Specialized domestic violence courts can be an effective tool to enhance victim safety and offender accountability. To help achieve these goals, domestic violence courts work to strengthen relationships with stakeholder agencies, create protocols for information sharing, and ensure offender compliance with mandates. Traditionally, judges and other court staff often took a reactive position in these cases—waiting to hear from attorneys, probation, or other programs and rarely interacting with victim service providers. While many domestic violence courts have been successful without additional staff, a court-based case coordinator allows the court to act proactively and collaboratively, to gather information, and to make the best decisions possible. This fact sheet outlines five key roles of the case/resource coordinator position in domestic violence courts.