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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to research in which researchers and community members share power, resources, and decision-making at every level of the research process. This online toolkit is to supports emerging researchers who would like to learn more about CBPR approaches, particularly in the context of domestic violence.

Typical activities such as tweeting, updating a Facebook status, or using a phone’s GPS to find local restaurants can all be misused by abusers to stalk, harass, surveil, and control victims. This page from TechSafety.org provides information on technology-facilitated stalking and offers some safety tips for survivors.

Programs are increasingly considering the use of technology to provide services to survivors. This article outlines six questions for organizations to consider when providing advocacy services via technology.

The type of technology that victim service programs use and how it’s implemented can have a profound impact on the safety and privacy of both survivors and agencies. This article from TechSafety.org lists a few things for agencies to consider when using particular technologies.

While child grooming takes place both face-to-face as well as online, the Internet poses a particular challenge, as those seeking to victimize children take advantage of the relative anonymity online interaction provides. This publication examines global legal responses to this problem and offers model legislation.

In recent years, social media has been instrumental in driving and supporting socio-political movements throughout the world. This paper explores the role of social media in racial justice organizing efforts and its potential to enable collective action.

In this piece, feminist writer Soraya Chemaly examines the ways in which women’s rights and expression are affected by persistent and often violent online harassment related to their gender, class, race, sexuality and more through an intersectional lens. 

Pages designed for kids and teens review relevant online safety concerns, including harassment and cyberbullying.

NetSmartzKids is a program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Designed for children ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement, the program offers resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations.

Boundaries are an important part of any relationship. This fact sheet from Love is Respect offers guidance on setting emotional, physical, and digital boundaries with intimate partners.

This page from ConnectSafely outlines several internet safety tips for teens that address identity, passwords, sexuality, and more.

Educating students about digital citizenship helps to create a positive school culture that supports safe and responsible technology use. These educator toolkits from Common Sense Education explore topics such as cyberbullying, media literacy, and gender socialization.

This page provides a growing collection of short, clearly written guidebooks that demystify apps, services and platforms popular with kids and teens, written by parents for parents.

This report explores the different ways digital technology affects children, identifying dangers as well as opportunities, and discusses how digital access can be a game changer for children or yet another dividing line.

This report provides key insights and next steps from CLASP’s 2017 convening, which discussed the need for a multi-generational, multi-racial, youth-centered dialogue around policy change. Participants recognized that young people should drive the agenda for a stronger, healthier, more just, and more equitable future.

This short preview of a 15-minute training video is designed to enhance awareness among professionals working with stalking victims of how stalkers use a vast array of technologies available today.

Thirty-eight states and Washington D.C. have laws addressing nonconsensual pornography. This page lists laws by state.

This guide from Cyber Civil Rights Initiative gives detailed information on how to report nonconsensual pornography on various online platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Abusers often misuse online platforms, such as Twitter, as a tool to harass, abuse, and stalk. This guide provides specific tips and guidance for Twitter users on increasing their privacy and responding to other users who misuse the platform.

This article examines the ways in which the business of human trafficking is increasingly taking place online and over mobile phones, and explores the potential for the same technologies that are being used for trafficking to become powerful tools to combat trafficking. 

Online harassment itself is often a form of domestic or sexual violence, and the abuse is often a combination of online intimidation with offline abuse. This article explores ways in which abusers often use the internet and discusses implications for prosecutors.

Because transferring and viewing sexually explicit material when the subject is a minor can be considered child pornography, sexting among minors can have serious legal consequences. This article explores some of the legal implications of teen sexting.

On this webinar, presenters reflect on their own experiences as seasoned storytellers within the context of their movement work, offering practical tips and strategies for building capacity to bring voice to the unique experiences of adult children exposed to domestic violence.

Abusers misuse technology in many ways to stalk, harass, and impersonate victims. NNEDV's Safety Net Project surveyed victim service providers on technology-assisted abuse in order to determine how abusers are misusing technology to abuse their victims and what can be done to help.

The online harassment of women is specifically gendered abuse targeted at women and girls online that incorporates sexism, racism, religious prejudice, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of oppression. This page defines different kinds of gender-based online harassment, addresses frequently asked questions, and underscores the importance of analyzing online abuse through an intersectional lens.