Material Listing

This webinar, presented by Sarah Rieth and FaithTrust Institute, explores what advocates need to know about abuse by spiritual leaders and how to best support victims of this abuse.

This workshop from the Battered Women's Justice Project will help advocates adopt a faith-sensitive lens and best practices for supporting families who are guided by their faith.

The first in Safe Havens Supporting Victims and Survivors of Faith: A Webinar Series for Advocates series, this webinar addresses the importance of faith for some victims and ways that faith can be both a barrier and a resource.

This webinar explores and introduces the relationship the significance of faith for victims and survivors of domestic violence. Highlights include barriers victims experience, and the role faith communities can play in responding to abuse.

Stalking isn’t easy to talk about — it is sometimes considered shameful or swept under the rug, and some people may think that it certainly couldn’t happen in their community, but unfortunately, it happens in every community. Faith leaders and faith communities can learn more about stalking and how it may be affecting those you care about.

Faith communities can play a significant role in providing support for victims of domestic violence and in holding abusers accountable. This handbook provides information about the nature and dynamics of domestic violence to guide faith leaders in responding to victims and abusers within their faith communities.

This research offers data on the changing religious composition of the U.S. and describes the demographic characteristics of U.S. religious groups, including their median age, racial and ethnic makeup, nativity data, education and income levels, gender ratios, family composition, and geographic distribution.

This report is the result of six months of research between Sovereign Bodies Institute and collaborating partners that examines how rates of violence against Indigenous and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities have shifted from 2016 to 2021, and what impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had.

The Personal Plan of Action Worksheet from the Ohio Men's Action Network (OHMAN) offers key questions to challenge men to find ways to engage in courageous conversations and take action to prevent violence.

In part three of the Enhancing Services to Male Survivors Series, the presenters engage in a discussion about how to meaningfully support survivors of all genders while maintaining & strengthening a collective, feminist analysis on gender, power, and violence. / En la tercera parte de la serie Mejorando los Servicios para los Sobrevivientes que se Autoidentifican como Hombres, los presentadores participan en una discusión sobre cómo apoyar de manera significativa a los sobrevivientes de todos los géneros mientras mantienen y fortalecen un análisis feminista colectivo sobre género, poder y violencia.

The DELTA FOCUS program provided focused funding to states and communities for intensive implementation and evaluation of intimate partner violence (IPV) primary prevention strategies that address the social and structural determinants of health at the societal and community levels of the social-ecological model. This report offers an overview of Ohio's IPV prevention efforts through the DELTA FOCUS program.

In this TED Talk, speaker Joe Ehrmann unpacks the phrase "be a man," and the harmful message it sends to boys about repressing the very thing that makes us human — emotions.

A Call to Men coined the term the Man Box to illustrate the collective socialization of men. The practice of healthy manhood is the path out of the Man Box, and it is essential to preventing violence and pursuing equity in our society.

Although much research has been conducted on the embodied experience of tattoos across cultures and subcultures, there is little research which focuses directly on trans men with tattoos, and how these tattoos help shape their body image, masculinity, and identities. Therefore, the question this research aims to answer is: what role do tattoos play in the development and perception of masculinity, identity, and the self, for transgender men?

Through the author’s personal observation, literature review, and survey research, this article explores concepts and embodiments of masculinity that are manifest among transmen. 

The newest edition of Jean Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly series shows how the advertising industry reinforces and glamorizes a regressive and debased notion of femininity.

In this video, Franchesca Ramsey offers insight into how aspiring allies should respond to being called out for upholding oppression, including offering a meaningful apology and changing their behavior.

This guide from Tulane University provides a starting point to learn about anti-oppression, inclusion, and privilege, as well as provide knowledge and resources on key social justice issues.

Allyship is an active, consistent, and arduous practice of unlearning and re-evaluating, in which a person holding systemic power seeks to end oppressions in solidarity with a group of people who are systemically disempowered. This handout from the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence offers guidance on practicing allyship.

The Guide to Allyship is an open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally.

Creating conversations to bridge differences is hard enough, but online it can be even tougher — especially when a perceived misstep can see someone “called out” or “cancelled.” These two things can close down dialogue without addressing the problem, according to Loretta J. Ross. In this video, Professor Ross discusses her concerns with "cancel culture."

This chart outlines key differences between "discussion," "debate," and "dialogue." It also offers some key questions for reflection about about engaging in meaningful dialogue.

Bystanders can make a choice to actively and visibly take a stand against harassment when they see it. Hollaback's "5 D’s" (Direct, Distract, Delay, Delegate, Document) are different methods that bystanders can use to support someone who is being harassed, emphasize that harassment is not okay, and demonstrate to people in your life that they too have the power to make our communities and workplaces safer. 

In this video, Mike Rugnetta, host of the PBS Idea Channel, describes violence as being about the removal of choice rather than just physical violence. The video also explains that violence can be passive, and that there is an important ethical dimension to thinking of violence as more than “physical violence,” which is just one of many different kinds of violence.

Violence is a serious problem in the United States. It affects people in all stages of life—from infants to the elderly—and has profound impact on lifelong health, opportunity, and well-being. This webpage from the CDC defines violence as a public health issue and offers resources for primary prevention using a public health framework.