Cultural Competence Content Topic Results

This chapter gives an introduction to domestic violence and the cultural and linguistic barriers that affect immigrant survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

This PowerPoint presentation discusses basic information on intimate partner violence in LGBT relationships. It defines common terms and phrases, provides information on both domestic and sexual violence in LGBT relationships and communities, and breaks down similarities and differences between LGBT and straight individuals who experience IPV.

This report explores the sexual abuse to prison pipeline in which girls are arrested and incarcerated after they are sexually abused by mapping out key points in the pipeline.

This toolkit is designed to help trans people and their advocates navigate daily lived experiences of discrimination and oppression. Topics covered include restrooms, aging, parenting, identity documentation, and more.

The Building Dignity website offers a range of solutions and strategies for domestic violence emergency shelters to increase their capacity to provide supportive housing for all survivors, including LGBTQ survivors.

This one-pager offers tips for engaging in respectful interactions with individuals with disabilities.

This quiz includes definitions to match to sexual orientation and gender identity terms. Answer key included.

This quiz helps service providers identify if their services are linguistically and culturally accessible to immigrant and refugee women.

This Toolkit, grounded in the realities of community-based organizations working from a culturally-specific framework, was designed to help enhance programs’ evidence-building capacity.

This document is an illustration describing the violence that may happen throughout the lives of Asian and Pacific Islander women during the life stages of infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood and later life.

Research has shown that transgender individuals are disproportionately impacted by the violence in intimate partner relationships. In addition, transgender communities face many systemic barriers while accessing services to redress intimate partner violence. This toolkit was designed to create dialogue on transgender intimate partner violence, ways to support survivors, and identify resources for intimate partner violence.

This Technical Assistance (TA) Bundle includes resources to help advocates and service providers increase their capacity around serving male-identified victims. Promising practices are shared throughout the resources to invite those helping survivors in developing programs and services to support survivors across the gender spectrum.