Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

Providing gender-integrated services is a key way to provide safety and healing for all survivors. This tip sheet from FORGE includes eight reasons to provide gender-inclusive shelter services.

This library compiles resources for promoting safer families and safer communities. Included are webinars, legal and policy analyses, promising practices and policies, research, and more helpful tools for law enforcement officers and community members.

This page lists multilingual materials for victims and advocates sorted by language.

Faith communities can play a significant role in providing support for victims of domestic violence and in holding abusers accountable. This handbook provides information about the nature and dynamics of domestic violence to guide faith leaders in responding to victims and abusers within their faith communities.

This page provides information about action steps that health professional students and faculty can take to support organizing efforts and improve health care responses to women, men, and children who have been impacted by domestic violence.

This Trainers’ Toolkit from the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life features new and redesigned resources for trainers, including PowerPoint slide sets, interactive training exercises, and training modules.

This "crib sheet" examines key aspects of the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), and the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS), including the timeframe of data collection, the study sample, key findings, methodology and contextual factors. Links to the studies and related resources are also included.

This document describes some of the tactics used to abuse immigrant women. These include emotional abuse, economic abuse, sexual abuse, using coercion and threat, intimidation, isolation, and blaming women for inciting violence.

The article suggest that the immigrant women ask for interpreter when seeking help, leave clear phone messages when calling for help, and to not to give up if the person they contact the first time is not helpful.

Domestic violence victims stay for many valid reasons that must be understood by lawyers, judges, and the legal community if they are to make change. This document lists reasons the author has encountered in 22 years of work with thousands of victims.

This fact sheet presents information about dating and domestic violence among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) young people and the obstacles faced by LGBTQ youth in seeking help.

VAT Online is a foundational Web-based victim assistance training program that offers victim service providers and allied professionals the opportunity to acquire the essential skills and knowledge they need to more effectively assist victims of crime.