Material Listing

WEBINAR: When the Work Hurts: Managing the Impacts of Moral Injury and Career Sustainability in Mission-Driven Work

This webinar takes a deep dive into the key concepts of moral distress and moral injury, with a focus on what it is and how it can show up in mission-driven environments. The presenter offers strategies on how to navigate the hard, the ugly, and the painful as well as naming your personal signs that it is time to leave the work.

As a leader in the anti-violence field, how can I build my capacity to navigate a major crisis impacting my organization, staff, and the survivors that we serve?

What should leaders keep in mind as they find themselves leading an organization during a turbulent time? There are no easy and perfect answers to these questions. In this Technical Assistance Question (TAQ), NRCDV's Patty Branco offers some musings for leaders in the anti-violence field.

How can advocates maintain hope during tough times?

This Technical Assistance Question (TAQ) offers strategies for cultivating hope when things feel challenging in our work to address and prevent domestic and sexual violence.

How can advocates follow the lead of child survivors of domestic violence towards peace, equity, and wholeness?

This Technical Assistance Question (TAQ), excerpted from the newly released book The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A mixtape for practice, policy, and research, offers recommendations for best practice centered on the 6 core beliefs of the ACE-DV Leadership Forum, reflecting the shared perspectives that emerged from the common experiences of adult children exposed to domestic violence in childhood.

ARP Series: What do advocates need to know about the connections between missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW), gender-based violence, and COVID-19?

This Technical Assistance Question (TAQ) explores the prevalence of gender-based violence among Native women, COVID-19's impact on the Indigenous population, and how they connect to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit movement.

ARP Series: What does my organization need to know about destigmatizing trauma?

This Technical Assistance Question (TAQ) explores the stigma around trauma despite its commonality, and centers dignity and humanity as the pathway to changing this narrative for both advocates and survivors.

How can I center healing justice for survivors in my DVAM efforts?

This Technical Assistance Question explores the theme for Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2024: Heal, Hold & Center. This theme is all about building connection to foster healing and racial justice for survivors. As beloved ancestor bell hooks reminds us, “Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”

What is faith-based prevention and why does spirituality matter in our work to prevent gender-based violence?

This Technical Assistance Question (TAQ) explores how spiritual health is connected to preventing gender-based violence, offering models of faith-based leadership for social change through love and introducing the role of spiritual activism in our work.

How can domestic and sexual violence organizations best respond to essential health care needs of survivors?

Abortion is essential health care. In this Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), Ondine Quinn, Senior Director of Programs at Provide, Inc., discusses who are the most impacted by abortion bans and restrictions and how people are being criminalized for abortions

How can I use storytelling as a tool for raising awareness and inspiring action for social transformation?

Listening to the accounts of survivors and advocates can be a powerful way for all of us to stand with others in their pain and healing, struggles and triumphs. This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) discusses how the telling and hearing of advocates’ and survivors’ stories play a critical role in promoting cultural transformation and propelling social change.