Cultural Competence Content Topic Results

Doulas provide invaluable support to pregnant and birthing people - but doula support is available across a wide variety of experiences, including abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth. The people who provide this essential care are commonly called full-spectrum doulas.

Native women have been on the receiving end of many injustices. These injustices include homelessness and various forms of physical and sexual violence. Native women experience high rates of homelessness. The May 2022 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) explains that advocates must understand the historical context of Native women's experiences in order to truly support them.

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

Historically, the domestic violence (DV) field has separated services for adults and services for children and youth, rather than taking an integrated approach that centers the relationships between adult survivors and their children. The Family-Centered Toolkit helps programs envision and implement an integrated approach that supports parent-child relationships and families with a range of culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and developmentally sensitive services.

To build a healthier America for all, we must confront the systems and policies that have resulted in the generational injustice that has given rise to health inequities. CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication emphasize the importance of addressing all people inclusively and respectfully.

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 National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV), National AI/AN Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) and the Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center (AKNWRC) convened a workgroup of gender-based violence and housing advocates from Indian country to reflect on the needs of AI/AN survivors. The October 2021 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) outlines some of the needs identified in the workgroup.

Created by OneEighty in Wooster, Ohio, these materials offer key tips and background information for domestic violence advocates working with Amish and Plain Communities.

The Adult Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (ACE-DV) Leadership Forum is shifting the paradigm from deficit to growth – supporting the development of trauma-informed, culturally responsive, asset-based policies and practices that enhance resilience capacity in those who experience childhood trauma. This training explores how domestic violence shapes children’s lives and impacts parenting, with an emphasis on the assets and strengths of families who survive this experience together.

In this pre-recorded webinar, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) partnered with Diana “Dede” Yazzie-Devine, President and CEO of Native American Connections, an organization improving the lives of individuals and families through Native American culturally appropriate behavioral health, affordable housing, and community development services.

This self-assessment tool helps reflect on your organization’s current work serving men who have experienced sexual violence. The tool offers reflection questions related to individual and organizational capacity to serve male survivors.

In part three of the Enhancing Services to Male Survivors Series, the presenters engage in a discussion about how to meaningfully support survivors of all genders while maintaining & strengthening a collective, feminist analysis on gender, power, and violence. / En la tercera parte de la serie Mejorando los Servicios para los Sobrevivientes que se Autoidentifican como Hombres, los presentadores participan en una discusión sobre cómo apoyar de manera significativa a los sobrevivientes de todos los géneros mientras mantienen y fortalecen un análisis feminista colectivo sobre género, poder y violencia.