Material Listing

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.

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.”

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.

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

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. 

This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) explores the impact of mandatory reporting on survivors of domestic violence and offers strategies for advocates navigating reporting requirements. 

In the context of emergencies and disasters – and beyond – as advocates, service providers and social change agents, our work is the work of dismantling systems of oppression. This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) explores what it means to root our disaster prevention and response efforts in equity, mutual aid, and hope. 

In this Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), Jacqueline Miller reflects on how we can embrace abundance in our work to end domestic violence and promote racial equity.

Why is it important for us – advocates, healers, and social change makers – to practice radical self-love? In this Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), NRCDV's Patty Branco explores radical self-love as a pathway toward individual and collective transformation.

Responsive to the moment, mobile advocacy returns to the roots of domestic violence advocacy. This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), explores how mobile advocacy, a historically Black-led models of community care, offers a flexible approach of meeting survivors where they are.

Domestic violence impacts survivors in many ways, including their economic stability. This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) focuses on how flexible financial assistance can be distributed to survivors of intimate partner violence.

This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) explores the intersecting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and domestic violence on trans and non-binary individuals and communities, offering strategies to promote inclusive, culturally responsive, and affirming services.

In this Technical Assistance Question of the Month, Joyce Kyles shares recommendations and tangible resources to help advocates in the gender-based violence movement better support survivors within marginalized communities in addressing their mental health needs.

This comprehensive toolkit is designed for advocates and organizers in communities that have experienced or are likely to experience climate change-induced disasters.

This introductory webinar describes the dynamics and common tactics that characterize domestic violence. It also provides an overview of the root causes of domestic violence, as well as the scope and impact on individuals and society. This session will help new advocates, allied professionals, students, and the general public achieve a basic understanding of this complex issue and how they can be part of the solution.

This document serves as an educational tool for policymakers, shedding light on the existing gaps in safeguarding immigrant communities and their adverse impacts on survivors of gender-based violence.

This fact sheet accompanies the Special Collection of the same name, offering statistics and tips for creating trauma-informed environments for children and youth where they live, play, and grow.

This report suggests that ACEs are common in U.S. high school students and have significant associations with negative health conditions and risk behaviors.

This document reviews key entitlements and qualifications for receiving social security benefits, including in the context of divorce or loss.

This guidance from the Social Security Administration, available in English and Spanish, reviews the process for victims of domestic violence to obtain a new social security number.

In this lecture, Alegria describes the issues immigrants and refugees face as they arrive in the U.S. and seek to integrate into a new country. Recent immigrants, she says, confront structural barriers to integration. They also must deal with a series of linguistic, cultural, and psychological obstacles that may negatively impact their behavioral health.

This October marks 40 years since the passage of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), the primary federal funding source dedicated to supporting emergency shelters and services for victims of domestic violence and their families.

On October 12-13, 2023 the Office of Family Violence Prevention Services hosted a roundtable discussion on safe housing solutions for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. This report shares key insights and recommendations that emerged from the roundtable.

This article gives family and friends of LGBTQ+ youth tips on how to support their family member/friend.

Reach Hurting Kids Institute is an interdisciplinary team of researchers, mental health professionals, and children’s ministry experts who provide trauma-informed children’s ministry resources that empower the Church to reach the hurting kids in their congregations and communities.