Communities of Color Content Topic Results

How do we support women and girls, and assist advocates in creating brave spaces and thriving communities while we dismantle biased systems?

This report highlights juvenile justice and public safety concerns and recommendations from Tribal youth ages 14–24.  

Este recurso hace conexiones entre la equidad en la salud y nuestro trabajo para prevenir la violencia sexual y de pareja íntima. Centra las historias de los sobrevivientes en las intersecciones del racismo sistémico, la violencia y la opresión. En él se estudian formas de crear capacidad individual y a nivel organizativo para hacer frente a la desigualdad en materia de salud. Y, ofrece un llamado a la acción para aquellos quienes están dispuestos a comprometerse con la equidad de la salud en su trabajo de prevención de la violencia de género.

In order to meet the cultural and racial needs of Afro-Latin@s, it is important that gender-based violence organizations prioritize models that center anti-discriminatory practices. This document from Esperanza United offers promising practices and a call to action to meet the unique needs of Afro-Latin@ survivors of gender-based violence.

The Day 2 opening panel of NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall features the voices and lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color advocates who are leading prevention in their organizations and communities. Panelists reflect on what is needed to create real transformative change that centers racial justice.

Men have a significant impact when ending violence, especially Intimate partner violence. In this session from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall, participants hear from panel members who are working with men and boys in their unique fields. This session inspires deeper conversations about advocacy oriented behaviors and best practices, peer-to-peer accountability, and communication strategies which move us away from "call out culture" and to more solution and restorative justice oriented practices.

Transformative justice is prevention! Victims of abuse are often times reluctant to report and/or share their experiences based on a myriad of reasons. However, the desire for justice and safety is still needed and necessary. This strategy session from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall highlights alternative community-based solutions that center victim support and healing. 

This workshop from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall critically examines current border policies and the impact that it’s having on asylum seekers fleeing gender-based violence and immigrant victims that reside in border communities. This workshop explores the intersection between racial justice, the movement to end and prevent gender-based violence and immigration justice. 

This strategy session from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall discusses the systematic intersections of poverty, racism, and other forms of oppression, in regards to financial inequity. Speakers present models of prevention support for survivors, and discuss as a group how this can inform future educational and programmatic prevention work.

The opening session of NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall introduced and explored the concept of survivor-centered prevention. It allowed space for survivors to share their vision for prevention based on their lived experiences.

This report from the Sentencing Project documents the rates of incarceration for white, Black and Latinx Americans in each state, identifies three contributors to racial and ethnic disparities in imprisonment, and provides recommendations for reform.