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The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Northeast region of the United States, held our fourth virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 13 and 14, 2023.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Northeast region of the United States, held our fourth virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 13 and 14, 2023.

For DVAM and beyond, the Domestic Violence Awareness Project calls on us to Heal, Hold & Center survivors, especially those navigating anti-Blackness and other systems of oppression. In this guide, you will find conversation starters, considerations, and prompts for personal and organizational reflection.

This report summarizes the findings from an evaluation of the LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania's pilot flexible financial assistance model. This includes the challenges encountered and lessons learned in the implementation process along with preliminary evidence of the success of the flexible financial assistance model. 

A guide for domestic violence and mental health service providers, advocates, and organizations to improve services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) individuals, build partnerships and referral networks with LGBTQIA2S+ culturally-specific organizations, and eliminate bias based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

This report from the LA LGBT Center summarizes the issues, needs, and recommendations for enhancing mental health and support services in relation to LGBTQ domestic violence and sexual assault. The report summarizes a wide range of original information and data obtained specifically for this report and offers recommendations for ensuring that LGBTQ survivors receive the service, support, respect, and care they need to overcome abuse and achieve self-determination and self-fulfillment.

This toolkit is intended to be a starting point for promoting LGBTQ survivors’ access to shelter spaces, and agency-wide training and technical assistance is a critical next step.

This report explores how consent and boundaries are understood and practiced in AANHPI contexts, highlights how gender expectations and the need to respect certain individuals make it hard to establish boundaries, and presents recommendations for advocates and educators.

It is not enough to support survivors in finding employment, but also critical to support survivors in maintaining employment. FreeFrom models the workplace policies survivors say they need to stay employed, including living wage salaries, 401k accounts with an employer match, flexible work hours, paid and protected GBV leave and emergency safety grants, and more.  

This fact sheet summarizes the layered needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and more (LGBTQ+) Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) survivors and communities in the U.S., based on the current literature available.

This National Prevention Town Hall uplifted innovative prevention approaches in the Northeast region of the United States that build solidarity across movements to disrupt systems of violence that disproportionately harm Black women and gender expansive individuals. Presenters engaged participants in conversations around critical issues impacting Black women, youth, and gender expansive individuals including reproductive justice and housing as a basic human need and right.  

Many nonprofit organizations that provide direct human services are exploring how racial equity and inclusion (REI) and performance measurement collectively inform decision-making and strategies that affect their core mission. Starting from this mission orientation, organizations can benefit from guidance on operationalizing racial equity values within their measurement and evaluation work and acknowledging the systemic barriers that influence client outcomes.

Numerous studies have confirmed the impact of bias on performance assessments and career advancement for women of all races and ethnicities, and people of color. This article offers helpful strategies for disrupting bias and promoting equity in the performance review process.

Today's racial and economic inequities are rooted in modern and historical discriminatory policies and practices that undervalue the labor of people of color. This blog post highlights three racialized gaps that prevent the nonprofit sector from achieving racial economic justice: the racial wage gap, the racial wealth gap, and the racial leadership gap. 

Building a diverse and inclusive board is critically important. In this piece, Jim Taylor shares his experiences of tokenization as Black man in the board recruitment process, and offers key questions for boards to consider.

Leading with the shared vision that “All families deserve living conditions in which they can thrive,” this graphic illustration utilizes NRCDV’s Storytelling Framework to center survivors of color for whom economic insecurity poses significant barriers to safety and well-being. This resource makes the case for wage equity as a critical pathway to intimate partner violence prevention, and can be used with a variety of audiences as a tool to move people to action.

For nonprofits and social entrepreneurs, finding a stable source of funding is always a challenge. Learn how social enterprises can create unique ways to generate income while staying true to an organization’s mission.

Nonprofits face myriad financial challenges including guarding against fraud. Presented here are easy steps you can take to reduce the risk of fraud and detect it if it occurs.

The Trans Agenda for Liberation is a community-led guide towards the world we deserve. Trans people hold the knowledge, power, and joy to create a future where we can all not only survive but thrive. 

For over 50 years, survivors’ voices and realities have shaped responses to domestic and sexual violence. From emergency shelter to sheltering solutions beyond imminent threats of harm, housing has always been a critical part of conversations connected to survivor safety and well-being.

Racism has critical implications for Black adolescent girls’ mental health. This fact sheet from the National Black Women's Justice Institute outlines the case for gender-specific and culturally affirming services in order to address the mental health needs of Black girls.

In this first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, the Federal Government advances an unprecedented and comprehensive approach to preventing and addressing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence.

The Safe Havens Mapping Project is a searchable directory for pets of those experiencing domestic violence, created and managed by the Animal Welfare Institute.

From spiritual abuse to being a key tenant of survivors’ healing journey, faith plays a critical role in many survivors’ experiences with violence. This webinar gathered four of API-GBV’s partners from a multi-year faith-based advocacy project that reached several Chinese/Taiwanese Christian churches and seminaries, Sikh gurdwaras, and Korean Christian congregations in California.

This 3-part webinar series from Futures Without Violence's Supporting Organizational Sustainability (SOS) Project explores shared leadership models within survivor-serving organizations.