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This report includes a snapshot of the economic status of Latinos in the U.S., a research review, an overview of Hispanic-focused financial education efforts, challenges and opportunities of reaching Latino consumers, and elements of successful programs.

This brief puts context, particularly for the Latino community, to financial education initiatives. Access to financial planners (beyond education programming) is a primary theme. Current policy efforts and recommendations for improvement are made.

This report is an overview of AFI grants and grantees through fiscal year 2008. It includes data on characteristics of account holders, support services, savings accounts, and program outcomes and evaluation.

This guidebook provides the nuts and bolts on how to design an AFI project. A short section also makes the case for why asset building is an important strategy for addressing poverty and building self-sufficiency.

This document is a policy brief with talking points and statistics on IDAs.

This brief explains TANF IDAs, AFIA IDAs, and 'non-TANF, non-AFIA IDAs, and the ramifications of these differing accounts on TANF, Food Stamps, Medicaid, SCHIP, SSI, and housing assistance. State discretion is emphasized in maximizing eligibility.

This online glossary gives brief descriptions of relevant IDA terms, legislation, funding streams, and institutions.

This document, in Q&A format, explains the basics of IDAs and is written for consumers. Eligibility, selecting a program, and general differences between programs are covered.

Discusses how organizations can prepare to advocate with and support survivors around the use of online services. Includes safety, confidentiality and capacity issues that organizations should address when considering provision of online TA or counseling.

For use by local domestic violence and rape crisis service programs and other community service providers, this checklist is a starting point in discussing client safety and data security for agencies.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This checklist is not intended to replace intensive training. Please work with your State Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions to increase your community's awareness of data security.

This guide includes information about safety planning with survivors of domestic and sexual violence, stalking and trafficking in situations of technology abuse.

This paper highlights published literature and survivor's reports on the use of technology in intimate partner stalking. It includes safety strategies and a resource list for victim advocates.

U.S. Postal Service

65 FR 3857-3859 (effective: Feb. 24, 2000)(codified as 39 CFR Part 265)

Published:2000 January 25

Fearing for their safety, victims of domestic violence who leave their abusers often need to keep their addresses and other contact information confidential. With the Internet making personal information more accessible than ever, the state of California has passed legislation that helps victims of abuse keep their addresses and other contact information out of the public domain.

Some starting points:

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This publication provides U.S. national information for victims of domestic violence, harassment and stalking about their options in blocking telephone calls using "Caller ID", "Taking a Call", "line blocking", and "per call blocking".

The print version of this information is available as a 5.5" by 8" inch laminated card with Spanish (Espanol) information on one side and English information on the other.

This paper focuses on the nature of help-seeking emails and recommends that a strategic plan be developed to address safety, confidentiality and liability concerns of online advocacy. It explores some of the implications around responding to requests from survivors online.

When safety planning, advocates and survivors are encouraged to familiarize themselves with a growing number of technology options. It is important to consider ways technological tools might be used to help increase a survivor's safety and privacy, as well as to anticipate ways an abuser might misuse a tool to perpetrate further harm (e.g. to monitor communications or activities, to impersonate, etc.). This page provides a few examples but is not reflective of the myriad of safety and privacy issues that can be impacted by technology (e.g.

This paper outlines risk and liability issues related to Internet use by domestic violence organizations, suggests risk-management guidelines to protect them from liability, and includes recommendations to further understanding re: online services.

Sections are included on: the definition, nature and extent of cyberstalking; protecting children from on-line dangers; a comparision of online and offline stalking; examples of actual stalking incidents; and evidence that suggests that stalking is a growing problem with some agencies citing that 20% of their annual stalking caseload involved cyberstalking.

Summarizes findings on public attitudes toward the availability and use of individuals' criminal history records outside of the criminal justice system.

U.S. Hotlines & 911 Information

 
 
If you are in immediate danger, dial 911 on a telephone.

 
 
Dialing 911 in U.S.A. and Canada will contact emergency services - police, ambulance, fire. A prefix may be required to dial 911 from a hotel room or within an office building, etc.

Note: Please see VAWnet's U.S. Map of State/Territory Coalitions for state hotline numbers where available.

This newsletter of the National Sexual Assault Coalition Resource Sharing Project focuses on the ways that Sexual Assault Coalitions are building capacity for community collaborations as well as collaborations with governmental entities.