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April 2019
Vulnerable and Underserved: Victim Advocacy for Incarcerated LGBTI Survivors
Publisher(s):"The webinar will look at strategies for helping one of the most vulnerable groups in detention: people who identify as LGBTI. Featuring an LGBTI survivor of sexual abuse in detention, the webinar will cover high incidence of prior trauma among LGBTI prisoners and barriers they face in accessing LGBTI-sensitive support services. The presenters will highlight the ways that advocates can use the Prison Rape Elimination Act standards as a tool to ensure the safety and dignity of LGBTI prisoners."
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April 2019
Vulnerable and Underserved: Victim Advocacy for Incarcerated Male Survivors of Color
Publisher(s):Explores how race, incarceration, and stigma intersect to shape the experiences and needs of male survivors of color
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- Training Tools
April 2019
WEBINAR: The Impact of Adultification on Child Survivors of Trauma with an Emphasis on Children of Color
Publisher(s): This webinar addresses the impact adultification has on children who experience trauma with an emphasis on black girls. Through storytelling, participants will learn about from presenter Jacqueline Miller’s story as it unfolds in three dimensions, revealing how to develop a framework for building resilience with youth and communities of color.
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February 2019
False Reports: Moving Beyond the Issue to Successfully Investigate and Prosecute Non-Stranger Sexual Assault
Publisher(s):The information from this module answer questions that have historically created significant hurdles for sexual assault victims and addresses issues of false reporting.
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January 2019
What Does "Be a Man" Really Mean?
Publisher(s): The current standards and expectations of manhood have an undeniable impact on our relationships and our society. Inspired by the courage and vulnerability of women and survivors in the #metoo movement, speaker Mazin Jamal shares his struggles with manhood, mistakes he's made, and the steps he's taking to learn and grow in this TED Talk.
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January 2019
The Governance Gap: Examining Diversity and Equity in Nonprofit Boards of Directors
Publisher(s): The overall lack of diversity in the nonprofit sector is a well-known issue. This report from KOYA Leadership Partners aims to provide an overview of the current state of diversity on boards and offer actionable steps that boards can take, starting today, to increase diversity and inclusion.
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January 2019
Illustrating Our Prevention Story
Publisher(s): This Prevention Storybook represents the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence's attempt to wrap their arms around prevention learnings from the past ten years. The storybook outlines ICADV's rationale and framework for prevention and details successful prevention strategies throughout Indiana.
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January 2019
Boys won’t be boys. Boys will be what we teach them to be.
Publisher(s): In this TED Talk, speaker Ben Hurst rejects the use of the common phrase that "boys will be boys" as a "get-out-of-jail free" card for boys, men, and toxic masculinities. Instead, he states that boys will be what we teach them to be.
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- NRCDV Publications
November 2018
What else can men do to prevent domestic and sexual violence?
Publisher(s): Because preventing gender-based violence is everyone’s responsibility, and because men are particularly well positioned to influence masculine norms and men’s behavior, NRCDV's November 2018 TA Question of the Month, authored by Colleen Yeakle of the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, asks “What else can men do to prevent domestic and sexual violence?”
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November 2018
Gun Violence and LGBT Adults: Findings from the General Social Survey and the Cooperative Congressional Election Survey
Publisher(s):Suicide attempts, intimate partner violence, and other forms of interpersonal violence are a significant problem for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people; however, the extent to which guns contribute to LGBT morbidity and mortality is currently unknown. This study aims to fill gaps in knowledge about LGBT gun violence by generating estimates of gun ownership and attitudes towards gun control by sexual orientation and identifying opportunities to improve data collection about LGBT gun violence through a review of surveillance systems used to track gun violence.
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June 2018
White Fragility
Robin Diangelo’s book, White Fragility, explores why it is so hard for white people to talk about racism.
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May 2018
2018 LGBTQ Youth Report
Publisher(s): HRC Foundation and the University of Connecticut released the largest-of-its-kind survey ever of more than 12,000 LGBTQ teenagers across the nation, the persistent challenges so many of them face going about their daily lives at home, at school and in their communities.









