Communities of Color Content Topic Results

Tribal governments across the United States are creating programs to improve response to violent crime. As sovereign governments, tribes can assert jurisdiction in criminal and civil actions involving assaults against Native women.

African American women have as high, and in some studies higher, rates of trauma as women from other racial groups in substance abuse treatment. This article recommends numerous trauma-informed practices to be used by programs specifically working with women who have experienced trauma. It also recommends a simple agency assessment to identify specific strengths and weaknesses in terms of being able to effectively address trauma.

This report examines how racism, poverty, incarceration, and other social factors have contributed to heightened risk of HIV in Black communities.

Innovative strategies have been crafted out of necessity and by vision and intentionality. The ideas listed in this document have been compiled from the brilliant and hard work done by Asian and Pacific Islander advocates and organizations across the country.

The report emphasizes cultural relevancy in batterer intervention programs.

This article examines the relationship between reproductive justice and immigration policy. The paper identifies anti-immigrant efforts ties to reproductive oppression and its impact on the immigration debate.

This curriculum is designed to guide advocates serving API survivors. It describes the impacts of violence over the lifecourse, dynamics of domestic violence against API women, and cases involving multiple batterers.

These training slides can be used by advocates to understand the three spheres of culture (of domestic violence and gender inequality, of familial and community values and norms, and of systems) and provide survivor-centered services to survivors.

This resource explores ways to serve families who have experienced intimate partner violence and where children are visiting or being exchanged between the abused and abusive parent, with a specific focus on cultural considerations relating to Native Americans.

This resource focuses on how to become a culturally responsive organization, particularly in terms of visitation practices for families who have experienced intimate partner violence.

This article offers an analysis of the theoretical framework of historical trauma theory and provides a general review of the literature. A conceptual model is introduced illustrating how historical trauma might play a role in disease prevalence and health disparities.

This study reveals that the rate of abuse is higher among immigrant women who are married to American citizens. Examples of immigration-related tactics of abuse are provided.