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April 2023

Toolkit for Increasing Shelter Access to LGBTQ Survivors of Domestic Violence

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This toolkit is intended to be a starting point for promoting LGBTQ survivors’ access to shelter spaces, and agency-wide training and technical assistance is a critical next step.
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March 2023

Supporting Black Deaf Survivors

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Black deaf survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence often have to navigate a web of barriers to accessing healing services. This webinar features speakers from DAWN, a Deaf community-based organization, on their unique approach to meeting the needs of Black deaf survivors.
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January 2023

Supporting LGBTQ+ Stalking Victims: A Guide for Victim Advocates

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This guide is for victim advocates working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals who may be experiencing stalking. It provides basic information about the dynamics of stalking and safety planning, co-occurring crimes, specific tactics used against LGBTQ+ individuals, safety planning strategies that support LGBTQ+ stalking victims, and issues to be aware of when supporting LGBTQ+ victims.
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October 2022

Promising Practices for Serving Domestic Violence Survivors with Disabilities

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This webinar featured a panel of experts who explored the unique barriers that people with disabilities have to navigate when seeking healing and the strategies that advocates employ to proactively remove those barriers. Specifically, they explored the civil-legal needs of survivors with disabilities, the needs of survivors who acquire a disability through domestic violence, and the unique needs of Deaf survivors.
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October 2022

Together We Rise: Voices from the Frontlines of South Asian Gender-Based Violence Work

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In the summer of 2021, South Asian SOAR (SOAR), convened listening sessions with its network of 30+ frontline organizations across 13 states. These conversations elucidated the complex, nuanced, and often overlooked, challenges and needs of South Asian survivors and communities in the US. This report shares the key findings from those listening sessions, and through it, South Asian SOAR strives to ultimately generate increased funding, improve research & data collection, and drive policy changes that accurately meet South Asian survivors’ needs.
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October 2022

"Our Communities Hold the Solutions": The Importance of Full-Spectrum Doulas to Reproductive Health and Justice

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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.
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September 2022

Faith-Based Partnerships: Engaging Spiritual Leaders in Responding to AAPI Survivors

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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.
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  • NRCDV Publications
August 2022

Needs Assessment Report: Promising Practices and Interventions to Address the Housing Needs of Domestic Violence Survivors

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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.
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June 2022

Responding to Housing Insecurity/Homelessness Issues for Indigenous Elders who are Victims of Domestic Violence

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Many domestic violence and homeless shelters are seeing rapid increases in the number of elders seeking shelter. This webinar discusses ways of responding to the needs of Indigenous elders who are experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness and what can be done.
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  • NRCDV Publications
May 2022

How can victim advocates and housing service providers respond to the needs of Native human trafficking survivors?

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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.
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January 2022

Healing Indigenous Lives Native Youth Town Halls

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This report highlights juvenile justice and public safety concerns and recommendations from Tribal youth ages 14–24.  
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December 2021

Family-Centered Toolkit for Domestic Violence Programs

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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.