Community Organizing / Mobilization / Engagement Content Topic Results
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Special Collection
Special Collection
January 2024
Being a Man: Preventing Domestic and Sexual Violence
This Special Collection provides resources for anti-violence programs to increase their capacity to engage men and boys in their work to end domestic and sexual violence.
Special Collection
July 2017
Legislative Advocacy for Nonprofit Organizations
Legislative action has long played an important role in the movement to end gender-based violence, often as a critical component of the grassroots activism of survivors, advocates, and other people committed to mobilizing to end gender-based violence. This collection is designed to provide assistance to nonprofit organizations interested in participating in legislative advocacy.
Special Collection
May 2017
Housing and Domestic Violence
This collection offers a doorway to the resources available through Safe Housing Partnerships, a project of the federal Domestic Violence and Housing Technical Assistance Consortium. The resources and tools included here are provided to advance your work at the critical intersection of domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness, and housing.
Special Collection
February 2014
Domestic Violence in Latin@ Communities
This special collection provides a compilation of tools and resources developed specifically by Latin@s and for Latin@s as well as culturally adapted materials (not simply translations) to address domestic violence in Latin@ communities.
Special Collection
August 2012
Capacity Building for Domestic Violence Prevention Programming
This collection provides materials to support the work of building organizational capacity in state and local domestic violence programs for primary prevention work, as it relates to assessing and influencing change in individuals, communities, and institutions.
Special Collection
August 2011
Models in Prevention: CDC's DELTA Program
Nearly one decade after the CDC initiated the DELTA Program, there is a strong foundation of information and lessons learned regarding promising practices in the primary prevention of intimate partner violence. This collection highlights the successes of this program and its grantees, providing materials to support replication of these efforts across the United States and globally.
Materials
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
June 2025
Collaboration Works to Prevent Domestic Violence: It is the journey and the destination
Publisher(s):This graphic illustration makes a case to funders and policy makers to invest in collaboration as a strategy to prevent intimate partner violence.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
September 2024
How can I center healing justice for survivors in my DVAM efforts?
Publisher(s): This Technical Assistance Question explores the theme for Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2024: Heal, Hold & Center. This theme is all about building connection to foster healing and racial justice for survivors. As beloved ancestor bell hooks reminds us, “Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
August 2024
2024 National Prevention Town Hall
Publisher(s):The 5th annual National Prevention Town Hall features anti-violence prevention approaches in the Mountain region of the United States through a virtual gallery tour of innovative change-making projects and collectives. This gallery tour can allow us to learn about what’s being mobilized beyond the systems we often work in for violence prevention. A panel follows the gallery tour, weaving together meaningful connections and address questions about reconnection, restoration, and re-indigenizing practices in the Mountain region.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
August 2024
Health Equity Prevents Gender-Based Violence: Everyone deserves the opportunity to experience optimal health and well-being!
Publisher(s):This graphic illustration tells the story of how health equity is connected to preventing gender-based violence, and describes meaningful ways to advance these shared goals through collaboration. This resource utilizes NRCDV’s Storytelling Framework to make the case for advancing wellness through an anti-oppression lens.
Materials
- General Material
August 2024
Community Violence Prevention Resource for Action: A Compilation of the Best Available Evidence for Youth and Young Adults
Publisher(s):This prevention resource brings together examples based on the best available evidence. It outlines seven strategies to prevent community violence to ensure everyone can live in safe, healthy, and thriving communities.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
April 2024
ARP Series: How can anti-violence advocates and organizations best prepare and respond to disaster and emergency situations?
Publisher(s): In the context of emergencies and disasters – and beyond – as advocates, service providers and social change agents, our work is the work of dismantling systems of oppression. This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) explores what it means to root our disaster prevention and response efforts in equity, mutual aid, and hope.