Material Listing

This resource offers a basic outline for the development of shelters and advocacy programs serving Native women who are battered or raped and their children. It provides an overall picture of elements and steps necessary in establishing a shelter.

American Indian women living on Indian reservations experience unique challenges that intensify the epidemic of violence against them. Accurate statistical data quantifying incidences of violence against women on reservations, or “Indian country,” is in small quantity.

A general introduction to the social and legal issues involved in acts of violence against Native women. Sharing Our Stories of Survival explores stories and case-studies and statistics with a countervailing theme running through this extremely informative volume.

This is a guide for first responders to emergency situations on how to recognize when someone they respond to may be a person on the autism spectrum and how to appropriately modify their responses to work most effectively with people with autism.

This report describes a study of 24 domestic violence courts in the state of New York.

This webinar on intersections of oppression, especially in a domestic violence context, is presented by Diane Docis and Sandy Davidson of the organization Praxis International.

This webinar is a panel discussion among three staff members from Alaska social justice organizations discussing how issues involving disability, culture, and gender identity can intersect.

This webinar presented by Dr. Stephen Bezruchka of the University of Washington School of Public Health discusses the intersections between social and economic inequality and violence.

This Research in Brief report from the National Institute of Justice examines the theme of how “peers and the contexts in which peers interact can contribute to their risk for and protection against dating violence.

This article describes a study of the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP), which is a partnership between law enforcement agencies and domestic violence service providers developed by the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence.

This publication, which was supported by the National Institute of Justice, discusses what partner stalking is and provides statistics.

This document is part of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, & Mental Health’s Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series and discusses how advocates can support survivors in obtaining and maintaining employment.

This document is part of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, & Mental Health’s Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series and discusses reasons why survivors may deal with reduced energy and how advocates can work effectively with survivors who are suffering from this.

This document is part of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, & Mental Health’s Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series and discusses practical steps that advocates can take to consider survivors’ mental well-being while they are participating in programming.

This document is part of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, & Mental Health’s Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series and explains how domestic violence advocates can increase peoples’ emotional safety while they are participating in programming.

This document is part of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, & Mental Health’s Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series. It explains the “five core components of a trauma-informed approach to domestic violence advocacy.”

This brief report discusses two stereotypes that negatively impact survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in legal proceedings: the stereotype that women who have mental health conditions or substance abuse issues are not credible when disclosing abuse and the conception that women with these conditions cannot also be good parents.

This report describes two surveys of callers to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, one on mental health coercion and the other on substance use coercion. The surveys showed that both types of abuse were prevalent among hotline callers.

This is a guide for people who write materials such as tipsheets, handouts, and brochures.

In this webinar for the Center for Survivor Agency & Justice, attorney Karen Merrill Tjapkes of Legal Aid of Western Michigan discusses the intersection of domestic violence and foreclosure issues. This webinar runs 1 hour and 27 minutes.

In this webinar presented by the Center for Survivor Agency & Justice, attorney Laura Russell of the The Legal Aid Society discusses credit reporting and repair for survivors of domestic violence. The webinar runs 1 hour and 30 minutes.

This is a report on the Building Partnerships for Economic Justice program which involves organizations partnering to work on issues of economic and consumer rights for survivors of domestic violence. This is a project of the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice.

This article encourages domestic violence advocates and attorneys to use civil protection orders as a tool to help their clients access economic security.

This document is a screening tool that consumer attorneys can use to determine when a client might be a survivor of domestic violence or currently in a domestic violence situation.

This tool is meant to be used by attorneys and advocates working with domestic violence survivors to help them determine if a client might be facing consumer law issues that would necessitate referral to a consumer rights attorney or advocate.