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This includes your credit report, credit applications and how to manage your debts. Advocates may find this short piece helpful for a basic understanding of credit counseling services.

Prohibiting creditor practices that discriminate on the basis of sex and marital status.

This guide provides financial tips. Topics include monitoring your credit, changing your ATM information and provides information about accounts that should be monitored or changed including utilities and wireless accounts. Advocates will find this one-stop guide helpful for its breadth of coverage of issues related to financial issues.

After developing and piloting the survey tool in May 2006, NNEDV conducted its first national Census on November 2, 2006. The results are highlighted in this report.

'Consensus is different from other kinds of decision making because it stresses cooperative development of a decision with group members working together rather than competing against each other. The goal of consensus is a decision that is consented to by all group members. Of course, full consent does not mean that everyone must be completely satisfied with the final outcome, in fact total satisfaction is rare.

This article discusses the two main types of board conflicts (conflict among board members and conflict between board and executive or staff) and provides guidelines on how to handle the conflict situations.

This brief fact sheet describes the characteristics of conflict and provides a list of ideas for resolving a conflict situation.

This toolkit teaches twelve skills necessary for effective communication: The Win/Win Approach, The Creative Response, Empathy, Appropriate Assertiveness, Co-operative Power, Managing Emotions, Willingness to Resolve, Mapping the Conflict, and more.

This website provides information about Housing and DV. Topics include help with permanent housing and the Homelessness Act of 2002.

This report is the analysis of surveys conducted among homeless women and low-income domestic violence survivors.

This article discusses how you can use civil rights legislation to prevent homelessness in the case of domestic violence.

These papers address ways in which recourses can be used to help children and families affected by domestic violence.

This piece addresses common confidentiality questions about several U.S. federal laws that may impact survivors. It highlights key confidentiality and privacy provisions in the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act and the 2010 reauthorization of the Family Violent Prevention Services Act.

This fact sheet describes changes to the VAWA Act and lays out new provisions in the Act.

This fact sheet lays out the problems DV survivors face and how Housing laws including VAWA can help and protect them.This guide discusses survivors' rights in reference to housing. It includes rules and regulations passed to protect victims of domestic violence.

This Q&A fact sheet gives information about VAWA of 2005 and how it can help survivors of domestic violence.

Discusses the McKinney-Vento legislation including who is covered under the act and how it affects homeless children.

This website provides resources and contact information for shelters and other DV resources.

This document provides facts and tips about accessing unemployment insurance in the context of domestic violence and answers some frequently asked questions.

This document provides Q&A explaining unemployment benefits, discussing eligibility in circumstances involving domestic violence, and describing the application process for benefits.

This websites provides data on the minimum wage in every state in the US.

This is the congressional act that provides for equal pay for women in the workplace.

This guide is divided into two main sections. The first section outlines existing laws. The second section outlines proposed legislation on this topic. Each of these sections is further divided into those laws or bills specific to domestic violence and those laws or bills that relate to crime victims more generally.

It includes information about unemployment insurance benefits, right to time off and harassment free work environment. This document can be a useful tool for both advocates and survivors to get a basic overview of their rights at work.

The article discusses states in which the caseload for TANF assistance has decreased. Further, it discovers the different reasons why it has decreased and the potential connection to survivors of domestic violence.