Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

For people currently experiencing intimate partner violence, journaling about events at home can help create a record of what has been happening which can later be used to help support claims of abuse. The October 2022 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) outlines some of the needs identified in the workgroup.

This webinar marks the “official” launch of the Transforming the Gender-Based Violence Movement: Increasing BIPOC Representation and Actualizing Accountability Project (formerly named the Women of Color Coalition Leadership Project), led by Arlene Vassell, NRCDV’s Vice President of Programs, Prevention and Social Change and Dr. Nkiru Nnawulezi, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Gender-based violence—including domestic violence—impacts an astonishing number of Black women and girls. And when Black women and girls experience gender-based violence, the strategies they take to survive are often criminalized. Ending the systemic punishment and incarceration of Black women and girls requires that we decriminalize survival. This factsheet spotlights the impact of gender-based violence on Black women and girls and the ensuing criminalization that occurs.

The 2016/2017 report shows that intimate partner violence continues to be common, starts early, and disproportionately burdens historically marginalized individuals and communities. Overall, findings in the report underscore the need to prevent and address IPV against racial and ethnically marginalized communities. 

Session 4: Is Our Movement Ready to End AntiBlackness? Despite Everything, the Overrepresentation of White Women & Underrepresentation of Black Leaders in Prevention Continues | Sesión 4: ¿Nuestro movimiento está listo para acabar con la anti-negritud? A pesar de todo, continúa la representación excesiva de mujeres blancas y la representación insuficiente de líderes negros en la prevención

Session 1: Understanding and Interrupting Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy in our Movement | Sesión 1: Entendiendo e Interrumpiendo la Anti-Negritud y la Supremacía Blanca en nuestro Movimiento

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Pacific Coast region of the United States, held our third virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 14 and 15, 2022. This event was an opportunity to dig deeply into the theme “Prevention is Radical” across 2 days.

Session 2: Panel Discussion: Truth Telling: Rejecting What Divides Us and Imagining New Ways | Sesión 2: Panel de discusión: Diciendo la verdad: rechazando lo que nos divide e imaginando nuevas formas

Led and driven by currently and formerly incarcerated women, the Leadership of Voices of Experience (LOVE) Project has developed a training curriculum for victim service providers that builds providers’ capacity to support system-impacted women and gender expansive people—people who are transgender, gender nonconforming, gender queer, nonbinary.

In observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2022, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, guided by the leadership of the Domestic Violence Awareness Project Advisory Group, is offering a variety of opportunities for engagement this October and beyond.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Pacific Coast region of the United States, held our third virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 14 and 15, 2022. This event was an opportunity to dig deeply into the theme “Prevention is Radical” across 2 days.

Session 3: Rooted in Community: Reflections on a 20 Year Journey | Sesión 3: Arraigados en la comunidad: Reflexiones sobre un viaje de 20 años