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In this webinar, NRCDV’s Safe Housing Capacity Building Center presents a panel discussion focused on ways to engage youth in program design. Recognizing that young people are the experts of their own lives, staff from Point Source and a member of their Youth Action Council highlight their youth engagement model.

January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a presidentially designated observance designed to educate the public about human trafficking and the role they can play in preventing and responding to human trafficking. This toolkit breaks the month down into focus weeks to ensure clear messaging and resource sharing around the theme "Partner to Prevent."

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Pacific Coast region of the United States, held our third virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 14 and 15, 2022. This event was an opportunity to dig deeply into the theme “Prevention is Radical” across 2 days. El Centro Nacional de Recursos sobre Violencia Doméstica, en colaboración con socios de todo el sur de los Estados Unidos, llevó a cabo nuestro tercer Ayuntamiento de Prevención virtual el 14 y 15 de septiembre de 2022. Este evento fué una oportunidad para profundizar en el tema La Prevención es Radical por 2 días.

In observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2022, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, guided by the leadership of the Domestic Violence Awareness Project Advisory Group, is offering a variety of opportunities for engagement this October and beyond.

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.

The intersection between domestic violence, housing instability, and homelessness continues to be a pressing issue for the field. To this end, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence conducted a two-part needs assessment project to assess survivors' current and emerging housing needs, particularly in Black and Brown communities, and to document innovative community-based solutions.

Before and Beyond Crisis is a roadmap for expanding our society’s response to gender-based violence beyond short-term crisis support. The roadmap makes survivor-informed recommendations for how every pillar of our society–from banks, hospitals, and schools to policymakers, employers, and other stakeholders–can help build a new ecosystem of support that addresses the reality of how GBV shows up in survivors’ lives. 

Young people have always been on the front lines of our social justice movements, pushing us to be bolder and more innovative. The July 2022 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) offers some key considerations for forming and sustaining a youth advisory board for your domestic violence organization.

This blueprint provides a nonprescriptive roadmap to how we can build collaborative relationships with community partners within and outside the anti-sexual violence movement. It identifies best practices, models, and resources for creating, encouraging, and preserving community collaborations both in conventional and innovative ways, hence strengthening the capacity of our sexual assault programs and bridging the gaps with other social service organizations and institutions.

This strategy session from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall analyzes the technique of collaborative organizing and storytelling to impact public policy and advocacy. Esta sesión de estrategias del Congreso de Prevención 2021 del NRCDV analiza la técnica del trabajo organizativo colaborativo y la narración de historias para incidir en las políticas públicas y en nuestra labor de defensa.

#1Thing you can do to center health equity and racial justice in your work is to learn from, partner with, and amplify the work of these Black-led organizations. This list (organized in alphabetical order) is not exhaustive, but it is a starting point.

This Technical Assistance (TA) Bundle includes TA and training resources from NRCDV to support those who wish to invest in healing-centered community care. This approach nurtures resilient and equitable communities where those most marginalized can thrive. It fosters collective healing and liberation.