Material Listing

This resource provides information on racial and ethnic identity development. It includes a link to a toolbox for additional resources.

This paper, a resource for tribes and villages on how to create meaningful responses to abuse in later life, identifies specific guiding philosophies, cultural considerations, and potential action steps tribes and villages might wish to do when addressing abuse in later life in their communities.

NNEDV and Facebook developed these two guides, "A Guide to Staying Safe on Facebook" and "Safety & Privacy on Facebook: A Guide for Survivors of Abuse," as resources to help Facebook users understand and navigate the various settings and features available to increase privacy and security.

This Technical Assistance Guidance, a product of the Adult Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (ACE-DV) Leadership Forum, explores the connection between exposure to domestic violence in childhood and, among other consequences, the risk for suicide in adulthood.

This webpage provides information on innovative strategies for linking asset building to public benefits and work supports. The San Antonio Coalition for Family Economic Progress is highlighted as a collaborative partnership that has successfully brought together multiple benefits and asset building work.

This online directory of IDA programs allows you to find an IDA program in your area by entering your state and/or a specific organizational name.

This webpage provides steps to achieve asset building goals, using an IDA, to purchase a long-term asset such as a home, higher education and training, or a business.

This report examines the need for cultural context in financial literacy programs, and examines how existing financial education programs can incorporate the specific needs of immigrant populations.

This workbook is comprised of two activity modules to help think through designing an IDA with funding from the Assets for Independence program that meets the particular needs of the community.

The purpose of the 2013 IDA Program Survey is to educate and inform the IDA field by gathering critical information from IDA programs nationwide.

This report provides an analysis of income inequality, the effects of lack of income and savings, and access to revolving credit. Policy recommendations are made with respect to individual development accounts and retirement savings.

This system provides complete documentation of the development of the FY 2018 Income Limits (ILs) for any area of the country selected by the user.

In addition to providing the poverty guidelines for 2016, this webpage describes two slightly different versions of the federal poverty measure: poverty thresholds and poverty guidelines.

This report summarizes the key findings from the 2016 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard and provides a deeper look at the racial wealth divide and the outcome and policy data trends over time and across states in the Scorecard’s five issue areas: Financial Assets & Income, Businesses & Jobs, Housing & Homeownership, Education and Health Care.

This webpage provides the actual statutory language of the Act that sets criteria for IDAs under the AFI program.

This article details key findings from a series published by the National Council of La Raza, entitled Profiles on Latinos and Banking. The series analyzes the data from the previously published report entitled Banking in Color: New Findings on Financial Access for Low- to Moderate-Income Communities.

This report explores the asset stripping purpose and effects of federal Indian law and policies, discusses existing mainstream asset-building models and then proposes a model for asset-building in Indian Country.

This webpage provides background information on the two types of 529 plans: pre-paid tuition plans and college savings plans.

This brief video describes the 529 Plan, an investment account designed to help families save for college.

This toolkit provides step-by-step guidance to bring partnerships from concept to reality, and contains answers to such questions as how to structure these partnerships and define the roles and responsibilities of each party, as well as how AFI grantees and DV service providers can launch their first conversations toward partnering.

This report details both federal laws and state laws specifically indicating that domestic violence victims are protected from housing discrimination.

This manual provides a comprehensive review of domestic violence survivors’ rights in applying for housing.

This memo from HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity provides guidance to HUD staff on assessing claims by domestic violence victims of housing discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.

This report provides an analysis of housing and home ownership, including the gap between white households and households of color, and the need for states to proactively support safe and affordable routes to homeownership.

This webpage provides brief descriptions of some of the most common predatory mortgage lending abusive practices.