’s Office Youth, Faith, and Family Coalition to End Sex Trafficking. and is a subject matter expert on human trafficking in Arizona.  

Mr. Harper also serves as a subject matter expert trainer for Unified Solutions providing Tribal-specific training to improve partnership development between Tribal victim services and Tribal law enforcement agencies. His training receives consistently high ratings from participants, with many specifically citing the importance of his depth of knowledge, experience, and relatable training style.

Rachel Lane’s background includes women’s studies, family relationships, general and child psychology, finance, customer service, data collection, and program reporting. Rachel brings over nine years of experience working in a detail-oriented corporate environment and was an asset to her team in bridging the gaps between superior customer service and internal data requirements.

Since joining Unified in 2018, Rachel has excelled in optimizing and elevating Unified’s data collection process in accordance with federal grant requirements. Her dedication and service to Tribal grantees is transparent as she works in support of Unified’s mission and initiative to provide dedicated, culturally specific Training and Technical Assistance to grantees and clients awarded federal Tribal victim service funding. Rachel also works closely with Unified’s federal partners the International Association Chiefs of Police (IACP) with their Law Enforcement Victim Services (LEV) Tribal grantees and the National Mass Violence Victim Resource Center researching and compiling valuable resources that are specific to Native American communities.